1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence
1377 - Cardinal Robert ofGeneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
1377 - Mass execution of population ofCesena Italy
1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of theOttoman Empire .
1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)
1509 - The Battle of Diu, betweenPortugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu , India
1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1591 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
1653 - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
1660 - General Moncks army reaches London
1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1752 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
1781 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1815 - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1825 - Dutch North Sea coast floods
1830 - The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 -Wake Forest University
1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
1844 - Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 - Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1887 - To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1892 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1895 - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
1900 - Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt
1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1901 - Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1908 - Foundation of Panathinaikos inAthens , Greece
1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1913 - Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC
1915 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1916 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
1919 - Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC
1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1919 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1923 - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1927 - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
1929 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1930 - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1931 -Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia"
1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake,New Zealand
1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
1933 - German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
1937 - Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England
1938 - Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC
1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs
1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
1945 - Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
1947 - -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 - Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV
1951 - Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
1951 - Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1951 - Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1954 - Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1956 - Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
1956 - Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1958 - Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962 - John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
1965 - 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
1965 - Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1377 - Cardinal Robert of
1377 - Mass execution of population of
1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the
1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)
1509 - The Battle of Diu, between
1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1591 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
1653 - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
1660 - General Moncks army reaches London
1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1752 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
1781 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1815 - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1825 - Dutch North Sea coast floods
1830 - The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 -
1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
1844 - Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 - Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1887 - To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1892 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1895 - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
1900 - Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt
1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1901 - Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1908 - Foundation of Panathinaikos in
1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1913 - Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC
1915 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1916 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
1919 - Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC
1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1919 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1923 - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1927 - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
1929 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1930 - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1931 -
1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake,
1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
1933 - German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
1937 - Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England
1938 - Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC
1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs
1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
1945 - Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
1947 - -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 - Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV
1951 - Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
1951 - Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1951 - Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1954 - Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1956 - Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
1956 - Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1958 - Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962 - John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
1965 - 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
1965 - Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1965 - Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
1966 - 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1967 - "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs
1969 - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1971 - KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6
1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1974 - "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
1976 - 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
1977 - Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
1978 - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978 - India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1979 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1979 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1979 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1980 - 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
1981 - Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1982 - Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1982 - Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1982 - John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
1982 - Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
1983 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1985 - "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
1987 - Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
1987 - SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1989 - Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 - Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
1989 - Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
1990 - Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
1990 - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1990 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
1991 - Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
1992 - Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
1992 - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1992 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1993 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
1993 - General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1994 - Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1998 - Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
1998 - Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1998 - NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
1998 - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1998 - US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1999 - InJammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir
2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady,New England , QB
2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
1966 - 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1967 - "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs
1969 - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1971 - KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6
1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1974 - "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
1976 - 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
1977 - Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
1978 - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978 - India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1979 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1979 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1979 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1980 - 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
1981 - Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1982 - Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1982 - Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1982 - John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
1982 - Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
1983 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1985 - "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
1987 - Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
1987 - SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1989 - Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 - Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
1989 - Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
1990 - Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
1990 - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1990 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
1991 - Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
1992 - Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
1992 - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1992 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1993 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
1993 - General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1994 - Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1998 - Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
1998 - Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1998 - NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
1998 - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1998 - US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1999 - In
2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady,
2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
