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0902 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines

0813 Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor

1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English

1304 Willem III becomes earl of Holland

1557 Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm

1645 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol

1648 -13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]

1649 Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists

1649 Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred

1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power

1709 Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France

1714 French & Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona

1741 Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British

1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce

1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury

1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British

1831 Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth

1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)

1847 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)

1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert

1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R

1853 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)

1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah

1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip

1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen

1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switz

1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute

1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia

1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)

1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave

1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)

1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham

1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique

1909 Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet

1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms

1912 Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game

1914 T Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"

1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece

1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series

1919 US marines invade Honduras

1922 British mandate of Palestine begins

1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader

1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks

1923 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run

1923 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower

1926 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)

1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu

1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship

1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies

1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2

1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers

1928 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger

1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees

1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system

1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles

1933 Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship

1935 49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)

1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year

1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game

1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

1937 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)

1937 57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)

1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw

1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley

1939 Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany

1940 -12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs

1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office

1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS

1940 Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs

1940 Hitler begins operation-Seel”we (invasion England)

1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels

1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight

1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US into WW II

1942 Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1943 Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno

1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated

1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island

1943 US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea

1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference

1944 US 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany

1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation

1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts

1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited

1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio

1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence

1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice

1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes

1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews

1953 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1953 WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast

1954 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)

1954 KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting

1954 Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)

1955 69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62)

1955 75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63)

1955 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting

1956 Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR

1956 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)

1956 Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher

1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1959 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements

1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans

1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4

1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0

1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy

1960 74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)

1960 80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)

1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance

1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums

1962 Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles

1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company

1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium

1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets

1966 80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61)

1966 86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64)

1966 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1966 Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat

1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic

1966 Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show

1967 A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley

1967 Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England

1967 French president De Gaulle visits Poland

1967 Indian/Chinese border fights

1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material

1967 WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting

1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1971 "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances

1971 Egypt adopts its constitution

1971 Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972

1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont

1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup

1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each

1976 Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977

1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)

1976 90th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)

1977 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur

1977 97th US Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60)

1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced

1980 Chile adopts its constitution

1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record

1981 2nd govt of Agt forms

1982 96th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61)

1982 Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983

1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY

1983 103rd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60)

1983 Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss

1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards

1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship

1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1985 Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner

1985 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km

1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India

1985 Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record

1986 Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres

1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded

1987 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins

1987 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die

1988 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy

1988 108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64)

1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship

1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world

1988 108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in US Open history

1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud

1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO

1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale

1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston

1991 Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die

1991 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation

1991 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium

1991 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0

1992 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured

1993 107th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63)

1993 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46)

1994 114th US Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75)

1994 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins

1994 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle

1994 Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423

1995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"

1995 Soyuz TM-22, lands

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