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Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1539
Emperor Karel and King Francois I sign anti-English treaty
1587
English Queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1662
Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669
French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709
Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1720
Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty
1732
Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742
Sardinia and Austria sign alliance
1783
William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788
1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet
1789
Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790
Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1793
France declares war on England and Netherlands
1793
Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk and linen
1809
Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810
1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Philadelphia)
1810
Seville, Spain surrenders to French
1810
US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
1814
Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
1840
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
1860
1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York City
1861
Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861
Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864
2nd German-Danish war begins
1864
Austrian / Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk / Holstein
1865
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865
JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
1867
Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1871
Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
1881
US Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized
1883
French Lieutenant Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1884
1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1887
Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1892
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
1898
1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1902
Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben, " premieres in Berlin
1905
Hague soccer team ADO froms
1905
Hungarian Premier Tisza resigns
1906
1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1909
US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1910
1st British labour exchange opens
1910
Dragoumis government forms in Greece
1914
New York Giants and Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914
Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
1914
Tanganyika Railway opens
1917
Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918
Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes February 14)
1919
Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
1920
1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
1920
Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1920
Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1923
Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
1923
Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1924
New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
1924
Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1924
Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1926
Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
1926
Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1933
Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1933
Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
1933
German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1934
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
1935
1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1935
James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
1937
Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940
Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1941
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1941
US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1942
2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
1943
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian Premier
1943
Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
1944
US 7th Infantry / 25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein / Roi / Namur
1945
US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1946
Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist President
1946
Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary General of UN
1947
Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-dems and communists
1947
Dmitri Shostakovitch named Professor at Conservatory of Leningrad
1948
Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1948
Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1949
200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used
1949
RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1950
Urko Kekkonen elected President of Finland
1950
USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1951
1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951
Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed
1952
General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1953
"General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953
"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1953
Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State
1953
Flooding in the Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953
WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954
1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954
Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1954
Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
1955
HC Hansen appointed Premier of Denmark
1956
Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956
WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957
1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1957
Gijsbert of Hall appointed Mayor of Amsterdam
1958
1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958
Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1958
WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959
Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1959
Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1959
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
1959
WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959
Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960
34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
1960
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960
48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
1960
Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1961
1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1961
British Minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1962
NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
1963
Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
1964
"Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
1964
Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1964
Suriname River dammed
1965
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965
Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965
NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1967
Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives
1967
WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
1968
Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President
1968
Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1968
World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
1969
Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1969
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1969
US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969
WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970
Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1970
Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1970
West-Germany and the USSR sign gas contract
1970
WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972
Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in the UK
1973
Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974
"Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1975
"Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
1975
"Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975
1st successful Washington Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs. Vancouver Canucks
1975
Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1975
Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1976
"Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976
East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to
1976
Sonny and Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1977
Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977
Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978
Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1978
Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1979
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979
Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
1980
Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1980
Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1981
11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
1981
31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland
1981
Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies, " premieres in New York City
1981
Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981
French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1981
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7
1981
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1981
Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1982
"Late Night With David Letterman, " debuts on NBC-TV
1982
Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1984
China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1984
Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
1984
Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1985
Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
1985
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
1986
KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1986
Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
1987
163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987
38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1987
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1987
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
1989
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989
Princess Diane of England visits New York City
1991
Afghanistan / Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
1991
Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs. England at the WACA
1991
President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991
US Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
1992
"Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 performances
1993
New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1993
Soyuz TM-16 lands
1994
Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 seconds)
1994
Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
1995
Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
1995
Andy and Grant Flower make 269 stand vs. Pak, brotherly record
1998
"Street Corner Symphony, " closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances
1998
86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
1998
Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob and V Williams beat Suk and Sukova (62 61)
1998
NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
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