1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) 1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno 1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen 1734 - Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne 1743 - 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) 1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin 1800 - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII 1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY) 1826 - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panam 1862 - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1864 - Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana 1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible 1896 - Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) 1899 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2 1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics 1900 - US currency goes on gold standard 1903 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida 1903 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games 1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4 1909 - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms 1912 - King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt 1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 1914 - Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty 1915 - German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile 1916 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun 1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF 1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP 1923 - President Warren G Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes 1931 - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC) 1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation 1933 - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense 1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars 1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US govt, publishes 1st issue 1937 - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio 1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge 1939 - England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day 1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia 1940 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas 1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 1941 - Xavier Cugat and Orch record "Babalu" 1945 - RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms 1948 - Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco 1950 - FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins 1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul 1951 - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party 1954 - Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1954 - NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak 1955 - Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal 1956 - Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) 1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns 1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) 1958 - Recording Industry Association of American created 1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points 1961 - George Weiss becomes president of NY Mets
1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France 1962 - Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals 1963 - SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists 1964 - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder 1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 1967 - 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith 1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia 1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct 1971 - Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV 1971 - Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes 1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos 1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 1972 - NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City 1973 - Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland 1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1978 - Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) 1978 - NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge) 1980 - 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation 1980 - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay 1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers) 1980 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch 1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic 1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years 1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission 1985 - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards 1985 - Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards 1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 1987 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt 1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl 1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson 1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 1991 - Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave 1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1992 - Farm Aid V 1992 - NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden accused of rape 1992 - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication 1994 - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped 1994 - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard 1995 - 1st time 13 people in space 1996 - Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) 1997 - 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch 1997 - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 1997 - Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award 1997 - President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery 2002 - The government charged the Arthur Andersen accounting firm with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron 2004 - Opposition Socialists scored a dramatic upset win in Spain's general election, unseating conservatives stung by charges they'd provoked the Madrid terror bombings by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq 2004 - Russian President Vladimir Putin captured more than 70 percent of the vote to win a second term in an election that European observers said fell short of democratic standards 2005 - A judge in San Francisco ruled that California's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional 2005 - About one million people rallied in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding Syrian withdrawal and the arrest of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's killers
