Today In History

574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1174 Scottish King William captured
1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
1568 Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1573 Haarlem surrenders to the Spanish army
1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1645 Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1700 Russian-Turkish peace
1787 Congress establishes Northwest Territory
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered by Henry R. Schoolcraft
1836 U.S. patent #1: for locomotive wheels
1837 Queen Victoria is first monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1851 John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
1854 U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia
1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
1863 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City: about 1,000 people die
1863 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana
1864 Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 P. T. Barnum's museum burns down
1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
1870 King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depˆche" on Bismarck
1876 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office
1878 Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends
1878 Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents radio
1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens
1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1917 Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1919 Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas
1923 Draft law passes
1930 Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1935 U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1941 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1943 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part
1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1945 The first atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1948 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist Catholics
1950 Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1950 Rene Pleven forms French government
1954 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1958 13th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1960 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1960 U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate
1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43
1965 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
1965 All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1967 Race riots break out in Newark, 27 people die
1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 French government-Couve de Murville forms
1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1971 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1971 All star MVP: Frank Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles
1973 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
1974 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1976 All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds)
1977 New York City experiences a 25 hour black-out
1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1979 Calif's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
1979 George Harrison releases "Faster"
1980 35th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1982 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1982 All star MVP: Dave Conception
1982 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 people killed
1984 Eddie Van Halen joins in at a Jackson's concert
1984 Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1984 Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1988 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1988 Sting performs his first Rain Forest benefit concert
1993 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
1993 All star MVP: Kirby Puckett for the Minnesota Twins
1994 Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1994 O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing
1997 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1997 52nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
1997 David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
1997 Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 Indonesian ferry sinks killing at least 77 people

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