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Event of Interest
66 Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica

Roman Emperor
Nero

 530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

 530 St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends

 530 Discorus begins his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
 1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in
Battle of Šiauliai.
 1499 Switzerland becomes an independent state
 1504 Settled engagement of Karel of Luxembourg & Claudia the Beaujeu
 1504 Treaty of Blois: Philip of Burgundy and Maximilian I and Louis XII
 1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England
 1586 Battle at Zutphen: Dutch army, assisted by the English, against the Spanish

Event of Interest
1598 Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the
result of a duel
 Playwright and Poet
Ben Jonson

 1656 All female jury hears case of Judith Catchpole, accused of killing her child
(acquit her) in Patuxent County, Maryland
 1665 Moliere's "L'amour Medecin" premieres in Paris

Salem Witch Trials

1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall
during Salem witch trials
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 Dramatic lithograph of the Salem witch trials produced in 1892

 1699 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter

 1711 French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro

 1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig

Event of Interest
1735 Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" (actually
First Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street
 1st British Prime Minister
Robert Walpole

 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh

 1753 Pangeran Gusti installed as Sultan of Banten
 1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University

Royal Coronation
1761 Coronation of King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen
Charlotte

King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover

George III

 1772 1st Partition of Poland is ratified by Austria, Prussia and Russia

Historic Publication
 1773 Benjamin Franklin publishes a hoax letter "An Edict by the King of
Prussia" in the Public Advertiser, criticising Britain's colonial policies in
the American colonies

United States Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin

 1784 Russian trappers establish a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska

 1789 US Congress passes act requiring the first Postmaster General to report to the
President through the Secretary of the Treasury

Event of Interest
1792 French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping
the French king of his powers
 Politician and Revolutionary

Georges Danton Enlightenment Philosopher

Marquis de Condorcet

Event of Interest
1817 John Quincy Adams becomes US Secretary of State

6th US President
John Quincy Adams
 Scientific Discovery
1832 During his HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin discovers a large
number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina

Naturalist
Charles Darwin

 1851 City of Des Moines, Iowa incorporated as Fort Des Moines

 1861 Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians

Event of Interest
1862 US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states
on Jan 1

16th US President
Abraham Lincoln

 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap
 1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Victory in Battle
1866 War of the Triple Alliance: Decisive battle of Curupayty results in a
Paraguayan victory and heavy losses for Argentinian and Brazilian forces

President of Paraguay
Francisco Solano López

 1868 Race riots in New Orleans, Louisiana

Music Premiere
1869 Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold" premieres in Munich

Composer
Richard Wagner
 Event of Interest
1877 Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of
German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he speaks against the
teaching of the theory of evolution in schools

Anthropologist/Pathologist
Rudolf Virchow

 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule
e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right"

Event of Interest
1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the
longest reigning monarch in British history
 Queen of the United Kingdom

Queen Victoria King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover

George III

 1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone

 1905 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson wins his 3rd
consecutive Open title, and his record 4th overall, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up
Alex Smith
 1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
 1906 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
 1906 In New Zealand Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week
 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
 1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
 1910 The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today,
making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain

Event of Interest
 1911 Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511

MLB Pitcher
Cy Young

Event of Interest
1912 Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9/7/12)

Baseball Legend
Eddie Collins

 1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson, New Mexico

 1913 George Cohan's "Seven Keys to Baldpate" premieres in NYC
 1913 The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women
(including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
 1914 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
 1914 Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the
armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to
aiding British in the war against Germany
 1915 Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series
 1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) holds its 1st class
 1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
 1919 -Jan 20] Steel strike in the US
 1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players
conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
 1921 Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St NYC
 1921 The League of Nations accepts membership of independent Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania
 1922 US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who
marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an
American automatically become a citizen
 1925 Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers
 1926 Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged

Boxing Title Fight

1927 Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey for the 2nd time in 10 for
heavyweight boxing title; dubbed the "Long count" fight

Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Jack Dempsey

 1927 Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples

 1931 Coalition Government forms in New Zealand to combat the Depression (their
lack of success led to the election of the First Labour Government in 1935)
 1932 Hungarian government of Károlyi falls
 1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths
of 266 miners and rescuers
 1935 Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115
 1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody, Wyoming
 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
 1937 Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of
Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
 1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
 1942 Meulenberg robs of church bells
 1943 British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz
 1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks
 1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229
 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
 1944 US troops land on Ulithi

Event of Interest
1944 President Jose P. Laurel declared the Philippines under martial law in
1944 through Proclamation No. 29

3rd President of the Philippines

José P. Laurel

 1946 Canadian woman Evelyn Dick charged with butchering her husband in
Hamilton, Ontario
 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant defeating St. Louis Cardinals 94-60
 1949 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast

Event of Interest
1950 Omar Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general in the United States
Army
 US WWII General
Omar Bradley

 1953 Islamic uprising in Atjeh, Indonesia

 1954 Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st game
 1955 (ITV) Commercial TV begins in UK; meanwhile on BBC radio Grace Archer is
killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denies this was a spoiler
 1955 -28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean
 1957 Western "Maverick" premieres on ABC television starring James Garner
 1957 Duke Snider's 39th & 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field
 1958 KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
 1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)
 1959 Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
 1960 Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of
English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
 1961 Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year

Event of Interest
1962 Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
 Singer-Songwriter
Bob Dylan

 1963 Czechoslovakian premier Viliam Široký deposed by Josef Lenart

 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
 1964 "Man from U.N.C.L.E." premieres on NBC-TV: open channel D
 1965 India and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending the Indo-Pakistani War

Event of Interest
1966 Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance" premieres in NYC

Playwright
Edward Albee

 1966 KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting

 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
 1966 Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant
 1966 Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon
 1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
 1968 Iraq adopts constitution

 1968 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast

 1968 Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions
 1968 Zond 5 completes flight
 1969 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
 1969 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

Baseball Record
1969 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs

MLB Legend
Willie Mays

Event of Interest
1970 US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for
college campuses
 37th US President
Richard Nixon

 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

 1971 OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation
of the US dollar

Event of Interest
1973 Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as US Secretary of State

US Secretary of State and Political Scientist

Henry Kissinger

 1973 "A Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway

 1973 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 19-13; first time
'Ireland' included in team name
 1973 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers
 1973 Henry Kissinge sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
 1975 World Football League folds
 Assassination Attempt
1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara
Jane Moore fails in San Francisco

38th US President
Gerald Ford

Event of Interest
1976 TV dama "Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett, Kate
Jackson and Jaclyn Smith debuts
 Actress

Farrah Fawcett Actress

Kate Jackson

 1977 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0

 1977 Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" premieres in NYC
 1977 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht

Summit of Interest
1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp
David summit
 Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin

 1979 Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean

 1979 Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH
 1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway

Contract of Interest
1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono sign a recording contract with Geffen
Records
 Musician and Beatle

John Lennon Artist & Musician

Yoko Ono

 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to US Supreme Court

 1982 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
 1982 San Francisco's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month

Television Premiere
1982 Sitcom "Family Ties starring Michael J. Fox premieres on NBC
 Actor
Michael J. Fox

Event of Interest
1983 Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall, London))

Singer
Phil Everly

 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-B

 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
 1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"

Music Concert
1985 First Farm Aid concert held, organised by Willie Nelson, Neil
Young and John Mellencamp
 Country Singer

Willie Nelson Singer-songwriter

Neil Young

 1985 37th Emmy Awards: "Cagney & Lacey", "The Cosby Show" and Tyne Daly win
 1985 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson

The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess

"Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on
orders.”
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The Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland harbour

 1985 Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois

 1985 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games,
each pitched by a different man
 1985 The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.

 1986 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm

 1986 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
 1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
 1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
 1987 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
 1987 Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
 1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
 1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
 1988 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
 1988 South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic
Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov wins individual all-round gold medal at the
Seoul Olympics; follows his teams all-round victory; wins 4 gold for the Games
 1988 American swimmer Janet Evans sets a world record 4:03.85 to win the 400m
freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; 3rd gold medal of the Games (400m
I/M, 800m)
 1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi wins the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold
medal in Olympic record 48.63 at the Seoul Games; beats countryman Chris
Jacobs & Stéphan Caron of France
 1989 Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
 1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent

Television Debut
1989 "Baywatch" starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson debuts
on NBC
 Actor
David Hasselhoff

 1990 Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys

Baseball Record
1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other
than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits
 MLB Star

Andre Dawson MLB Legend

Willie Mays

 1991 ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge

 1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
 1991 Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500

Event of Interest
1991 Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL
victory
 NFL Head Coach
Don Shula

 1991 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
 1992 Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
 1993 Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma resigns due to the "slow pace of
reform"

Event of Interest
1993 Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game

MLB Pitching Legend

Nolan Ryan

 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands

Event of Interest
 1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses President Boris Yeltsin

Russian President
Boris Yeltsin

 1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi,

Georgia
 1994 Rasmussen government in Denmark resigns

Television Debut
1994 "Friends" TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman
debuts on NBC, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa
Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer
 Actor

Matthew Perry Actress

Lisa Kudrow Actor

David Schwimmer

 1995 E-3B AWACS crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes
to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
 1996 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, St. Pierre Hotel & CC: US retains Cup; beats
Europe 17-11; in expanded format US wins 10 of 12 singles matches in final day
blowout
 1997 Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges
 1997 Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed
 Music Release
1997 Elton John releases "Candle in the Wind 1997", a tribute to Diana,
Princess of Wales in the US

Singer

Elton John Princess of Wales

Diana Spencer

Music Awards
1999 33rd Country Music Association Award: Shania Twain, Martina
McBride and Tim McGraw win
 Singer
Shania Twain

Television Debut
1999 "The West Wing" created by Alan Sorkin and starring Martin Sheen,
Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff, debuts on NBC

Actor
Martin Sheen

Emmy Awards
2002 54th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Friends, Michael Chiklis and
Allison Janney win
 Actor

David Schwimmer Actress

Courteney Cox Actress

Lisa Kudrow

 2002 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Interlachen CC: US regains Cup 15½-12½; Rosie
Jones gains winning point in her 3 & 2 victory over Karine Icher
 2003 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic
Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

Television Debut
 2004 "Lost" created by J.J. Abrams and starring Matthew Fox and
Evangeline Lilly debuts on ABC in the US

Director, Producer and Writer

J. J. Abrams

Baseball Record
2004 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was intentionally walked 4 times in
a 9-inning game (MLB record) for the second time (1 May 2004)

MLB Legend
Barry Bonds

 2004 Teen noir series "Veronica Mars" created by Rob Thomas and starring Kristen
Bell premieres on UPN in the US
 2006 A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
 2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy
 2006 Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in
Beirut.
 Television Premiere
2009 Crime drama "NCIS LA" starring Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J and
Daniela Ruah premieres on CBS

Actor

Chris O'Donnell Actor and Rapper

LL Cool J

 2011 CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of
light

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The Story of the First Country to Grant Women the Vote

In the late 19th century the women's suffrage movement was widespread in Europe, America,
Britain and its colonies. But who was first to grant women the vote?
September 19, 1893

A Sheep's Coat at Sunrise, A Man's Coat at Sunset

Is it possible to produce a wearable man’s coat from wool shorn from a sheep the same day?
They did it in 1811 and again – in record time – 180 years later.
September 21, 1991

Airship Bomb Crew Meet their Match in Policeman

 They dropped their bombs and planned to escape, but the German airship crew hadn’t reckoned
on the tenacity of a lone British policeman on his bike.
September 24, 1916

Turin Shroud: Holy Relic or Fake?

For 600 years controversy has raged over the Turin Shroud, said to be Christ’s burial cloth. But
thousands gazed in awe when, on this day, it went on display.
September 25, 1933

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