Events 1 - 200 of 205
- 607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstates the veneration of icons in churches
- 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
Event of Interest
1516 Consecration of Henry VII's Lady Chapel, part of Westminster Abbey, called "one of the most perfect buildings ever erected in England" [1]
- 1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
- 1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp, Netherlands
- 1582 Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou gains the title Duke of Brabant, the hereditary sovereign of the Dutch United Provinces
Royal Coronation
1594 Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden.
- 1600 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history
Happy Parliament
1624 English "Happy Parliament", the final Parliament of King James I opens at Westminster
- 1634 Battle of Smolensk: King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]
- 1674 Dutch Republic and England sign Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War; North American colony of New Netherland returned to British [OS date, 02-09 NS]
- 1700 Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark
Astronomy
1771 French astronomer Charles Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
Treaty of Tolentino
1797 The Peace of Tolentino : Pope Pius VI cedes Papal territories of Avignon, Venaissin, Ferrara, Bologna, and the Romagna to France
- 1803 US Congress accepts Ohio's bid for statehood, but neglects to ratify their constitution; oversight no corrected until1953 [1]
- 1807 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth attempts to force passage of Dardanelles
Aaron Burr Arrested
1807 US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted
South Shetland Islands
1819 British explorer William Smith discovers the uninhabited South Shetland Islands, near Antarctica, claims them in the name of King George III
- 1825 Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck" premieres in Vienna
- 1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania
- 1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin
- 1852 The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
- 1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
- 1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, D.C. (12 members)
- 1869 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
- 1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
- 1884 "Enigma Outbreak" of over 60 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill hundreds, if not over a thousand (hence the "enigma") people
- 1897 Inaugural meeting of the Women's Institute at Stoney Creek, Ontario, set at the suggestion of Adelaide Hoodless, the organization will rapidly spread around the world [1]
- 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane, Natal
Event of Interest
1906 Will Keith Kellogg (after falling out with brother over development credit and wanting to add sugar to cereal) joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's
Typhoid Mary Freed
1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
- 1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance
- 1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin
- 1915 British fleet opens fire on Dardanelles coast
- 1915 WWI: Germany sinks American Merchant ship Evelyn with mine in the North Sea
Pan-African Congress
1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois is held at the Grand Hotel in Paris, France
- 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations
- 1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
- 1923 Philip Barry's play "You & I" premieres in NYC
- 1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
- 1928 Canada retains the Olympic ice hockey title when they rout Switzerland, 13-0 in the final round in St. Moritz; Canadian left-wing Dave Trottier top scores with 15 points
- 1928 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic men’s figure skating gold medal at St. Moritz; one of only 2 athletes to win gold at both Winter & Summer Games (won figure skating Antwerp 1920)
- 1928 II Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
- 1928 World champion French team Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet win the Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games; the couple marry in 1929 and take 2nd straight gold in 1932
- 1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used in Schenectady, NY
Event of Interest
1933 Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
- 1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months
- 1935 Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in NYC
Election of Interest
1936 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain for the second time
- 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
- 1941 Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco, Amsterdam (by young Jews)
- 1942 An estimated 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin
- 1942 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
- 1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
Event of Interest
1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
- 1942 Japanese troops land on Timor
- 1942 NY Yankees announce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
- 1943 German tanks under Major General Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
- 1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin
- 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland
- 1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma
- 1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines
- 1946 New York Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican Baseball League for a fee of $10,000
- 1947 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
Event of Interest
1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
- 1949 Mass arrests of communists in India
- 1950 Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State University)
- 1952 American defending champion Dick Button becomes 1st figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition; performs triple loop in Olympic free skate in Oslo; wins gold medal ahead of Austria’s Helmut Seibt
- 1952 First Indochina War: French offensive at Hanoi
- 1953 Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
- 1953 William Inge's "Picnic" premieres in NYC
- 1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
- 1959 Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
- 1959 Gabon adopts its constitution
- 1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), at Holloman AFB, New Mexico
- 1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
- 1960 Protest strike in Poznan, Poland
- 1960 Swedish cross country skier Sixten Jernberg follows his 50k gold medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956) with victory in 30k event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics
- 1960 Three time Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul win the pairs figure skating Olympic gold medal at Squaw Valley, California
- 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
- 1961 Dutchman Henk van der Grift becomes world champ all-round skater
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The Feminine Mystique
1963 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published
Event of Interest
1963 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
- 1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatles wigs to the US
- 1965 NFL adds 6th official - the line judge
- 1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
- 1968 1st US statewide teachers' strike begins in Florida [note: a two-day walk out in Utah in 1963 is considered first by some]
- 1968 Children's educational TV program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)
Sports History
1970 AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
- 1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
The Yes Album
1971 Progressive rock band Yes release their break-through third studio album "The Yes Album"
Music History
1972 American singer Harry Nilsson's single "Without You" begins a 4 week run at the top of the charts. [The song was originally written and performed by the English band Badfinger in 1970, and would reach the top ten again with Mariah Carey's 1994 cover.]
- 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston
- 1972 The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan
- 1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
- 1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
- 1977 19th Grammy Awards: "This Masquerade"and Starland Vocal Band win
- 1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
- 1977 Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket with Gilmour
- 1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
#1 in the Charts
1977 Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bruce Springsteen's song "Blinded By The Light" goes to #1
- 1977 Right wing Rod Gilbert scores a goal and adds an assist in a 5-2 defeat at the NY Islanders to become first player in NY Rangers history (11th in NHL) to score 1,000 career points
- 1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1978 20th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison takes lead with 11 laps remaining; lowest starting position (33rd) for winner until 2007
- 1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
Olympic Gold
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1,000m in Olympic record 1:15.18; third of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid
- 1980 Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
- 1980 Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark wins the giant slalom from Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; also takes slalom gold
- 1980 Ulrich Wehling of East Germany wins his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the Nordic combined event at Lake Placid; winner Sapporo (1972), Innsbruck (1976)
- 1980 Washington beats Montreal, 3-1 to end the Canadiens' 34 game unbeaten streak against Capitals; Caps 0-32-2 against Montreal since entering NHL in 1974
Music History
1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" of his song "My Sweet Lord" from Ronnie Mack's song "He's So Fine"
- 1982 Hanneke Jagersma installed as the 1st Communist mayor in the Netherlands
- 1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
- 1982 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
- 1984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
- 1984 Soviet Union wins its 6th Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 2-0 win over silver medallists Czechoslovakia at the Sarajevo Winter Games
- 1984 Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 50k event at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; his second gold of the Games (4 x 10k relay) and 3rd of his career (15k Lake Placid 1980)
- 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1984 XIV Winter Olympic Games close in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashes approaching Bilbao, Spain
- 1985 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
- 1985 British soap opera "Eastenders" premieres on the BBC
- 1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
- 1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
- 1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
- 1986 King Hussein of Jordan severs ties with PLO
- 1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
- 1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
Sports History
1987 Less than a month after re-signing, Oakland A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
- 1987 Minnesota sheriff's office arrest FBI's most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
- 1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)
1989 31st Daytona 500: Darrell Waltrip wins when Hendrick Racing team decides to use fuel strategy, being the only car not to pit in the closing laps
- 1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
- 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
- 1990 Soyuz TM-9 lands
Night Ride Home
1991 Geffen Records releases "Night Ride Home", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 14th studio album
- 1992 American porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
- 1992 In a blockbuster NHL trade, Pittsburgh Penguins send Mark Recchi, Brian Benning & LA's 1st round 1992 pick (Jason Bowen) to the Philadelphia Flyers for Kjell Samuelsson, Rick Tocchet & Ken Wregget
- 1992 Professional Spring Football League announces end of operations, 10 days before the scheduled season opener; 10 teams had players in camp and practicing, and rosters cut down to 60 players
- 1993 "Happy Nation" debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base is released
- 1995 37th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins for 2nd straight year; 3rd driver to achieve back-to-back titles (Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough)
- 1995 British composer Michael Tippett's last major work "Rose Lake," premieres at Barbican Hall in London, with the London Symphony led by Colin Davis
A Woman of Independent Means
1995 Dramatic mini-series "A Woman of Independent Means" starring Sally Field, premieres on NBC-TV, airing 6 hours over 3 nights
- 1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
- 1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize for One Train (1994) and On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 (1994)
- 1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) and European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
- 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
- 1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
- 1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
- 1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
- 2001 An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial
- 2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
- 2004 Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal of Austria, is awarded an honorary British knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."
- 2006 48th Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson driving from Hendrick Motorsports wins 203 lap race; goes on to win his first championship
- 2007 Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York
- 2007 Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala
- 2008 Serzh Sargsyan wins the Armenian Presidential Election
- 2008 Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video format, ending the format war between it and Sony's Blu-Ray Disc
- 2012 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
- 2013 12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a
- 2014 After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006), American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi
- 2014 Canadian team Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyes win their second consecutive Olympic 2-woman bobsleigh gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
- 2014 Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková retains her Olympic 5,000m title (Vancouver 2010) in Sochi; also Vancouver 3,000m gold
- 2014 Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on protesters
- 2014 Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen (sprint gold) and Emil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold), each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay
- 2018 At least 17 killed when a garbage mound collapses in Maputo, Mozambique
- 2018 Canadian team of Justin Kripps & Alexander Kopacz dead-heat in 3:16.86 with Germans Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis for the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
- 2018 Nigeria says 110 girls missing, presumed kidnapped by Boko Haram after attack on school in Dapchi, Yobe state
- 2018 Syrian government forces bombard Gouta in deadliest day in 3 years, killing over 100 civilians
Election of Interest
2019 Bernie Sanders announces he is running for President for a second time
- 2019 Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10 year deal worth $300 million with the San Diego Padres
- 2019 New York city bans hair discrimination, to limit racial stereotyping
- 2019 Vatican confirms secret church guidelines for children of priests
- 2020 German gunman opens fire in a bar in Hanau, Germany, killing nine in a racially motivated attack
- 2021 In a softening of 4-year WADA ban on Russia from all international sport, Russia to compete under acronym "ROC" after name of the Russian Olympic Committee
- 2022 Alexander Bolshunov, representing Russian Olympic Committee, wins men's 50k freestyle cross country gold in Beijing to become only 2nd man to achieve 30k/50k double at a Winter Olympics
- 2023 65th Daytona 500: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins for JTG Daugherty Racing in double overtime and under caution over a record 212 laps; former NBA player Brad Daugherty first Black car owner to win the race
2023 76th BAFTA awards: Best Film "All Quiet on the Western Front", Best Director Edward Berger, acting awards Cate Blanchett, Austin Butler [1]
- 2023 Brazilian state of Sao Paulo hit by flooding and landslides after heavy rain, with at least 44 killed and 800 homeless [1]
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