Today in history

List of things that happened today in history at netogram.com

Do you remember what happened yesterday? And what about today, last week? Do you recall what you did 1 year, 11 days and 5 hours ago? I don't, but I'm always busy and... that's another story. For one reason or the other, human kind has always been interested in stuff that happened in the past. On the other hand I should also mention that 'if you want to know the future, ... look at the past'. True words indeed. If you have been running around on this planet long enough, as I did actually, you will soon enough realise that history keeps repeating (like Shirley sang). But it's true, history does repeats itself. We're in war somewhere, an attack occured somehere, there has been some flooding, a Tsunami and a nuclear disaster. It's always the same stories and the same images, except that the places change. And as a matter of fact, not always!

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY...

Overview of historic events that happened on in history:

218 : 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

352 : Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I

884 : St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1525 : Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels

1527 : P nfilo de Narvaez departs to explore Florida

1536 : "Anne Boleyns 4 ""lovers"" executed"

1544 : Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII

1579 : Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian

1620 : 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)

1630 : Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface

1631 : Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

1648 : Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria

1672 : Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)

1673 : Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi

1678 : King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty

1712 : "Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as ""sovereign of Netherlands"""

1733 : England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions

1742 : Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians

1744 : French army takes Austrian Netherlands

1750 : -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem

1756 : Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)

1787 : English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes

1792 : 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1794 : Hard frost in southern New England

1803 : John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine

1804 : Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase

1809 : Papal States annexed by France

1814 : Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)

1814 : Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll

1837 : Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)

1845 : Rubber band patents

1846 : Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax

1848 : Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns

1849 : Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri

1853 : Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election

1862 : Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities

1863 : Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS

1864 : Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat

1871 : Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches

1872 : Bohemian Club incorporated

1875 : 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75

1876 : 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln

1877 : Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm

1881 : 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40

1881 : Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC

1881 : Revised version of New Testament

1883 : Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha

1884 : Alaska becomes a US territory

1890 : "Clyde Fitch's ""Beau Brummel,"" premieres in NYC"

1890 : Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London

1890 : "Pietro Costanzi's opera ""Rustic Chivalry,"" premieres in Rome"

1894 : 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¬

1895 : W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol

1898 : Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]

1899 : Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England

1900 : British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)

1903 : Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio

1904 : "Maurice Ravel's ""Sheherazade,"" premieres in Paris"

1905 : Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball

1906 : Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic

1909 : White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks

1910 : Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins

1911 : 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51

1915 : 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58

1915 : "Cubs George ""Zip"" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever"

1915 : Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls

1915 : National Baptist Convention chartered

1916 : British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced

1920 : 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol

1920 : 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)

1921 : Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union

1921 : President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show

1923 : Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)

1924 : 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2

1925 : Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit

1926 : Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

1926 : German govt of Marx takes power

1927 : Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings

1928 : 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam

1930 : 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6

1932 : "Congress changes name ""Porto Rico"" to ""Puerto Rico"""

1937 : Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier

1938 : Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

1938 : "Radio quiz show ""Information Please!"" debuts on NBC Blue Network"

1939 : 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball

1940 : Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France

1940 : Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance

1941 : Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack

1942 : Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler

1944 : -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java

1944 : Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma

1944 : General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

1944 : Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea

1945 : 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu

1946 : KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections

1946 : Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike

1947 : """Street Scene"" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances"

1948 : Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi

1948 : Soviet Union recognized Israel

1949 : British government recognizes Republic of Ireland

1952 : 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4

1953 : Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open

1953 : Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game

1954 : "Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 ""separate but equal"" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision"

1955 : Dutch Govt of Drees resigns

1957 : Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)

1957 : School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education

1958 : 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2

1958 : Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria

1959 : Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122

1960 : 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA

1961 : Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers

1962 : Marin County withdraws from BART district

1963 : Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ

1963 : Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1

1963 : US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1964 : Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational

1964 : Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s

1966 : KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting

1967 : "Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film ""Don't Look Back"""

1968 : European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite

1968 : Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game

1968 : US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1969 : """My Wife, My Dog, My Cat,"" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92"

1969 : 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6

1969 : Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL

1969 : Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus

1970 : Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits

1970 : Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament

1970 : Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra

1971 : "Stephen Schwartz' musical ""Godspell,"" premieres off-Broadway"

1971 : Washington State bans sex discrimination

1972 : Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors

1972 : Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London

1973 : """Nash at Nine"" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances"

1973 : Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run

1973 : Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings

1973 : "Stevie Wonder releases ""You are the Sunshine of my Love"""

1973 : US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado

1973 : Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's

1974 : Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels

1974 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet

1975 : """Funky Gibbon"" by The Goodies hits #79"

1975 : 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4

1975 : "10cc releases ""I'm Not in Love"""

1975 : Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches

1975 : "NBC paid $5M for rights to show ""Gone with the Wind"" one time"

1976 : 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned

1976 : Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed

1977 : Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel

1978 : Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run

1979 : -12øF (-11øC), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)

1979 : Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation

1979 : Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs

1980 : 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2

1980 : Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours

1980 : Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured

1980 : Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live

1981 : """Inacent Black"" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances"

1981 : Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff

1981 : Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic

1983 : Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty

1983 : Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games

1984 : Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning

1984 : Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA

1985 : Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska

1986 : """Chicken Song"" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart"

1986 : 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8

1987 : """Stardust"" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances"

1987 : Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic

1987 : USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die

1989 : Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!

1989 : Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart

1989 : Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa

1989 : "Vincent Van Gogh's ""Portrait of Dr Gachet"" auctioned for $825M"

1990 : Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI

1990 : Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71

1990 : European court rules pension rights for both men & women

1990 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann

1991 : Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe

1992 : 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King

1992 : Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)

1993 : Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled

1994 : Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election

1996 : Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe

1996 : Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs

1997 : 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54

1997 : Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London

1997 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom

1998 : 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship




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