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2011 U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives
2011 The U.S. Department of State issues a global travel alert to all U.S. citizens, warning of enhanced potential for anti-American violence
2010 A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square
2003 President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over
1999 125th Kentucky Derby
1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K.
1996 "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 308 performances
1996 Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1995 "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances
1995 Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs. WI at Sabina Park
1994 "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 165 performances
1994 "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 9 performances
1994 Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994 Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman
1994 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1993 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior
1992 Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1992 New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils)
1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1991 "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 983 performances
1991 A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yankees
1991 Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1991 Angola's civil war ends
1991 Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
1991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
1991 Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto
1991 Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
1991 Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1990 "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City
1989 Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public
1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
1988 "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 297 performances
1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1988 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1987 46 home runs hit in 13 baseball games
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in New York City
1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1983 "My One and Only" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances
1983 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament
1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1982 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens
1982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1981 Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1980 "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden New York City for 588 perf
1980 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 Sabres and Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
1980 Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1977 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1977 Empress Lilly dedicated
1976 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
1976 Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)
1975 Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1973 San Francisco Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1971 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2
1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1969 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 4-0
1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
1968 "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances
1968 Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
1967 Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed
1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia
1965 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
1965 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1963 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest
1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands
1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria
1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act
1961 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird
1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states
1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane
1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own home run
1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
1957 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million
1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1955 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1955 Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
1954 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1954 HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 Mr. Potato Head, introduced
1952 TWA introduces tourist class
1951 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany
1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st home run
1951 Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry
1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1948 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4
1948 North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1947 Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad
1947 Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated
1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
1945 Soviet army reach Rostock
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1943 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1943 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1943 Food rationing begins in U.S.
1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1941 "Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 German assault on Tobruk
1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1939 Batman comics hit street
1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1935 Boulder Dam completed
1935 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence
1934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City
1931 Norway claims Peter I Island
1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1930 Bradman scores 236 Australia vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1928 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1928 Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1927 Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
1926 British coal-miners go on strike
1926 Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1925 A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
1922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game
1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee home run and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915 German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight
1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1913 Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St. New York City
1912 Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1908 World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama
1907 Belgium government of De Trooz forms
1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies)
1906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0
1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1900 Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1892 U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
1891 Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1886 U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st NL game since 1876
1883 New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1875 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-U.S. activities
1873 1st U.S. postal card issued
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna
1873 International Exhibition opens in Vienna
1869 Folies Bergere opens in Paris
1867 Howard University chartered
1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
1864 Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died)
1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars and Bars"
1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy
1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1853 Argentina adopts it's constitution
1851 Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London
1850 John Geary becomes 1st San Francisco mayor
1846 Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1781 Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1777 RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1757 Austria and France divide Prussia
1756 France and Austria sign alliance
1751 1st American cricket match is played
1725 Spain and Austria sign trade treaty
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
1711 Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1707 England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain
1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1682 Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory
1625 Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1598 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
1551 Council of Trente resumes
1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1528 Panfilo the Narvaez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1394 Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple and it's surroundings from an old badger
1048 Bishop Bernold flees St. Pieterskerk for Utrecht, Netherlands
1006 Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus
2011 U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives
2011 The U.S. Department of State issues a global travel alert to all U.S. citizens, warning of enhanced potential for anti-American violence
2010 A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square
2003 President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over
1999 125th Kentucky Derby
1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K.
1996 "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 308 performances
1996 Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1995 "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances
1995 Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs. WI at Sabina Park
1994 "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 165 performances
1994 "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 9 performances
1994 Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994 Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman
1994 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1993 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior
1992 Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1992 New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils)
1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1991 "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 983 performances
1991 A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yankees
1991 Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1991 Angola's civil war ends
1991 Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
1991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
1991 Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto
1991 Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
1991 Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1990 "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City
1989 Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public
1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
1988 "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 297 performances
1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1988 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1987 46 home runs hit in 13 baseball games
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in New York City
1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1983 "My One and Only" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances
1983 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament
1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1982 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens
1982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1981 Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1980 "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden New York City for 588 perf
1980 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 Sabres and Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
1980 Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1977 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1977 Empress Lilly dedicated
1976 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
1976 Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)
1975 Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1973 San Francisco Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1971 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2
1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1969 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 4-0
1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
1968 "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances
1968 Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
1967 Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed
1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia
1965 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
1965 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1963 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest
1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands
1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria
1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act
1961 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird
1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states
1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane
1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own home run
1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
1957 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million
1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1955 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1955 Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
1954 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1954 HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 Mr. Potato Head, introduced
1952 TWA introduces tourist class
1951 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany
1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st home run
1951 Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry
1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1948 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4
1948 North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1947 Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad
1947 Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated
1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
1945 Soviet army reach Rostock
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1943 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1943 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1943 Food rationing begins in U.S.
1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1941 "Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 German assault on Tobruk
1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1939 Batman comics hit street
1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1935 Boulder Dam completed
1935 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence
1934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City
1931 Norway claims Peter I Island
1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1930 Bradman scores 236 Australia vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1928 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1928 Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1927 Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
1926 British coal-miners go on strike
1926 Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1925 A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
1922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game
1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee home run and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915 German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight
1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1913 Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St. New York City
1912 Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1908 World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama
1907 Belgium government of De Trooz forms
1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies)
1906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0
1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1900 Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1892 U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
1891 Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1886 U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st NL game since 1876
1883 New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1875 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-U.S. activities
1873 1st U.S. postal card issued
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna
1873 International Exhibition opens in Vienna
1869 Folies Bergere opens in Paris
1867 Howard University chartered
1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
1864 Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died)
1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars and Bars"
1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy
1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1853 Argentina adopts it's constitution
1851 Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London
1850 John Geary becomes 1st San Francisco mayor
1846 Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1781 Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1777 RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1757 Austria and France divide Prussia
1756 France and Austria sign alliance
1751 1st American cricket match is played
1725 Spain and Austria sign trade treaty
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
1711 Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1707 England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain
1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1682 Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory
1625 Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1598 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
1551 Council of Trente resumes
1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1528 Panfilo the Narvaez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1394 Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple and it's surroundings from an old badger
1048 Bishop Bernold flees St. Pieterskerk for Utrecht, Netherlands
1006 Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus
