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St. Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
704
Aengibald gives away Bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
965
John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
1273
Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German King
1569
Duke of Norfolk arrested
1653
Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1657
Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer Viceroy of Overijssel
1661
Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
1688
Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy
1746
Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1768
English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1791
1st session of new French legislative assembly
1791
Dutch Prince Willem Frederik marries his niece Princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia
1795
France annexes Southern Netherlands
1800
Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
1801
England and France signs Preliminary of London
1830
General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1833
Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
1837
Treaty with Winnebago Indians
1838
Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)
1847
Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1851
1st Hawaiian stamps issued
1863
5 Russian warships welcomed in New York City
1863
Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
1864
Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
1864
John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln
1866
Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens
1868
1st edition of Maasbode published
1869
1st postcards are issued (Vienna)
1871
General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht
1874
Rotterdam opens drink water pipes
1879
Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause
1880
John Philip Sousa becomes new Director of US Marine Corps Band
1885
Special delivery mail service begins in US
1886
US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes
1888
National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1889
Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms
1889
Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
1890
Congress creates Weather Bureau
1890
Yosemite National Park forms
1892
University of Chicago opens
1893
3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1894
Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska
1895
Romanians in Costantinople massacred
1896
Sherlock Holmes adventure "Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG)
1896
Yosemite becomes a National Park
1898
Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
1898
Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
1898
Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
1903
1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)
1904
JB van Heutsz becomes Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
1904
Netherlands and Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor
1906
Hugh Jennings resigns as Baltimore Manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1907
Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1908
1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
1908
Henry Ford introduces Model T car (costs $825)
1910
Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1910
Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1911
United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1912
Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season
1919
World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
1920
Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1921
WJZ, Newark New Jersey begins broadcasting
1922
Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0
1924
Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)
1924
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and 5 mile (24:06.2)
1927
Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds
1928
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
1928
USSR launches its 1st 5 year plan
1930
Soccer team WHC forms
1931
Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1932
NHL readmits Ottawa and drops Pittsburgh
1932
Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1932
World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers
1933
Antwerp Sports arena opens
1933
Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7
1933
Washingston Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57
1934
Adolph Hitler expands German army and navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1936
Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1937
Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1938
Cubs clinch NL pennant
1938
Germany annexes Sudetenland (1 / 3 of Czechoslovakia)
1939
Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1940
Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
1941
D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1941
H Martin / R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward, " premieres in New York City
1941
Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series
1942
Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
1942
Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1943
Allied forces captured Naples during WWII
1943
Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
1943
Germans attack Jews in Denmark
1944
St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant
1945
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
1945
US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
1946
12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1946
1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs. Cards (St. Louis wins 2 games to 0)
1946
Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season
1947
1st helicopter air mail and express service, Los Angeles, California
1947
NHL Pension Society founded
1947
US control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue ends
1948
California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
1948
Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1949
Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
1950
Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), New York 6, Cleveland 0
1950
Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR)
1951
1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1
1951
1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
1951
24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
1952
1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station - Portland, Oregon
1952
Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1952
Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
1953
Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras
1953
KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, CA (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1953
KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953
WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, TN (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
1953
WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954
British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
1955
"Honeymooners" premieres
1955
Piet Lieftinck becomes director v / h IMF (World bank)
1955
WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting
1956
Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
1956
Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
1957
B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of the USSR attack
1958
Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
1958
Inauguration of NASA
1958
Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
1959
1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs. Chic)
1960
14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
1960
KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960
Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1960
South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
1961
A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1961
East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
1961
KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open
1961
Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard)
1961
WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961
WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1962
Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1962
Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
1962
James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi
1962
Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
1962
Lucy Show premieres
1962
San Francisco beat the Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff
1962
UN gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea
1962
WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963
1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game
1963
Nigeria becomes a Republic within Commonwealth
1964
1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1964
2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
1964
Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
1964
San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark
1964
WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, PR begins broadcasting
1964
WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964
WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965
Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1966
Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
1966
WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins
1967
KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins
1968
"Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh
1969
Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1969
Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1970
63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1971
Joseph Luns becomes Secretary General of NATO
1971
Simplified echtscheidingsrecht of force
1971
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
1972
1st games of World Hockey Association
1972
3rd NYC Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
1972
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1973
Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
1973
USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens
1974
Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington DC
1975
Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
1975
Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"
1975
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla
1975
Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976
1st Dutch casino opens
1977
Department Of Energy established
1977
Elton John honored by Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame
1977
Peter Schats opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam
1977
Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
1978
Comoros adopts constitution
1978
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1978
Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from the UK
1978
Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
1979
Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes President
1979
Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1979
RKO radio network begins operation
1979
US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
1980
Cosmonauts Ryumin and Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
1981
Iranian plane crash
1982
EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1983
Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1984
Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball
1985
Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
1987
"Roza" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
1987
6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1988
Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens
1988
Lowest batting average for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)
1988
Mikhail Gorbachev became President of Soviet Union
1988
Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth
1989
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1989
Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle
1989
Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989
US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
1990
10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
1990
Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean
1990
Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
1991
Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
1992
Cartoon Cable Network premieres
1992
Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens
1992
Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
1993
Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1994
Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 vs. Pakistan, Karachi)
1994
Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1994
South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
1994
Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
1995
Bermuda begins using new area code 441
1995
Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon / Carolina LPGA Golf Classic
1995
Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team
1995
New York Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
1995
Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence
1997
Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
1997
Spice Hot premieres on cable
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