0870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
1066 Westminster Abbey opens
1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1610 Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1692 Salem witch hunt begins
1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY
1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1728 Georg F Händels opera “Siroe, re di Persia” premieres in London
1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
1749 1st edition of Henry Fieldings’ “Tom Jones” published
1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania’s election of Abraham Gallatin
1810 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, “Schäfers Klageleid”
1826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela’s Comet
1827 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
1828 Franz Grillparzer’s “Ein Treuer Diener” premieres in Vienna
1835 Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem “Kalevala”
1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI
1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1862 The opera “La Reine de Saba” premieres (Paris)
1863 Confederate raider “Nashville” sinks near Fort McAllister GA
1864 Raid at Kilpatrick’s Richmond
1864 Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton’s Ford)
1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
1879 “Exodus of 1879” southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1882 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
1883 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
1888 Vincent d’Indy’s Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
1891 Oscar Grundén skates world record 500 meter (50.8 seconds)
1893 Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names “carborundum”
1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
1900 General Buller’s troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
1904 Vincent d’Indy’s 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1906 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queens University (Kingston Ontario) in 2 games
1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
1912 Victor Trumper’s last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)
1914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco)
1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI
1920 Maurice Ravel’s “Le tombeau de Couperin” premieres
1922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1922 English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles
1923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
1924 US begins intervention in Honduras
1925 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1925 “Tea For Two” by Marion Harris hit #1
1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
1929 Chicago Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1933 1st female in cabinet Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1935 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers
1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC’s Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37)
1940 Richard Wright’s “Native Son” published
1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
1941 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1942 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
1943 “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
1950 “Alive & Kicking” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances
1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
1951 French government of Pleven dissolves
1953 Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
1954 Patty Berg/Pete Cooper win LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA
1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1957 Jockey Johnny Longden’s 5,000th career victory
1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
1959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
1959 “Goldilocks” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
1959 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
1959 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA
1959 Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA
1960 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
1960 8th Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley CA close
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1962 WMGM-AM in New York City NY changes call letters to WHN
1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
1966 Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR
1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR
1969 Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA
1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1970 “Georgy” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1970 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam
1971 WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville KY (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
1974 US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years
1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 Taiwan police shoot into crowd
1975 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop
1975 EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
1976 18th Grammy Awards Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole win
1977 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles CA)
1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
1979 Ernest Thompson’s “On Golden Pond” premieres in New York NY
1980 “The Well-Tuned Piano” by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes)
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
1981 China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
1982 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
1982 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1983 Final TV episode of “MASH” airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1984 26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8
1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong’s trial in September, they used drugs
1986 European Economic Community sign “Special Act” for Europe free trade
1988 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
1988 15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada
1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)
1989 Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
1989 Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame
1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
1991 Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain
1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
1991 “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam
1991 “Speed of Darkness” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
1991 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500 meter indoor (3:34:16)
1993 “Anna Christie” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
1993 7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld wins
1993 Gun battle erupts at Waco TX between FBI & Branch Davidians
1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46 meters)
1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1995 Denver International Airport opens
1996 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins
1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
1998 “View From the Bridge” closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points