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Jody Victor: Let’s see what we might remember happened on this day, January 23, in history.

0638 Start of Islamic calendar
1265 First English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1490 First printing of Ramban’s Sha’ar ha-Gemul
1492 “Pentateuch” (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England
1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
1571 Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
1631 France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Bärwald
1637 Dutch Governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians
1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1663 King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Rÿnstaten
1668 England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
1719 Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
1723 Georg Friedrich Händel’s opera “Ottone” premieres in London
1779 Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
1793 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized
1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized
1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
1856 Steamer Pacific lost
1861 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100,000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe
1865 Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent’s Reach)
1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1870 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
1879 National Archery Association formed, Crawfordsville IN
1889 Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes
1896 Edward Macdowell’s 2nd Suite in E, premieres
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” (BG)
1902 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
1909 First radio rescue at sea
1916 Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies
1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain
1926 Eugene O’Neill’s “Great God Brown” premieres in New York City NY
1928 “Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk” premieres in Berlin
1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20
1936 Catholic People’s Party (KVP) of Curaçao forms
1937 Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin’s great purge
1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
1941 WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to New York City
1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 66.34 cm (26.12″), Hoegees Camp CA (state precipitation record)
1943 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli
1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1944 Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0
1944 Arnold Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” premieres in New York City NY
1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs India, 21 fours 1 six
1948 Huston’s “Treasure of Sierra Madre” starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs India at Adelaide
1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane’s Famous 1st Facts published
1950 Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel
1950 NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense)
1950 AP picks “Miracle Braves” of 1914 as greatest sports upset
1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung
1951 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 NFL’s National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
1953 Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 16 years 357 days
1954 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1955 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1955 KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 “Body Beautiful” opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 60 performances
1958 Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazábal takes power
1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies
1960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph “Trieste” reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench
1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
1961 Venezuela adopts constitution
1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
1964 Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall” premieres in New York City NY
1965 “The King Family Show” (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1965 Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain
1965 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber
1967 Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
1968 Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1969 Cream releases their last album “Goodbye”
1970 Australia’s 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)
1971 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
1971 4th ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
1972 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13
1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
1972 Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1972 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 26-13
1973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 years
1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War
1973 23rd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
1974 First edition of women’s magazine “Story”
1975 “Barney Miller” premieres on ABC TV
1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame
1976 Washington Capitals end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5
1976 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs West Indies Adelaide
1977 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
1977 Miniseries “Roots” premieres on ABC
1978 8th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 14-13
1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 First Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente CA)
1981 Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games
1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
1981 Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi
1982 Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approximate date)
1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2
1983 “A-Team” with Mr T premieres on NBC
1983 Björn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
1983 In NBA, Portland scores all 17 points in overtime to beat Houston 113-96
1983 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000
1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1983 Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7 40.97)
1984 Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game
1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1985 Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1986 “Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood” opens at Ritz Theater New York City NY for 13 performances
1986 First induction of Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss)
1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-point game in a televised title match
1988 45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
1988 62nd Australian Women’s Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1989 Challenge to “who is a Jew” law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1990 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
1991 High-denomination banknotes withdrawn in USSR
1991 “Seinfeld” debuts on NBC-TV
1991 World’s largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1992 “Visit” opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 45 performances
1993 50th Golden Globes Scent of a Woman, wins
1993 Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon’s Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1993 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1994 Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Championship games
1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1996 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10×4, 9×6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
3268 Beginning of 2nd Julian Period

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Let’s see what happened on this day, January 16, in history.

0308 St Marcellus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1219 Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed
1325 Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade
1493 Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip
1531 English Reformation parliament’s 2nd sitting
1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Russia
1556 Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain
1581 English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
1756 England & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster
1759 British Museum opens in London
1765 Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
1777 Vermont declares independence from NY
1780 Battle at Cape St Vincent admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet
1795 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Netherlands
1819 Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes Governor of Dutch-Indies
1832 Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde
1863 Cruise of CSS Florida
1864 Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge TN
1865 General William Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
1865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started
1865 Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary
1865 Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Fort Fisher NC, 40 die
1868 Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1870 Virginia becomes 8th state re-admitted to US after Civil War
1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
1877 Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop
1879 January record 13″ of snow falls in New York City NY (broken Jan 7, 1996)
1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
1883 Québec Rugby Football Union forms
1887 Cliff House damaged when schooner “Parallel”‘s powder cargo explodes
1889 128ºF (53ºC), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record)
1897 John Dewey’s essay “My Pedagogic Creed” appears in School Journal
1905 Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months
1905 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup, this is most lopsided playoff game, Frank McGee scores 14 goals
1906 Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established
1909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
1911 Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
1914 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
1915 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panamá-Pacific International Expo gold coin
1919 Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th
1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land – one year after ratification; it is repealed in 1933
1920 First assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
1920 Georgia declares independence
1925 General M Froense replaces Trotsky as People’s Commissioner of Defense
1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
1931 Bradman scores 223 Australia vs West Indies, 297 minutes, 26 fours
1933 Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test
1936 First photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah FL
1936 Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
1936 Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
1939 Comic strip “Superman” debuts
1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a General in US army
1943 -60ºF (-51ºC), Island Park Dam ID (state record)
1943 First US air raid on Ambon
1943 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
1945 US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise
1947 Vincent Aurial elected President of France
1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon
1949 “Rape of Lucretia” closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY after 23 performances
1949 KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1949 WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington DC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1950 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
1951 World’s largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville TX, to 134th St, New York City NY)
1951 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
1952 New Dutch bible translation finished
1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
1953 27th Australian Womens Tennis Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (63 62)
1953 41st Australian Mens Tennis Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (60 63 64)
1953 Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties
1953 KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 “South Pacific” closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1928 performances
1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1955 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 26-19
1956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
1957 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round the world flights
1957 Cavern Club (home of Beatles’ 1st appearance) opens on Mathew Street in England
1958 William Gibson’s “Two for the Seesaw” premieres in New York City NY
1961 “Conquering Hero” opens at ANTA Theater New York City NY for 8 performances
1961 Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
1962 Suit accuses New York City NY Board of Education uses “racial quotas”
1962 Shooting begins on “Dr No”
1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
1963 Tennessee Williams’ “Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” premieres
1964 “Hello, Dolly!” starring Carol Channing, opens at St James Theater New York City NY for 2,844 performances
1964 AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving Kansas City A’s to Louisville
1965 “Oh What a Lovely War” closes at Broadhurst New York City NY after 125 performances
1965 “Outer Limits” last airs on ABC-TV
1965 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-14
1965 Searchers’ “Love Potion #9″ peaks at #3
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center
1967 First black government installed in Bahamas
1967 Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Alabama) black sheriff in 20th century
1968 21st NHL All-Star Game Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto
1968 Jay Allen’s “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” premieres in New York City NY
1969 Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
1970 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92’3½” from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn’t have counted, but was allowed
1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
1970 Colonel Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball’s reserve clause
1971 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1 58.7)
1972 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ
1972 Super Bowl VI Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Roger Staubach, Dallas, Quarterback
1973 USSR’s Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon
1973 NBC presents 440th & final showing of “Bonanza”
1974 L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville OR
1974 “Jaws” by Peter Benchley is published
1974 New York Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
1976 “Donny & Marie” [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album “Frampton Comes Alive”
1977 Washington Capital’s H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
1978 5th American Music Award Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & Conway Twitty
1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in the Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Björn Borg
1981 John Lennon’s “Woman” is released in UK
1981 Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband
1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth
1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis
1984 11th American Music Award Michael Jackson
1985 “Playboy” announces end of stapling centerfolds
1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
1988 Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
1988 NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix
1988 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Live wins
1989 USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1990 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins – US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (air war begins January 17 at 2:38AM (local time) or January 16 at 6:38PM EST due to an 8 hour time difference, with an Apache helicopter attack)
1991 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Live wins
1992 “2 Shakespearean Actors” opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 29 performances
1994 Scott skates world record 1000m (1 12.54)
1995 UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in New York City NY)
1997 Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Australia vs Pakistan, MCG

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Let’s see what happened on this day, January 9, in history.

1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
1464 First meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 First sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI)
1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 France declares war on Spain
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)
1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
1811 FirstWomen’s Golf Tournament held
1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1847 First San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established
1848 People’s uprising in Palermo Sicily
1854 Astor Library opens in New York City NY
1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA
1861 First hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC
1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)
1866 Fisk University establishes
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1880 6′ (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1894 “Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze” released in movie theaters
1894 Georges Feydeau’s “Un à la Patte” premieres in Paris
1901 New South Wales (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
1903 Baseball’s National & American Leagues make peace
1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota established
1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88º23′ south
1912 US marines invade Honduras
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco
1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1925 German Postal Minister A Höfle resigns due to corruption
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich’s Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died
1928 Eugene O’Neill’s “Marco Millions” premieres in New York City NY
1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1929 BG DeSylva & Lew Brown’s musical “Follow Thru” premieres in New York City NY
1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1936 Noël Coward’s “Astonished Heart” premieres in London
1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
1937 Maxwell Anderson’s “High Tor” premieres in New York City NY
1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940 J Thurber & E Nugent’s “Male Animal” premieres in New York City NY
1941 Maiden flight by Canada’s Avro Lancaster military plane
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines
1946 “Would-Be Gentleman” opens at Booth Theater New York City NY for 77 performances
1947 “Street Scene” opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 148 performances
1947 Roger Sessions’ 2nd Symphony, premieres in San Francisco
1948 Walter Piston’s 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an “X” rating, premieres
1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in basketball game
1953 Korean ferryboat “Chang Tyong-Ho” sank off Pusan killing 249
1954 Bert Olmstead, Montréal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
1956 Abigail Van Buren’s “Dear Abby” column 1st appears in newspapers
1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper “Truth”
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati OH) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 “Rawhide” with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1959 Pat O’Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minneapolis/St Paul territory
1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem “Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo”
1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone
1965 “Beatles’ ’65″ album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond
1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name “Saints”
1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon
1968 First ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
1969 Concorde jetliner’s 1st test flight (Bristol England)
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
1971 “Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen” closes at Majestic New York City NY after 19 performances
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving’s biography is a fake
1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine’s Golf Invitational
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1976 Ringo releases “Oh My My” in UK
1976 CW McCall CB song “Convoy” hit #1 on the country music charts
1977 Super Bowl XI Oakland Raiders defeat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14, in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, Wide Receiver
1977 “Porgy & Bess” closes at Uris Theater New York City NY after 122 performances
1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin’s “Let’s Get Small” for being in “bad taste”
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
1982 Steve D’Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 seconds in Massachusetts high school game
1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands
1984 “TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes” premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
1984 John Lennon’s “Nobody Told Me” is released
1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1987 Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1988 August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson” premieres in Boston
1988 English Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
1988 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1989 “Pat Sajak Show” premieres on CBS
1989 Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 Boston Celtics worst-ever (6 points in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) & lose 87-78
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas’ ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1990 Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 meter free style (53.33)
1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points)
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
1998 Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Here’s what happened on this day, January 2, in history.

0069 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
0533 John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale
1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles “Adam und Eva”
1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
1776 First revolutionary flag displayed
1776 Austria ends interrogation torture
1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1790 Mozart’s opera “Cosi fan tutti” premieres, Vienna
1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery
1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)
1814 Lord Byron completes “The Corsair”
1818 Lord Byron completes “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (4th canto)
1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1832 First Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
1839 First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1842 FirstUS wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania
1843 Wagner’s opera “Der Fliegende Holländer” premieres, Dresden
1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
1861 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone’s River) ends
1871 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford IL
1879 First Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
1881 Camille Saint-Saëns’ 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
1890 Record 19’2″ alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
1893 First US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7″ single-sided records (Montréal)
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera “Louise” premieres in Paris
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1909 First official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13 50)
1910 First junior high schools in US open in Berkeley CA
1911 Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
1913 National Woman’s Party forms
1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Québec Bank
1918 Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pittsburgh for Grimes & Mamaux
1918 NHL Montréal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919 Lithuania gains independence
1920 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1921 First religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood FL, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
1933 Bruins beat Rangers in New York 13-3
1933 Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test
1933 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
1933 US troops leave Nicaragua
1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
1934 Bradman scores 253 New South Wales vs Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes
1935 Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
1936 First electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis MO
1936 Bradman scores 357 for South Africa vs Victoria, 424 minutes, 40 fours
1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1939 Bradman scores 107 South Africa vs Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
1942 German troops in Bardia surrender
1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg
1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Philip Barry’s “Second Threshold” premieres in New York City NY
1952 “Pal Joey” opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 542 performances
1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
1954 Herman Wouks “Caine Mutiny” premieres in New York City NY
1955 First “Bob Cummings Show” premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
1958 Dmitri Shostakovich’s 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President
1960 First redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1960 Roger Sessions’ 4th Symphony premieres
1961 First AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers 24-16
1961 Hawaii’s, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale
1962 Nighttime version of “Password” with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1964 Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
1964 Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana
1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters
1965 New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict the Queen with a slightly more mature look
1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
1966 First Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
1968 “Zizi” closes at Broadway Theater New York City NY after 49 performances
1968 Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
1968 KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco CA, (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 “Fig Leaves Are Falling” opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 4 performances
1969 “Soviet Sport” calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
1969 Lorraine Hansberry’s “To be Young, Gifted & Black” premieres in New York City NY
1970 Dutch premiere of musical “Hair” in Amsterdam
1970 US population is 205,052,174; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%)
1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
1972 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1972 Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
1972 “Rothschilds” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 505 performances
1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1977 Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album “Wildmania”
1978 Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1979 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
1979 Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
1979 Sid Vicious’ trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins
1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v West Indies)
1980 68th Australian Men Tennis Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 meter butterfly (2 05.65)
1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies vs Pakistan
1982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
1982 San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13 52 of OT
1982 “Camelot” closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 48 performances
1982 70th Australian Mens Tennis Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)
1983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati OH completes record 20 consecutive passes
1983 “Annie” closes at Alvin Theater New York City NY after 2,377 performances
1983 “Sophisticated Ladies” closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City NY after 767 performances
1983 Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1983 Garry Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing “Doonesbury”
1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1984 Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century
1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia’s 1st black mayor
1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
1985 Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
1985 Undefeated Brigham Young University becomes college football champion
1985 Australia beat West Indies by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wickets
1985 Egyptian President Mubarak re-appoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1987 Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis
1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Pennsylvania
1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1989 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, vs India at Sydney
1993 “Gypsy Passion” closes at Plymouth Theater New York City NY after 55 performances
1994 “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” closes at Beaumont New York City NY after 40 performances
1994 “Shakespeare after My Father” closes at Helen Hayes New York City NY after 266 performances
1994 Battles between army & rebellious Indians in South Mexico, kill 57
1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
1995 Carquest Bowl 5 South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Here’s what happened on this day, December 26, in history.

0268 St Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0418 St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0795 St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1198 French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1481 Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
1492 First Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1568 Uprising of Morisco’s against suppression in Granada
1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth MA
1659 Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1748 France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
1776 George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton
1799 George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in the hearts of his countrymen”
1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1805 France & Austria sign Peace of Pressburg
1809 English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1813 Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrender to allied armies
1825 Erie Canal opens
1830 Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena” premieres in Milan
1831 Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “Norma” premieres in Milan
1848 First gold seekers arrive in Panamá en route to San Francisco
1848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Fort Sumter
1862 First US navy hospital ship enters service
1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato MN, due to their uprising
1862 Battle of Dumfries VA
1865 James H Mason (Massachusetts) patents 1st US coffee percolator
1872 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18″)
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1878 First US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
1879 John Brahms’ “Tragic Ouverture” premieres
1890 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1892 The opera “Cristoforo Colombo” is produced (La Scala)
1899 Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
1908 Jackson Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 at Sydney, Australia for heavyweight boxing title
1916 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WWI
1917 First NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
1918 First day of 1st-class cricket in Australia after WWI (Victoria vs New South Wales)
1919 Yankees & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1924 Judy Garland, age 2½, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut
1925 First East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pittsburgh Pirates (68) 3-1
1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
1925 New York’s Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pittsburgh’s Ray Waters makes 70
1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) New South Wales vs Victoria
1931 George/Ira Gershwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play “Of Thee I Sing” premieres on Broadway
1931 SS-Sturmbannführer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten
1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1933 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
1933 Bradman scores 187 New South Wales vs Victoria, 294 minutes, 13 fours
1934 Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s 1st professional baseball team forms
1935 Stalin views Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth”
1936 Israel Philharmonic Orchestra forms
1938 Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs Queensland before Christ gets him out
1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs South Africa
1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
1940 First-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
1940 JA Fields/J Chodorov’s “My Sister Eileen” premieres in New York NY
1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would “stop at nothing”
1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1943 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1944 Battle of Bastogne-US General Patton’s 4th Pantzers repulse the Germans
1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 Tennessee Williams’ play “Glass Menagerie” premieres in Chicago
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1946 “Beggar’s Holiday” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances
1946 “Toplitzky of Notre Dame” opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 performances
1946 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1947 British transfer Heard & McDonald Islands (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8″ of snow in 16 hours; That same day, Los Angeles set a record high of 84º F
1947 “Cradle Will Ruck” opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
1948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1950 Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6 million for 6 years)
1954 Cleveland Browns beat Detroit Lions 56-10 in NFL championship game
1954 “The Shadow” airs for last time on radio
1955 Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 38-14 in NFL championship game
1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1957 Roger Sessions’ 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1960 Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
1960 Musical “Do re mi” with Phil Silvers premieres at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
1963 “Double Dublin” opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 Beatles release “I Want To Hold Your Hand”/”I Saw Her Standing There”
1963 US furnishes cereal to USSR
1964 Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
1965 “Funny Girl” with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1965 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
1965 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
1966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
1967 The BBC broadcasts “The Magical Mystery Tour”
1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against the New York Rangers in New York’s Madison Square Garden
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 Jay Allens “Forty Carats” premieres in New York NY
1968 Led Zeppelin’s concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
1973 “The Exorcist”, starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1975 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
1975 A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Australia-West Indies MCG Test Cricket
1976 “Music Is” closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 India’s former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1981 One of the great day’s Test Cricket at the MCG Australia vs West Indies
1982 TIME’s Man of the Year is a computer
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs Pakistan MCG
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este
1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs India at the MCG
1986 TV soap “Search for Tomorrow” ends 35 year run
1986 Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
1986 Hijackers take over an Iraqi Airways Boeing 737 with 91 people on board during a flight from Baghdad to Amman – it lands in Arar, Saudi Arabia where it explodes, killing 62 people.
1987 “Les Miserables” opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1988 “Legs Diamond” starring Peter Allen prenieres at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
1988 Anti African student rebellion in China People’s Republic
1989 ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF’s New York-New Jersey Knights
1990 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
1991 Jack Ruby’s gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
1991 New York Islander Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
1992 New York Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1993 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
1993 Floyd, Nicklaus & Rodriguez win Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn
1994 Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O’Neill (27)
1994 French commando’s terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
1994 President’s ½ brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-month pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
1995 Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL vs Australia, MCG)
1995 Paul Adams becomes South Africa’s youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds

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