Today In History

1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1617 Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance
1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
1798 Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy
1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
1822 Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
1882 False teeth patented
1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S.
1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City
1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City
1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1945 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
1947 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1947 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City
1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit
1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again"
1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain
1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances
1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
1984 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays

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