0001 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome
0293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy
0492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0492 St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)
1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1790 1st US census authorized
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo’s Citadel
1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd)
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
1867 Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1872 Yellowstone becomes world’s 1st national park
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington CT)
1879 Library of Hawaii founded
1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador
1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs Australia
1909 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven’s Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history
1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY
1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, North Dakota
1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1917 1st federal land bank chartered
1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Admiral Horthy
1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
1921 Rwanda ceded to England
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied; killing railroad striker
1924 Germany’s prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank
1928 Paul Whiteman & his orchestraestra record “Ol’ Man River” for Victor Records
1932 Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
1937 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937 US Steel raises workers’ wages to $5 a day
1940 12th Academy Awards: “Gone with the Wind”, Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win
1940 Richard Wright’s novel “Native Son” is published
1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book
1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN
1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commisioner
1941 German troops invade Bulgaria
1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
1942 Baseball decides that players in military can’t play when on furlough
1942 J Milton Cage Jr’s “Imaginary Landscape No 3” premieres in Chicago
1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten
1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1945 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach
1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
1946 Panamá accepts its new constitution
1947 International Monetary Fund began operations
1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion
1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman’s Park, move to evict the Cardinals
1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the Presidency of National China on Formosa
1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1950 USSR issues golden rubles
1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle WA (IND) begins
1953 WJZ-AM in New York NY becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 Representatives
1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1954 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 Pakistan vs India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances
1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Gary Sobers 365 vs Pakistan, 614 minutes, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 declare vs Pakistan
1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall
1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95
1962 K-Mart opens
1962 Uganda became a self-governing country
1962 US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
1965 Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada)
1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Ba’ath-party takes power in Syria
1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain
1967 House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore MD (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 NBC’s unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1968 Vatican City’s Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances
1969 After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball
1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
1970 Charles Manson’s album “Lie” is released
1970 End of US commercial whale hunting
1970 Kreisky’s social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC
1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
1972 Club of Rome publishes report “Boundaries on the Growth”
1972 David Rabe’s “Sticks & Bones” premieres in New York NY
1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
1974 Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs New Zealand cricket at Wellington
1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides
1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
1975 Eagles’ “Best of My Love” reaches #1
1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
1978 Charlie Chaplin’s coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI
1980 Snow falls in Florida
1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies)
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1982 The New York Times raises it’s price from 25¢ to 30¢
1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup
1983 Tornado tears through Louisiana, injuring 33 people
1984 NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women’s Kemper Golf Open
1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
1989 Ben Johnson’s coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 Julianne Phillips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay
1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 performances
1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100 meter freestyle world record (1 :1.40)
1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100 meter freestyle US record (54.48 seconds)
1993 Authorities in Waco TX negotiate with Branch Davidians
1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees
1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win
1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland
1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow
1995 Belgium ends military conscript
1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 Julio María Sanguinetti sworn in as President of Uruguay
1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England
1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
1998 "Art" opens at Royale Theater NYC
1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf