1168 - Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope 1272 - Edward I proclaimed King of England 1342 - Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht 1347 - Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles 1431 - First meeting of Order of Guilder Flies 1520 - Friesland hit by heavy hail storm 1521 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine 1583 - Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst 1616 - Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War 1637 - Peter Minuit and first Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden 1719 - Sweden and Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm 1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of Great-Britain, dies 1755 - English minister William Pitt Sr resigns 1759 - -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French 1780 - Britain declares war on Holland 1789 - New Jersey is first state to ratify Bill of Rights 1795 - Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday 1815 - 2nd Peace of Paris: France and allies 1815 - Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance 1817 - First Seminole War begins in Florida 1829 - Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia 1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay 1862 - Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee 1862 - Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg 1865 - Howard University forms in Washington DC 1866 - First national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) 1866 - Howard University founded (Wash, DC) 1866 - Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle 1873 - Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary 1888 - William Bundy patents timecard clock 1890 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions 1894 - US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua 1902 - Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race 1909 - Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game 1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero 1910 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS] 1914 - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports 1915 - 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7 1917 - First tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines) 1917 - Ukrainian Republic declared 1919 - First municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az) 1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson 1923 - Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal 1928 - Boston Gardens opens, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0 1929 - First broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio 1929 - Salvador Dali's first one-man show 1931 - Commercial teletype service begins (ATandT) 1932 - Earthquake at Uden Netherlands 1934 - Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0 1934 - New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui and Gutt (3 bankers) 1934 - Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is first to score 4 goals in 1 period 1938 - First documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin) 1940 - German air raid on Birmingham fails 1940 - Hungary joins 3 Power pact 1941 - Adm Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note 1941 - German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia 1942 - 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski 1942 - British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya 1942 - Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding 1942 - NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over 1942 - Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines 1943 - U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 - US forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island 1944 - First Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines) 1944 - Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees 1944 - Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda 1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1945 - Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague 1947 - "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC 1947 - First permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey) 1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten 1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei 1947 - UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps 1948 - US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) 1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 1951 - Snowdonia becomes a National Park 1952 - Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP 1952 - Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin 1953 - Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, first to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH) 1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights 1959 - WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal 1962 - Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP 1962 - USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and US lifts blockade 1965 - UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia 1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open 1966 - Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times 1966 - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage 1967 - At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million 1967 - Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 - Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans 1969 - Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut v Australia Kanpur 1969 - Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal 1969 - SF Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP 1970 - UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR 1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1974 - Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP 1974 - The US files antitrust suit to break-up ATandT 1975 - Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president 1976 - George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live 1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open 1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat became first Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset 1977 - Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions 1977 - Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards 1979 - Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed 1979 - US's first artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital 1980 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's) 1980 - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes first solar-powered flight 1981 - Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship 1981 - Burundia adopts its constitution 1981 - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive" 1981 - Ringo releases "Stop and Smell Roses" album 1982 - Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live 1983 - 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war 1983 - Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0 1983 - NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing 1984 - McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger 1984 - Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year 1985 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP 1986 - Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees 1986 - UN's WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS 1989 - Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP 1990 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP 1990 - Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year 1990 - Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership 1990 - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space 1991 - Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP 1992 - Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire 1993 - Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed 1993 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo 1993 - Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg 1994 - Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches 1994 - Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland 1995 - "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released 1995 - FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC 1995 - Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview 1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands 1997 - Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley 1997 - Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals 1997 - Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played 1997 - NY Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak
