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Jody Victor: Some of these events you might remember from this day, February 20, in history.

1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert François I’s army
1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies
1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth
1673 First recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty
1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1768 First American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1811 Austria declares bankruptcy
1816 Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome
1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15′ S, 1520 km from South Pole
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
1865 M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (New York NY)
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School (University of California/San Francisco)
1877 First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO
1899 Illinois Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco
1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
1915 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse’s musical “Oh, Boy!” premieres in New York NY
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 WOR-AM in New York City NY begins radio transmissions
1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman’s “To the Ladies” premieres in New York NY
1922 Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1923 Christy Mathewson becomes president of Boston Braves
1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US
1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
1930 Capelle soccer team forms
1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1933 Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts Princess Juliana’s speech
1933 Sidney Howard’s “Alien Corn” premieres in New York NY
1934 Virgil Thomson’s opera “4 Saints in 3 Acts” opens in New York NY
1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
1937 First automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA
1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1940 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record “Limehouse Blues”
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1941 First transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lieutenant E H O’Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer’s corn patch (México)
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA
1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1948 Czechoslovakia’s non-communist minister resigns
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS)
1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York NY for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1950 WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1952 First black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1952 “African Queen” opens at Capitol Theater in New York NY
1953 August A Busch buys the Cardinals for $3.75 million
1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match
1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1958 Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1963 Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
1965 Beatles record “That Means a Lot”
1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1965 Turkish government of Uergüplü forms
1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn’t resolved for 30 minutes
1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL’s quickest to score 50 goals in a season
1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda
1972 First time Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks (111-109)
1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champion skater
1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 million from Houston Aeros, WHA
1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105 on Test Cricket debut, vs Pakistan Lahore
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 “My Fair Lady” closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1978 4th People’s Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 “Comin’ Uptown” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
1980 Actress Susan Dey of “LA Law” weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia’s main engines; 20 seconds
1981 James Sanford equals 50 meter indoor world record (5.61 seconds)
1982 New York Islanders win record 15th straight NHL game
1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champion cross-country cycling
1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada’s check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1 million salary by arbitration
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1987 David Hartman quits ABC’s “Good Morning America”, after 11 years
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating
1988 Kelly Hrudy’s 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1988 André Hoffmann skates world record 1500 meter (1:52.06)
1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50 meter (6.58 seconds)
1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000 meter (2:16.2)
1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 meters)
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 Total eclipse of the Moon
1991 “Taking Steps” opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 78 performances
1991 33rd Grammy Awards Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
1992 “Private Lives” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1992 Ross Perot says he’ll run for President on Larry King Show
1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1993 New York Islanders retire Billy Smith’s number 31
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1997 “Stanley” opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC
1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9 million 2 year contract
1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal
1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: You might remember some of these events from long ago and not so long ago on this day, February 6, in history.

0337 St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England
1508 Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1577 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
1626 Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle
1651 Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
1693 Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA
1716 England & Netherlands renew alliance
1778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
1778 England declares war on France
1788 Massachusetts becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1815 NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
1820 86 free black colonists sail from New York NY to Sierra Leone, Africa
1820 US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
1832 First appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
1832 US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)
1840 Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand
1851 Robert Schumann’s 3rd Symphony “Rhenisch” premieres in Düsseldorf
1854 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
1861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
1861 First meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
1862 Victory for General Ulysses S Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson; Grant earns the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” Grant
1862 Naval Engagement at Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
1864 Skirmish at Barnett’s Ford Virginia
1865 2nd day of battle at Dabney’s Mills (Hatcher’s Run)
1867 Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
1869 Harper’s Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 First great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 Young Women’s Hebrew Association organized in New York NY
1904 Russian-Japanese war began
1911 First old-age home opened in Prescott AZ
1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
1918 Britain grants women (30 & over) the vote
1919 First day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1920 Saarland administrated by League of Nations
1921 “The Kid”, starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
1922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
1922 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
1926 St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees
1929 Rudy Vallee recorded “Deep Night”
1932 First Olympics dog sled race, Lake Placid New York (demonstration sport)
1932 Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1933 -90ºF (-68ºC), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 meters (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila
1933 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan not March
1933 President von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament
1934 Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
1935 Board game “Monopoly” goes on sale for the 1st time
1935 First election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1936 4th Winter Olympics games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 Pravda criticizes Shostakovich’s ballet “Clear Brook”
1937 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
1939 Spanish government flees to France
1941 Auke Adema win 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
1941 Battle of Beda Fomm Italian 10th army destroyed
1941 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1943 First Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio’s “Your Hit Parade”
1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
1946 “Lute Song” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
1947 Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
1948 First radio-controlled airplane flown
1948 Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia
1948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 “Broker Special” train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security
1952 England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
1953 Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie
1953 US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted
1956 Chicago’s Daily Defender, begins publishing
1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
1956 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he’s black)
1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
1958 Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
1959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1959 US 1st successful Titan intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
1961 “Jail, No Bail” Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
1961 KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1964 “Rugantino” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1964 WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1965 “Kelly” opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
1965 Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hits #1
1967 Cultural Revolution in Albania
1967 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 in Houston for heavyweight boxing title
1968 10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France
1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
1968 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
1968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Jerry Herman’s “Dear World” premieres at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
1970 Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs Australia at Durban
1970 NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland
1971 First time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)
1973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edmonton
1973 “Shelter” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances
1973 6th ABA All-Star Game West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
1974 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1974 Dutch speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis
1974 US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 George Harrison releases “This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying)”
1977 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
1977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 meter over 16 buses, near Paris
1977 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champion
1978 Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) takes his office
1978 Snowstorm hits New England (54″ (137cm))
1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
1981 “Brady Brides” debuts on NBC TV
1981 Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon
1981 Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4)
1982 “Centerfold” by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
1983 13th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 20-19
1983 Nancy Lopez win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
1986 New Jersey Devil Peter McNab becomes the 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
1987 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government
1990 Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
1990 Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles’ new $102 million stadium
1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen’s album “A Night At The Opera” in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
1991 Mousey Davis becomes the 1st coach of the New York-New Jersey Knights
1992 “Late Night’s 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall” on NBC
1993 44th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montréal
1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 “Government Inspector” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
1994 Dawn Coe-Jones win LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
1994 José Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
1994 Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77 meters
1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
1994 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 17-3
1995 Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
1995 Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years
1998 Twin trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3 million & 4 minor leaguers

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Let’s see what we might remember from way  back when, on this day, January 30, from history.

1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1349 Günther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci
1487 Bell chimes invented
1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400,
1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Münster, ending Tachtigjarige War
1667 Treaty of Andrussovo Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1774 Captain Cook reaches 71º 10′ S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson’s 6500 volumes
1818 Keats composes his sonnet, “When I Have Fears”
1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
1854 First election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1858 Charles Hallé founds Hallé Orchestra in Manchester
1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, “Leap to Freedom”
1862 US Navy’s 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
1879 French President MacMahon resigns
1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria
1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48″ (120cm) telescope
1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76)
1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda’s King Mwanga’s hide out
1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham
1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria)
1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
1911 First rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania
1917 First jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
1920 Québec’s Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game
1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death
1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over New South Wales
1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Victoria win over New South Wales
1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1927 Left wins national election in Thüringen
1928 First radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) New South Wales vs Victoria
1928 Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude” premieres in New York City NY
1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Banya” premieres in Leningrad
1931 Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
1933 “The Lone Ranger” premieres on ABC radio
1933 German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen
1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
1934 First theatrical presentation sponsored by the US government, New York City NY
1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days
1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of “Cantos”
1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose “The Bees” it doesn’t catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
1936 Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415
1937 Second of Stalin’s purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews
1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
1940 Benjamin Britten’s “Lesson Illuminations” premieres in London
1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1940 Hassett’s second 122 of the game for Victoria can’t stop a New South Wales win
1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943 6 British Mosquito’s daylight bomb Berlin
1943 German assault on French in Tunisia
1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General – field marshal
1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1945 German ship “Wilhelm Gustloff” torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
1946 First issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1950 “Robert Montgomery Presents” dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1952 Lehmer verifies 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
1952 Paul Creston’s 4th Symphony, premieres
1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
1954 Italy’s Fanfani government resigns
1956 Martin Luther King Jr’s home bombed
1956 Elvis Presley records his version of “Blue Suede Shoes”
1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 US Congress accepts “Eisenhower-doctrine”
1958 First 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX
1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1958 Dore Schary’s “Sunrise at Campobello” premieres in New York City NY
1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval
1959 Paul Hindemith’s symphony “Pittsburgh” premieres
1960 CIA oks Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC’58 disbands
1960 Riot curtails third day’s play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England
1960 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas’ high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1965 “The Name Game” by Shirley Ellis hits #3
1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill
1966 -19ºF (-28ºC), Corinth MS (state record)
1966 -27ºF (-33ºC), New Market AL (state record)
1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 05.2)
1966 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 11th string quartet
1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, “Honey”
1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs
1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1971 “Ari” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY after 19 performances
1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs England
1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth
1972 Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1973 26th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers
1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1976 First-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
1977 8th (final) part of “Roots” is most-watched entertainment show ever
1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (New South Wales vs Queesland)
1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1980 Edward Albee’s “Lady from Dubuque” premieres in New York City NY
1981 8th American Music Award Kenny Rogers wins
1982 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
1983 Super Bowl XVII Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP John Riggins, Washington, Running Back
1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl)
1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
1989 16th American Music Award Randy Travis & George Michael win
1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (2nd day)
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
1993 67th Australian Open Women’s Tennis Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
1994 68th Australian Open Women’s Tennis Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (60 62)
1994 82nd Australian Open Men’s Tennis Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee’s world record of 431 Test wickets
1994 Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta; Super Bowl MVP Emmitt Smith, Dallas, Running Back
1995 22nd American Music Award Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
1995 Belgium’s TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of “Tonight Show”
1997 Minuteman III launches
1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
1998 Paul Simon’s “The Capeman” premieres
2000 NFL Pro Bowl

Jody Victor

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

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