0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78 0418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 0483 - Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies 1526 - Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal 1535 - Bishop Tom s de Berlanga discovers Gal pagos Islands 1578 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir �20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion 1624 - England declares war on Spain 1629 - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1661 - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1681 - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1734 - Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples 1789 - Franklin College founded (1787?) 1791 - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver 1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy 1826 - Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56 1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so 1862 - Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar 1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000) 1864 - Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52 1864 - Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1864 - Red River campaign LA 1865 - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC 1874 - Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student 1876 - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1880 - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria 1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare and religious activity 1888 - HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds 1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony 1893 - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before 1896 - Bronx acquires O'Brien Square 1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 [OS] 1896 - After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" 1900 - Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) 1902 - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri 1903 - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine 1903 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games 1905 - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) 1906 - Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France 1906 - London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line) 1909 - Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title 1910 - China ends slavery 1910 - Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing 1913 - Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY 1913 - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games 1913 - William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 1914 - Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez 1915 - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 1920 - NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators 1922 - state of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg S Africa 1925 - Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran 1926 - Run on Belgian banks 1927 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes 1927 - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches 1931 - British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley 1933 - Major earthquake in Long Beach, California 1933 - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics 1934 - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) 1934 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis 1934 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1939 - 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India 1941 - Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets 1945 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine 1945 - Japan declares Vietnam Independence 1945 - Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army 1945 - Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing 1945 - US troops lands on Mindanao 1946 - Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil 1948 - 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB, California 1949 - Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949 1951 - FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner 1952 - Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba 1956 - General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios 1956 - Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) 1957 - Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy 1959 - Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck 1959 - Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet 1960 - USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing 1962 - Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida 1963 - Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training 1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse 1964 - US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany 1965 - Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged 1966 - 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires 1966 - Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg 1966 - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley 1968 - Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington NZ (200 killed) 1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr 1970 - Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and "I Can Do It" 1971 - Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 1972 - 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana) 1972 - Gen Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1973 - BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath 1973 - Morocco adopts constitution 1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA SandH Green Stamp Golf Classic 1974 - Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election 1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England 1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO 1978 - Soyuz 28 returns to Earth 1980 - Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show 1982 - President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1982 - Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL) 1982 - Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun 1982 - Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame 1983 - Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame 1984 - Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page 1985 - Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational 1985 - Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games 1985 - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) 1986 - Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame 1987 - Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer 1988 - Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles 1988 - NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night 1990 - 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Lt Gen Avril resigns as President of Haiti 1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1991 - Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs 1991 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic 1991 - Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup 1991 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) 1991 - Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Sch�nlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) 1992 - 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win 1993 - Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic 1994 - 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral 1995 - Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed 1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64 1996 - 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins 1996 - NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel 2002 - Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence in Jerusalem 2004 - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced in Chesapeake, Virginia, to life in prison
