On This Date
Historical Events on March 12
- 538 Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius
- 1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
- 1088 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, succeeding Victor III
- 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 Poet Luís Vaz de Camões publishes the epic poem "Os Lusíadas" in Portugal
- 1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
- 1597 England sends 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
- 1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
- 1664 New Jersey becomes an English colony
- 1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
- 1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
- 1790 French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree allowing for the sale of church land by French municipalities
- 1794 Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
- 1799 Austria declares war on France
- 1832 The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
- 1862 24th Grand National: Harry Lamplugh wins aboard The Huntsman; first French trained winner; only human fatality recorded in the event, jockey Joe Wynne
- 1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
- 1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
- 1868 Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in Sydney, Australia, Duke is shot but survives
- 1868 US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
- 1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa.
- 1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain
- 1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
- 1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in north east US (400 die)
- 1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
- 1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
- 1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
- 1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
- 1900 President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
- 1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
- 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League
- 1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
- 1905 The continuing strikes and disorders that unsettle Italy force out Premier Giovanni Giolitti, though he will return in March, 1906
- 1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
- 1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Winnipeg Maple Leafs, 9-3 for 2-0 sweep of challenge series
- 1908 The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
- 1909 Alarmed over increasing German naval strength, Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill
- 1910 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON), 7-3
- 1912 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
- 1917 In the wake of the February Revolution, Communist Party members Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Matvei Muranov arrive in Petrograd (St Petersburg) and seize control of the Pravda newspaper
- 1917 [OS Feb 27] Russian Duma sets up the Provisional Committee; Soviets form Executive Committee
- 1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
- 1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
- 1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people
- 1930 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets world record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
- 1934 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn, Estonia
- 1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"
- 1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
- 1942 British troops vacate the Andaman Islands 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 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
- 1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
- 1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
- 1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
- 1948 -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
- 1949 Ireland retains Five Nations Rugby Championship & Triple Crown with a 5-0 win over Wales at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea
- 1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
- 1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
- 1951 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
- 1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano'
- 1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
- 1958 3rd Eurovision Song Contest: Andre Claveau for France wins singing "Dors, mon amour" in Hilversum
- 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
- 1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
- 1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
- 1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
- 1964 S. N. Behrman's play "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in NYC
- 1964 Union leader Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
- 1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1965 "Wooly Bully" single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
- 1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
- 1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
- 1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
- 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
- 1968 Indian Ocean island nation Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1969 120 cannabis joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
- 1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
- 1971 The Allman Brothers Band record their live album "Live at Fillmore East" on this date and the following day
- 1971 Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican Army
- 1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
- 1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV
- 1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
- 1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia
- 1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
- 1983 4th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Boston College, 85-77
- 1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
- 1984 British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action
- 1987 Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
- 1987 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
- 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk (Soviet Union)
- 1989 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
- 1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
- 1989 30th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Florida, 72-60
- 1989 36th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
- 1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
- 1990 LA Raiders announce their return to Oakland
- 1991 OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d)
- 1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations
- 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 The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
- 1995 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
- 1995 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
- 1995 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
- 1995 Congress party loses India national election
- 1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
- 1995 Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
- 1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
- 1995 World Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)
- 1995 World Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
- 1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
- 1998 "The Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
- 1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- 2000 41st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
- 2000 47th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #20 Maryland, 81-68
- 2002 US crime series "The Shield" starring Michael Chiklis premieres on FX
- 2003 Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.
- 2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 2004 Music work "I La Galigo" by Richard Wilson debuts in Singapore, based on Bugis creation myth from South Sulawesi (world's most voluminous literary work)
- 2004 Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea, is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
- 2005 26th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats West Virginia, 68-59
- 2005 Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
- 2006 47th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
- 483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 624 Battle of Badr: Muhammad's Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army
- 1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
- 1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
- 1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
- 1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
- 1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar [Jawdar] defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
- 1634 First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart
- 1639 Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
- 1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
- 1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
- 1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
- 1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Galotti" premieres in Brunswick
Scientific Discovery
1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus
- 1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
- 1797 Luigi Cherubini's opéra-comique "Médée" premieres at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris, France
- 1846 Friedrich Hebbel's play "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg
- 1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
- 1861 23rd Grand National: Joseph Kendall wins aboard Jealousy at 5/1
Historic Event
1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers (US Civil War)
- 1878 Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match
Assassination
1881 Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by members of far-left terror group 'People's Will' who throw a bomb at him in the city of St. Petersburg
- 1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months
- 1884 US adopts Standard Time
- 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages across the east coast of the USA and Canada
- 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
- 1897 San Diego State University is founded.
- 1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State (Boer War)
- 1900 In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
- 1901 Amidst increasing anti-gambling sentiment, wagering on horse racing is banned in San Francisco, CA; Ingleside Race Track closes March 15
- 1903 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles
- 1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated
- 1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "The Pink Lady" premieres at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC; runs for 336 performances
- 1911 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 7-4
- 1911 The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax
- 1912 Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria, but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey
- 1912 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
- 1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
- 1915 Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
- 1918 1st NHL championship: Toronto Arenas beat Montreal Canadiens, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
- 1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
- 1920 After the German government is forced to cut its army to 10,000 men, military groups plot an unsuccessful coup - a revolt ended by a general strike
- 1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
- 1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
- 1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
- 1923 American inventor Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
- 1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
- 1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
- 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC
Cricket History
1929 20 year old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 123 in 5th Test vs England at MCG; his second Test century
- 1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
- 1936 Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase at 21/20 favourite; only horse to complete Gold Cup-Grand National double
- 1938 In a process known as Anschluss, Austria is annexed into Nazi Germany
- 1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
- 1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische
- 1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
- 1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
- 1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
Historic Event
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
- 1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
Historic Event
1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight
- 1945 Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
- 1946 Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms Belgian government - then shortest Belgian government (ends 31 March)
- 1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
- 1947 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", De Havilland, March win
- 1948 Ireland beats Wales, 6-3 at Ravenhill Stadium, Belfast to clinch the Five Nations Rugby Championship and first Grand Slam
- 1949 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
- 1949 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
- 1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
- 1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
Sports History
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
Historic Event
1954 Viet Minh General Võ Nguyên Giáp opens the assault on French forces at Dien Bien Phu, northwest Vietnam
- 1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
Golf Tournament
1955 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 6th Titleholders title by 2 strokes from Mary Lena Faulk
Film Release
1956 "The Searchers" American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayneand Natalie Wood is released
- 1956 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
Battle of Interest
1957 Bloody battles in Cuba after the student led "Revolutionary Directorate" attacks the presidential palace in Havana in an unsuccessful attempt to depose dictator Fulgencio Batista
- 1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
- 1960 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius
- 1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
- 1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
- 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of US Communist Party
Music History
1965 British guitarist Eric Clapton quits the Yardbirds due to the band moving away from traditional blues; Jeff Beck becomes his replacement
- 1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
- 1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ..." premieres in NYC
- 1968 Beatles release single "Lady Madonna" in the UK
- 1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah, kills 6,000 sheep
- 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
- 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
- 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
- 1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
- 1971 18th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: South Carolina beats North Carolina, 52-51
- 1971 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court wins her 10th Australian singles title; beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong 2-6, 7-6, 7-5
Film & TV History
1975 Bernard Slade's stage comedy "Same Time, Next Year", starring Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin, opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; later transfers to the Ambassador Theatre, and runs for a total of 1,453 performances
- 1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
- 1978 Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
- 1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
- 1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
Murder of Interest
1980 American John Wayne Gacy receives the death sentence in Illinois for the murder of 12 people
World Record
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden sets world record 1000m (1:13.60)
- 1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
- 1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
- 1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
- 1982 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
- 1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
- 1983 24th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Alabama, 86-71
- 1983 30th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Virginia, 81-78
- 1983 Peter Stone's musical "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
- 1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
- 1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
- 1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
- 1986 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
- 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
- 1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
Historic Event
1987 John Gotti, boss of the Gambino crime family, is acquitted of racketeering
- 1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
- 1988 29th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 62-57
- 1988 35th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina, 65-61
- 1988 9th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Villanova, 85-68
- 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
- 1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
- 1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
- 1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
- 1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
- 1991 Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1
- 1992 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- 1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
Election of Interest
1993 Australian Federal elections: Australian Labor Party headed by Paul Keating re-elected for a fifth term
- 1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east USA
- 1994 15th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Georgetown, 74-64
- 1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
- 1994 35th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 73-60
- 1994 41st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats Virginia, 73-66
- 1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
- 1994 President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed
- 1995 Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
- 1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
- 1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
- 1996 At Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK.
- 1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
- 1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader
- 1997 Phoenix lights seen at night over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. Now a hotly debated controversy.
- 2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy
- 2004 25th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Pittsburgh, 61-58
- 2005 46th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Kentucky, 70-53
- 2005 52nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 69-64
- 2005 Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
Hall of Fame
2006 21st Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Black Sabbath; Blondie; Miles Davis; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Sex Pistols; Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
- 2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
- 2009 30th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Louisville beats #10 Villanova, 69-55
- 2010 31st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 West Virginia beats #22 Georgetown, 60-58
- 2011 52nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 70-54
- 2011 58th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 75-58
- 2012 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2012 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
- 2012 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
- 2012 Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia
- 2013 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
- 2013 Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections
- 2013 An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil
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Victory in Battle
1369 Battle of Montiel: Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II
- 1592 "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
- 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
- 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm
Historic Invention
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
- 1812 US Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
- 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
- 1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
- 1840 Jose Zorilla's romantic drama "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid
- 1845 -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen, Netherlands
Music Premiere
1847 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence
Historic Event
1858 Ellen G. White receives a vision while attending a funeral service in Lovett's Grove, near Bowling Green, Ohio
- 1862 Battle of New Bern North Carolina: General Burnside conquers New Bern
- 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
- 1869 Defeat of Maori Ngāti Ruanui leader Riwha Titokowaru in Taranaki, New Zealand by British forces
- 1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
- 1874 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Oxford University beats Royal Engineers, 2-0
- 1875 Bedřich Smetana's symphonic poem "Vysehrad" premieres
- 1899 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University, 6-2 to clinch trophy for CAHL
Scientific Discovery
1900 Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity and genetics
- 1900 US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
- 1901 Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with Great Britain in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria
- 1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
- 1903 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles, 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep
- 1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
- 1904 In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the US Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; first case in T. Roosevelt's 'trust-busting' campaign
- 1907 By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA
- 1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Professionals, 6-4
- 1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
- 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
- 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt
- 1913 South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid
- 1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
- 1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: Germans capture Cumières-le-Mort-Homme and Chattancourt in France
- 1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco
- 1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
- 1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
- 1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
- 1923 Allies accepts Vilnius taking East-Galicia in Poland
- 1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)
- 1926 Train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93
- 1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
- 1933 US Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation program
- 1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco
- 1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
- 1936 Wales beats Ireland, 3-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1-0 record
Radio History
1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio during their "feud"
- 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
- 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
Film Premiere
1940 "The Road to Singapore" directed by Victor Schertzinger starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosbyand Dorothy Lamour, first of seven such films premieres
- 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
- 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
- 1941 Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
Historic Event
1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated"
- 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
Film Premiere
1946 American film noir classic "Gilda", starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, and directed by Charles Vidor, premieres in New York City
- 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
- 1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
- 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
- 1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
- 1954 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her second Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Patty Berg
Baseball Record
1954 Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox
- 1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
Contract of Interest
1956 50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League
- 1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
- 1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
- 1958 RIAA certifies 1st gold record - Perry Como's single "Catch A Falling Star"
- 1958 South Africa's government prohibits the African National Congress
- 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California
NBA Record
1960 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA playoff record of 53 points in Warriors' 132-112 win over Syracuse Nationals at Philadelphia Civic Center
NHL Record
1962 Red Wings' forward Gordie Howe becomes second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals in Detroit's 3-2 loss to NY Rangers
- 1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
- 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
Film Release
1966 British film "Born Free" based on the book "Born Free" by Joy Adamson released starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers
- 1967 1967 NFL Draft: Michigan State defensive end Bubba Smith first pick by Baltimore Colts
- 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
- 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes first female jockey to win at Aqueduct Racetrack, NYC aboard 2-year-old bay Bravy Galaxy at 13 to 1
- 1969 West Indies cricket batsman Seymour Nurse scores career high 258 in his last Test innings in 3rd Test win over NZ at Christchurch
- 1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
- 1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals, plagued by poor home attendance, announce they are moving franchise to Kansas City
- 1972 Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry
Historic Event
1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp
- 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
- 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1978 Marines terminate Moluccan action in Province house (1 dead)
- 1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
- 1979 Hawker Siddeley Trident plane crashes into a factory near Beijing, China, killing at least 200
- 1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
- 1980 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
- 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
- 1980 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
- 1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul 49-48
- 1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
- 1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
- 1984 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating of STS 41-C mission
Assassination Attempt
1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast
Sports History
1987 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
- 1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
- 1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
- 1987 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
- 1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
- 1991 English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
- 1991 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
- 1991 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
Music Concert
1991 The Dave Matthews Band perform their first show as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance
Farm Aid Concert
1992 Farm Aid V held in Irving, Texas; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Arlo Guthrie, Asleep At The Wheel, Kentucky Headhunters, Texas Tornadoes, Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Paul Simon, and Mary Chapin Carpenter [1]
- 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
- 1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
- 1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
- 1993 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
- 1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
- 1993 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
- 1993 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
Theatrical Finale
1993 Herb Gardner's stage drama "Conversations with My Father", starring Judd Hirsch and Tony Shalhoub, closes at Royale Theatre, NYC after 462 performances and a Tony Award
- 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
- 1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
- 1993 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Ukrainian Oksana Baiul
- 1994 Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
- 1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
- 1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released
- 1995 1st time 13 people in space
- 1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
- 1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
- 1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
- 1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
- 1997 Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
- 1997 The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality
- 2003 Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
- 2004 45th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 89-73
- 2004 51st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats #5 Duke, 95-87
- 2005 Cedar Revolution, where over a million Lebanese march in the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Film & TV History
2006 Mike Wallace retires from US news program "60 Minutes" after 37 years
- 2009 Canterbury winger Hazem El Masri becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history; 33rd minute penalty in Bulldogs' 34-12 win over Manly at ANZ Stadium, Sydney takes him to 2,178; Andrew Johns, 2,176
- 2010 51st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 75-74 (OT)
- 2010 57th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 65-61
- 2013 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
- 2013 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico
Historic Event
2013 Xi Jinping named the new President of the People's Republic of China
- 2015 36th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Xavier, 69-52
- 2015 62nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Notre Dame beats North Carolina, 90-82
- 2016 Marco Rubio announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race
- 2016 NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average
- 2017 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves
- 2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
Election of Interest
2018 Angela Merkel sworn in for fourth term as German Chancellor, head of a coalition government, 171 days after the general election
- 2018 Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco is murdered in Rio, prompting mass protests
Historic Event
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
- 2018 UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Russian-made nerve agent used on former spy in UK
- 2018 US students across American commemorate Florida high school shooting with mass walkouts across the country
- 2018 World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest
- 2019 California officially free of drought for the first time in more than 7 years (Dec 2011)
- 2019 Former US Democratic representative Beto O'Rourke announces he is running for president
- 2019 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
- 2019 Tropical Cyclone Idai comes ashore in Mozambique, killing at least 417 people, and Malawi killing at least 56, after causing widespread flooding
Historic Event
2019 US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration
- 221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
- 493 Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, murders King Odoacer of Italy with his sword at a banquet in Ravenna
- 933 Battle of Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyars
- 1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
- 1360 French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea
- 1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence, Italy
- 1391 Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
- 1526 French Dauphin Francis and his brother Henry exchanged as hostages for their father Francis I, beginning four years of captivity in Spain under Treaty of Madrid
- 1529 Second Diet of Speyer convenes, condemns and attempts to reverse 1526 Diet of Speyers relaxation of ban on Luther's teachings); official protest to attempted reversal on 25 April creates the term "Protestantism"
- 1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France
- 1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris
Historic Event
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain James Cook
Battle of Interest
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House; British troops under Cornwallis defeat American forces but their heavy losses led to ceding of territory and a strategic loss
Historic Event
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
- 1812 1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
- 1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union
- 1827 University of Toronto is chartered
- 1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
- 1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee
- 1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
- 1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
- 1869 With 10 salaried players, Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseball's first professional team
- 1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
- 1877 Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following day
- 1877 Cricket's inaugural Test match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days
- 1885 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
- 1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
- 1889 6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
- 1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
- 1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
- 1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
Historic Event
1906 Britons Henry Rolls, Charles Royce and Claude Johnson formalize their existing partnership as Rolls Royce Ltd
- 1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
- 1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
- 1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea
- 1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico
- 1916 University of Ghent taken under Dutch control
Historic Event
1917 Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
- 1926 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
Cricket History
1935 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270
- 1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh, North Carolina
- 1937 First American blood bank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
Historic Event
1939 Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex Czechoslovakia
- 1945 As a symbol of wartime baseball, Bert Shepard (one-legged WWII veteran) begins a successful tryout as a pitcher for the Washington Senators
- 1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
- 1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
Agreement of Interest
1946 British Prime Minister Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
- 1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
- 1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Knighthood
1949 Cricket's master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne
- 1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer Prize winning opera "The Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 269 performances
- 1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
- 1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
- 1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War
- 1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
- 1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
Golf Tournament
1953 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th Titleholders title by 9 strokes from Betsy Rawls
- 1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
- 1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
- 1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
- 1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
- 1958 "Body Beautiful" musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
- 1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title
- 1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
Sports History
1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game
- 1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
- 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test in Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (of 36 total for 1958)
- 1959 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Betsy Rawls
- 1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
- 1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve, also known as John D. Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, established as 1st underwater park, off the coast of Florida
- 1961 South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth
- 1962 Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
- 1962 Five research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter
- 1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
Music Premiere
1962 Richard Rodgers' musical drama "No Strings", starring Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley, opens at the 54th Street Theatre (later transferring to the Broadhurst), New York; runs for 580 performances and wins 3 Tony Awards
- 1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California
- 1967 Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves from France to Brunssum, Netherlands
- 1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
- 1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast
- 1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
Historic Event
1968 British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns after having a drunken row with Prime Minister Harold Wilson
- 1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
Music History
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
- 1968 Uprising in South Yemen
- 1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
- 1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
- 1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
- 1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
- 1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
- 1971 Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
- 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
- 1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
- 1972 Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast; an RUC officer is also killed in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone
- 1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
- 1975 "That's the Way of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
- 1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
- 1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
- 1975 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship
- 1976 Failed coup in Niger
- 1977 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
- 1977 TV comedy "Three's Company" starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC
- 1977 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions
- 1978 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
- 1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
- 1978 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- 1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
- 1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
- 1980 England beats Scotland, 30-18 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it's 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown
- 1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
- 1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
- 1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
- 1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
- 1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
- 1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
- 1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
- 1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
- 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1986 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
- 1986 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
- 1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater in NYC for 761 performances
- 1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
- 1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
- 1987 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
- 1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
- 1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta appointed 1st African American archbishop
- 1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
- 1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
- 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
- 1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
- 1989 US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
- 1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
- 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
- 1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
- 1992 13th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54
- 1992 33rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 80-54
- 1992 39th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #20 North Carolina, 94-74
- 1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
- 1993 In a landmark case, Mohamed Tabet, police commissioner of Casablanca, is convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women and sentenced to death
- 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
- 1994 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
- 1997 France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
- 1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
- 1998 An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
Music History
1998 Revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Cabaret", starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, opens at Club Expo Theater, NYC; runs for 2,377 performances and wins 4 Tony Awards
Hall of Fame
2004 19th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Jackson Browne; The Dells; George Harrison; Prince; Bob Seger; Traffic; ZZ Top; and Jann Wenner
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