Today In History

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1002   After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11
1092   Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
1336   Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
1386   Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
1460   Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
1502   Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
1519   Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government
1573   Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king
1588   Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris
1671   Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1689   English King Willem III declares war on France
1738   England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies
1753   King Louis XV disbands French parliament
1754   1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1766   John Byron back in England after trip around the world
1785   British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1788   English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
1836   HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius
1837   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
1846   Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
1862   Battle of Farmington, MS
1862   Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862   US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1864   -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1864   Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
1864   Battle of Dalton, GA
1864   Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1868   Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1874   Victoria Embankment, in London opens
1882   Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
1889   15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34«
1896   1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1899   Lawn mower patented
1901   Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
1901   Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
1908   Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
1911   Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
1913   17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
1914   40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4
1914   Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1915   German & French fight Battle of Artois
1916   British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
1925   Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
1926   Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
1927   53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
1927   Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1929   NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
1929   WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
1930   56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6
1931   57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
1932   58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8
1932   Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
1932   WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
1933   Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1934   Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!
1936   1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1936   Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1937   Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
1939   Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1941   English Army breaks German spy codes
1942   68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
1943   5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
1943   Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
1944   1st eye bank opens (NYC)
1944   Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
1944   Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1944   Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
1944   Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945   Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1945   Jersey liberated from nazis
1945   Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
1945   New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
1945   Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
1945   Victory celebration at Red Square
1946   1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
1946   1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
1946   King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
1949   Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London
1949   Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
1950   French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1950   Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
1951   Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
1955   German Federal Republic joins NATO
1958   Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
1959   Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
1960   Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1960   US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1960   US send U-2 over USSR
1961   Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins
1961   FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
1961   Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings
1962   Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
1962   Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1962   US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964   Khrushchev visits Egypt
1964   Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
1965   Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1965   Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1966   1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
1966   China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967   1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
1967   Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
1969   BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
1970   100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1971   23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton
1971   Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
1971   Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1971   Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
1971   Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open
1973   For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
1974   House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1975   Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
1975   Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead
1976   "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1976   Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament
1977   Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1977   Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
1977   Patty Hearst let out of jail
1978   "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs
1978   Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
1978   Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
1978   Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC
1978   PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth
1979   US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1980   35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1981   Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
1982   "9" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 739 performances
1982   Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC
1982   Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983   18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson
1984   Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000
1984   Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
1984   White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
1987   183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1987   Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
1987   Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
1988   A's winning streak hits 14, ends tommorow
1988   Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
1988   Belgium: 8th govt of Martens forms
1989   "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1989   Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press
1989   NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
1989   NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher
1989   VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing
1990   NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1990   Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II
1991   Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
1991   Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
1992   America Cup finals begin in San Diego
1992   Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
1992   Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
1993   "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
1993   "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1993   Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993   Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1993   Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC
1993   Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years
1994   "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
1994   Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY
1995   Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
1995   Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
1997   1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
1997   San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones
1998   ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by

BIRTHS
1265   Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia)
1596   Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
1738   John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
1740   Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
1783   Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
1785   James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
1793   Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist
1796   August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
1800   John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
1801   Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
1810   Louis Gallait, historical painter
1810   WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I