Historical Events on this Day in History 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. 1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden 1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet 1587 - Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain 1595 - William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed. 1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees 1676 - Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia. 1728 - John Gays Beggars Opera, premieres in London [NS=Feb 9] 1732 - Paris churchyard of Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual 1781 - Mozarts opera Idomeneo premieres, Munich 1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress 1834 - President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute 1845 - Edgar Allen Poes Raven 1st published (NYC) 1848 - Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press) 1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate 1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge valour in the face of the enemy 1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state 1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians 1872 - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina 1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established 1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe 1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch. 1895 - King Kokos Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100s killed 1896 - Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer 1900 - Boers under Joubert beat British at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed 1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis 1903 - Dutch railroad workers strike 1904 - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team) 1906 - Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km 1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates 1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA 1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates 1916 - 1st bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place 1917 - British submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch 1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition) 1920 - Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week 1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved 1923 - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain) 1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland 1925 - British Liberal Party chooses David Lloyd George as leader 1927 - 4th German government of Marx forms 1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA 1932 - Test debut of Bill OReilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide 1933 - German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor 1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson 1942 - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomleys Desert Island Discs on BBC 1942 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi, Libya 1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation) 1943 - New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal 1943 - Sidney Kingsleys Patriots, premieres in NYC 1944 - 285 German bombers attack London 1944 - USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched. 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy. 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland. 1947 - Arthur Millers All My Sons, premieres in NYC 1948 - Look Ma, Im Dancin opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs 1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players 1949 - Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel 1951 - Wheres Charley? opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances 1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million 1951 - Liz Taylors 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr) 1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres 1954 - Arnold Schoenbergs De Profundis, premieres in Cologne 1955 - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) 1956 - F Durrenmatts Der Besuch der Alten Dame, premieres in Zurich 1957 - Graham Greenes Potting Shed, premieres in NYC 1958 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming 1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed 1959 - Walt Disneys Sleeping Beauty released 1961 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen 1961 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord 1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame 1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria 1964 - Beatles record in German Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand & Sie Leibt Dich 1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana) 1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million 1964 - Stanley Kubricks Dr Strangelove, premieres 1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit 1966 - Sweet Charity opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances 1966 - Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide 1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165 1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming 1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen 1967 - Lets Sing Yiddish closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs 1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ 1967 - WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting 1968 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts constitution 1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars 1969 - Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia v West Indies 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1971 - Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide 1972 - 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville 1974 - 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago 1975 - Men on the Moon opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances 1975 - First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King 1975 - West Indies win fifth test against India to take exciting series 3-2 1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire 1978 - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban. 1979 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7 1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats I Dont Like Mondays 1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC 1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together 1979 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7 1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearsts 7 year sentence to 2 years 1980 - 6 Iranian-held US hostages escape with help of Canadians 1980 - Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT 1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million 1982 - Old Dominion ends La Techs womens basketball rec 54-game win streak 1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians 1983 - Down Under by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart 1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win 1984 - 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver 1984 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3 1984 - President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term 1984 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek 1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched 1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39 1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda 1987 - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry 1987 - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA 1988 - Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 1988 - Detroits Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers 1988 - Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938) 1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s 1989 - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62) 1989 - Clevelands Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt 1989 - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic 1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43 1989 - Episcopal Church of the United States appoints Barbara Harris as its first female bishop 1989 - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion 1989 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3 1989 - Orlando Arena opens 1989 - USSRs Phobos II enters Martian orbit 1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129 1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill 1991 - Piano Lesson closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs 1991 - African Communist activists Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years 1993 - Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman 1995 - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open 1995 - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB 1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins 1996 - Last day of Test cricket for David Boon 1996 - 6,138th performance of Cats is held in London, surpassing record of Broadways longest-running musical, A Chorus Line 1996 - La Fenice, Venices opera house, is destroyed by fire. 1998 - Capeman, opens at Marquis Theater NYC 1998 - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR 1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die 1998 - Womans Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. 2002 - In his State of the Union Address, under intense pressure of the United Nations and Saudi Arabia, United States President George W. Bush describes regimes that sponsor terror as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. 2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing. 2012 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 59-41
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