366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
1537 - Uprising in Lubeck fails
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1629 - Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1657 - First autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
1664 - Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1688 - France declares war on Germany
1706 - Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen
1742 - Faneuil Hall, Boston, opens to public
1776 - First St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
The Sun King of France Louis XIV
1786 -
American American slave Jupiter Hammon makes his "Address to the Negroes
of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at meeting of
African Society in NY1789 - US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution
1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789 - President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
1789 - US Attorney General Office is created
1829 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 - British adventurer James Brooke obtains lands around the Sarawak river from the Sultan of Brunei
1850 - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1852 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam power
1st White Rajah of Sarawak James Brooke
1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)1853 - France annexes New Caledonia
1853 - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg" premieres in Vienna
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1884 - Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC
1885 - Five German warships depart to Zanzibar
1889 - Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
1890 - President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1903 - Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Barton as Australia premier
1903 - Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1906 - V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill" premieres in NYC
1906 - Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
1908 - Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1916 - Indians' Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth
1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey1922 - Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
1922 - Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
1923 - Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
1924 - Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport
1926 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
1928 - Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight
1929 - Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0
1930 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY
Aviation Pioneer Jimmy Doolittle
1930 - Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
1932 - NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA
1934 - 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 - Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1938 - Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
1938 - 58th U.S. Men's National Championship: Don Budge beats Gene Mako (6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1) and becomes 1st tennis player to win a grand slam
1938 - 52nd U.S. Women's National Championship: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (6-0, 6-3)
Tennis Champion Alice Marble
1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 - Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter
1941 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1946 - Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, D.C.
1948 - Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - "Operation Magic Carpet" - all Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1951 - Industrial estate opens at Harlow New Town, England
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 - "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano
1953 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 - Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 - "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1955 - US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1955 - Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 - President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1958 - Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC
1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 - International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1960 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched
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