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Events: *660 BC -- Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno. *385 -- Oldest Pope elected; Siricius, bishop of Tarragona?. *731 -- Gregory II ends his reign as Pope. *824 -- [Paschal I]? ends his reign as Pope. *1531 -- [King Henry VIII]? recognized as supreme head of the Church in England. *1543 -- [Battle of Wayna Daga]? - Ethiopian/Portugese? troops beat Muslim army. *1720 -- Sweden & Prussia sign peace ([2nd Treaty of Stockholm]?). *1752 -- [Pennsylvania Hospital]?, the 1st hospital in the US, opened. *1790 -- [Society of Friends]? petitions Congress for abolition of slavery. *1794 -- 1st session of US Senate open to the public. *1808 -- Anthracite? coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally. *1809 -- Robert Fulton patents the steamboat?. *1810 -- Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria. *1812 -- Massachusetts governer Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering. *1814 -- Norway's independence is proclaimed. *1826 -- [London University]? is founded. *1837 -- [American Physiological Society]? organizes in Boston. *1840 -- [Gaetano Donizetti]?'s opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris. *1843 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera "I Lombardi" premieres in Milan?. *1852 -- 1st British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street London. *1854 -- Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time. *1858 -- [Virgin Mary]? appears to [St Bernadette]? of Lourdes?. *1861 -- US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. *1873 -- Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I. *1878 -- 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms. *1878 -- 1st weekly Weather report published in UK. *1889 -- Meiji? constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890. *1896 -- Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé" premieres in Paris. *1902 -- Police beat up [universal suffrage]? demonstrators in Brussels. *1903 -- [Anton Bruckner]?'s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna. *1905 -- [Pope Pius X]? publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. *1907 -- [De Master]?'s Dutch government resigns. *1907 -- Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die. *1908 -- Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England. *1908 -- Heemskerk?'s government begins in the Netherlands. *1916 -- Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control. *1916 -- [Baltimore Symphony Orchestra]? presents its 1st concert. *1919 -- [Friedrich Ebert]? (SPD), elected President of Germany. *1927 -- US female Figure Skating championship won by [Beatrix Loughran]?. *1927 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Nathaniel Niles]?. *1928 -- 2nd [Winter Olympics]? opens in [St. Moritz]?, Switzerland. *1929 -- Italy and the Vatican sign the [Lateran Treaty]?. *1929 -- [Eugene O'Neill]?'s "Dynamo" premieres in New York NY. *1937 -- A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognises the [United Automobile Workers Union]?. *1938 -- [Steve Casey]? beats [Lou Thesz]? in Boston to become wrestling champion. *1941 -- 1st Gold record presented to [Glenn Miller]? for Chattanooga Choo Choo. *1941 -- Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. *1941 -- Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments. *1942 -- "Archie" comic book debuts. *1943 -- General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe. *1945 -- [Yalta Conference]? ends. *1948 -- [John Costello]? follows [Eamon De Valera]? as premier of Ireland. *1951 -- Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold Coast (Ghana). *1953 -- President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg? couple. *1953 -- USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. *1958 -- Marshal [Chen Yi]? succeeds [Chou En-Lai]? as Minister of Foreign affairs. *1958 -- [Ruth Carol Taylor]? is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant. *1960 -- [Jack Paar]? walks off his TV show. *1961 -- Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. *1963 -- The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me". *1963 -- CIA Domestic Operations Division is created. *1964 -- The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in US in the Washington DC Coliseum. *1964 -- Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol?, Cyprus. *1964 -- Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France. *1965 -- Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox. *1968 -- Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, [Washington Bridge]?, [Hudson River]? NY. *1968 -- [Peggy Fleming]? wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble?, France. *1968 -- Israeli-Jordan border clashes. *1968 -- [Madison Square Garden]? III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York. *1969 -- [Diana Crump]? becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men. *1970 -- John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. *1970 -- Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit. *1971 -- US?, UK, USSR, others sign [Seabed Treaty]? outlawing nuclear weapons. *1973 -- First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. *1975 -- Margaret Thatcher defeats [Edward Heath]? for Conservative leadership. *1976 -- [Clifford Alexander Jr]? confirmed as 1st black Secretary of US Army. *1977 -- 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean?). *1978 -- 16 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY. *1978 -- China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens. *1979 -- 43 million viewers watch "Elvis?!" on ABC. *1979 -- [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]? seizes power in Iran. *1981 -- Polish premier [Jozef Pinkowski]? replaced by [Wojciech Jaruzelski]?. *1985 -- Jordan king Hussein? & PLO leader Arafat sign accord. *1985 -- [Wasim Akram]? takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket match, but New Zealand still wins. *1986 -- Rights activist [Anatoly Scharansky]? released by USSR, leaves the country. *1987 -- British Airways begins trading stocks. *1987 -- Philippines constitution goes into effect. *1987 -- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. *1988 -- [Anthony M Kennedy]? appointed to the Supreme Court. *1989 -- [Barbara Clementine Harris]? consecrated 1st female bishop in the Episcopalian Church. *1989 -- US female Figure Skating championship won by [Jill Trenary]?. *1990 -- [James "Buster" Douglas]? KOs [Mike Tyson]? to win heavyweight boxing crown. *1990 -- Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa. *1990 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Todd Eldredge]?. *1991 -- UNPO?, the Unrepresented Nations & People Organization forms in The Hague, Netherlands. *1992 -- F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo?, the Netherlands. No causalties are reported.. *1992 -- [Michael Johnson]? runs an indoor world record over 400 meters. *1993 -- [Howard Stern]?'s radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY. *1993 -- [Irina Privalova]? runs a world indoor record over 60 meters. *1993 -- Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General. *1995 -- [Danyon Loader]? swims world record 400 meters freestyle. *1995 -- [Mark Foster]? swims world record 50 meters butterfly. *1995 -- [Sandra Volker]? swims European record 50 meters backstroke. *1995 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Todd Eldredge]?. *1997 -- [Bill Parcells]? becomes head coach of New York Jets. Births: |
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*1535 -- Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati), Pope wears a funny hat |
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*1535 -- Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati), Pope (1590?-1591?). |
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Events *660 BC -- Traditional founding date of Japan by [Emperor Jimmu Tenno]?. *385 -- Oldest Pope elected; Siricius, bishop of Tarragona?. *731 -- Gregory II ends his reign as Pope. *824 -- [Paschal I]? ends his reign as Pope. *1531 -- [King Henry VIII]? recognized as supreme head of the Church in England. *1543 -- [Battle of Wayna Daga]? - Ethiopian/Portugese? troops beat Muslim army. *1720 -- Sweden & Prussia sign peace ([2nd Treaty of Stockholm]?). *1752 -- [Pennsylvania Hospital]?, the 1st hospital in the US, opened. *1790 -- [Society of Friends]? petitions Congress for abolition of slavery. *1794 -- 1st session of US Senate open to the public. *1808 -- Anthracite? coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally. *1809 -- Robert Fulton patents the steamboat?. *1810 -- Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria. *1812 -- Massachusetts governer Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering. *1814 -- Norway's independence is proclaimed. *1826 -- [London University]? is founded. *1837 -- [American Physiological Society]? organizes in Boston. *1840 -- [Gaetano Donizetti]?'s opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris. *1843 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera "I Lombardi" premieres in Milan?. *1852 -- 1st British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street London. *1854 -- Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time. *1858 -- [Virgin Mary]? appears to [St Bernadette]? of Lourdes?. *1861 -- US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. *1873 -- Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I. *1878 -- 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms. *1878 -- 1st weekly Weather report published in UK. *1889 -- Meiji? constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890. *1896 -- Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé" premieres in Paris. *1902 -- Police beat up [universal suffrage]? demonstrators in Brussels. *1903 -- [Anton Bruckner]?'s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna. *1905 -- [Pope Pius X]? publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. *1907 -- [De Master]?'s Dutch government resigns. *1907 -- Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die. *1908 -- Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England. *1908 -- Heemskerk?'s government begins in the Netherlands. *1916 -- Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control. *1916 -- [Baltimore Symphony Orchestra]? presents its 1st concert. *1919 -- [Friedrich Ebert]? (SPD), elected President of Germany. *1927 -- US female Figure Skating championship won by [Beatrix Loughran]?. *1927 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Nathaniel Niles]?. *1928 -- 2nd [Winter Olympics]? opens in [St. Moritz]?, Switzerland. *1929 -- Italy and the Vatican sign the [Lateran Treaty]?. *1929 -- [Eugene O'Neill]?'s "Dynamo" premieres in New York NY. *1937 -- A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognises the [United Automobile Workers Union]?. *1938 -- [Steve Casey]? beats [Lou Thesz]? in Boston to become wrestling champion. *1941 -- 1st Gold record presented to [Glenn Miller]? for Chattanooga Choo Choo. *1941 -- Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. *1941 -- Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments. *1942 -- "Archie" comic book debuts. *1943 -- General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe. *1945 -- [Yalta Conference]? ends. *1948 -- [John Costello]? follows [Eamon De Valera]? as premier of Ireland. *1951 -- Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold Coast (Ghana). *1953 -- President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg? couple. *1953 -- USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. *1958 -- Marshal [Chen Yi]? succeeds [Chou En-Lai]? as Minister of Foreign affairs. *1958 -- [Ruth Carol Taylor]? is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant. *1960 -- [Jack Paar]? walks off his TV show. *1961 -- Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. *1963 -- The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me". *1963 -- CIA Domestic Operations Division is created. *1964 -- The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in US in the Washington DC Coliseum. *1964 -- Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol?, Cyprus. *1964 -- Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France. *1965 -- Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox. *1968 -- Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, [Washington Bridge]?, [Hudson River]? NY. *1968 -- [Peggy Fleming]? wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble?, France. *1968 -- Israeli-Jordan border clashes. *1968 -- [Madison Square Garden]? III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York. *1969 -- [Diana Crump]? becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men. *1970 -- John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. *1970 -- Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit. *1971 -- US?, UK, USSR, others sign [Seabed Treaty]? outlawing nuclear weapons. *1973 -- First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. *1975 -- Margaret Thatcher defeats [Edward Heath]? for Conservative leadership. *1976 -- [Clifford Alexander Jr]? confirmed as 1st black Secretary of US Army. *1977 -- 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean?). *1978 -- 16 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY. *1978 -- China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens. *1979 -- 43 million viewers watch "Elvis?!" on ABC. *1979 -- [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]? seizes power in Iran. *1981 -- Polish premier [Jozef Pinkowski]? replaced by [Wojciech Jaruzelski]?. *1985 -- Jordan king Hussein? & PLO leader Arafat sign accord. *1985 -- [Wasim Akram]? takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket match, but New Zealand still wins. *1986 -- Rights activist [Anatoly Scharansky]? released by USSR, leaves the country. *1987 -- British Airways begins trading stocks. *1987 -- Philippines constitution goes into effect. *1987 -- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. *1988 -- [Anthony M Kennedy]? appointed to the Supreme Court. *1989 -- [Barbara Clementine Harris]? consecrated 1st female bishop in the Episcopalian Church. *1989 -- US female Figure Skating championship won by [Jill Trenary]?. *1990 -- [James "Buster" Douglas]? KOs [Mike Tyson]? to win heavyweight boxing crown. *1990 -- Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa. *1990 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Todd Eldredge]?. *1991 -- UNPO?, the Unrepresented Nations & People Organization forms in the Hague?, Netherlands. *1992 -- F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo?, the Netherlands. No causalties are reported.. *1992 -- [Michael Johnson]? runs an indoor world record over 400 meters. *1993 -- [Howard Stern]?'s radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY. *1993 -- [Irina Privalova]? runs a world indoor record over 60 meters. *1993 -- Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General. *1995 -- [Danyon Loader]? swims world record 400 meters freestyle. *1995 -- [Mark Foster]? swims world record 50 meters butterfly. *1995 -- [Sandra Volker]? swims European record 50 meters backstroke. *1995 -- US male Figure Skating championship won by [Todd Eldredge]?. *1997 -- [Bill Parcells]? becomes head coach of New York Jets. |
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