Historical Events On This Day
Today's Significant Events
- 1792 US postal service created, postage 6 cents - 12 cents depending on distance
- 1816 Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
- 1938 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
- 1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.
- 1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
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Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
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Todays Historical Events
- 1472 Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
- 1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army
- 1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
- 1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch gov-gen of East-Indies
- 1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague for alleged crimes against the federal government
- 1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Adm Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth
- 1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
- 1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen, Netherlands
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- 1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
- 1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
- 1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
- 1745 Jacobite troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland
- 1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
- 1792 US postal service created, postage 6 cents - 12 cents depending on distance
- 1798 Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
- 1809 US Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
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- 1835 Concepcion, Chile, destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
- 1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
- 1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
- 1856 The steam packet-ship John Rutledge, en route from Liverpool to New York, struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of 120 passengers and 19 crew; only one survivor (Thomas Nye of New Bedford)
- 1861 Department of Navy of Confederacy forms (US Civil War)
- 1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
- 1865 Massachusetts Institute of Technology forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
- 1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
- 1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
- 1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
- 1872 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
- 1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
- 1873 University of California gets its first Medical School (UC/SF)
- 1873 British Naval Officer John Morseby discovers the site of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and claims for Britain
- 1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
- 1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
- 1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
- 1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
- 1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
- 1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
- 1899 Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
- 1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
- 1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
- 1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
- 1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- 1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
- 1913 King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
- 1917 Ammunition ship explodes in Archangel harbour, about 1,500 die
- 1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in NYC
- 1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
- 1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
- 1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies" premieres in NYC
- 1922 Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
- 1922 WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
- 1923 Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves
- 1927 Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
- 1929 American Samoa organizes as territory of US
- 1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
- 1930 Capelle soccer team forms
- 1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
- 1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
- 1933 Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
- 1933 House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
- 1933 Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in NYC
- 1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
- 1935 Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman in land on Antarctica
- 1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
- 1940 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
- 1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
- 1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
- 1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
- 1942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying ace
- 1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
- 1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn field (Mexico)
- 1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
- 1943 American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
- 1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
- 1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
- 1944 World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- 1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
- 1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.
- 1947 State of Prussia ceases to exist.
- 1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
- 1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)
- 1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
- 1950 WOL-AM in Washington, D.C. swaps calls with WWDC
- 1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC
- 1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
- 1953 August A Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million
- 1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
- 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
- 1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
- 1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
- 1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
- 1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
- 1958 LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
- 1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
- 1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
- 1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
- 1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater
- 1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
- 1972 14th Daytona 500: A.J. Foyt wins (161.55 MPH)
- 1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
- 1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
- 1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
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- 1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
- 1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
- 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
- 1979 "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
- 1979 11 'loyalists' known as the "Shankill Butchers" are sentenced to life in prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast
- 1979 29th Berlin International Film Festival: "David" wins the Golden Bear
- 1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
- 1981 James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec)
- 1982 NY Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game
- 1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
- 1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
- 1983 25th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins (155.979 MPH)
- 1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
- 1986 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
- 1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
- 1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America" after 11 years
- 1987 37th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Theme" wins the Golden Bear
- 1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- 1988 Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
- 1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
- 1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
- 1988 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
- 1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2)
- 1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
- 1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
- 1989 An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
- 1991 "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 78 performances
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- 1991 A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
- 1992 "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
- 1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
- 1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
- 1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
- 1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies' Golf Open
- 1993 NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
- 1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
- 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
- 1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal
- 1998 UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
- 1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
- 2000 42nd Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett wins (155.669 MPH)
- 2001 The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal's patent on production of cleaner "reformulated" gasoline sold in California
- 2002 In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
- 2003 During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others.
- 2005 Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
- 2005 54th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Denver
- 2005 47th Daytona 500: Jeff Gordon wins (135.173 MPH)
- 2010 On the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, leaving at least 32 deaths in the worst disaster on the history of the archipelago.
- 2011 60th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 148-143 at Los Angeles
- 2011 53rd Daytona 500: Trevor Bayne wins (130.326 MPH)
- 2012 Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
- 2012 South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders
- 2013 Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
- 2013 Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
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