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0858 Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope

1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed

1185 Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet

1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder

1311 Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India

1364 Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht

1524 Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan

1547 Battle of MЃhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave

1558 Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Fran‡ois

1570 Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman

1596 Pacificatie of Ireland drawn

1704 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms

1762 Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty

1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation

1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"

1823 EugЉne Scribes "Le Menteur V‚ridique," premieres in Paris

1833 Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain

1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain

1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"

1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)

1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)

1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars

1871 Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)

1872 Volcano Vesuvius erupts

1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)

1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania

1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England

1883 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair

1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)

1888 Eastman Kodak forms

1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"

1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18

1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers

1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat

1897 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House

1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

1898 US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines

1899 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid

1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer

1901 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out

1905 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)

1905 Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3

1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m

1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds

1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms

1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper

1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)

1915 Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0

1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins

1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway

1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)

1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine

1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium

1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers

1923 General harbor strike begins in NYC

1925 88шF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April

1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented

1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off

1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark

1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)

1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)

1938 Lindenheuvel soccer team forms

1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece

1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot

1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter

1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"

1944 RAF bombs Munich

1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates

1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner

1945 Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)

1946 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame

1949 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win

1950 "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances

1950 Independent republic of South Molukkas declared

1950 Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt

1951 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open

1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina

1954 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations

1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends

1955 Gaullists lose elections in France

1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1956 AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game

1957 Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning

1958 Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2

1959 Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)

1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1960 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win

1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed

1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open

1960 Record 4 grand slams hit today

1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

1961 Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised

1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested

1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA

1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game

1963 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2

1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy

1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1965 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs

1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic

1965 NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager

1966 Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)

1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational

1967 21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 2

1968 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas

1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC

1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1969 Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded

1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians

1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead

1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary

1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"

1970 Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth

1970 Senegal adopts constitution

1971 "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 perf

1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth

1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion

1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers

1975 Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3

1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1977 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament

1978 Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game

1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election

1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey

1981 IBM-PC computer introduced

1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record

1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR

1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany

1982 Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies

1982 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin

1983 "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances

1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election

1983 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic

1984 Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot

1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"

1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC

1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic

1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China

1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"

1990 Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin

1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies

1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit

1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st

1991 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks

1992 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances

1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland

1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball

1992 Vinson Pike fined њ1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures

1993 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1

1993 ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett

1993 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham

1994 "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances

1994 "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances

1994 Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)

1994 Armando Calderўn Sol wins El Salvador presidential election

1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed

1994 David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71

1994 NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs

1995 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes

1995 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98

1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray

1996 "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf

1996 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain

1996 Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11

1997 "Steel Peer," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances

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