5598 BC - Origin of Grecian Mundane Era 5508 BC - Origin of Civil Era of Constantinople 5492 BC - Origin of Ecclesiastical Era of Antioch 0312 BC - Origin of Greek Era-Start of Indiction of 0069 - Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem 0891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France 1267 - Ramban (Nachmanides) arrives in Jerusalem to establish Jewish community 1614 - Vincent Fettmich expells Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany 1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James 1666 - Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed 1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California 1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) 1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire 1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem 1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey 1858 - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month 1859 - 1st pullman sleeping car in service 1859 - RC Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare 1862 - Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia 1863 - RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated 1865 - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery 1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan 1874 - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh 1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces 1906 - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time 1906 - Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game 1906 - Papua placed under Australian administration 1911 - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km 1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd 1916 - Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) 1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I 1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards" 1923 - Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 106,000 1923 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup 1928 - Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king 1932 - NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) 1939 - Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes" 1939 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1941 - Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear 1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan) 1945 - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season 1946 - Batty Berg wins the US Open 1947 - NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936 1948 - Communist form North China People's Republic 1948 - UN's World Health Organization forms 1949 - 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premiers 1950 - West Berlin granted a constitution 1951 - US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty 1952 - Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney 1956 - Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory 1957 - Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 1958 - St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout 1961 - USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia 1962 - 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran 1962 - UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion 1963 - St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate 1967 - SF Giants beat Cincinatti Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings 1968 - Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting 1969 - Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris 1971 - Qatar declares independence from Britain 1972 - Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title 1973 - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) 1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title 1975 - Gunsmoke goes off the air 1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons 1975 - NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents 1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-197 1976 - NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens 1976 - Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray) 1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold 1978 - Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia 1979 - Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA 1979 - LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask 1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings 1981 - Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) 1982 - Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH 1982 - Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon 1983 - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet 1985 - US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album 1989 - Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation 1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey 1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union 2001 - England beat Germany 5-1 in Munich in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia 2005 - Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation 2006 - Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting
