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Today in History
1535 - Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1772 - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1778 - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
1829 - The opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
1842 - US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1850 - California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1864 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough
1881 - First US tennis championships (Newport, RI)
1886 - First major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina
1886 - Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1887 - Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
1894 - Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1895 - First pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
1900 - Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1902 - Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1903 - Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of the month
1907 - England, Russia & France form the Triple Entente
1915 - Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1919 - Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago
1919 = Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1934 - First football all star game-Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago
1935 - First national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 - Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0 1935 - FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1941 - Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1950 - Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
1954 - Census Bureau established
1954 - Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1955 - First microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1955 - First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois
1957 - Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1959 - Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup
1960 - Agricultural Hall of Fame established
1962 - Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1965 - House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
1968 - 6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 - Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover
1969 - 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1970 - Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 - US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup
1971 - Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on the Moon
1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1973 - First heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1977 - Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1978 - Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
1979 - Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun
1979 - Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
1983 - Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1984 - Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title
1985 - "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985 - Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East LA
1986 - Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82
1986 - Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel
1987 - Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)
1988 - 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1992 - Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo
1993 - HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission
1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales and her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul died as a result of a car crash in Paris
1998 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite
1999 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground
2005 - A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people
2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition
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