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138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor
Hadrian
Antoninus Pius
- 1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
Excommunication
1570 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. Also absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown.
Elizabeth I
- 1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
- 1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
- 1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills Duke Wallenstein
- 1643 Pavonia Massacre: Dutch US colonists kill 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw (New Jersey)
- 1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
- 1746 The Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
- 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
- 1791 1st Bank of US chartered
- 1795 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."
- 1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
- 1799 US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
- 1803 In the last significant act of the Holy Roman Empire, more than 100 German polities are abolished in a major internal reorganization
Presidential Convention
1804 Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus
Thomas Jefferson
Theater Premiere
1830 Victor Hugo's play "Hernani" premieres in Paris
Victor Hugo
Historic Invention
1836 Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading
Samuel Colt
Event of Interest
1836 Showman P. T. Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth, claiming she was the 161 year-old nursemaid to George Washington
P. T. Barnum
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1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole "Bill the Butcher" shot in the back by gang of archrival John Morrissey in New York (dies 8th March)
Bill the Butcher
- 1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1st US One-Dollar Notes
1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States Notes
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1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America
Abraham Lincoln
- 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
Event of Interest
1870 Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as 1st African American member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
Hiram R. Revels
- 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
- 1879 US Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
- 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
- 1892 James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London
- 1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
- 1901 George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
1901 US Steel Corporation organized under J. P. Morgan, Sr.
J. P. Morgan
Event of Interest
1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer" premieres in London
George Bernard Shaw
- 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
- 1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
- 1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
- 1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma" premieres at Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- 1913 The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
- 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
- 1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia
- 1921 The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
- 1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks
- 1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
- 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
- 1925 US Women's Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
- 1925 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
- 1925 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
Event of Interest
1926 Francisco Franco becomes Spain's youngest general at 33
Francisco Franco
- 1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
- 1927 Gdańsk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
- 1930 Check photographing device patented
- 1930 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley completes twin tons (114 & 112) in 3rd Test win against England at Georgetown, British Guiana
Event of Interest
1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
Adolf Hitler
- 1933 1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger
- 1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
- 1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
- 1938 Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary
- 1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
- 1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
- 1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
- 1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
- 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
- 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
- 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
- 1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia and C Gottwald becomes premier
- 1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
Event of Interest
1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
Mel Brooks
Neil Simon
- 1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
- 1951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
- 1952 VI Winter Olympic Games close at Oslo, Norway
- 1953 "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances
- 1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
Conference of Interest
1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Event of Interest
1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
Buddy Holly
Event of Interest
1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in NYC
Lillian Hellman
Event of Interest
1962 Robert F. Kennedy visits Netherlands
Robert F. Kennedy
Event of Interest
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY Knicks for the second year in a row
Wilt Chamberlain
Boxing Title Fight
1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] wins his first world heavyweight boxing title when Sonny Liston fails to come out for round 7 at the Convention Center, Miami Beach
Muhammad Ali
Sonny Liston
- 1966 Syrian military coup under General Hafiz al-Assad
- 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
- 1968 Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
- 1968 10th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough driving for Wood Brothers Racing wins by less than a second from LeeRoy Yarbrough; grid set exclusively by qualifying times
- 1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
- 1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
- 1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
- 1969 West Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet
Oh! Calcutta! - The Bare Facts
1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" moves to Belasco Theater in NYC for 1,316 performances
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- 1971 P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in NYC
Meeting of Interest
1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark holds a meeting with Catholic Cardinal of Ireland William Conway, the first such meeting between men holding these offices since 1921
James Chichester-Clark
Event of Interest
1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
Steve Carlton
Music Single
1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
Paul McCartney
- 1972 Attempted assassination of Irish Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility)
- 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
- 1973 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances)
- 1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
- 1975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
NBA Record
1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
Pete Maravich
Event of Interest
1978 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham scores first Test century, 103 v New Zealand in Christchurch
Ian Botham
Grammy Awards
1981 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins
Billy Joel
- 1981 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo elected premier of Spain
- 1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
- 1981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
- 1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
- 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1981 Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
- 1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
- 1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
- 1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
- 1986 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
Event of Interest
1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country
Corazon Aquino
Event of Interest
1988 Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love" Tour begins in Worcester, Massachusetts
Bruce Springsteen
- 1988 South Korea adopts constitution
- 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
- 1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
- 1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
Boxing Title Fight
1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
Mike Tyson
Frank Bruno
- 1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
- 1990 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
- 1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
- 1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)
Event of Interest
1991 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
Wayne Gretzky
John Candy
Grammy Awards
1992 Muddy Waters wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards
Muddy Waters
- 1993 "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
- 1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
- 1993 Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
- 1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
- 1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
- 1994 New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
- 1995 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
- 1995 Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
- 1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
- 1996 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
- 1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is
BAFTA Awards
2001 54th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Gladiator" Best Film, Ang Lee Best Director
Ang Lee
Academy Awards
2007 79th Academy Awards: "The Departed", Forest Whitaker & Helen Mirren win
- 2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
- 2011 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921
- 2011 French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris
- 2012 Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
- 2012 Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
Polio
2012 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
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Event of Interest
2013 Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
Raúl Castro
Music Awards
2015 BRIT Awards: Best Single "Uptown Funk", Best Album "X" by Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
- 2016 Tenth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, held in Houston, Texas
Event of Interest
2016 Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller are honoured by unite4:humanity for their work promoting awareness of and fundraising for Alzheimer's research
Seth Rogen
- 2017 Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee
- 2018 Russian national team, competing under the name of Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), wins Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Pyeongchang; beat Germany, 4-3 in overtime in the final
- 2018 Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen wins gold in women's 30k at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; brings her total Games medal haul to 15, most won by any athlete in Winter Games history
- 2018 2-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team
- 2018 XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang, Korea; Norway wins a record 39 medals, 14 gold
- 2018 China briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts
- 2018 Winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country
- 2018 68th Berlin International Film Festival: Romanian film "Touch Me Not" wins the Golden Bear
- 2019 Influential film review site Rotten Tomatoes implements changes to its site after internet trolls target "Captain Marvel" film
- 2019 James Harden's scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets' 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston; 2nd longest mark in NBA history
- 2020 147 murders occurred during a five day police strike in Ceará, Brazil, despite army patrolling the streets according to authorities
- 2020 Iran emerges as a newCOVID-19 hotspot, recording 95 cases and 11 deaths as a deputy health minister that appeared on TV confirmed as also infected
Event of Interest
2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping says the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year), though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption and lack of transparency [1] [2]
Xi Jinping
- 2021 More than 200 prisoners escape and 25 people are killed at Croix-des-Bouquets prison near Port-au-Prince, Haiti
