THE 13 since 1888 1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC) 1893 - British Independent Labour Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) 1894 - Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops 1895 - Oscar Wildes Ideal Husband, premieres in London 1906 - 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile 1908 - French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip 1908 - Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people. 1910 - JM Synges Deirdre of the Sorrows, premieres in Dublin 1911 - Gerhart Hauptmanns Die Ratten, premieres in Berlin 1913 - Delta Sigma Theta, the worlds largest Black Womens Sorority is founded at Howard University, Washington DC 1914 - IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested Girl from Utah East-Prussia 1915 - Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800 1919 - Dutch Soccer team OSV forms 1920 - NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly 1922 - Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended 1922 - WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions 1924 - Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections 1927 - US & Mexico battle over oil interests 1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip 1st appears 1934 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR. 1935 - Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany 1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution. 1939 - Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco 1942 - Allied Conference on war trials 1942 - Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration 1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca 1943 - Hitler declares Total War 1943 - Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov 1943 - US infantry captures Galloping Horse Ridge, Guadalcanal 1945 - Prokofchevs 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1948 - 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin 1953 - Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14 1953 - KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 - Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia 1954 - Military rule in Egypt; 318 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested 1954 - WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting 1957 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10 1957 - All that Fall, first radio play by Samuel Beckett, aired on BBC Third Programme 1958 - 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban 1958 - US newspaper Daily Worker ceases publication 1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. 1959 - French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death 1959 - King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence 1962 - Do Re Mi closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances 1963 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20 1964 - Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 - Coup in Togo 1967 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show 1968 - Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th) 1970 - Riots begin in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast 1971 - Soon closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances 1973 - Lasse Daniel Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6) 1974 - Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. 1979 - YMCA files libel suit against Village Peoples YMCA song 1980 - Togos constitution becomes effective 1981 - Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour 1981 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov 1981 - Islanders Mike Bossys 15th career hat trick-4 goals 1983 - Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out 1985 - 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course 1985 - Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders 1985 - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,100,000 1985 - Express train derails in Ethiopia, killing at least 428 1986 - NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams 1986 - South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammeds bodyguard shoots opponents 1987 - Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each 1987 - West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking 1988 - LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires 1989 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence 1990 - 1st elected African American Governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) 1991 - 12th ACE Cable Awards: Weather Channel wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the hurricane Hugo 1991 - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die 1991 - UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam 1992 - US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane 1993 - French, British, and US fighter jets launch bombing raids in southern Iraq 1994 - Italian government of Ciampi resigns 1995 - 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike 1995 - America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an Americas Cup race 1997 - Radical guerrillas hold 72 hostages and shoot at police outside the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru 1998 - Patti LaBelle On Broadway, opens at St James Theater NYC 2001 - Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people 2002 - 28th Peoples Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV) 2002 - In a controversial move, Marty Schottenheimer is fired as head coach of the Washington Redskins after just one season 2007 - Two thirds of the Venuss southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate. 2009 - Global shipping experiences a drop in trade, as exports from South Korea dropping an annualised 30%, with Taiwan and Japan experiencing a 42% and 27% drop respectively 2012 - Cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths 2013 - Argo wins the Golden Globe awards for best drama and best director.
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