Today In History

1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark
1702 England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1854 U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1855 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1861 St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 New York passes 1st state dog license law
1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen
1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
1908 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York
1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
1911 1st International Woman's Day
1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes
1915 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1916 U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917 Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd
1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations
1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
1929 U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1939 Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres
1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
1943 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1943 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn
1944 U.S. resumes bombing Berlin
1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed
1945 Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign
1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1950 Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb
1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances
1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
1958 William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters
1959 Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances
1961 Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in New York City
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1966 "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 569 performances
1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1968 Fillmore East opens
1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens
1973 Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis
1973 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
1977 Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter
1979 5th People's Choice Awards
1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1980 Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances
1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"
1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in Beirut Lebanon
1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1987 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr. in California
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances
1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
1991 Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed
1991 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
1992 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
1994 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
1994 Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47

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