41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate
- 1139 Godfried II the Young becomes Duke of Brabant
King Edward III
1327 King Edward III accedes to the English throne aged 14, after his mother, Isabella of France, and her lover Roger Mortimer depose his father Edward II
- 1348 Friuli Earthquake in |European southern Alps measuring approximately 6.9, largely destroys Villach, killing 5,000
- 1494 Alfonso II succeeds his father as King of Naples
- 1554 City of São Paulo founded in Brazil
- 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
- 1565 Battle of Talikota: The Deccan Sultanates destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India
Battle of Mikatagahara
1573 Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1617 Pieter van den Broecke arrives at Arabian port of Mocha, will be first Dutchman to establish trade links between East India Company and Yemen and taste coffee [1]
Bossuet's First Thesis
1648 French theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet obtains his first thesis in theology with Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, as a witness
- 1655 Duchy of Savoy orders expulsion or conversion of non-Catholic householders in Waldensian communities in Piedmont
Peter's Church Reforms
1721 Tsar Peter the Great makes the Moscow patriarchate and Russian Orthodox Church subordinate to the state
Moscow University Founded
1755 Moscow University is established by Elizabeth of Russia and founded by Mikhail Lomonosov on Tatiana Day
- 1777 Americans drag a cannon up a hill of Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx, New York to fight the British, giving added significance to the area's historic name of Greate Gunn Hill; the name of the road was changed to Gun Hill Road in 1875
- 1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts
- 1792 The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
La Cenerentola
1817 Gioachino Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" (Cinderella) premieres at Rome's Teatro Valle
University of Virginia Chartered
1819 University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders
- 1825 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
- 1835 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani" premieres in Paris
Wilkes Identifies Antarctica
1840 American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent
- 1844 Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
- 1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
- 1861 Augusta Arsenal seized by the Confederacy in Georgia (US Civil War)
- 1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
- 1865 CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
- 1870 Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
- 1875 Anti-slavery society forms in New York
Electoral Commission
1877 Congress establishes the Electoral Commission to determine the disputed presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden
- 1879 The Bulgarian National Bank is founded
- 1882 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
Saugefleurie
1885 Vincent d'Indy's symphonic poem "Saugefleurie" premieres with the Concerts Lamoureux in Paris
Bly Beats Verne's Fogg
1890 Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictional journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg around the world by 8 days, completing it in 72 days
National Afro-American League
1890 National Afro-American League founded in Chicago by Timothy Thomas Fortune, one of earliest civil rights organizations in America
- 1890 United Mine Workers of America forms
Corbett vs. Mitchell
1894 In his only successful title defense, James J Corbett KOs English champion Charley Mitchell in 3 rounds at the Duvall Athletic Club, Jacksonville, Florida for the world heavyweight boxing title
- 1895 New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert
- 1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg, Russia
- 1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
- 1904 John Millington Synge's play "Riders to the Sea" premieres in Dublin
Pelleas und Melissande
1905 Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melissande" premieres at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria
- 1906 Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin" premieres in Madrid
- 1907 Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters (USA)
- 1908 John Blockx's opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
Elektra
1909 Richard Strauss' one-act opera "Elektra" premieres at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden, Germany
- 1910 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
- 1910 Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
Smuts-Gandhi Agreement Endorsed
1914 An Indian mass meeting in Durban, South Africa unanimously endorses the agreement between General Jan Smuts and civil rights leader M.K. Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters
- 1915 Transcontinental telephone service officially inaugurated as Alexander Graham Bell in NYC calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco, California during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition
- 1915 Umberto Giordano and Renato Simoni's operatic adaptation of "Madame Sans Gêne", a 1893 play by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC
- 1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
- 1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets
- 1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
- 1919 The Hotel Pennsylvania, at the time the world's largest, opens in Manhattan, across Seventh from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden; closed 2020, demolished 2022-23
R.U.R.
1921 Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premieres in Prague, introduces the word "robot"
- 1923 NVV donates 100,000 guilders to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
1924 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France
- 1932 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
- 1937 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
- 1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
- 1938 Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born" premieres in NYC
1st US Nuclear Fission Experiment
1939 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi
- 1939 Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed
Louis vs. Lewis
1939 In only the second World Heavyweight C'ship fight between two black boxers, Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu
1941 Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
Rommel Reaches Msus
1942 German Field Marshall Rommel's African corps reach Msus in Libya
- 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
- 1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
- 1945 NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to construction magnate Del Webb and partners Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2.8 million
- 1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
- 1946 Richard Strauss' composition "Metamorphosen" premieres with the Collegium Musicum in Zürich, Switzerland
- 1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
- 1949 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
- 1950 73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
Benaud Debuts
1952 Test debut of great Australian cricket captain (62 Tests) and broadcaster Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG
- 1953 WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
- 1955 American alpine skier Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
- 1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
- 1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany
- 1955 US & Panama sign canal treaty
- 1956 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall in a day, Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record, until 2018)
- 1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
- 1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
Chamberlain's Record Rookie Score
1960 Wilt Chamberlain scores 58 points, the most ever by an NBA rookie, as Philadelphia Warriors beat Detroit Pistons, 127-117 at Bethlehem, PA
1st Live Presidential News Conference
1961 First live, nationally televised presidential news conference, held by JFK
- 1961 Military coup in El Salvador
101 Dalmatians
1961 Walt Disney's animated film "101 Dalmatians", based on the novel by Dodie Smith and directed by Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske is released in the US
- 1964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
- 1964 Nike athletics company founded in Oregon as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach, Bill Bowerman [1]
- 1964 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (Cashbox)
- 1966 WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
- 1968 Risse St in Bronx named
- 1968 Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father" premieres in NYC
- 1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
Manson Convicted
1971 Charles Manson and three female followers are convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders
- 1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
Ugandan Coup d'état
1971 Military coup in Uganda led by Major General Idi Amin
Eisenhower Dollar
1971 Philadelphia Mint's first trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar
Chichester-Clark Pressured
1971 The 170 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) call for the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark
- 1971 WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1st Heterotopic Heart Transplant
1974 Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplants 1st heterotopic heart transplant (adding donor heart without removal of old)
Kroc Buys Padres
1974 Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's buys San Diego Padres baseball team for $12 million
- 1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
- 1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
- 1979 First documented case of a robot killing a human in the US
John Paul II's 1st Overseas Trip
1979 Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
- 1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
- 1980 Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics
- 1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
McCartney Released From Jail
1980 Paul McCartney is released from jail after his detention for pot possession in Tokyo, Japan, and is deported
1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
Mao Widow's Death Sentence
1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death as one of the "Gang of Four" (later commuted to life in prison)
- 1981 Super Bowl XV, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10; MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB
- 1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
- 1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
- 1985 "Black & Blue" premieres in Paris
Coffey Sets Record
1986 Edmonton's Paul Coffey sets NHL record for defensemen with a point in his 28th consecutive game, as the Oilers beat the visiting LA Kings, 5-2
- 1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala, Uganda
1987 Super Bowl XXI, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20; MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB
- 1988 Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
- 1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname
Rather and Bush Clash
1988 US Vice President George H. W. Bush and Dan Rather famously clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
- 1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
Lemieux Sets Record
1989 Mario Lemieux scores a goal and 3 assists in Penguins' 5-4 win over Winnipeg in Pittsburgh; sets NHL record by picking up a point in 14 consecutive games; record stands for 10 years
Jordan's 10,000th Point
1989 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
- 1990 Avianca Flight 052 runs out of fuel and crashes into a hillside at Cove Neck, New York, killing 8 of the 9 crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board
Noriega to Miami Jail
1990 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
- 1990 Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- 1990 The Burns' Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe
- 1991 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
- 1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
Hull's 50 Points Record
1991 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull scores twice in Blues' 9-4 win at Detroit, to give him 50 goals in 49 games; becomes 3rd player in NHL history with 50 goals in less than 50 games
Jansen's 500m Record
1992 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
- 1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
- 1993 Five people are shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two deaths
- 1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
- 1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
Bump n' Grind
1994 "Bump n' Grind" single released by R. Kelly (Billboard Song of the Year 1994)
Jackson Settles Lawsuit
1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, King of Pop Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
- 1994 Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55
- 1994 US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
- 1995 Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton Oilers, 5-1 in the first NHL game in their new home, the United Center; defenseman Chris Chelios leads scoring with a goal and 2 assists
- 1995 Jacques Santer of Luxembourg succeeds Jacques Delors of France as President of the European Commission
- 1996 Ottawa Senators set an NHL record with 16th consecutive home game without a win (0-15-1) in a 4-2 loss to Detroit at the Palladium; old record (15) shared by 1928 Black Hawks & 1939 Canadiens
- 1997 In a high profile NHL trade, San Jose obtain future Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Ed Belfour from Chicago in exchange for goaltender Chris Terreri, Ulf Dahlen, Michal Sykora and a conditional pick in 1998 Entry Draft
- 1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway" closes at St James Theater NYC
Queen Mother's Hip Replacement
1998 Britain's Queen Mother gets an emergency hip replacement aged 97
- 1998 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam mount a suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 8 people and injuring 25 others
- 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba and demands the release of political prisoners; he also condemns US moves to isolate the country
- 1998 Super Bowl XXXII, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers, 31-24; MVP: Terrell Davis, Denver RB
- 1999 After an inquiry into a corruption scandal, 6 International Olympic Committee members are expelled
- 1999 Earthquake hits Colombia, South America, killing around 300 and injuring 1000
- 2001 A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24
- 2002 Wikipedia switches to a new version of its software ("Phase II"), also known as Magnus Manske Day
2004 NASA's Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars
- 2005 A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258
- 2006 Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star
- 2010 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
- 2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
- 2011 UK announces it had a shock economic contraction of 0.5% in Q4 2010, due to severe winter weather and budget cuts implemented by the coalition government
- 2013 50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
- 2013 6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt’s 2011 revolution
- 2013 8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria
- 2013 Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession
- 2013 Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army
- 2013 Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding
- 2016 British rowing team becomes first female crew and first crew of four to cross the Pacific, San Francisco to Cairns in 257 days
- 2017 Kisenosato becomes the 1st Japanese home-grown sumo champion since 1998 when he is made yokozuna, 72nd Grand Champion
- 2018 Doomsday clock moved by 30 seconds to 2 minutes to midnight by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, closest since 1950s
- 2018 Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi asked "are there any bookshops in Nigeria?" in controversial French interview
- 2019 At least 20 people have died this week in Venezuelan anti-government protests according to the UN
Longest Government Shutdown
2019 Longest-ever US government shutdown ends after 35 days when President Donald Trump agrees to three week of negotiations on border security by a House-Senate conference committee
- 2019 Roger Stone, political lobbyist for Donald Trump, is arrested as part of Mueller investigation for obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making false statements
- 2019 Tailing dam for an iron ore mine in Brumadinho, south-eastern Brazil, collapses killing at least 110 with 238 missing
- 2020 Severe rainstorms cause landslides and floods in Brazil's Minas Gerais state, killing at least 30
1st Female Treasury Secretary
2021 Janet Yellen is confirmed as the first female treasury secretary by the US Senate
- 2022 Australian government buys the copyright to the Aboriginal flag designed by artist Harold Thomas for A$20 million (US$14m) [1]
- 2022 People smuggling boat reported to have capsized in the Florida Straits with the loss of 38 lives
- 2022 Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Keith Yandle becomes NHL's new "Iron Man" with his 965th consecutive regular-season game, breaking Doug Jarvis's all-time record, in a 4-3 loss at the New York Islanders [1]
- 2023 America and Germany announce decision to send powerful battle tanks (US 31, Germany 14) to Ukraine to fight Russia invasion
Jacinda Ardern Resigns
2023 Chris Hipkins is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern
- 2024 British researchers Christopher Marsh and Angela McShane launch website 100Ballads.org detailing top-selling broadside ballads of 17th century England, including images of original lyric sheets, and new musical recordings of the very old pop songs [1]
No comments: