today in other days 1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch 1528 - Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church) 1536 - Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions 1576 - Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht 1587 - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japans rulers (shoguns) 1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed King of England King Charles I 1634 - English King Charles I disbands new Ship Money tax 1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I 1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia 1751 - Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort 1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment 1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy. 1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US 1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished 1817 - 1st Mississippi Showboat, leaves Nashville on maiden voyage 1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada 1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country 1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million 1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times 1827 - Battle at Navarino: Engl/ Russ/French fleet beat Turk/ Egyptian fleet Naturalist Charles Darwin 1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana 1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti 1843 - 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname 1847 - Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa 1856 - Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens 1862 - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname 1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring Greatest Show on Earth, opens (NYC) 1877 - Franz Schuberts 2nd Symphony in B, premieres 1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens 1883 - Max Bruchs Kol Nidre, 1st performed 1883 - Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile 1888 - Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ 1889 - Gerhart Hauptmanns Vor Sonnenaufgang, premieres in Berlin 1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 1898 - NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms 1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers 1899 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th Americas Cup 1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada 1905 - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days 1905 - Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish 1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) 1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium 1910 - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series 1910 - Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar 1910 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. 1911 - Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC 1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole 1912 - Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC 1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) 1918 - Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions 1920 - 1st Year with Frank Craven premieres in NYC 1922 - Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place 1924 - 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0 1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600 1929 - Bayshore Highway opens (SF) 1930 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio 1930 - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land 1931 - Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP 1932 - Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1934 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan 1934 - Richard Strauss completes his opera Die Schweigsame Frau 1935 - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid 1935 - Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels 1935 - Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up 1935 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their Long March at Yanan, in Shaanxi China 1936 - Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL 1936 - Spanish government moves to Barcelona 1939 - All the Things You Are recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch 1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus 1940 - Cheese rationed in Netherlands 1940 - Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands 1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia 1942 - Durham Manifesto calls for fundamental changes in race relations 1944 - Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3,600 homeless Baseball Player Hank Greenberg 1944 - Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala 1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade 1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen 1944 - US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines 1944 - US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines 1945 - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg 1946 - Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants 1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1947 - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years 1947 - Robinson Jeffers Medea, premieres in NYC 1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark) 1951 - The Johnny Bright Incident occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma 1952 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya 1953 - WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 - Peter Pan opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances WW2 General Douglas MacArthur 1955 - No Time for Sergeants opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith 1955 - Harry Belafonte records Day-O (Banana Boat Song) 1955 - Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan 1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings. 1956 - 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high) 1956 - Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 craft 1957 - Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt 1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary 1959 - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise 1959 - WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast 1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 1960 - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager 1962 - Musical Mr President opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances 1962 - Chinese army lands in India 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1963 - Alec Douglas-Home forms British government 1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single- season rushing record, 1,863 yds 1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 1963 - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy 1963 - WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 - Golden Boy opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances 1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ 1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) 1965 - 19th NHL All-Star Game: All- Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal 1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for Yesterday 1965 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia 1967 - All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi 1967 - Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland As 1967 - KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. 1968 - Her 1st Roman opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs 1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic 1968 - Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) 1969 - WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting 1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return) 1971 - Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens at Barrymore for 325 per 1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1971 - The Nepal stock exchange collapses. 1972 - Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia 1973 - Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in Have You Met Miss Dietz 1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe 1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House 1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox 1973 - Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned 1973 - The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass 1974 - 1st broadcast of Derrick on ZDF 1974 - Bards presentation of Richard III opens at Lincoln Center NYC 1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning 1976 - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince 1976 - NY Nets Julius Dr J Erving sold to Phila 76ers 1977 - David Mamets Life in the Theater, premieres in NYC 1977 - Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons Dracula, premieres in NYC 1977 - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick 1978 - Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government 1978 - Polices 1st US concert (NYs CBGBs) Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II 1978 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2 1979 - Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live 1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston 1979 - John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1981 - 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99 1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery 1981 - Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured 1982 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland As 1982 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1982 - Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected 1982 - St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series 1982 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. 1983 - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released 1984 - Cleveland Metroparks Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed 1984 - Islanders Mike Bossys 30th career hat trick-4 goals Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan 1984 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California. 1986 - Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa 1987 - 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis 1987 - Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record) 1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1988 - Les Miserables, opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila 1988 - Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA 1988 - Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football for personal reasons 1988 - LA Dodgers beat Oakland As in baseballs 85th World Series 4 games to 1 1988 - Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC) 1988 - Reggie Rogers, Det Lions # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated 1989 - Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round- robin 1989 - US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings 1990 - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida 1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq) 1990 - Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland As in 86th World Series 1991 - Andre Hellers Wonderhouse opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs 1991 - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die 1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo 1992 - 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta 1992 - David Houghton scores Zimbabwes 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut) 1992 - Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria 1993 - Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m 1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit 1995 - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final 1996 - Summer & Smoke closes at Criterion Theater NYC 1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Womens Golf 1996 - Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series 1996 - Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt 1996 - Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 v Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes 1997 - Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty 1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers 2004 - Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseballs American League 2011 - The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.
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