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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: Let’s see what happened today, March 26 in history.

1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1526 King François I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 England takes control of Bombay India
1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 First British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die
1821 Franz Grillparzer’s “Das Goldene Vliess” premieres in Vienna
1824 First performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis”
1839 First Henley Royal Regatta
1845 Joseph Francis, New York NY, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1856 New South Wales’ 1st first-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won
1859 First sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon’s Ranch)
1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 Paris Commune founded
1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 Hastings College of Law founded
1878 Sabi Game Reserve, world’s 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 Louis Riel’s forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
1886 1st cremation in England
1889 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England
1889 Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) vs South Africa at Newlands
1889 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England
1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain’s Arbor Day
1900 First edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam)
1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 August Strindberg’s “Bjalb-jarle-ti” premieres in Stockholm
1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US
1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 Dayton OH almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3
1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montréal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1; Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” in London
1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies
1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain OH
1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies
1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 “RvJ” Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
1936 First parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio
1936 200″ telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech
1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb’s advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye
1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson’s 3rd Symphony
1940 Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York NY
1942 First “Eichmann transport” to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 First 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA
1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel
1943 First woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1944 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1945 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 Venray soccer team forms
1949 11th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women’s Golf Open
1951 USAF flag approved
1952 14th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 F Dürrenmatt’s “Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi” premieres in Munich
1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis]
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 “Ballad of Davy Crockett” becomes the #1 record in US
1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 30th Academy Awards-”Bridge on the River Kwai”, Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win
1958 US Army launches America’s third successful satellite, “Explorer III”
1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days
1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem
1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature
1964 “Funny Girl” with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1967 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies’ Golf Open
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use
1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 “Minnie’s Boys” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to “taking immoral liberties” with a 14 year old girl
1971 “Benny Hill Show” tops TV ratings
1971 “Cannon” with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 “Only Fools Are Sad” closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women’s World Golf Classic
1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 35th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA’s 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1973 Soap opera “The Young and the Restless” premieres
1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London’s Stock exchange
1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President
1975 “Tommy” premieres in London
1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses
1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 Wings release “Wings at the Speed of Sound” album
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record “Less Than Zero”
1979 41st NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State’s 33-game win streak
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release “Ebony & Ivory” in the UK
1982 Soap opera “Capitol” premieres
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 August Wilson’s “Fences” premieres in New York NY
1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15 :2.10)
1989 First free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 62nd Academy Awards: “Driving Miss Daisy”, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, New York NY
1991 Marc Camoletti’s “Don’t Dress for Dinner” premieres in London
1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 Victoria beat New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14 :2.60)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7 :3.26)
1994 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1995 “Defending the Caveman” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
1995 “Moliere Comedies” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria)
1997 “Annie” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan

Jody Victor

Jody Victor: Here’s what happened on this day, March 19, in history.

0721 -BC- First recorded lunar eclipse; Location, Babylon
1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a “heretic”
1563 Peace of Amboise; Rights for Huguenots
1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1644 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1702 James II’s daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1748 English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1775 Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
1799 Joseph Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung” premieres in Vienna
1803 Johann von Schillers “Die Braut von Messina” premieres in Weimar
1822 Boston MA incorporated as a city
1831 First US bank robbery (City Bank, New York/$245,000)
1859 Charles François Gounod’s opera “Faust” premieres in Paris France
1864 Charles François Gounod’s opera “Mireille” is produced (Paris France)
1865 Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 Antônio Carlos Gomes’s opera “Il Guarany” premieres in Milan Italy
1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match
1883 Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1885 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Saskatchewan
1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs SA (Cape Town)
1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1906 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s “Quattro Rusteghi” premieres in Munich
1907 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer’s Ranch NV (state record)
1914 Stanley Cup: Toronto Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees (Adamson Act)
1918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations’ covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1925 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop
1927 Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin
1928 “Amos & Andy” debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940 French government of Daladier, falls
1941 Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestraestra record “Green Eyes” & “Maria Elena”
1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1943 Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
1944 Tippett’s oratorium “Child of Our Time” premieres in London
1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1945 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities
1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Réunion become overseas departments
1946 Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as President of USSR
1947 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
1948 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York NY
1949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN
1950 5th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1950 City College of New York defeats Bradley to win the NIT
1951 Herman Wouk’s “Caine Mutiny” is published
1953 25th Academy Awards: “Greatest Show on Earth”, Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)
1953 Tennessee Williams’ “Camino Real” premieres in New York NY
1954 First color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, New York NY
1954 First rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo NM
1954 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1954 US Men’s Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings vs England
1955 17th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats La Salle 77-63
1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory: Minnesota Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1957 Indians reject Boston’s offer of $1 million for Herb Score
1958 Britain’s 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud’s in London
1958 Sobers completes a century in each innings vs Pakistan
1959 “First Impressions” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
1960 “Redhead” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1960 22nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55
1962 “All American” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
1964 Sean Connery’s 1st day of shooting on “Goldfinger”
1965 Chivu Stoica becomes President of the Council of Romanian People’s Republic & Nicolae Ceausescu appointed 1st Secretary of Romanian communist party
1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1965 Rembrandt’s “Titus” sells for then record ƒ7,770,000
1966 “Pousse Cafe” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 28th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65
1966 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
1968 Howard University students seize administration building
1969 British invade Anguilla
1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
1970 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt & East German Premier Willi Stoph meet
1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
1972 “To Live Another Summer” closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1972 India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1972 Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 points
1973 Dean tells Nixon, “There is a cancer growing on the Presidency”
1974 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1975 “Dr Jazz” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in High School sports
1976 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
1977 “Side by Side by Sondheim” closes at Music Box NYC after 390 performances
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.33)
1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1978 Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1979 House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1981 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
1981 Emmy 8th Daytime Awards: Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1984 “Kate & Allie” premieres
1984 John J O’Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
1984 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1984 STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 “Spin Magazine” begins publishing
1985 New South Wales wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15 :5.25)
1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 World Ice Dance Championship in Paris France won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1989 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1990 First world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 Kansas City Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1992 “Master Builder” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1993 World Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (Russia)
1993 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (Canada)
1993 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (Ukraine)
1993 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1994 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands
1994 Lara scores 167 for West Indies vs England at Georgetown
1994 Largest omelet (1,383² ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 New Jersey Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 “Translations” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 “Uncle Vanya” closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 NBA New York Knicks beat New York Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 :4.08)
1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 “Ah Wilderness!” opens at Vivian Beaumont theater

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: Let’s see what happened on this day, March 5, in history.

0254 St Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
1528 Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
1616 Copernicus’ “de Revolutionibus” placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 First American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1743 First US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
1750 First American Shakespearean production-”altered” Richard III, New York NY
1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi)
1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1807 First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 4th Symphony in B
1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1836 Mexico attacks Alamo
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber “Texas” model
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President
1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL
1864 First track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
1868 Arrigo Boito’s opera “Mefistofele” premieres in Milan
1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President
1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
1896 Italian Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa
1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns
1897 American Negro Academy forms
1899 First performance of Edward MacDowell’s 2nd Concerto in D
1900 American Hall of Fame is founded
1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
1907 First radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1908 First ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica
1910 Ramon Inclan’s “La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon” premieres
1910 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
1912 Spanish steamer “Principe de Asturias” sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die
1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1919 Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge’s musical premieres in New York NY
1922 “Nosferatu” premieres in Berlin
1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1928 Karl Zuckmayer’s “Der Hauptmann von Köpenick” premieres in Berlin
1931 Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 Germany’s Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1934 Mother-in-law’s day 1st celebrated (Amarillo TX)
1935 First premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
1936 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1942 Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy
1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
1944 First performance of Walter Piston’s 2nd Symphony
1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville
1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1945 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1946 Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech (Fulton MO)
1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
1948 US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30
1952 Terence Rattigan’s “Deep Blue Sea” premieres in London
1953 Josef Stalin’s death announced
1954 “Girl in Pink Tights” opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
1955 Elvis Presley’s 1st TV appearance on “Louisiana Hayride” show
1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 “King Kong” 1st televised
1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 Eamon de Valera’s Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
1957 Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvin Pelvin)
1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring NE (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1960 World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)
1960 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul (Canada)
1960 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
1960 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (France)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Beatles record “From Me to You” & “Thank You Girl”
1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
1965 1st performance of Walter Piston’s 8th Symphony
1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die
1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19 meter indoor world record
1966 Player representatives elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players’ Association
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France
1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany
1969 Joe Orton’s “What the Butler Saw” premieres in London
1970 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY
1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect
1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
1974 “Candide” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1976 British £ falls below $2 for 1st time
1978 “Hello, Dolly!” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
1979 Voyager I’s closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1981 “Bring Back Birdie” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 performances
1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1981 World Ice Dance Championship in Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1981 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & Igor Lisovski (USSR)
1981 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Hartfoed won by Denise Biellmann (Switzerland)
1981 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Conservative)
1983 New South Wales beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
1984 Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene
1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
1986 “Today” tabloid launched (Britain’s 1st national color newspaper)
1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1989 Blaine McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 meter indoor (8 :3.82)
1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
1993 Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1995 21st People’s Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
1995 Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5 :0.26)
1996 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox & Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
1998 Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola

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