On this day in history: 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics is credited with helping the UK economy emerge from recession; official GDP figures show 1 percent growth from July to September 2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Jamaica and heads towards The Bahamas 2011 In the U.S., 133 people in 26 states are suffering from the 2011 U.S. listeriosis outbreak, which killed 28 people to date 2011 The last nine-megaton B53 warheads, in service since 1962, are disassembled near Amarillo, Texas 2010 Sony takes its original cassette Walkman off the market 2004 World Series, Florida Marlins beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 2 1996 Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant 1995 Victor/Victoria, opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 738 performances 1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them) 1993 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead 1993 Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election 1993 Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record 1992 Dancing at Lughnasa closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 421 performances 1992 Jakes Women closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 245 performances 1992 Rene Lachemann hired as Florida Marlins 1st manager 1991 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs vs. India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah 1990 Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991) 1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers popularity as pets 1988 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series 1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa 1986 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS 1986 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball 1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract 1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit 1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) 1984 Hepatitis virus is discovered 1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels 1984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2 1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1984 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption 1983 U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!) 1982 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 minutes, SA vs. Victoria 1981 11th New York City Womens Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29 1981 12th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13 1981 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missiles 1981 Allison Roe (2:25:29) and Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win New York City marathon 1981 George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator 1980 Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1980 Barbra Streisands Guilty, album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single Woman In Love, goes #1 for 3 weeks 1979 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1978 Israeli Government approves in principle, a draft compromise peace 1978 Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL) 1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight 1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits 1975 U.S.S.R.s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing 1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM 1974 Dmitri Shostakovich 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad 1974 Wings release Juniors Farm 1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship 1973 Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris 1973 San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hour 1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks 1971 Belgium and China establish diplomatic relations 1971 General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR 1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World 1971 U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China 1970 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Womens Golf Charities Open 1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler 1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennons baby 1966 6 youths sentenced in Johnson murderer! in Amsterdam 1965 Rolling Stones release Get Off of My Cloud 1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner 1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies Golf Open 1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety 1963 Anti-Kennedy WANTED FOR TREASON pamphlets scattered in Dallas 1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden 1962 110th member of United Nations admitted (Uganda) 1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation 1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City 1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining U.S. businesses 1957 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed 1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him 1955 Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 1955 Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates 1955 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven 1953 Cleveland Browns quarterback Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles 1953 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die 1953 Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony 1953 KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, California (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine Donald Duck 1952 French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam 1952 Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistans 1st Test century 124* vs. India 1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom 1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life 1950 Jean Anouilhs La Repetition, ou LAmour Pani, premieres in Paris 1950 Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia 1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts F. Weinreb for collaboration 1947 Under the Counter closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 27 performances 1947 Bradman scores 156 for SA vs. the Indians, 152 minutes, 22 fours 1947 Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh for $4M 1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg 1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek 1944 Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink 1944 Battle at Samar-island 1944 Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed 1944 Gas output stopped in Amsterdam 1943 Burma railroad completed and opens 1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive 1942 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins 1942 Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa 1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine 1941 Germany attacks Moscow 1941 Winston Churchill routes Forces South to SE Asia 1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army 1940 Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General 1940 Duke, Latouche and Felters musical premieres in New York City 1940 U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general 1939 George Kaufman/Moss Harts Man Who Came to Dinner, premieres in New York City 1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in U.S. for 1st time 1939 William Saroyans Time of Your Life, premieres in New York City 1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou and Wuhan 1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money 1937 Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees 1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti 1932 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant 1932 Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years 1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center 1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began 1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe 1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and General Manager of New York Rangers 1925 Lester Patrick takes over New York Rangers 1925 Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip 1st published 1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal 1918 Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die 1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power 1917 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd 1915 Atty James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia 1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden 1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents Audion, a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting 1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin 1902 Maksin Gorkis Na dne, premieres in Moscow 1902 Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die 1900 England annexes Transvaal 1893 Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr. Jameson beats Ndebeles 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) ends 1885 John Brahms 4th Symphony in E, premieres 1884 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps New York Mets (AA) in 3 1881 Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton engage in Shootout at OK Corral 1875 Peter Tsjaikofskys 1st Pianoconcert up. 23 premieres in Boston 1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore 1870 Postcards 1st used in U.S. 1864 Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek) 1864 Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS and Turkeytown, AL 1861 Battle of Wilsons Creek, MI (Springfield) 1859 Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die 1854 Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die 1854 Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava 1825 Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean 1812 U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian 1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years 1760 George III ascends British throne 1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn 1666 Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance 1621 Governor Bradford of U.S. colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day 1616 VOC-ship The Eendracht discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia 1596 Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland 1577 Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns 1555 Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan 1521 Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam 1492 Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic 1492 Columbus fleet sites Zandislands (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas) 1492 Columbus ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic 1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeat armored knight 1415 John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg 1241 Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) 1147 Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Koenraad IIIs crusaders 1147 King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon 1131 Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France 625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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