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