Today In History

1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
1573 Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty
1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1696 English king Willem III departs Netherlands
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1835 HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
1843 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed
1865 Battles round Kinston North Carolina
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1896 Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees
1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1911 U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker
1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1918 H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City
1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1925 American Negro Congress organizes
1926 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York
1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R.
1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
1940 Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1946 "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances
1946 Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich
1950 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
1951 Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City
1953 Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. NZ at Wellington
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young
1955 Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
1959 "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances
1959 West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances
1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City
1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1975 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released
1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends
1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party"
1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award
1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland
1990 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia
1990 H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1993 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
1993 Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1994 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope
1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

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