0069 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1045 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
1205 Battle at Adrianople Bulgaria beats Emperor Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years’ War
1493 Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1581 Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 Willem I’s daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1621 Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 Swedish & Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1654 England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 Uprising of Yamasse-Indians in South Carolina
1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 Johann S Bachs “Matthäus Passion” premieres in Leipzig
1738 Bottle opener invented
1776 Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1788 England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 Bank of England hands out 1st £5-note
1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford CT)
1850 City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 Earl G Andrássy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 Protestant church questions king Willem III Roman Catholic bishops
1858 Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln
1864 General Steeles’ Union troops occupies Camden AR
1865 Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
1870 Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 New York legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 1st telephone installed Boston-Somerville MA
1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 General Electric Company forms & is incorporated in New York
1895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hours
1900 International Exposition opens in Paris France
1901 1st British motorized burial
1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical “On the Church in the US”
1909 New York Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1909 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry’s lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1910 William Howard Taft is 1st US President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1911 Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St New York NY
1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM in North Atlantic as the band plays on
1915 New York Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Brooklyn, 2-0
1915 Manuel de Falla’s ballet “El Amor Brujo”, premieres in Madrid
1918 Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 Black Friday-Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1922 Frederick Banting, John MacLeod & Charles Best discover insulin
1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1924 WHO-AM in Des Moines IA begins radio transmissions
1924 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1925 NHL’s New York Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 homeruns of season (off A’s Howard Ehmke)
1927 Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 Alioto’s on Fisherman’s Wharf (San Francisco) forms
1931 The 1st walk across America backwards began
1937 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 Albert Lebrun elected President of France
1940 British troops land at Narvik Norway
1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hour duration, Stratford CT
1942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta
1943 Metropolitan Life Insurance issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 British & Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
1945 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, Arabs defeated
1948 Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curaçao
1952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings sweep Montréal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Orioles 1st game in Baltimore; beat White Sox 3-1
1954 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1954 KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs Post Office $41 million
1958 10th Emmy Awards Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win
1958 1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0
1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw University
1961 “Music Man” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1962 US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 “Sophie” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (Bridge-Tunnel measures 17.6 miles (28.4 km) and is considered the world’s largest bridge-tunnel complex)
1964 Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1965 James Baldwin’s “Amen Corner”, premieres in NYC
1966 The Rolling Stones release “Aftermath”
1966 KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 “Wait A Minim!” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 performances
1968 Houston Astros beat New York Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 “Cry for Us All” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 Libyan leader Qadhafi launches “Green Revolution”
1970 WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico ([M]) begins broadcasting
1970 WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce Puerto Rico ([P]) begins broadcasting
1971 “70, Girls, 70” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 43rd Academy Awards - “Patton”, George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
1973 Walt Disney Story opens
1973 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1974 3rd Boston Women’s Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11
1974 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 Military coup in Niger, President Diori Hamani deposed
1975 1st appearance of the San Diego Chicken
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 3-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1975 Gabon amends constitution
1976 Yankee Stadium reopens, Yankees beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 1st baseball game at Montréal’s Olympic Stadium
1978 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna Italy
1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 43rd Golf Masters Championship Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 New York Rangers 0-New York Islanders 5-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 2-0 lead
1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 “Human Comedy” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 48th Golf Masters Championship Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1985 Geoff Smith wins his 2nd straight Boston Marathon
1985 14th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 South Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
1986 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs England in Antigua Test Cricket
1987 “Barbara Cook A Concert For Theatre, Grand Hotel, and The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public” opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
1987 Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy”, premieres in NYC
1988 Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1988 Wendy Wasserstein’s “Heidi Chronicles”, premieres in NYC
1989 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 Then largest lottery in North America ($69 million) drawn in Illinois
1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1990 “In Living Color” premieres on FOX-TV
1990 Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v England), their best
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 “Secret Garden” opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
1991 20th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
1991 Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assists with 9,898
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 Jay Leno’s final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight Show
1992 Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 New York Islander, Al Arbour, coaches the most NHL games (1,438)
1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1994 Indians lose 1st game at Jacobs Field, Kansas City wins 2-1
1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
1994 WMMS-FM’s Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
1996 “Apple Doesn’t Fall” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
1996 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 25th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 America OnLine, begins service in Japan
1997 Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM