0054 - Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms at 63 1213 - Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont & Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant 1307 - French king Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy 1483 - Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible 1492 - English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock 1501 - Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente 1534 - Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III 1629 - Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies 1652 - Prince of Conde flees Paris 1659 - Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt 1660 - Denmark king Frederik III makes coup 1702 - Dutch/English troops occupy Luik 1710 - English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia) 1716 - Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar 1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters 1760 - Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin 1775 - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet 1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is first published 1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House) 1795 - William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies 1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada 1815 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed 1825 - Maximiliaan I Jozef, king of Bayern, dies 1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY) 1845 - Texas ratifies a state constitution 1860 - First aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston 1862 - Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech 1863 - Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties) 1864 - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties) 1864 - Battle of Dalton, Georgia - surrendered 1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (Mosby's Raid) 1864 - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery 1870 - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his first public piano concert 1881 - Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude 1893 - Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (Engld) in 9th America's Cup 1899 - 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal 1902 - Arna W Bontemps noted poet & librarian of Fisk University 1903 - Pirates beats Pilgrims (Red Sox) 5 games to 3 in first World Series 1913 - Explosion & fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales 1914 - Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre 1914 - Boston Braves sweep Philadelphia A's, first sweep in World Series history 1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask 1914 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa 1915 - Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series 1917 - Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military 1919 - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas 1920 - World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders 1921 - NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series 1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital 1924 - Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca 1930 - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform 1933 - Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren 1936 - Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium 1937 - A recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC 1941 - Nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people 1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany 1944 - Riga Latvia freed 1944 - US 1st Army begins battle of Aachen 1947 - "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres 1947 - First NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto 1953 - Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno 1955 - First edition of L'express publishes in Paris 1956 - WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins 1957 - German Dem Rep recalls East Mark & issues new currency 1960 - Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN 1960 - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba 1960 - Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series 1963 - "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium 1963 - 15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake CC Ga 1963 - 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright 1964 - At Plesman airport, Cura�ao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record) 1964 - Voskhod 1 crew returns 1966 - 173 US airplanes bomb North-Vietnam 1966 - Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1967 - CBS radio cancels "House Party" 1968 - Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated 1969 - First time 7 people in space 1969 - Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins 1969 - Soyuz 8 is launched 1970 - Angela Davis arrested in NYC 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR 1971 - First World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) 1972 - Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die 1972 - Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series 1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) 1972 - Argentine Fairchild crashes in Andesgebergte (rugby team eats crash victims to survive) 1973 - Jordan enters Yom Kippur war 1973 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol" 1974 - Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73 1975 - 9th Country Music Assn Award: John Denver wins 1975 - Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery 1978 - James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu 1978 - President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio 1978 - Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties 1978 - Tiros N, US's first third generation weather satellite, is launched 1978 - Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4 1980 - 14th Country Music Assn Award:[approx] 1980 - Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1982 - IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe 1982 - NJ Devils first short handed goal-Don Lever 1984 - Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders 1984 - John Henry becomes first thoroughbred to win $6 million 1984 - STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center 1985 - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election 1985 - During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin 1986 - 20th Country Music Assn Award: 1986 - 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) 1986 - IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992 1987 - First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf) 1987 - Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize 1988 - Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest 1988 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz 1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1989 - Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson 1989 - Dow Jones down 190.58 points 1990 - First Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral 1990 - Target Center in Minneapolis opens 1991 - Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies 1991 - Actress Katey Segal suffers a miscarriage 1991 - Blue Jay Cito Gaston is first manager ejected in a playoff game 1991 - Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games 1993 - Greek government of Papandreou forms 1993 - Mighty Ducks win their first NHL game 1993 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith 1993 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor 1993 - Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS 1994 - Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania) 1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo O� 1995 - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1995 - Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms 1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic 1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374 1996 - Yanks (3) & Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs 1997 - Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH
