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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY?
Overview of historic events that happened on
in history:
579 : Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657 : St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
1178 : Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 : Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague & throw Catholic councillors out the windows
1537 : Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1601 : Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1618 : Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
1619 : House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body
1626 : "Earthquake hits Naples 10,000 die"
1646 : English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1650 : Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1653 : Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1655 : Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1678 : English troops lands in Flanders
1715 : Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
1729 : City of Baltimore founded
1733 : Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1739 : Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
1775 : Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 : 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1809 : English invasion army lands in Walcheren
1822 : James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1824 : Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theƒtre Italian, Paris
1826 : Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1836 : 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 : Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1844 : 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
1863 : "Pres Lincoln issues ""eye-for-eye"" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot"
1864 : Battle of Chambersburg, PA - burned by Union forces under McCausland
1864 : Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1864 : Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
1865 : Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1866 : Race riot in New Orleans
1870 : "Staten Island ferry ""Westfield"" burns, killing 100"
1874 : 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 : German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 : Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 : "Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Naval Treaty"" (BG)"
1898 : Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1902 : Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 : Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1908 : Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 : John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 : Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 : Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 : Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 : French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 : John French appointed British supreme commander
1916 : German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1917 : Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1923 : New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 : Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 : George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 : "1st broadcast of ""Death Valley Days"" on NBC-radio"
1930 : Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
1932 : 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1933 : 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 : 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1937 : Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
1938 : Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 : Belgium SylvŠre Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1941 : German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1942 : FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 : German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 : German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1943 : Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 : US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 : Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
1944 : US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-L“ Normandy
1945 : Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1946 : 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1947 : Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
1948 : Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
1948 : Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 : British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 : Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1952 : Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1954 : Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 : Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 : Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 : "US motto ""In God We Trust"" authorized"
1959 : In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1960 : 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1961 : 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 : Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1962 : 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 : All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 : British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 : US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1965 : "Charles Ives' ""From the Steeples & the Mountains,"" premieres"
1965 : "Duke Ellington's ""Golden Brown & the Green Apple,"" premieres"
1965 : LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1965 : Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1966 : "Beatles' ""Yesterday... & Today,"" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks"
1966 : England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
1966 : Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 : US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1967 : Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
1967 : Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 : Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 : Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 : Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
1969 : Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 : KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 : Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
1970 : -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
1970 : 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
1971 : 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1971 : "George Harrison releases ""Bangladesh"""
1971 : Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 : US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1972 : """Ain't Supposed to Die Death"" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs"
1972 : Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1973 : Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
1974 : "House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of ""high crimes & misdemeanors"" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up"
1975 : "Simon Gray's ""Otherwise Engaged,"" premieres in London"
1975 : Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1976 : Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 : Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1978 : Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1978 : Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1980 : Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 : Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
1981 : Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1981 : "Simon Gray's ""Quartermaine's Terms,"" premieres in London"
1982 : Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1982 : USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1983 : Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 : Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1984 : Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 : Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1984 : "Soap Opera ""Santa Barbara"" premieres on NBC TV"
1985 : Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
1985 : Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 : Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 : Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1988 : James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
1988 : John Franco saves record 13th game of July
1988 : Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
1988 : King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives
1988 : Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1989 : Chile amends its constitution
1989 : Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1990 : 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
1990 : Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990 : Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 : George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
1991 : MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 : Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1992 : Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1994 : Record 103.8øF (39.9øC) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1995 : Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
1995 : Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
1995 : Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
1995 : Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
1996 : Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 : Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
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