Historical Events on this Day in History Events in History for Thursday 18th September 2014 1739 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks 1811 - British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs 1873 - Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression 1914 - Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent 1976 - Mao Zedongs funeral takes place in Beijing. Todays Historical Events Events 1 - 201 of 201 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated. 324 - Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius 1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France. 1437 - Peasant uprising in Transsylvania 1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years War. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage King of England Henry VIIIKing of England Henry VIII 1544 - English King Henry VIIIs troops occupy Boulogne 1544 - Peace of Crépy: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I 1573 - Spain attacks Alkmaar 1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France 1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony 1739 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks 1755 - Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens 1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City 1769 - John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st spinet piano 1789 - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress First US President George WashingtonFirst US President George Washington 1793 - US President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens 1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1811 - British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden 1842 - 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published 1846 - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping 1848 - Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner 1849 - De Kempenaes Dutch government resigns 1850 - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 Poet Robert BrowningPoet Robert Browning 1851 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy) 1862 - Confederate armies officially divide into corps 1862 - General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 1864 - Battle of Martinsburg WV 1864 - Hoods Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American Civil War 1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. 1873 - Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression 1881 - Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination. 1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Sign of Four (BG) 1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief Education Pioneer Booker T. WashingtonEducation Pioneer Booker T. Washington 1895 - Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise address 1895 - Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment 1897 - Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martins musical Belle of NYC, premieres in NYC 1898 - Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda, Sudan 1903 - Phillies Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0 1905 - Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam 1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. 1908 - Cleve Indian Bob Dusty Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 1909 - Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), As beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det 1910 - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 1911 - Britains 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 1911 - Louis Napoleon Parkers Disraeli, premieres in NYC 1914 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 - Gen Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 - Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent 1914 - South African troops land in German South West Africa 1915 - Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1 1918 - Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1919 - Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage 1919 - Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast 1922 - 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands 1922 - Browns George Sislers 41-game hit streak is stopped by NYs Joe Bush 1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations 1924 - Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking 1925 - Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship 1926 - 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-0 6-4) 1926 - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 1926 - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open 1927 - The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate) 1928 - Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 1928 - Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel 1929 - Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs 1929 - Preston Sturges Strictly Dishonorable, premieres in NYC 1930 - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th Americas Cup 1930 - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 1930 - Phila As win AL championship for 2nd year in a row 1931 - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter H in the Hollywood sign. 1934 - St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations 1937 - The first New Zealand State house opens in Miramar 1938 - Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0 1938 - Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 1939 - Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania 1939 - William Joyces first Nazi propaganda broadcast. 1940 - 19 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 - Elmer Harris Johnny Belinda, premieres in NYC 1940 - Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani 1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1943 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1943 - Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) 1944 - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed 1944 - Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) 1944 - US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne 1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration 1946 - Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1947 - National Security Act passes 1947 - US Air Force forms 1948 - Hilarities (of 1949) closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs 1948 - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) 1948 - Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine 1949 - Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit 1950 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission 1954 - Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) 1954 - KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 - WLOS TV channel 13 in Gville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast 1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open MLB Legend Willie MaysMLB Legend Willie Mays 1955 - Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) 1956 - Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon 1957 - Wagon Train premieres 1957 - Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels 1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit 1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 - Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games 1962 - Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth 1962 - Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN Baseball Legend Mickey MantleBaseball Legend Mickey Mantle 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1963 - Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 1963 - USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia 1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1965 - Get Smart premieres 1965 - Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game 1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 1967 - Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st Americas Cup 1968 - Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0 1969 - Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged 1971 - 19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis, Missouri, US) 1972 - 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) 1973 - German FR & German DR admitted to UN 1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 1975 - Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 1976 - Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player 1976 - Dom Mintoffs Labour Party wins Malta election 1976 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds God Bless America convention 1976 - Rock Music Award Chinese Communist Revolutionary Mao ZedongChinese Communist Revolutionary Mao Zedong 1976 - Mao Zedongs funeral takes place in Beijing. 1977 - Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore 1977 - Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th Americas Cup 1977 - Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship 1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together 1978 - All four Kiss members release solo albums 1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect 1979 - Steven Lachs, appointed as Californias first openly gay judge 1979 - The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden 1980 - Les Miserables opens at Palais des Sports, Paris 1980 - Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base 1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. 1982 - Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel 1983 - George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere 1983 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1983 - Lebanese & Syrian army battle 1983 - New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1984 - Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) MLB Outfielder Tim RainesMLB Outfielder Tim Raines 1984 - Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons 1985 - Song & Dance opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances 1985 - BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston 1986 - David Boons 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras 1987 - Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs 1987 - US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1988 - Burma suspends its constitution 1988 - Coup in Haiti 1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1989 - Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico 1990 - 500 lb 6 Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC 1990 - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. 1991 - John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 1991 - NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations 1991 - Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee 1991 - Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands 1991 - Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities. 1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 1993 - LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins 1993 - Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3 1994 - 1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va 1994 - Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5% 1994 - Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1994 - Ken Burns Baseball premieres on PBS 1994 - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election 1995 - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns 1995 - Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands MLB Pitching Legend Roger ClemensMLB Pitching Legend Roger Clemens 1996 - Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts 1997 - Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 1997 - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy. 1998 - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed. 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. 2003 - The United Kingdoms Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent. 2005 - 57th Emmy Awards: Lost, Everybody Loves Raymond, James Spader & Patricia Arquette win 2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections. 2007 - Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. 2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution. 2009 - The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast. 2011 - 63rd Emmy Awards: Mad Men, Modern Family, Kyle Chandler & Julianna Margulies win 2012 - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey 2012 - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico 2012 - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a DEAL that ends an 8-day strike. 2012 - Worlds first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg historyorb/today/events.php
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