0417 - Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies 0604 - Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64 1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III 1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome 1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II 1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples 1365 - University of Vienna founded 1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria 1572 - Lu�s Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lus�ados" in Portugal 1587 - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies 1597 - England routes troops to Amiens 1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony 1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia 1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint 1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand 1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies 1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony 1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland 1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine 1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago 1789 - US Post Office established 1799 - Austria declares war on France 1848 - 2nd republic established in France 1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California 1850 - 1st US $20 gold piece issued 1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists 1865 - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri 1867 - Last French troops leave Mexico 1868 - Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa 1868 - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax 1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa 1877 - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa 1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony 1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women 1888 - 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die) 1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated 1889 - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth 1894 - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday 1900 - President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein 1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds) 1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of Alabama 1904 - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport) 1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund 1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast 1912 - Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low 1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid 1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3 1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1917 - Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St Petersburg 1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) 1925 - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement 1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament 1926 - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium 1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax 1930 - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) 1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat" 1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail 1935 - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages 1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) 1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies 1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus 1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands 1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma 1945 Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp 1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers 1945 - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day 1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy 1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment 1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania 1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1947 - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns 1947 - President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism 1950 - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III 1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" 1951 - Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office 1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions 1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" 1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections 1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open 1962 - Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia 1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1963 - Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance 1964 - 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2 1964 - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years 1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam 1966 - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record 1966 - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) 1966 - Love's 1st album released "Love" 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 - Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet 1967 - Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority 1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins 1969 - 120 joints found at George and Patti Harrison's home 1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London 1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18 1971 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias 1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 1971 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army 1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open 1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons 1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen South Carolina, Olympia, Washington 1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam 1976 - South African troops leave Angola 1977 - Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party 1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel 1977 - Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel 1978 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic 1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago 1980 - NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin 1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia 1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" 1983 - Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) 1984 - Coal Miners' strike ended 1984 - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike 1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships 1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points 1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 1987 - David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game 1987 - Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) 1989 - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election 1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland 1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards 1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay 1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show 1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech 1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests 1995 - Congress party loses India national election 1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship 1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny 1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy 1999 - The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO in a ceremony at Independence, Missouri 2000 - Pope John Paul II asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities 2002 - Andrea Yates of Houston was convicted of murder in the drowning deaths of her children in the family bathtub. (Her conviction was later overturned and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity at a second trial) 2002 - Homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings 2002 - The U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing a Palestinian state for the first time 2003 - Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who'd vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters
