Tenochtitlan
New Jersey
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Barnum and Bailey starts
Ernest Gallo
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NATO
Boston Braves
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Vanessa Williams
Gold Reserve no longer required
Mail Strike
Willie Mays
Mickey Mantle
Leona Helmsley
HealthSouth
Space Shuttle
Discovery
Space Shuttle
Columbia
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
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| Year | Event |
| 37 | The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor. |
| 417 | St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 731 | St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 1123 | 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| 1167 | Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians |
| 1190 | Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England |
| 1229 | German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem |
| 1241 | Kraków is ravaged by Mongols. |
| 1314 | Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. |
| 1325 | According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms. |
| 1438 | Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany |
| 1509 | Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands |
| 1532 | English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome |
| 1541 | Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R) |
| 1582 | Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp |
| 1583 | Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty |
| 1608 | Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. |
| 1673 | Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers |
| 1754 | Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier |
| 1766 | Britain repeals the Stamp Act |
| 1773 | Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London |
| 1781 | Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92 |
| 1793 | 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France |
| 1793 | The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. |
| 1810 | "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY |
| 1813 | David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas |
| 1818 | Congress approves 1st pensions for government service |
| 1834 | 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long) |
| 1834 | Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass |
| 1837 | Born: Grover Cleveland, Stephen, NJ, 22nd/24th President (1885-89, 93-97) |
| 1847 | 1st Dutch public telegram |
| 1850 | Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo |
| 1858 | Dutch Van der Brugghen govt resigns |
| 1859 | Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform |
| 1864 | Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240 |
| 1865 | Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL |
| 1865 | Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time |
| 1869 | Born: Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40), born in Birmingham, England |
| 1870 | 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif) |
| 1871 | Communards revolt in Paris |
| 1874 | Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights. |
| 1877 | President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC |
| 1881 | Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG) |
| 1890 | 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) |
| 1891 | Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone |
| 1892 | Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) |
| 1895 | 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia |
| 1899 | Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering |
| 1900 | Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms |
| 1902 | Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record |
| 1902 | Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht," premieres in Vienna |
| 1904 | 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" |
| 1909 | Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
| 1909 | Born: Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007) |
| 1910 | 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC |
| 1911 | North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
| 1913 | King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. |
| 1914 | White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China |
| 1915 | Failed British attack in Dardanelles |
| 1915 | French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed |
| 1918 | Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms |
| 1918 | Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam |
| 1919 | Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City |
| 1920 | Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar |
| 1921 | 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged |
| 1921 | Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 |
| 1922 | 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale) |
| 1922 | Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience |
| 1922 | Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment |
| 1922 | WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City. |
| 1925 | (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn kills 689 |
| 1929 | Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1930 | Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game |
| 1931 | 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick) |
| 1931 | Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain |
| 1933 | Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission |
| 1933 | US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1933 | US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 1937 | Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die |
| 1937 | The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan. |
| 1938 | Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties |
| 1938 | NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women |
| 1938 | Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies |
| 1940 | Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain |
| 1942 | Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters |
| 1942 | 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out |
| 1943 | James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed & sinks |
| 1943 | Red Army evacuates Belgorod |
| 1944 | Nazi Germany occupies Hungary |
| 1944 | 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store |
| 1945 | 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin |
| 1945 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals |
| 1945 | US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu |
| 1948 | France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels |
| 1948 | Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting |
| 1948 | Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split. |
| 1949 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified |
| 1949 | WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances |
| 1950 | CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship |
| 1951 | Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1952 | 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila) |
| 1952 | Communist offensive in Korea |
| 1953 | 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68 |
| 1953 | Boston Braves move to Milwaukee |
| 1953 | Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die |
| 1953 | KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903) |
| 1955 | I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan |
| 1957 | WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins |
| 1958 | Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958 |
| 1959 | Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws |
| 1959 | President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill |
| 1961 | Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced |
| 1962 | Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees |
| 1962 | Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR |
| 1963 | "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances |
| 1963 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1963 | Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers |
| 1963 | WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | Born: Vanessa L Williams, Millwood NY, Actress, singer and 1st African American Miss America (1983) |
| 1965 | "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination |
| 1965 | USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins) |
| 1965 | Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. |
| 1966 | "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances |
| 1966 | General Suharto forms government in Indonesia |
| 1966 | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 |
| 1967 | Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1 |
| 1967 | Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock & spills oil |
| 1967 | Born: Andre Rison, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, KC Chiefs) |
| 1968 | Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve |
| 1968 | WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances |
| 1970 | US Postal begins strike |
| 1970 | Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees |
| 1970 | KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
| 1970 | Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike |
| 1970 | NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time |
| 1970 | Born: Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single) |
| 1971 | 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru |
| 1972 | AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 |
| 1972 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1972 | Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U) |
| 1972 | Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game |
| 1973 | "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances |
| 1973 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US |
| 1975 | Kurds end fight against Iraqi army |
| 1977 | Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot" |
| 1977 | US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia |
| 1977 | Vietnam hands over MIA to US |
| 1978 | 250,000 attend rock concert Calif Jam II in Ontario Calif |
| 1978 | Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death |
| 1979 | "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs |
| 1979 | Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran |
| 1979 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 |
| 1981 | Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto) |
| 1982 | Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident |
| 1984 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open |
| 1985 | Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC |
| 1985 | Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle |
| 1986 | Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld |
| 1986 | Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money |
| 1987 | Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew) |
| 1987 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth |
| 1989 | California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios |
| 1989 | Dino Ciccarelli sets Wash Cap record of 7 pts in a game |
| 1989 | Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen |
| 1989 | In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. |
| 1990 | 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists |
| 1990 | 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends |
| 1990 | A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch |
| 1990 | Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston |
| 1990 | Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open |
| 1991 | Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell |
| 1991 | Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round |
| 1991 | Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey |
| 1991 | Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
| 1992 | "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf |
| 1992 | Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| 1992 | Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion |
| 1992 | Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury |
| 1993 | "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs |
| 1993 | Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion |
| 1993 | Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC |
| 1993 | Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets |
| 1994 | South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands |
| 1994 | Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy |
| 1995 | Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement |
| 1995 | STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days |
| 1995 | Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada |
| 1996 | 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96 |
| 1996 | A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162. |
| 1997 | Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die |
| 2003 | FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives. |
| 2003 | British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language. |
| 2005 | Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband. |
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