Today in History
0705 - Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
0314 - Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
0451 - Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
0876 - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1094 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos monastery in Venice
1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 - San Marino adopts constitution
1604 - The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
1625 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
1656 - Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1793 - John Hancock, US merchant/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 56
1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1822 - First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley 1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 - Battle of Perryville, Kentucky; Confederate invasion halted
1865 - Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1871 - Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4�miles (10 km�) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
1886 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Noble Bachelor" (BG)
1887 - Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
1904 - First Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1909 - Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 - First Balkan War begins
1915 - Phillies win their 1st & only World Series (World Series #12) game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
1918 - Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 - NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1927 - NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1928 - Eastern Soccer League forms in US
1930 - Philadelphia A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1935 - Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
1939 - Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 - NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 - Cincinatti Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1945 - Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1951 - Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 - Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
1952 - 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1955 - Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 - Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect world series game, vs Brooklyn (World Series #53)
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1959 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 - Bobby Richardson hits a world series grand slammer (World Series #57)
1962 - Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN
1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 - Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 - Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1966 - Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1970 - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1977 - Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1978 - Ken Warby set the world water speed record at 319.627 mph
1978 - Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph)
1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1981 - USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
1981 - President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 - NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at the Meadowland
1982 - Poland bans Solidarity
1983 - 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1986 - Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1988 - Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1992 - Willy Brandt, chancellor of W Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1992 - Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, the beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar
2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2005 - The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC
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