3963BC Origin of the Hevelius' Mundane Era
1601 Tycho Brahe, astronomical observer, dies in Prague at age 54
1648 The Peace of Westphalia
1795 The 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia, and Russia
1836 The match is patented
1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel: satellites of Uranus
1856 The Constitution of South Australia adopted
1857 World's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., is founded in England
1861 The first transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express
1871 An angry mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese people
1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1901 The first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel: Anna Taylor
1903 The first trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes: Lou Dillon
1903 George Sutton becomes the billiard champ
1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for the South Pole
1929 "Black Thursday" beginning of the stock market crash
1931 The George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1939 Benny Goodman records his hit "Let's Dance"
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for first time: Wilmington Delaware
1940 The 40 hour work week goes into effect: Fair Labor Standards of 1938
1940 Japan eliminates the US terms "strike" and "play ball" from baseball
1943 Anti-Nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1945 The United Nations Charter becomes effective
1947 Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber in the New England States
1951 The United Nations publishes its first postage stamps
1952 The Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary
1957 Christian Dior, the French designer, dies at age 52
1960 A disaster on a USSR launch pad kills missile expert Nedelin and his team
1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain
1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful are arrested for pot possession
1970 Nancy Walker creates the Ida Morgenstein role on the Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 Salvador Allende Gossens is elected president of Chile
1971 Texas Stadium opens
1972 Jackie Robinson dies at age 53
1973 Heavy fog causes a 65 car collision killing 9 people on the NJ Turnpike
1973 John Lennon sues the US government to admit the FBI is tapping his phone
1973 The Yom Kippur War ends
1976 The first Jewish film & TV festival
1980 The Polish government legalizes the independent labor union Solidarity
1984 11 members of the Colombo crime family are arrested
1984 Steffi Graf plays her first professional tennis match
1987 Bork's Supreme Court nomination is rejected by the Senate
1987 NBC technicians accept an agreement and end a 118 day strike
1988 Typhoon Ruby sinks a Philippine ferry and hundreds of people are drown
1989 After a week's delay due to an earthquake, World Series game 3 is finally played
1989 Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years in prison for fraud
1991 Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator, dies of a heart attack at age 70
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