Today in History
0969 - Peter, Tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies
1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 - Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes Czar of Russia
1696 - Ivan V, co-Tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies
1732 - Paris churchyard Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1788 - Australia Day
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1820 - George III, King of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81
1834 - President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1848 - Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
1872 - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1895 - King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896 - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1903 - Dutch railroad workers strike
1904 - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1906 - Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies
1906 - Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1917 - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Company
1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1923 - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925 - British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1927 - 4th German govt of Marx forms
1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1933 - German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek General/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
1942 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
1943 - New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1949 - Britain, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel
1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951 - Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1955 - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1958 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1961 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1963 - Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 - Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide
1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
1968 - Nauru adopts constitution
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1978 - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1979 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979 - President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 - Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86
1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1982 - Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983 - "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984 - 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984 - President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1985 - Pop stars in LA record "We Are The World"
1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1987 - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
1987 - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988 - Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1988 - Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988 - Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1989 - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989 - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 - Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1995 - Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat SD Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
1995 - Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1998 - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft Lauderdale, Florida
1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998 - Woman's Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama bombed, 1 killed
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