Today In History

1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1611 George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury
1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands
1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of U.S.
1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1801 Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C.
1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president
1826 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts
1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president
1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion
1837 City of Chicago incorporates
1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1841 Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London
1845 James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president
1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag
1861 Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president
1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee
1863 Territory of Idaho established
1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president
1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
1876 U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow
1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan
1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1881 Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
1881 James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
1881 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Chicago
1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die
1909 President Taft inaugurated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
1909 U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1913 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments
1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member
1933 Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City
1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin
1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel
1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member
1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom
1972 Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty
1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances
1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin
1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank
1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW
1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances
1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 Columbia 16) launches into orbit
1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1

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