Today In History

296 St. Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
833 Louis, King of Austria, is crowned
949 Otto I the Great gives away Bishop's seat of Utrecht
1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1371 Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
1397 Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1520 Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
1528 Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
1548 Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1559 Duke of Montgomery wounds King Henri II during a tournament
1596 English/Dutch fleet reaches Cadiz
1598 King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) is published
1643 Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
1688 Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
1690 Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
1700 Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar: tomorrow is 12/7/1700
1722 Hungarian Parliament condemns Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
1734 Russian army occupies Danzig
1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1755 Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1815 U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 Charles Blondin is first to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1862 Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia
1862 Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack
1862 Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp Virginia (Frayser's Farm)
1863 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1863 Skirmish at Sporting Hill, Pennsylvania
1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 Ada Kepley becomes first female law college graduate
1871 Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1876 Serbia declares war on Turkey
1879 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1881 Henry Highland Garnet is named minister to Liberia
1893 Excelsior diamond, blue-white 995 carats, is discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 London Tower Bridge opens
1896 W. S. Hadaway patents electric stove
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, NJ 326 people die
1906 John Hope becomes first black president of Morehouse College
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Siberia: the Tunguska Event; Enckes comet struck
1909 Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1910 Russia absorbs Finland
1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
1911 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest: campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1916 22nd U.S. Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN
1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"
1923 NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform to international standards
1929 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 U.S. Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise, ID and Salt Lake City, Utah close
1934 "Night of Long Knives:" Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell is published
1936 40 hour work week law approved
1936 Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for the first time: Peenemunde
1940 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms
1941 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1942 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 U.S. bombs Celebes and Timor
1942 U.S. Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1943 General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel
1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1944 French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
1944 Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen
1945 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins
1948 Last British armies leave Israel
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced, Bell Labs
1949 Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
1950 U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops
1951 "Victor Borge Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination
1952 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1952 Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
1953 The first Corvette manufactured
1954 Largest check: Internal U.S. Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1955 "Johnny Carson Show" debuts on CBS-TV
1956 Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
1956 United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 people
1960 U.S. stops sugar imports from Cuba
1960 Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
1961 Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago to become NWA champ
1962 17th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom
1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
1962 Rwanda and Burundi become independent
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open
1964 Last United Nations troops leave Congo
1966 Leopoldville, Congo is renamed Kinshasa
1967 Major Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named first black astronaut
1967 Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria
1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
1968 Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment
1973 Biggest U.S. tanker, "Brooklyn," is christened (230,000 ton)
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe a 72-min solar eclipse
1974 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala
1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York)
1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono, marries Gregg Allman
1975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia
1975 University of California reports seeing galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.
1978 English prince Michael marries Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
1978 Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1980 West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse Tung's policy
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
1984 Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation
1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump
1988 "Sledge Hammer!" last airs on ABC-TV
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners)
1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam
1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
1990 East and West Germany merge their economies
1991 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
1992 Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines
1992 The first pay bathrooms in the U.S. open: 25 cents, New York City
1992 Total solar eclipse in Uruguay lasts 5-min. 21-seconds
1994 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France: 7 people killed
1994 Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 U.S. Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
1996 Caroline Frolic, Miss Ontario, is crowned Miss Renaissance USA
1996 Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1998 Sega Channel, cable's first on-demand video game service, closes down
2005 Spain becomes the 3rd country to permit same-sex marriage

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