37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1167 - Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians 1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds, England 1229 - German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem 1241 - Kraków is ravaged by Mongols. 1673 - Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers 1773 - Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, premieres in London 1810 - Converse, 1st US opera, premieres in NY 1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. 1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram 1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California) 1871 - Communards revolt in Paris 1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights. 1877 - President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC 1881 - Barnum & Baileys Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden) 1882 - Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone 1891 - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone 1895 - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia 1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record 1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast 1910 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC 1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law 1922 - British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience 1922 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions 1922 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City. 1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan. 1940 - Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germanys war against France & Britain 1942 - 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out 1944 - Nazi Germany occupies Hungary 1945 - 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin 1948 - Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting 1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified 1959 - President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill 1961 - Poppin Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced 1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria Birthdays 1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) 1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet 1602 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) 1756 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer 1765 - David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo) 1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908) 1837 - Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) 1838 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter 1838 - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903) 1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898) 1843 - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899) 1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade) 1858 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor) 1877 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945) 1886 - Edward Everett Horton, Brooklyn New York, American actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show) 1886 - Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist 1889 - F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands 1893 - Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) 1901 - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970) 1909 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007) 1932 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, president South Africa (1989-94) 1932 - John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run) 1933 - Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi 1938 - Carl Gottlieb, comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show) 1944 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman Deaths 235 - Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered 1314 - Jacques de Molay, the last grand master of The KnightsTemplar dies burned at the stake 1584 - Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 1845 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], American pioneer agronomist dies in Allen County Indiana 1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826) 1928 - Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32 1936 - Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58 1947 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
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