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1168 Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope
1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England
1342 Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
1347 Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles
1431 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies
1520 Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
1521 Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1583 Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst
1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1719 Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm
1755 English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1759 -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1789 New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1795 Cura‡ao govt forbids slave work on Sunday
1805 Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1815 2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies
1815 Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Great Alliance
1817 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1829 Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1852 Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces," premieres in London
1862 Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1865 Howard University forms in Washington DC
1866 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1873 Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1888 William Bundy patents timecard clock
1889 Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony
1890 Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions
1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1901 Opera "Gris‚lidis" is produced (Paris)
1902 Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1906 George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1911 Gustav Mahlers "Tie Song of the Erde" premieres in Munich
1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1915 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
1917 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
1922 Zo‰ Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
1923 Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal
1928 Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1928 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1929 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
1929 Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1932 Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1934 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0
1934 Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC
1934 New Belgian govt of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers)
1934 Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period
1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails
1940 Hungary joins 3 Power pact
1941 Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding
1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
1944 Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1945 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1946 Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1948 US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park
1952 Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
1952 George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in NYC
1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
1954 KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ
1955 Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 v NZ
1957 Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in NYC
1959 UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1961 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1962 USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow
1965 "Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances
1965 UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1965 WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open
1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1969 Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut v Australia Kanpur
1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1969 SF Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP
1970 UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
1974 The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president
1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open
1977 Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions
1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1979 Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed
1979 US's 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1981 Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
1981 Burundia adopts its constitution
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
1981 Ringo releases "Stop & Smell Roses" album
1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live
1983 "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1983 NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing
1984 McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
1986 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1988 "Les Miserables," opens a Bus & Truck tour in Tampa
1989 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1990 Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
1990 Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year
1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1991 Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP
1992 "Malcolm X" premieres
1992 Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
1993 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo
1993 Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
1994 "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1994 Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
1994 Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
1995 "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released
1995 "Racing Demon" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1995 FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
1995 Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
1995 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands
1997 "Ivanov," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 51 performances
1997 Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley
1997 Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals
1997 Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played
1997 NY Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak
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