0069 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70 0708 - Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) 0946 - Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted 1346 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand 1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1552 - France signs secret treaty with German Protestants 1562 - 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic 1586 - Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army 1752 - Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism 1754 - Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam 1759 - British Museum opens in Montague House, London 1762 - Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City 1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England 1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals 1797 - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) 1831 - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run 1831 - 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina 1833 - HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana 1847 - 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC 1851 - General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera 1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis 1863 - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal 1865 - Fort Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops 1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly 1877 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens 1882 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin New Hampshire) 1886 - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue 1892 - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts 1895 - Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record 1895 - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar 1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 1905 - Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater 1907 - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest 1907 - Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them 1915 - Japan claims economic control of China 1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston, Massachusetts, drowning 21 1919 - Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1919 - Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires 1922 - Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier 1924 - 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms 1925 - Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP 1930 - George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176) 1934 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die 1934 - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) 1935 - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition 1936 - 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio 1936 - Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants 1936 - Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates 1939 - 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field 1940 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) 1942 - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II 1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II 1943 - 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1943 - 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon 1944 - European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany 1944 - General Eisenhower arrives in England 1944 - Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1945 - Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets 1945 - Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1949 - Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin 1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC 1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1951 - Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest 1953 - 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station 1953 - GDR Ministor of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1955 - 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum 1955 - USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic 1956 - Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open 1956 - D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia 1956 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field 1958 - NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV 1961 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31 1961 - Supremes signed with Motown Records 1962 - 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) 1962 - Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea 1964 - Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC 1964 - Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract 1965 - Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" 1965 - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms 1966 - AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 1966 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 1969 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 1969 - Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 1970 - Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) 1970 - Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria 1971 - Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt 1971 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" 1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels 1973 - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court 1973 - Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel 1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican 1973 - President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam 1974 - "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC 1974 - 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle 1974 - Expert panel reports 18-minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures 1975 - Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence 1975 - Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) 1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1976 - US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit 1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1977 - Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" 1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament 1978 - Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman 1978 - Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, Delaware & Randy White, Dallas, DT 1981 - "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV 1981 - Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1983 - Dutch political party DS'70 disbands 1983 - Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard 1983 - Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India 1983 - Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours 1984 - Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak 1985 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell 1985 - Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1985 - Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India 1985 - Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years 1986 - Living Seas opens (Disneyland) 1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes 1989 - 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards 1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic 1989 - Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble 1989 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000 1990 - 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds 1990 - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins 1990 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch 1990 - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent 1990 - NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 1991 - UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) 1992 - Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia 1992 - Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man 1992 - Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum 1993 - 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die 1993 - Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV 1993 - Top mafia leader Salvatore Riina arrested in Palermo 1994 - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52 1994 - 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10 1994 - Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%) 1994 - Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist 1995 - Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion 1995 - San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship 1995 - San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship 1995 - Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 1995 - Western Washington begins using new area code 360 1996 - Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51 1997 - Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin 1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station 1998 - NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
