Today in History
0680 - Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
0768 - Charles the Great & Charlamane II divide French republic
0869 - Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1047 - Clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies
1290 - Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1390 - Johan I, King of Castilie (1379-90), dies
1446 - Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1514 - King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII
1573 - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1651 - English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
1655 - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
1701 - Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1820 - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, President of Greece (1829-31), murdered
1837 - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1855 - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1863 - Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1864 - Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1865 - First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1876 - First 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 - American Humane Association organized in Cleveland
1888 - Public admitted to Washington Monument
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Red-Headed League"
1903 - 11" rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1910 - Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1915 - Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a world series game (World Series #12)
1916 - Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1921 - Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1928 - NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game - NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
1930 - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 - St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1938 - Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 - NY Yankees sweep Cubs in the 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
1944 - St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1946 - First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1947 - First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1949 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
1951 - Gil McDougald's world series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1 (World Series #48)
1958 - NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series - NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
1958 - Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1960 - Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
1961 - NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1961 - Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1961 - Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1963 - Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
1965 - Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 - Baltimore Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1968 - Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1969 - Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
1970 - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1973 - Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1973 - Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1974 - Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at MSG
1975 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
1975 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1976 - Yanks first AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
1977 - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 - Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
1980 - First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1980 - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1983 - 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes first US woman to walk in space
1986 - Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 - Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1988 - Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1989 - Penthouse Magazine's hebrew edition hits the newstands
1989 - First NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1990 - Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
1990 - Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1992 - A fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1995 - An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona
1999 - The last flight of the SR-71
2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack
2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device
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