| 0422 |
St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 0476 |
Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
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| 1024 |
Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
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| 1260 |
Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen
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| 1282 |
King Pedro III of Aragónorth annexes Sicily
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| 1414 |
Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless & Armagnacs
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| 1479 |
King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castilië
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| 1571 |
Catholic coup in Scotland
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| 1609 |
Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan [or Sep 11]
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| 1618 |
"Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
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| 1682 |
English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
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| 1695 |
French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III
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| 1778 |
City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with US rebels
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| 1781 |
Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
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| 1786 |
-5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg
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| 1805 |
1st edition of Batavian State-Current published
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| 1807 |
Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
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| 1813 |
1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
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| 1833 |
1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
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| 1842 |
Work on Köln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
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| 1854 |
English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka
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| 1862 |
Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
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| 1862 |
North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in SF
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| 1864 |
Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
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| 1866 |
1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
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| 1870 |
3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king
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| 1882 |
1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
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| 1885 |
1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
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| 1886 |
Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
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| 1888 |
George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
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| 1893 |
English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
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| 1894 |
In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
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| 1894 |
Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms
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| 1899 |
8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska
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| 1904 |
Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
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| 1906 |
NY Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
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| 1908 |
Caledonia & Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
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| 1911 |
Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
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| 1912 |
1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
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| 1914 |
British, French & Russian govt sign Pact of London, against Germany
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| 1914 |
General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
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| 1916 |
Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
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| 1918 |
Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
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| 1918 |
US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
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| 1919 |
39th US Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63)
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| 1919 |
British intervene in Petrograd
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| 1920 |
Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
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| 1922 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3)
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| 1923 |
A Charlot & N Cowards revue "London Calling," premieres in London
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| 1923 |
NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0
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| 1927 |
Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
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| 1930 |
Cambridge Theater opens in London
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| 1932 |
15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St Paul Minn
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| 1933 |
1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
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| 1933 |
Coup on Cuban president De Céspedes by Fulgencio Batista
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| 1934 |
Bradman scores 149* Aust v Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes
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| 1936 |
Franco troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina Spain
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| 1936 |
Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
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| 1937 |
Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
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| 1938 |
Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8)
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| 1939 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Neth's in a State of War
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| 1939 |
German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
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| 1939 |
German troops move into Danzig
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| 1939 |
Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality
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| 1939 |
Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
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| 1939 |
RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen
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| 1940 |
CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
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| 1940 |
Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch govt in exile
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| 1940 |
Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch
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| 1940 |
Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Neth in Hitler's hands
|
| 1941 |
NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)
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| 1941 |
US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
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| 1941 |
Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
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| 1942 |
Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
|
| 1943 |
British 8th army lands at T ranto South Italy
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| 1944 |
2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
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| 1944 |
64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63)
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| 1944 |
British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp
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| 1944 |
Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany
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| 1944 |
US 1st Army frees Namen
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| 1945 |
Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
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| 1945 |
US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
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| 1948 |
"Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 perfs
|
| 1948 |
Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne
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| 1949 |
Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
|
| 1950 |
1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
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| 1950 |
D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
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| 1950 |
Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
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| 1951 |
1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman
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| 1951 |
71st US Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
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| 1951 |
NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
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| 1951 |
Pres Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
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| 1953 |
WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins
|
| 1953 |
WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1953 |
Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship
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| 1954 |
1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
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| 1954 |
Peter B Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
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| 1957 |
Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel
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| 1957 |
Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
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| 1960 |
-12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean & US
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| 1961 |
Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
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| 1961 |
US authorizes Agency for International Development
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| 1962 |
Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI
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| 1962 |
French president De Gaulle visits German FR
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| 1964 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
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| 1964 |
Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge)
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| 1964 |
NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
|
| 1965 |
Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
|
| 1965 |
KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
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| 1965 |
Rock group Who's wan is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen
|
| 1966 |
Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
|
| 1966 |
Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6)
|
| 1967 |
6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
|
| 1967 |
Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
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| 1967 |
Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5
|
| 1968 |
Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra
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| 1970 |
-5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)
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| 1970 |
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
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| 1970 |
Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
|
| 1970 |
Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
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| 1971 |
Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
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| 1972 |
US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
|
| 1972 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test
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| 1973 |
William E Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA
|
| 1974 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
|
| 1976 |
Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
|
| 1977 |
"Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances
|
| 1977 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic
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| 1978 |
Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405
|
| 1978 |
NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season)
|
| 1978 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
|
| 1979 |
India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
|
| 1979 |
Iran army conquerors Baneh
|
| 1980 |
Yes performs its last concert (MSG)
|
| 1981 |
Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7
|
| 1981 |
Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
|
| 1981 |
Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3)
|
| 1981 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
|
| 1982 |
Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die
|
| 1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test
|
| 1983 |
"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs
|
| 1983 |
83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
|
| 1983 |
Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
|
| 1983 |
Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
|
| 1984 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years
|
| 1985 |
Igor Paklin of USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
|
| 1985 |
NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games
|
| 1986 |
189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
|
| 1986 |
Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
|
| 1988 |
Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
|
| 1988 |
Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
|
| 1989 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
|
| 1989 |
Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219
|
| 1991 |
"Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater NYC
|
| 1991 |
Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
|
| 1991 |
Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
|
| 1992 |
"Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
|
| 1993 |
Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium
|
| 1993 |
Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral
|
| 1993 |
Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM
|
| 1994 |
Bulgarian govt of Berov falls
|
| 1994 |
Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion
|
| 1994 |
Kansai International airport officially opens
|
| 1995 |
Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000
|
| 1995 |
Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
|
| 1996 |
13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett & Smashing Pumpkins wins
|
| 1997 |
14th MTV Awards
|
| 1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville KY on WTFX 100.5 FM
|
| 1999 |
Women's championship at US Tennis Open
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