1452 - Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor 1496 - Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation 1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India 1522 - -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 1551 - Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne 1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1617 - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa 1642 - English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe 1701 - France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance 1721 - English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower 1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena 1745 - Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 1798 - Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy 1820 - -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die 1820 - James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House 1822 - Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth 1839 - Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours 1841 - US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) 1858 - Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox 1860 - 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington 1861 - Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000 1862 - "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads 1864 - Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1873 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded 1882 - False teeth patented 1889 - Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV 1889 - Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US 1893 - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs 1895 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 1897 - Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot 1897 - Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official) 1902 - Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna 1904 - Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal 1907 - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana 1907 - Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin 1914 - Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Company 1914 - US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico" 1916 - General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US (17 killed) 1916 - Germany declares war against Portugal 1916 - Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus New Mexico, killing 12 1918 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1918 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino, Budapest 1918 - Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens 1923 - Amsterdam taxi strike ended 1923 - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2 1924 - South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) 1926 - Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1932 - Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland 1932 - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria 1933 - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin 1933 - Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days" 1936 - Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player 1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began 1943 - Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown 1943 - Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps 1945 - 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb 1945 - Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China 1946 - Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang 1946 - Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses 1947 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1947 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1948 - Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia 1949 - Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1949 - England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes 1950 - Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC 1952 - Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title 1953 - Josef Stalin buried in Moscow 1954 - 1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators) 1954 - Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now) 1956 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles 1956 - Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England 1957 - 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1958 - George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season 1959 - "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances 1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus 1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold 1961 - 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9 1961 - Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit 1961 - Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again" 1962 - Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians 1962 - US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight 1963 - Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez 1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced 1964 - Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma 1964 - Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages 1966 - Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board 1967 - Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West 1968 - 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4 1971 - J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain 1972 - Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary 1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended 1976 - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy 1976 - Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 1977 - Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th 1977 - Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche 1979 - Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters 1979 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1980 - Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured 1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament 1981 - Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS News 1983 - Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana 1984 - Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections 1984 - John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time" 1984 - Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record 1984 - Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1985 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR) 1985 - Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed 1986 - 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000 1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1986 - NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts 1986 - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 1987 - Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion 1988 - President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp 1989 - Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy 1978 - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov 1989 - Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) 1989 - Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary 1989 - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1990 - Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general 1991 - 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg 1991 - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games 1991 - US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit 1993 - 19th People's Choice Awards 1993 - 7th Soul Train Music Awards 1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak 1993 - Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs 1994 - IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport 1995 - Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1995 - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns 1996 - Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India 1996 - Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in WC QF 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands 1996 - Comedian George Burns died at age 100 1997 - Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24 1997 - Senior Golf Slam 1997 - Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open 2004 - Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death in Virginia 2005 - Michael Jackson's young accuser took the witness stand, saying he once considered the pop star being tried for allegedly molesting him "the coolest guy in the world." (Jackson was later acquitted.) 2006 - Bowing to ferocious opposition in Congress, a Dubai-owned company relinquished its quest to take over operations at U.S. ports
