Today In History

1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon
1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1559 England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis
1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 Austria and Bavaria sign peace
1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
1827 Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1863 Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
1865 Battle of Ft. Blakely AL and Selma AL
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. pres
1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1876 Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila
1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1878 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1884 London prison for debtors closed
1900 1st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam
1902 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
1902 Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1906 South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives
1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity
1926 Riots between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta
1930 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1939 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF
1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa
1947 Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome
1963 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1964 Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
1964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd.
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 Senator Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
1971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win
1972 Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings," premieres in New York City
1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election
1974 46th Academy Awards - "Sting," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win
1974 Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1976 Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
1977 Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose
1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1978 Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Aust Georgetown
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo
1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1981 Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon
1982 Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands
1985 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1987 "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 46 performances
1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2
1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1988 Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI vs. Pakistan, Georgetown
1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1989 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
1989 Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games
1990 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances
1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 in Amsterdam
1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1994 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
1995 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: University of Ct Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64
1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1995 Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
1995 New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26
1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995 Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game
1997 "Doll's House," opens at Belasco Theater New York City
1998 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota

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