On This Day

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On this day...

514 St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope

532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle

1321 -BC- origin of Era of Menophres

1510 38 Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin Prussia

1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days

1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)

1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas

1862 Forrest's 1st raid

1870 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins

1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC

1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held

1880 SF Public Library starts lending books

1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia

1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona

1909 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play

1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers

among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1

1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in the NL

1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)

1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions

1925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia

1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit

1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola

1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo

1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)

1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee

1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union

1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki

1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum

1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada

1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)

1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies

1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)

1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km

1963 Phila Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300

1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)

1967 Race riots in Durham NC

1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka

1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)

1974 Cleve Indian ***** Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0

1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118

1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate

1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands

1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo

1977 NL beats AL 7-5 in 48th All Star Game (Yankee Stadium, NY)

1978 Yanks start 14« game comeback with 2-0 win

1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill

1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza

1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW

1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott

1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver

1980 Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others boycott

1982 David S Dodge becomes the 1st American hostage in Lebanon

1984 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination

1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle

1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass

1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with

Mickey Welch for 14th place on all time win list

1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games

1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa

1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies

1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion

1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif

Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing

Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee

1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

1991 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better

2781 -BC- Presumed start of Egyptian calendar

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On This Day Over The Years

1616 Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, died in Rome.

He had been in exile for nine years.

1871 The English Football Association Challenge Cup Competition was formed, to become better known as the FA Cup.

The first final saw the Wanderers beat the Royal Engineers by one goal to nil, watched by a crowd of 2,000.

1920 Sectarian violence continued in Derry.

In four days, 19 died and over 50 were wounded.

1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, died.

1944 An assassination attempt on Hitler was made by a German staff officer, Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, at Rastenberg, East Prussia.

He was summarily executed, as were 1,000 other people thought to be implicated in the plot.

1968 Actress Jane Asher announced on a BBC radio show that her engagement to Beatle Paul McCartney was off; he was not the first to know.

1973 Kung-fu star Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong.

1975 After an 11-month journey, the US uncrewed Viking 1 made a soft landing on Mars.

1982 In London, 11 British soldiers - including seven bandsmen - were killed by Provisional IRA bombs.

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FOR TOMORROW, TUESDAY 21st

230 St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada

1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king

1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Qu‚bec

1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)

1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins

1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens

1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery

1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY

1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's

League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman

1898 Spain cedes Guam to US

1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to the Greek-Melkite rite

1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH

1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)

1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles

1923 Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4

1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta

1930 US Veterans Administration established

1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering

1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika

1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va

1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders

1945 Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie

1946 J‚sus T Pi¤erol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor

1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13

1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam

1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf

1956 Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins

1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)

1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ

1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa

1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom

1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga

1965 Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact

1966 Gemini X returns to Earth

1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)

1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours

1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs

1973 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of the red planet

1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager

1975 NY Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays

1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila

1978 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike

1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m

1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2585 Irpedina & #3298

1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated

1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins

1983 Polish govt ends 19 months of martial law

1983 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park

1983 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge

1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US

1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s

1986 Pleasure Island plans unveiled

1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)

1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors

1989 Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time

1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Carl "the Truth" Williams in 1:33 of 1st round

1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash

1990 Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood

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1534 Jacques Cartier landed at Gaspé in Canada and claimed the territory for France.

1567 Mary Queen of Scots abdicated after defeat by the Protestants at Carberry Hill.

1750 Thomas Philpot Curran, lawyer, born in Newmarket, Co Cork.

Heavily involved in the cause of Catholic Emancipation, he defended a number of United Irishmen before and after the 1798 Rebellion.

However, he refused to represent Robert Emmet — and when he discovered that his daughter Sarah was engaged to Emmet, he threw her out of his home.

1883 Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel in 1875, was drowned attempting to swim the rapids above Niagara Falls.

1908 Some 56 runners began the London Marathon from the east lawn of Windsor Castle.

An extra 385 yards was added to the 26-mile course so that they finished in front of the Royal Box at White City Stadium.

1925 A six-year-old girl became the first patient to be successfully treated with insulin, at Guy’s Hospital, London, UK.

1965 Former champion British boxer and nightclub owner, Freddie Mills, was found shot dead in his car in Soho.

1980 Peter Sellers died in hospital, two days after suffering a heart attack attending a reunion lunch with fellow Goons Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.

1990 A Catholic nun and three policemen were killed by an IRA landmine hidden at the side of a road in County Armagh.

Birthdays

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On This Day Over The Years

776 BC The first Olympic Games opened in Olympia.

The foot race was won by Coroibos, a cook.

1693 Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, died of wounds sustained four days earlier while fighting for France in the Battle of Landen.

His remark ’Would to God that this [blood] was shed for Ireland’ made his death famous.

1745 Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, landed in the Hebrides.

1803 Robert Emmet’s Rising took place in Thomas Street, Dublin.

He and 100 of his followers went to attack Dublin Castle, and murdered the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland on the way there.

After the crowd was dispersed, Emmet fled and was arrested a month later.

1885 Ulysses Grant, general and 18th US president, died.

1888 Crime novelist Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlowe, was born in Chicago.

He turned to writing when he was 44, after being fired from his job for drinking too much.

1904 The first ice-cream cone was made by Charles Menches in Missouri.

1955 Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on Ullswater when he reached 202.

32mph in Bluebird.

~ 1967 British cyclist Tommy Simpson collapsed and died during the Tour de France.

1986 Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, and was made Duke of York.

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Events

1534 Jacques Cartier landed at Gaspxé in Canada and claimed the territory for France.

1704 Admiral Sir George Rooke captured Gibraltar from the Spaniards.

1824 The result of the world's first public opinion poll, on voters' intentions in the 1824 US presidential election, was published in the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian.

1851 The window tax in Britain was abolished.

1925 A six-year-old girl became the first patient to be successfully treated with insulin, at Guy's Hospital, London.

1974 The US Supreme Court ordered President Nixon to surrender all Watergate tapes to the Special Prosecutor.

1990 A Catholic nun and three policemen were killed by an IRA landmine hidden at the side of a road in County Armagh.

1996 Dozens of rush-hour commuters were killed and 500 were injured in explosions in a packed train south of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Births

1783 Simón Bolívar, South American liberator

1802 Alexandre Dumas Père, French author

1864 Frank Wedekind, German dramatist

1898 Amelia Earhart, US aviator

1919 Peter Yates, British film director

1951 Lynda Carter, US actress and singer

Deaths

1862 Martin van Buren, 8th US president

1883 Matthew Webb, English swimmer

1957 Sacha Guitry, French actor and dramatist

1965 Constance Bennett, US film actress

1974 James Chadwick, English physicist

1980 Peter Sellers, English actor

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On This Day Over The Years

1554 Mary I married Philip II of Spain, her second marriage.

The first was at the age of three to the son of the King of France, who was nine months old.

1587 Christianity was banned in Japan.

1848 Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl, Prime Minister from 1902-5, was born in Scotland.

He was Foreign Secretary from 1916-19 when he made his famous Balfour Declaration, promising the Zionists a homeland in Palestine.

1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell's experimental camp, to test the feasibility of scouting, began on Brownsea Island, near Poole.

Four days later, the Boy Scouts organisation was created.

1909 Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly across the Channel, flying his three-cylinder monoplane from near Calais to Northfall Meadow near Dover Castle.

1948 Bread rationing ended in Britain.

1959 The hovercraft, the SRN 1 as it was called, made its first English Channel crossing - from Dover to Calais - in a little over two hours.

1978 The first test-tube baby was born in Oldham General Hospital.

It was a girl, and she was named Louise Joy Brown.

1989 Just 3.

6 miles short of Dover, woman pilot Gloria Pullan had to ditch Louis Bleriot's historic plane in the Channel, while attempting to recreate his crossing in 1909.

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1745 The first recorded women’s cricket match took place at Gosden Common near Guildford, with neighbouring village Hambledon against Bramley.

1788 New York became the 11th of the United States.

1856 George Bernard Shaw, playwright, was born in Dublin.

A failed novelist, he was 36 when his first play, Widower’s Houses, was performed.

1875 Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, was born.

He was the founder of analytical psychology and first proposed the idea of extrovert and introvert character types.

1895 Robert Graves, English poet, novelist and critic, was born.

He wrote I Claudius in 1934.

1908 The Federal Bureau of Investigation was established in Washington, DC.

1945 Clement Attlee’s Labour post-war government came to power with a huge majority.

1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicated after a coup led by General Neguib.

On the same date in 1956, President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal just a month after taking power.

1952 Eva Peron (Evita), Argentina’s First Lady, died of cancer aged 33.

1958 Debutantes were presented at the Royal Court in Britain for the last time.

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1669 Molly Malone, the celebrated fishmonger, was christened at St Werburgh's Church.

1694 The Bank of England was founded.

1805 Brian Merriman, author of Cúirt An Mheán Oíche — The Midnight Court, died in Limerick.

1824 Alexandre Dumas fils,French dramatist, born.

1830 John O'Leary, Fenian, born in Tipperary town.

1870 Hilaire Belloc, English poet and author, born.

1890 Artist Vincent Van Gogh went to the spot where he had painted Cornfield With Flight Of Birds and shot himself.

He died two days later, aged 37.

1921 Insulin was isolated by Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best.

1942 The Battle of El Alamein ended after 17 days.

1949 The deHavilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, made its maiden flight.

1953 The Korean armistice was signed at Panmujom, ending three years of war.

1964 Sir Winston Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons.

1980 The deposed Shah of Iran died of cancer in Cairo.

1988 British pole-vault record holder Jeff Gutteridge was banned for life by the British Amateur Athletic Board for taking steroids.

1989 The British Common Cold Research Centre in Salisbury closed after giving colds to 30,000 people over 43 years.

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1540 Thomas Cromwell, Chancellor to Henry VIII, was beheaded on Tower Hill for promoting the king's failed marriage to Anne of Cleves.

1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet and soldier, died.

1689 The Siege of Derry ended after 105 days.

More than 10,000 died in the fighting and of starvation.

1741 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer, died.

1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, died.

1858 Fingerprints were first used as a means of identification by William Herschel.

1865 Doctor Edward Pritchard was hanged in Glasgow for poisoning his mother-in-law and his wife.

It was the last public hanging in Scotland.

1866 Beatrix Potter was born.

1895 John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin from 1940 to 1972, born at Cootheill, Co Cavan.

1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, beginning World War I.

1943 The Cloghane Air Disaster took place in Co Kerry when a civilian plane carrying mainly RAF passengers from Lisbon to Foynes crashed on the slopes of Mt Brandon.

1945 A B-52 bomber crashed into the 78th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

1976 The Tian Shan area of China was struck by an earthquake which caused over 800,000 deaths.

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1801 George Bradshaw, English publisher and originator of the railway guides, was born.

1848 The Battle of the Widow McCormack's Cabbage Garden, otherwise known as the Ballingarry Fracas, took place in Co Tipperary when Young Ireland leader William Smith O'Brien and some ill-prepared followers attempted to lay siege to 40 policemen in the Widow's home.

No RIC were killed, but two of the besiegers died in the few hours the confrontation lasted.

1883 Benito Mussolini, Italian founder of the Fascist Party and ally of Hitler, was born in Predappio.

Here, James Carey, an informer who sent five to the gallows after the Phoenix Park murders was assassinated on board the steamship Melrose en route to Natal.

1890 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, died.

1922 Will Hay was the first comedian on British radio, when excerpts from a show at the Apollo Theatre were broadcast on a programme called Listening In.

1938 Dennis the Menace, the popular character in the Beano comic, made his first appearance.

1948 The 14th Olympic Games opened in London, UK the first in 12 years, due to World War II.

1949 The first regular televised weather forecast was broadcast by the BBC.

1966 Bob Dylan was badly hurt in a motorbike crash near Woodstock.

1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's traditional teaching on birth control.

1981 The Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at London's St Paul's Cathedral; the televised ceremony was watched by over 700 million viewers around the world.

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1718 William Penn, founder of The Quakers, died in Pennsylvania.

1793 Toronto (known as York until 1834) was founded by General John Simcoe.

1818 Emily Bronte, English novelist, was born.

One of the three famous sisters, she wrote her masterpiece Wuthering Heights under the name of Ellis Bell in 1846.

1863 Henry Ford, father of the mass-produced car, was born in Dearborn, Michigan.

He built his first car in his spare time in a shed behind his house in Detroit.

1928 Dr Pat O'Callaghan from Kanturk, Co Cork, won a gold medal in the hammer event at the ninth Olympic Games in Amsterdam.

1930 Uruguay won football's first World Cup.

1948 The world's first radar station was opened to assist shipping at the port of Liverpool.

1972 Operation Motorman, the breaking down of barricades by British troops in Catholic and Protestant areas of Belfast, took place.

1990 Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, was murdered by an IRA bomb at his home in the Sussex village of Hankham.

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On This Day Over The Years

1886 Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, died.

1893 Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) was founded to preserve and promote Irish.

1912 The world's first film censorship law was passed in the United States.

It was not against obscenity but the interstate transportation of films showing prize fights.

1919 The Weimar Republic was established in post-war Germany.

1954 Mount Godwin-Austin (K2) in the Himalayas was first climbed by an Italian expedition, led by Ardito Desio.

1964 Jim Reeves, American country singer, was killed in an air crash.

1965 Cigarette advertising on British TV was banned.

1971 US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin entered their Lunar Roving Vehicle and went for a ride on the moon.

1972 Nine died when the Provisional IRA set off, without warning, bombs in the village of Claudy, Co Derry.

1975 Pop group the Miami Showband were ambushed and murdered by Protestant gunmen near Newry in Northern Ireland.

1991 At a superpower summit in Moscow, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and announced that they would be co-sponsoring a Middle East peace conference.

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National Day of Switzerland.

Feast day of Saints Pistis, Elpis, and Agape (Faith, Hope, and Charity), St Peter Julian Eymard, St Ethelwold of Winchester, St Almedha or Aled, St Alphonse Liguori, and The Holy Macabees.

10BC Roman Emperor Claudius I was born in Lyons.

1714 Queen Anne, the last Stuart sovereign, died aged 49, to be succeeded by George I under the Act of Settlement of 1701.

1778 The first savings bank opened, in Hamburg.

1798 Nelson beat the French fleet at Aboukir Bay in The Battle of the Nile.

1831 New London Bridge was opened by King William IV.

It lasted 140 years and was then sold and rebuilt in Arizona.

1834 Slavery was abolished in all British dominions.

1932 The first Mars bar, made in Slough, went on sale.

1945 Family Favourites record request programme began on the BBC.

1969 The US Mariner unmanned spacecraft beamed the first pictures of Mars back to earth.

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1100 William II of England was killed by an arrow in the New Forest, allegedly mistaken for a deer.

1784 The first specially built Royal Mail coach ran from Bristol to London.

1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, died.

1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was published, but was quickly withdrawn because of bad printing.

Only 21 copies of the first edition survive, making it one of the rarest 19th-century books.

1876 James Butler, or Wild Bill Hickok, Marshal of the West, was shot dead by jack McCall while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota.

He was holding two black aces, two black eights and the jack of diamonds - known to this day as ''the dead man's hand''.

1894 Death duties were introduced in Britain.

1921 Enrico Caruso, the great Italian tenor, died aged 48 from peritonitis.

1973 More than 40 people died when fire swept through the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

1980 Right-wing terrorists exploded a bomb at Bologna railway station in Italy, killing 84 people.

1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait and took control after eight hours.

The Kuwaiti Royal Family fled to Saudi Arabia, and a puppet government was installed.

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1216 Hannibal defeated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae.

1492 Christopher Columbus left Andalusia, Spain, on his first voyage to America.

He was actually searching for a land called India.

1778 La Scala Opera House in Milan, the work of Giuseppe Piermarini, was opened.

1858 Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile, was discovered by the English explorer John Speke.

1887 The soldier poet Rupert Brooke was born in Rugby.

His early death on active service during the First World War made him a legendary figure but he never heard a shot fired in anger — he died from the combined results of a mosquito bite and sunstroke.

1904 A British expedition, led by Col Francis E Younghusband, became the first westerners to enter the ‘Forbidden City’ of Lhasa, Tibet.

1916 Sir Roger Casement, nationalist, was hanged in London for treason.

1926 Traffic lights were installed at Piccadilly Circus, the first in Britain.

1940 Latvia was incorporated into the USSR as a constituent republic.

1955 Samuel Beckett’s now acknowledged classic Waiting For Godot was performed for the first time in London at the Arts Theatre.

1966 American comedian Lenny Bruce was found dead from a drugs overdose.

1963 The Beatles played The Cavern in their home town, Liverpool, for the last time.

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1578 The Portuguese were defeated by the Berbers at the Battle of Alcazarquivir.

1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, romantic poet, was born near Horsham, Sussex.

1799 James Caulfield, the Earl of Charlemont and leader of the Irish Volunteers, died.

1805 Sir William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician and astronomer, born in Dublin.

1875 Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish writer most famous for his fairy stories, died.

1914 Britain declared war on Germany for violating the Treaty of London — and WWI began.

President Wilson proclaimed the USA neutral.

1918 The Second Battle of the Marne ended.

1923 The BBC first used the six pips as a broadcast time signal1927 John Dillon, the nationalist MP who lead the anti-Parnellite faction after the split in the Irish Party in 1891, died.

1940 Italy invaded Kenya, the Sudan, and British Somaliland.

1966 In a US radio interview, John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were probably more popular than Jesus *****; Beatles records were consequently banned in many US states and in South Africa.

1978 Jeremy Thorpe, a former leader of the Liberal Party, was charged with conspiracy to murder Mr Norman Scott.

He was later cleared.

1984 Zola Budd accidentally tripped Mary Decker during the 3,000m in the Los Angeles Olympics to cause one of the most dramatic upsets in the history of the Games

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Historical Events on 5 Aug

Historical Events on 5 Aug

642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.

910 - The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred

1100 - Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1388 - Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England.

1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.

1620 - The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.

1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, in New France.

1716 - The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.

1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.

1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.

1772 - The First Partition of Poland begins.

1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.

1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.

1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

1861 - The United States Army abolishes flogging.

1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.

1864 - American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins - at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

1874 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.

1882 - Martial law is imposed in Japan.

1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.

1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.

1888 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.

1901 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.

1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.

1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

1925 - Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out.

1940 - World War II: Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union.

1943 - World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky.

1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

1944 - World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia.

1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.

1957 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

1960 - Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.

1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.

1963 - The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.

1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

1969 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).

1974 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.

1979 - In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.

1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

1989 - General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.

1995 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.

2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.

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939 The Spanish defeated the Moors at the Battle of Salamanca.

1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.

1504 Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born.

He had an extremely long nose and was extremely inquisitive, hence the expression ‘‘Nosey Parker’’.

1637 The first Poet Laureate, Ben Jonson, died in poverty 1775 Daniel O’Connell, The Liberator, born in Caherciveen, Co Kerry.

Daniel was reared by an uncle, Maurice ’Hunting Cap’ O’Connell at Derrynane.

His greatest achievement was Catholic Emancipation, but he was haunted by his failure to win a repeal of the Act of Union.

1806 The Holy Roman Empire came to an end when Francis II renounced the crown, becoming Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

The ‘Empire’ was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

1859 ‘‘Worth a guinea a box’’ appeared on Beecham’s Powders packets - the first known advertising slogan.

1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, was born.

1890 Murderer Walter Kemmler was the first man to die in the electric chair, at Auburn Prison, New York.

1914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia, and Serbia declares war against Germany.

1932 The first film festival was held in the Hotel Excelsior, Venice.

1944 The Deportation of 70,000 jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins.

1945 The first atomic bomb was dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan, from a B29 bomber Enola Gay.

1962 Jamaica gained independence after being a British colony for more than 300 years.

1976 Ireland claimed jurisdiction over a 200-mile area of the Continental shelf, including Rockall.

1978 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80.

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322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.

626 - Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated

768 - Stephen III [iV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope

936 - Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany

1409 - Council of Pisa closes

1461 - the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.

1479 - Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI

1485 - Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales

1498 - Columbus arrives in Caribbean

1573 - Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth

1575 - Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died

1588 - -8] English assault on Spanish Armada

1606 - The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.

1620 - Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft

1620 - Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici

1710 - Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance

1714 - The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.

1750 - Slave uprising on Curacao

1760 - Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians

1782 - George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart

1789 - Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service

1802 - Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)

1814 - Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits

1819 - Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia

1820 - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii

1867 - Battle of Moorefield, WV

1879 - The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.

1882 - Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die

1884 - Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)

1885 - 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar

1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door

1893 - 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes

1900 - Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike

1904 - Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96

1907 - Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland

1909 - US issues 1st Lincoln penny

1912 - Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres

1914 - British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece

1914 - French govt awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross

1914 - French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas

1914 - German army occupies city of Liege Belgium

1914 - Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK

1915 - Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die

1915 - St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, & Card runner scores

1921 - Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter

1925 - League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied

1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated

1927 - US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3

1929 - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch govt

1929 - Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games

1930 - 2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana

1930 - Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government

1933 - The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.

1934 - US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1935 - 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)

1938 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident

1938 - Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run

1938 - Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university

1940 - Churchill recognizes De Gaulle govt in exile

1940 - Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)

1940 - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II

1941 - 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania

1942 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is

1942 - Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway

1942 - Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1943 - Red Army recaptures Bogodukov

1944 - Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter

1944 - Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation

1944 - German counter attack at Avranches fails

1944 - July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins

1944 - US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany

1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

1946 - 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized

1947 - Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef

1947 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

1948 - 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns

1948 - Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)

1949 - "All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 perfs

1950 - Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League

1951 - Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph

1951 - US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)

1953 - Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet

1954 - "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances

1954 - Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate

1955 - Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel

1955 - KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins

1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.

1956 - Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans

1956 - British govt sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt

1956 - Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die

1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1959 - Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space

1959 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.

1960 - Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) gains independence from France

1960 - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches

1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open

1961 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2

1961 - Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US

1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1963 - Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland

1964 - 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)

1964 - Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots

1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution

1966 - Race riot in Lansing Michigan

1970 - 1st computer chess tournament

1970 - Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac

1970 - WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting

1970 - 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)

1971 - Apollo 15 returns to Earth

1972 - Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn

1974 - Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band

1974 - Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers

1976 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open

1976 - US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth

1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

1977 - "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances

1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame

1978 - Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI

1980 - Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed

1981 - The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

1983 - "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances

1983 - 1st World Track & Field Championships

1983 - 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA

1983 - Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium

1983 - Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)

1983 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1983 - Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T

1984 - David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in NYC

1984 - Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball

1984 - Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee

1985 - Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"

1985 - Baseball players end a 2 day strike

1985 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

1986 - "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances

1986 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina

1987 - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala

1987 - Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six

1987 - Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea

1988 - Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament

1988 - Writers guild end their 6 months strike

1988 - Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.

1989 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

1990 - Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia

1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome

1991 - Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10½"

1991 - Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents

1991 - Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR

1991 - Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes

1991 - US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds

1992 - Cleveland Indians turn a triple play

1992 - Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants

1993 - "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances

1993 - Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed

1994 - "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances

1994 - 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan

1994 - Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain

1994 - Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia

1997 - STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit

1997 - Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier

2007 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.

2008 - Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War.

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117 Hadrian became Emperor of Rome.

1834 The Poor Law Amendment Act was passed, abandoning the system of outdoor relief by which parishes looked after their poor and replacing it with the workhouse.

1900 The Davis Cup for tennis was contested for the first time at Brookline, Massachusetts, and won by USA.

1940 The Battle of Britain began.

1958 Columbia Records signed up a 17-year-old singer called Cliff Richard.

1963 The Great Train Robbery took place at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire, in England, when a gang of 15 men, including Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards, stole more than £2.

6 million.

1974 Richard Nixon announced his resignation as US President, the first to do so, because of his implication in the Watergate scandal.

1991 Hostage John McCarthy came home, five years and three months after being kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut

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1794 General Napoleon Bonaparte was arrested in France on suspicion of Robespierrism.

1902 Edward VII was crowned.

The Coronation, set for June 26, had been postponed because he had an emergency appendectomy.

1942 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Britain for his ‘‘Quit India’’ campaign, which demands that the British should immediately withdraw from India.

1945 The second atomic bomb of the war was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

1963 Ready Steady Go! programme was first transmitted by ITV to rival the BBC’s Top of the Pops - presenter Cathy McGowan became known as ‘‘Queen of the Mods’’.

1967 English playwright Joe Orton was battered to death by his male lover who then committed suicide.

1979 Brighton in England established the first nudist beach in Britain, despite protests from those who feared great depravity.

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654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth

1680 In N Mex, Pop‚ leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads

1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated

1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage

1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI

1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state

1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)

1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery

1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200

1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH

1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution

1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana

1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri

1866 Transatlantic cable laid - Former Pres Buchanan communicates over it to Queen Victoria

1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)

1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)

1888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record

1893 Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act

1900 1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England

1901 Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners

1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally

1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords

1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

1919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane

1921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello

1938 119ø F (48ø C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)

1944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0

1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)

1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC

1949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense

1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins

1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space

1961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market

1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km

1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US

1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again

1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station

1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon

1977 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM

1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer

1979 Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"

1980 Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx

1980 jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time

1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits

1981 The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes

1984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run

1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV music (every Beatle songs) for $47« million

1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles

1986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1

1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful

1988 UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion

1990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus

1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53

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1576 English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, entered the bay in Canada now named for him.

1897 Enid Blyton, children's author, was born in East Dulwich.

In the mid-30s she began writing her stories which featured Noddy, the Famous Five and the Secret Seven.

1919 Philanthropic American industrialist Andrew Carnegie died.

Insisting he wanted to leave the world as a poor man, he gave away more than $308 million.

But he failed to achieve his ambition he had $22 million left.

1936 The Dawn, a film by Tom Cooper, was released in Dublin about this time.

The Dawn was the first full-length Irish sound feature film.

1941 President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter, largely to demonstrate public solidarity between the Allies.

1952 King Talal of Jordan was deposed because of mental illness, and his son, Crown Prince Hussein, succeeded to the throne.

1960 Chad gained its independence from France.

1974 Liam O´ Briain, patriot and scholar, died.

1985 Alexander Thompson Scott, trading name Hector Gray, died at the age of 81 after almost 50 years of shopkeeping at Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.

1988 Devastating floods brought chaos to the Sudan.

After 13 hours of rain, 15 million people had been made homeless.

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1796 Kilmainham Jail received its first inmates.

Originally constructed as a debtors' prison, the first of generations of political prisoners to be incarcerated there was Henry Joy McCracken in October 1796.

It closed in the summer of 1924.

1814 The first stone was laid for the GPO in Sackville Street, now O'Connell Street, Dublin.

1881 Cecil B de Mille, producer and director of epic films like The Ten Commandments, was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

1883 The quagga in Amsterdam Zoo died, the last of that species in the world.

1887 Thomas Edison made the first sound recording when he recorded Mary Had A Little Lamb on to a foil-wrapped cylinder on the Edisonphone.

1898 Spain and the US concluded an armistice over Cuba and other possessions.

1908 The first Model T Ford, affectionately known as the Tin Lizzie, came off the production line, replacing the Model A.

1922 Arthur Griffith, political leader and founder of Sinn Féin, died.

1925 Norris and Ross McWhirter, British twins who founded the Guinness Book of Records, were born.

After the bible, it is the best-selling book in the world.

Ross McWhirter was killed by the IRA.

1969 The world's first communications satellite, America's Echo, was launched.

1964 Ian Fleming, best-selling author and creator of James Bond, died.

1981 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.

0 1984 John Treacy won a silver medal in the marathon at the Olympics in Los Angeles.