Today In History

70 Titus sets up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
649 Pope Martinus I is elected to succeed Theodore I
1097 The first Crusaders defeat the Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200 In China, sunglasses are invented
1233 Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252 King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castilie/Leon crowned
1253 Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre
1347 Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390 French and Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1517 The first burning of Protestants at the stake in Netherlands
1517 Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1535 Sir Thomas Moore goes on trial in England: charged with treason
1543 England and Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 Latvia Parliament accepts Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1600 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth
1656 The first Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrive in Boston
1674 Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1690 Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1745 Warship Elizabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle
1747 Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army
1776 The first vote on the Declaration of Independence
1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1798 Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810 Louis Napoleon resigns as King of the Netherlands
1816 Fr frigate Medusa wrecked: basis of Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1820 The first edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1823 9th Postmaster General, John McLean, of Ohio takes office
1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1831 Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1847 The first U.S. postage stamps go on sale, 5 cents Franklin and 10 cents Washington, New York City
1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around San Francisco Bay
1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St. Louis
1859 The first intercollegiate baseball game: Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1861 The first public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason St, SF
1861 War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm)
1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (for the first time)
1862 Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm): US15,249 • CS17,583
1862 Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 Internal Revenue Law imposes first federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton Secretary of Agriculture
1863 Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 U.S. cities; postage 3 cents per oz
1863 Slavery abolished in Suriname and Netherlands Antilles
1867 Dominion of Canada forms
1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869 U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 James W Smith of South Carolina is first black to enter West Point
1871 The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1874 The first Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 The first U.S. kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874 The first U.S. zoo opens: in Philadelphia
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1881 The first international telephone conversation
1881 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri opens
1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890 Great-Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1893 San Francisco Bay City Club opens first U.S. bicycle race track: made of wood
1897 Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1903 The first Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 3rd modern Olympic games open in St. Louis
1907 World's first air force is established in the U.S. Army
1913 Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1916 Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916 Coca-Cola brings the new (current) coke formula to the market
1916 Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary 'Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1917 Race riots in East St. Louis Illinois (40 to 200 people are reported killed)
1919 First class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
1923 The first permanent radio network: AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Massachusetts)
1924 Light Brigade forms
1924 Regular transcontinental airmail service forms, New York City-SF
1929 U.S. cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1929 U.S. Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1930 Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
1931 Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
1931 Trans African Railway in use
1932 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs
1932 New York Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago
1932 New York newspaper, the Evening Standard, goes bankrupt
1933 German Nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work
1934 The first x-ray photo of entire body: Rochester, New York
1937 Britian begins using an emergency phone number: 999
1937 Spanish bishops support Franco and the fascists
1938 58th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for the first ever network TV commercial
1941 The first commercial TV licenses are granted
1942 German troops conquer Sebastopol
1943 "Pay-as-you-go" the first withholding tax is taken from paychecks
1944 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank
1944 General Eisenhower visits the front in Normandy
1946 U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll
1949 63rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
1950 The first 407 U.S. soldiers flown to South Korea
1951 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1955 69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (63 75 61)
1956 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1959 Heinrich Lubke is elected President of West-Germany
1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba
1960 Ghana becomes a republic
1960 Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961 16th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1961 Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1962 Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium
1963 President Kennedy arrives in Rome
1963 U.S. postal service institutes the zip code system (Zone Improvement Plan)
1966 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
1966 Medicare goes into effect
1967 The first British color TV broadcast
1968 U.S., Britain, U.S.S.R. and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 John and Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash
1969 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1970 Jimi Hendrix's first recording session (New York City)
1971 Golden Gate Bridge is paid for
1971 State of Washington becomes first state to ban sex discrimination
1972 Ms. Magazine begins publishing
1973 Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1974 Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina
1975 Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title
1977 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
1978 Former President Nixon makes first public speech since resigning in 1974
1979 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in October by senate
1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1990 11th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Lee Trevino
1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmet-less bike riding becomes illegal
1992 A 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
1992 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992 Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 1 second is added to the clock
1994 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994 Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995 Kiersten Rickenbach, of New Jersey, crowned America's Junior Miss
1997 Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997 U.K. returns Hong Kong to China

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