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On this day... 0506 King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out 0962 Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor 1032 Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy 1119 Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II 1141 Battle at Lincoln King Stephen captured 1461 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrians defeat Yorkists 1536 Pedro de Mendoza finds the Argentine city of Buenos Aires 1550 English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed 1633 M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano" premieres in Rome 1637 Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las" premieres in Madrid 1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York NY) 1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe" 1714 Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore" premieres in London 1731 Georg F Händels opera "Poro" premieres in London 1732 King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia 1742 British Walpole government resigns 1762 Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes" premieres in London 1795 Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres 1798 Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire 1802 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25¢) 1811 Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of San Francisco 1823 Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice 1829 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage 1843 US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose governmental committee 1848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million 1852 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London) 1852 Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias" premieres in Paris 1854 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the persecution of Armenians" 1863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time 1864 Cruise of CSS Florida 1869 James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade 1870 Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira NY 1870 The Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum 1876 Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis 1878 Greece declares war on Turkey 1880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton 1882 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven CT 1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby 1892 Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) 1892 Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England vs Australia SCG 1893 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange NJ 1894 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island 1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris 1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization 1904 US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey 1906 Pope encyclical against separation of church & state 1909 Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris 1912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe) 1913 New York football Giants sign Jim Thorpe 1913 NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens 1914 James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu" premieres in New York NY 1919 Monarchist riot in Portugal 1920 Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace) 1920 France occupies (German) Memel territory 1920 Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty USSR recognizes Estonian independence 1922 James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1923 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton OH 1923 US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries 1924 International Ski Federation (FIS) founded 1925 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km 1925 Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism 1925 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began 1926 3 men dance the Charleston for 22½ hours 1927 Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita" premieres in New York NY 1927 Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St New York NY 1931 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria) 1931 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students 1932 Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corp organized 1932 Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta GA) 1932 Grimmett takes 14 wickets vs South Africa (7-116 & 7-83) 1933 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament 1933 Göring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany 1933 Ucicky's "Rotten Morning" premieres in Berlin 1934 Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops warn against fascism/Nazism 1935 Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage WI) 1940 Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra) 1942 Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans 1942 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production 1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army, turning point of WWII 1943 Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest 1944 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands 1944 Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory 1944 Baseball meets in New York NY to discuss postwar action 1944 Edward Chodorov's "Decision" premieres in New York NY 1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp 1946 "Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances 1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1949 Golfing champion Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident 1950 "Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances 1950 1st broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS-TV 1951 -35ºF (-37ºC), Greenburg, Indiana (state record until 1994) 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1954 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 points in basketball game 1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952) 1954 Snow falls on Gibraltar 1955 1st Presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC 1956 Coasters sign with Atlantic Records 1957 Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd) 1957 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt 1957 "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances 1958 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic 1958 Fay Crocker win LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open 1958 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce PR (PTC) begins broadcasting 1959 Buddy Holly's last performance 1959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach the Green Bay Packers 1960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss 1961 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam 1962 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88 meter) (John Uelses-16¼', Milrose Games) 1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1963 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of the undercard) 1964 GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy 1964 Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame 1964 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) win Olympics gold for figure skating 1965 Joe Ortons "Loot" premieres in Brighton 1967 Formation of the American Basketball Association is announced 1967 Bolivia adopts its constitution 1968 Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed 1969 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas CA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1969 Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame 1970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points 1971 Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda 1972 Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame 1972 Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers" premieres in London 1973 James R Schlesinger becomes director of the CIA (until July) 1973 "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV 1973 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA 1973 Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, New Zealand vs Pakistan, Wellington 1974 Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary" 1974 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavaliers vs Golden State-1,641) 1974 Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were" 1975 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia 1975 Donna Caponi Young win LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1975 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill 1975 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr 1976 "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV 1976 "Rich Little Show" debuts on NBC-TV 1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & umpire Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame 1977 Radio Shack officially begins creating the TRS-80 computer 1977 Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL record for a defenseman 1977 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR) 1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors 1982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC 1982 Government troops & Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria 1983 Chicago Archbishop Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested 1983 Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals 1984 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards 1984 Lebanese army fight in Beirut 1985 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano 1986 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances 1986 Ayako Okamoto win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic 1986 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 28-24 1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected President of Costa Rica 1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires 1987 Philippines adopts constitution 1988 David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184 vs England at Sydney 1989 0ºF (-18ºC) or below in 15 US states 1989 F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's Nationalist Party leader 1989 NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president 1990 Marina Ogilvy (daughter of English princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt 1990 South Africa's President F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes African National Congress & 60 other political organizations 1991 US postage is raised from 25¢ to 29¢ 1991 Aravinda De Silva scores 267 vs New Zealand at Wellington 1991 New Hampshire snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56 1992 Colleen Walker win Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic 1992 Danny Everett runs world record 400 meter indoor (45.02 seconds) 1992 David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 vs India at Perth 1992 IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9 million tax bill (of $16.7 million) 1992 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500 meter freestyle (14 minutes 32.40 seconds) 1992 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 21-15 1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Waits for using his song, "Step Right Up" 1993 Irina Privalova runs world record 50 meter indoor (6.05 seconds) 1995 "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances 1995 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket 1995 US space shuttle Discovery launched 1996 Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA 1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin NYC 1997 Mark O'Meara win Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am 1997 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT) 1997 Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic 1998 Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in New York NY for cocaine overdose 1998 Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board |
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