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

0999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragón
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1559 England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1595 Cornelis de Houtman’s ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint; US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1800 First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 1st Symphony in C
1819 First successful agricultural journal (“The American Farmer”) begins
1827 Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1845 H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
1860 First Italian Parliament met at Turin
1863 Bread revolt in Richmond VA
1864 Skirmish at Crump’s Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
1864 Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine AR
1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA
1865 General A P Hill is killed by a Federal Picket
1865 Lee’s line is broken at Petersberg
1865 Battle of Fort Blakely AL & Selma AL
1865 Battle of Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland’s Station)
1866 President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President
1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1876 Philadelphia A’s & Boston Red Caps play 1st National League game, in Philadelphia
1877 First Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1878 First issue of Rotterdam’s Newspaper
1883 Battle at Bamako French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1884 London prison for debtors closed
1900 First edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1902 First motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA)
1902 Soccer team MVV ’02 forms in Maastricht
1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1906 South Africa completes a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1917 President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st woman member of US House of Representatives
1921 Professor Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity
1926 Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta
1930 First New York-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga TN
1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1939 6th Golf Masters Championship Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
1941 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco
1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 8th Symphony, premieres in New York
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 First US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1947 Carlo Terron’s “Il diamente del profeta”, premieres in Rome
1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1955 Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
1955 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1955 US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1956 Soap operas “As the World Turns” & “Edge of Night” premiere on TV
1956 Peter Ustinov’s “Romanoff & Juliet” premieres in Manchester England
1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls TX (record)
1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
1965 Hochhuths play “Stellvertreter” banned in Italy
1966 Soviet Union’s Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world
1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India’s Assam state
1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
1971 Sci-fi soap opera “Dark Shadows” concludes an almost 5 year run
1972 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt
1972 44th Academy Awards – “French Connection”, Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1972 Tennessee Williams’ “Small Craft Warnings” premieres in NYC
1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother’s throat in disposal
1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election
1974 Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 46th Academy Awards – “The Sting”, Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win
1974 Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs West Indies Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inning)
1976 A’s trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell
1976 Cambodia’s Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
1977 Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”, album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1977 Montréal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
1978 TV show “Dallas” premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1978 Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs Australia Georgetown
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets President Sadat
1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1981 Belgium’s 4th government of Martens resigns
1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
1982 In exhibition game A’s pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15″ toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH
1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
1984 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1986 George Corley Wallace (Governor-Democrat-AL) announces retirement plans
1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1987 “Mikado” opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing’s 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1988 Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, West Indies vs Pakistan, Georgetown
1989 Yankees beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor’s trophy series in 2 games
1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1989 8th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats “Macho Man” Savage
1990 52nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Nevada-Las Vegas beats Duke 103-73
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1992 Country singer Wynonna Judd’s 1st appearance as a single act
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1992 “Hamlet” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 Edith Cresson, France’s 1st female premier, resigns
1993 First test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1994 First exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
1995 14th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship University of Connecticut Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64
1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus
1995 New York Police Department & New York Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to delay start of season until April 26
1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995 Wrestlemania XI in Connecticut-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore
1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game
1997 “Doll’s House”, opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russian Alexei Yagudin wins
2000 19th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship at Corel State Spectrum
2001 63rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship at Metrodome Minneapolis

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Here’s what happened on this day, March 12, in history.

0417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 University of Vienna founded
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 Luís Vaz de Camoes publishes “Os Lusíados” in Portugal
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 England routes troops to Amiens
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 Galileo’s body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 US Post Office established
1799 Austria declares war on France
1848 2nd republic established in France
1849 First gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1850 First US $20 gold piece issued
1857 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Simon Boccanegra” premieres in Venice
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists
1865 Affair near Lone Jack MO
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer’s tax
1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of ’88 in northeast US (400 die)
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 Start of South Africa’s 1st Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth
1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1896 First movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 Vincent d’Indy’s opera “Fervaal” premieres in Brussel
1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 Ground is broken for Boston’s 1st American League ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of American League
1904 First main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers sweep Winnipeg Maple Leafs in 2 games
1910 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid
1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrive in St Petersburg
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 George Bernard Shaw’s “Augustus Does His Bit” premieres in New York NY
1925 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0 :6.1)
1933 FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”
1934 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 Paul Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler” premieres in Berlin
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
1945 Italy’s Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 The British Empire celebrates its 1st British Empire Day
1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 “Chocolate Soldier” opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 -5ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical “On combating atheistic propaganda”
1951 Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 First performance of Arnold Schönberg’s “Moses und Aaron”
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 German Democratic Republic accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 British Empire Day is renamed “Commonwealth Day”
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1963 Bob Dylan cancels “Ed Sullivan Show” television appearance
1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Streisand win
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman’s “But for Whom Charlie” premieres in New York NY
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 Bobby Hull’s 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love’s 1st album released “Love”
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [San Francisco]
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria’s Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win
1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison’s home
1969 Beatle Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President
1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egypt’s Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Marry Me a Little” premieres in New York NY
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world’s largest sundial, Richmond VA
1982 First-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on “Nightline”
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4 :1 :9)
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 “Les Miserables” opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
1987 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
1987 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
1987 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
1989 15th People’s Choice Awards
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight’s 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch’s Golf Championship
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South America indoor record 800 meter (2 :0.35)
1995 World Ice Dance Championship in Birmingham UK won by Oksana Gritshuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
1995 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny (Czechoslovakia)
1995 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Chen Lu (China)
1995 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 “Sound of Music” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: See how many of these events you can remember hearing about for this day, February 27, in history.

0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
1594 Henri IV crowned king of France
1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curaçao
1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1813 First federal vaccination legislation enacted
1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
1816 Dutch regain Suriname
1827 First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans LA
1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1861 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland
1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp “Camp Sumter”
1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO
1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord’s Cricket Grounds
1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw
1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party
1900 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
1919 1st public performance of Holst’s “The Planets”
1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)
1921 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1921 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman’s right to vote
1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
1922 G B Shaw’s “Back to Methusaleh I/II” premieres in New York NY
1924 Belgium’s Theunis government falls
1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 vs England
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1929 Russia & US sign trade agreement
1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists)
1933 Jean Genet’s “Intermezzo” premieres in Paris
1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1:04.6)
1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes
1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
1942 First transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
1946 4th “Road” film, “Road to Utopia” premieres (New York NY)
1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 22nd amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office
1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1956 Elvis Presley’s releases “Heartbreak Hotel”
1956 Female suffrage in Egypt
1957 Mao’s speech “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People”
1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an “X” “Xavier Cugat Show” on NBC (until X-Files)
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers
1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem’s palace bombed, 1st US killed
1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1964 “What Makes Sammy Run?” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
1965 “High Spirits” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain
1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR
1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
1966 Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria
1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1967 Dominica gains independence from England
1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single “Arnold Layne”
1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty
1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-year contract with White Sox
1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1974 “People” magazine begins sales
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don’t Bring Me Flowers)
1980 Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record “Ebony & Ivory”
1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA
1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78
1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament
1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters)
1984 Worker’s union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1985 Mauritania’s new constitutional charter published
1985 US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands)
1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
1987 NCAA cancels SMU’s entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1987 “Washington Week In Review”, 20th anniversary on PBS
1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)
1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1
1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34
1989 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16
1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
1991 Ben Elton’s “Silly Cow” premieres in London
1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated
1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
1997 “Last Night of Ballyhoo” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges

Jody Victor

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