Today In History

1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer
1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland
1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 The first settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord
1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1704 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 France passes first copyright law
1799 William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York
1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado, Uruguay
1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah
1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, New York City
1851 Window tax abolished in Britain
1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS Gen Wise retreats
1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1864 Battle of Winchester, Virginia US1200 CS600
1866 Tennessee becomes first Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 The first trans-U.S. rail service begins
1877 The first time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma
1893 For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1905 Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II
1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his first bull
1911 Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 people die
1919 Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 people killed, 100 wounded)
1921 Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs
1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1936 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 General Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt
1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1940 The first illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 Nazis execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania
1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 U.S. troops land on Tinian
1945 U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1946 9 Spokane baseball players, die in a bus crash
1948 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; first launch from Cape Canaveral
1952 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1960 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1965 Bob Dylan releases "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets
1965 Rock group "Animals" first time on British charts
1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1968 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal
1970 International Lawn Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1973 All star MVP: Bobby Bonds for the San Francisco Giants
1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1977 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983 Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1984 Steve Ballesteros wins British Open
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1988 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 people die
1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1994 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 49th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tours de France

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