Historical Events of Nov.3rd. 44 - Umar - TopicsExpress

Historical Events of Nov.3rd. 44 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. 1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI 1468 - Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundys troops. 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica 1527 - Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary 1529 - London - 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament 1534 - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader 1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony 1629 - Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague 1640 - English Long Parliament forms 1655 - England & France sign miltary & economic treaties 1656 - Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS] 1676 - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier 1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet 1716 - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August Is Polish kingdom 1752 - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation 1760 - Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria 1762 - Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris 1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana 1783 - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded 1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at Londons Tyburn gallows. 1791 - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers 1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined. 1794 - French troops conquer Maastricht 1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America 1812 - Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma 1813 - US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala 1820 - Cuenca Ecuador declares independence 1838 - The Times of India, the worlds largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. 1839 - 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1839 - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed 1848 - Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force 1856 - A British fleet bombards Canton. 1862 - Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana 1863 - Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War 1867 - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi 1868 - 1st black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana) 1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) 1869 - Canadas Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms 1874 - James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti 1883 - Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) 1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans cant be Americans 1883 - American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the poet gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture. 1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses 1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao 1888 - Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes 1889 - Chaplain Ariëns founds 1st roman catholic workers group 1896 - J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales 1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator 1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president 1899 - James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title 1900 - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC) 1903 - Colombia grants independence to Panama 1905 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners. 1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan 1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. 1913 - The USA introduces an income tax. 1916 - Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar 1917 - 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce 1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves 1918 - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I 1920 - Emperor Jones opens at Provincetown Theater 1922 - Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life 1926 - 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins 1926 - Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager 1927 - 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) 1927 - Rodgers & Harts musical Connecticut Yankee, premieres in NYC 1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) 1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet 1930 - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens 1930 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America 1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. 1931 - 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured 1934 - Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP 1934 - Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP 1935 - George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy 1935 - Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) 1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R) 1937 - Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km) 1937 - NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont 1939 - Clare Booths Margin for Error, premieres in NYC 1941 - Hirohitis accord on Yamamotos attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails 1942 - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault 1942 - Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP 1942 - Mort Cooper wins NL MVP 1942 - William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago 1943 - Dmitri Sjostakovitchs 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1943 - P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland 1944 - Allied commandos lands at Westkapelle Walcheren 1944 - German troops in Vlissingen surrenders 1944 - Pro-German government of Hungary flees 1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1945 - Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi 1946 - Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution 1948 - 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago 1952 - Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas 1952 - Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus Composer George Friedrich Handel US President Ulysses S. Grant 25th US President William McKinley Absolute monarch Nicholas II 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1953 - 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly 1953 - 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC) 1954 - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe 1955 - 1st virus crystallized (announced) 1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor 1955 - Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua 1955 - Australia takes control of Cocos Islands 1955 - Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht 1956 - Wizard of Oz 1st televised (CBS-TV) 1957 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test 1959 - David Ben-Gurions Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election) 1960 - Unsinkable Molly Brown opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs 1960 - Ivory Coast adopts constitution 1960 - Pittsburgh Pirates Vern Law wins Cy Young Award 1960 - Tammy Grimes Unsinkable Molly Brown premieres in NYC 1961 - General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers 1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open 1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres 1964 - Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium 1965 - Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously 1967 - Bostons Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young 1967 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. 1968 - Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon 1968 - Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta 1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic 1968 - NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 1969 - Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1970 - Presidents Daughter opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs 1970 - Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award 1970 - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam 1970 - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile 1971 - Play Misty For Me premieres 1973 - Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury 1974 - Lorelei closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances 1974 - Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic 1975 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault) 1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf 1977 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic 1978 - 1st broadcast of Diffrent strokes on NBC TV 1978 - Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution 1978 - Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic 1978 - USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty 1979 - 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC 1979 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic 1979 - Marocco offensive against Polisario 1980 - Ianford Wilsons 5th of July, premieres in NYC 1980 - Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland As 1981 - Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award 1982 - Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record 1982 - Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukees 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young 1983 - Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D) 1983 - Nashville Network begins on cable TV 1984 - 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India 1984 - Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated 1985 - Argentine pres Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections 1985 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament 1986 - Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US 1986 - Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique 1986 - John Lennon Menlove Avenue album released posthumously 1986 - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran 1986 - Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US 1987 - Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year 1987 - On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 1988 - Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane 1988 - President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill 1988 - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Riveras nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping 1989 - 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights 1989 - Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose 1989 - Minn Timberwolves 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94 1990 - Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway 1991 - 21st NYC Womens Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27 1991 - 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28 1991 - Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps) 1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R) 1992 - Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in US Senate 1993 - Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil Ironman record by playing 322nd cons game 1994 - Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 1994 - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches 1994 - Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder 1994 - Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s) 1995 - 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100 1995 - 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80 1995 - 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79 1996 - Its a Slippery Slope, opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC 1996 - 26th NYC Womens Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18 1996 - 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54 1996 - Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup 1996 - Toray Japan Queens Cup 1997 - Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year 1997 - California law ends affirmative-action 1997 - David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club 1997 - Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year 2007 - Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court. 2012 - Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase