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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
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