0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77 1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar 1190 - Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England 1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism 1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend) 1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen 1521 - Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar) 1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines 1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen 1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plimouth, Massachusetts 1641 - General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution 1660 - English Long Parliament disbands 1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland 1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe 1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England and Netherlands 1792 - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera 1802 - Law signed to establish US Military Academy at West Point, New York 1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) 1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium 1822 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano 1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing 1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes 1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) 1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded) 1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college 1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands 1836 - Texas approves a constitution 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published 1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union 1861 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain 1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles 1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities) 1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate 1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted 1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton 1876 - Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) 1881 - Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts 1882 - Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73 1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross 1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG) 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus 1900 - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve and Buffalo 1910 - Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona 1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4 1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, D.C. 1915 - British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle 1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes 1916 - US and Canada sign migratory bird treaty 1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published 1920 - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park 1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt 1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters) 1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine 1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany 1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act 1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 1938 - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT 1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia 1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine 1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow 1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60 1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize 1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. 1943 - Elin K (No) and Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed and sinks 1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death 1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima 1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested 1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards 1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, R�union (world record) 1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1953 - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore 1955 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge 1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war 1956 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright 1956 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins 1957 - 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young 1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1957 - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1 1958 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1959 - Iraq and USSR sign economic/technical treaty 1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket 1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167 1964 - Paul Hornung and Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension 1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits 1966 - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London 1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down 1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die 1968 - Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign 1969 - Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period 1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 1970 - New English Bible published 1971 - Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68 1971 - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win 1972 - John and Yoko are served with deportation papers 1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville 1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd and final fly-by of Mercury 1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns 1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland 1978 - Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed 1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth 1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty 1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1979 - CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney 1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic 1983 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814) 1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut 1984 - South-Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty 1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut 1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs 1986 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic 1988 - Federal grand jury indicts North and Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair 1988 - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed 1988 - US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras 1991 - 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash 1991 - Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade 1991 - NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games 1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi 1992 - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball 1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan 1995 - Mississippi formally abolishes slavery and ratifies 13th Amendment 1996 - Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round 1997 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship 1997 - NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals 1997 - Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic 1998 - The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII 1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for the country's 1994 genocide 2000 - Independent counsel Robert Ray said he had found no credible evidence that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton or senior White House officials were involved in seeking the FBI background files of Republicans 2002 - Brittanie Cecil, 13, was struck by a flying hockey puck during an NHL game between the hometown Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames; she died two days later 2005 - A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci 2005 - A jury in Los Angeles acquitted actor Robert Blake of murder in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (A civil court jury later ordered Blake to pay $30 million to Bakley's four children) 2006 - Iraq's new parliament met briefly for the first time; lawmakers took the oath but did no business and adjourned after just 40 minutes
