0816 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity 1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons 1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium 1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna 1556 - Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles 1572 - Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out 1576 - Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours 1631 - Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut 1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II 1663 - Earthquake in Canada 1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France 1685 - Charles II, King of England (1660-85)/Nell Gwynns lover, dies at 54 1736 - Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia 1777 - Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture 1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina 1782 - Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English 1783 - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence 1795 - Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud 1817 - 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 1825 - Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar 1831 - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 1846 - "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast 1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, New York 1855 - British government of Palmerston forms 1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale 1861 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia 1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress 1864 - Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi 1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) 1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow 1881 - Phoenix, Arizona incorporates 1885 - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London 1887 - Snow falls on San Francisco 1893 - Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) 1894 - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms 1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel 1900 - British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1901 - Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot 1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp 1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends 1911 - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam 1916 - Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company 1917 - Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted 1918 - 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson 1918 - Separation of church & state begins in USSR 1919 - NL president John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers 1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium 1922 - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published 1923 - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar 1923 - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy 1927 - Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed 1929 - Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco 1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins 1931 - Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary 1936 - National Wildlife Federation forms 1937 - 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released 1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed 1938 - Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) 1940 - General Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander 1941 - Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands 1942 - "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City 1942 - Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore 1943 - Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt 1943 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission 1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin 1945 - Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) 1945 - British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim 1945 - US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1947 - Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland 1948 - "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion 1948 - Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion 1949 - Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago 1953 - 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes wins 1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1958 - Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania) 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic 1958 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1959 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide 1962 - French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1962 - Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars 1963 - Soviet lunar probe failure 1965 - Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels 1967 - "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) 1967 - Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua 1967 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1968 - Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m 1969 - "Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly 1969 - US population reaches 200 million 1969 - Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 - Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs 1972 - "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 1972 - Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage 1973 - Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted 1973 - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1974 - British mine strike 1974 - Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win 1974 - Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph 1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure 1977 - General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio 1977 - Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight 1977 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1977 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner 1978 - Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded 1979 - Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS 1980 - 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit 1980 - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel 1981 - Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane 1981 - Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy 1982 - DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people 1982 - Laker Airways collapse owing �270M ($351M) 1982 - Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Netherlands 1983 - Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1984 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic 1986 - Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" 1987 - Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time 1987 - Soyuz TM-2 launches 1988 - 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan 1988 - Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham 1988 - Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs 1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points 1990 - Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) 1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides 1991 - All American Bowl ends after 14 years 1991 - Big East Football conference forms 1991 - Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame 1991 - LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points 1992 - Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case 1993 - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160 1993 - R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA 1994 - "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV 1994 - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime 1995 - Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections 1995 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 1995 - Sandra Voelker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 1997 - 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 1997 - Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe) 1998 - Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini 1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minn Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
