Today In History

259 Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II
260 St. Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II
1489 "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, first printed
1489 Treaty of Frankfurt
1515 Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
1515 Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire
1515 Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne
1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa
1582 Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft
1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1632 Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for King Philip IV
1648 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
1686 City of Albany, New York chartered
1691 Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France
1729 Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil
1731 Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
1739 Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade
1775 George Washington takes command of U.S. troops
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleveland
1812 Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1859 V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England Vs. Surrey
1864 Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 U.S. die
1865 V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex Vs. Lancs
1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
1898 Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hrs-first to endure Antarct winter
1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 people
1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1921 25th U.S. Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD
1923 Walter Johnson becomes first to strikeout 3,000
1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1933 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," New York City-first negro prima donna in US
1933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight
1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1936 Phillies' John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1937 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 Senate rejects Franklin D. Roosevelt proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1939 The first black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1942 4th Russian Panzer army forms with 80 tanks
1942 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
1943 U.S. forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily
1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1946 Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes)
1946 Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1950 King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1954 Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1955 The first VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1960 Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned sugar factories
1962 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA
1962 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
1963 Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1964 Steve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open
1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party
1967 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open
1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
1969 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1971 Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry
1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1973 28th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1975 House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
1979 Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced to life
1982 Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
1982 Biggest mass wedding: Rev. Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City
1983 -128.6 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1983 Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1984 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews
1984 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1984 Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
1984 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1986 House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 U.S. began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1989 Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
1990 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland
1990 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1990 Greg LeMond of U.S. wins his 3rd Tour de France
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1993 New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
1994 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter
1994 Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees
1994 O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
1995 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina
1997 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris

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