Monday, September 06, 2010



 
 1492Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
 
 1522Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
 
 1543French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice
 
 16201st stones layed in Western Tower
 
 1622Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
 
 1628Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
 
 1634Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
 
 1672Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France
 
 1675Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
 
 1683Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
 
 1688Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
 
 1690King Willem III escapes back to England
 
 1715Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
 
 17161st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston)
 
 1732VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
 
 1776Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
 
 17761st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's 'Turtle' attacks British sailboat 'Eagle' in Bay of New York)
 
 1791Mozarts opera 'La Clemenza di Tito,' premieres in Prague
 
 1819Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
 
 1837Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
 
 1839Cherokee Nation forms
 
 1839Great fire in NY
 
 1848National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
 
 1853Women's Right's Convention met (New York City)
 
 1861General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
 
 1862Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
 
 1863Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties)
 
 1863After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC
 
 1866Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention
 
 18691st westbound train arrives in SF
 
 1869Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
 
 1870Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
 
 1873Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
 
 1876Race riot in Charleston SC
 
 1876Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed
 
 1880Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, vs. Australia at The Oval
 
 1880W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, vs. Aust The Oval
 
 1883Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
 
 1886Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
 
 1889King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
 
 1898Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
 
 1899Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
 
 1899U.S. min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his 'Open Through Note'
 
 1900British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
 
 1901President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
 
 1903Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Creeping Man'
 
 1904Soccer team Rheden forms
 
 1905Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
 
 1905Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
 
 1905General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
 
 1909Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
 
 1910Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
 
 1912New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
 
 191319th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
 
 19131st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
 
 1913Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
 
 1914Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
 
 1917French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
 
 192040th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
 
 1920Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
 
 192242nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
 
 1923Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
 
 1924Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
 
 1924Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
 
 1927B. G. DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical 'Good News,' premieres in New York City
 
 1927Red Sox beat New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
 
 1928U.S.S.R. signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
 
 1930Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
 
 1938Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
 
 19391st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
 
 1939South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
 
 1940Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
 
 1940Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
 
 194155th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
 
 194161st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
 
 1941All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
 
 1941Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
 
 194256th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
 
 1942Czech marathon runner Oskar Hˆks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
 
 1943'Congressional Limited' train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
 
 194363rd U.S. Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
 
 1943Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's
 
 1944Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
 
 1945A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
 
 1945'Mr Strauss Goes to Boston' opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances
 
 1946All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
 
 1946Terence Rattigan's 'Winslow Boy,' premieres in London
 
 194837th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
 
 1948Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands
 
 1949Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
 
 1952Canadian TV begins in Montreal
 
 1953Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
 
 1953Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38
 
 195468th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
 
 195474th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
 
 1954U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
 
 1954WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
 
 1954Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
 
 1955'Catch a Star' opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances
 
 1955J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
 
 1957Elvis records 'White Xmas,' 'Silent Night' and 'Here Comes Santa Claus'
 
 1958Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
 
 1958U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
 
 1959Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
 
 1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar U.S.S.R.
 
 1962U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 
 1963Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
 
 1963Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
 
 1963Major league baseballs 100,000th game
 
 1965India invades West Pakistan
 
 1965KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
 
 1968Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
 
 1969'Cabaret' closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 1166 performances
 
 1970New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
 
 1970Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
 
 1970U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
 
 1971Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
 
 1972John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
 
 1972Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
 
 1973New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
 
 19756.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
 
 197589th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
 
 1975Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
 
 1975Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
 
 1975Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum
 
 1975U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 
 1976Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
 
 1976Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
 
 1977Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
 
 1978Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
 
 1978U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
 
 1979'Peter Pan' opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances
 
 198094th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
 
 1980Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
 
 1980College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
 
 1980Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
 
 1980Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
 
 1980Macalaster University of St. Paul, Minnesota beating Mount Senario 17-14
 
 1981'They're Playing Our Song' closes at Imperial New York City after 1082 performances
 
 1981Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
 
 1982Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
 
 1982Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
 
 1982Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
 
 1982Paul McCartney releases 'Tug of War'
 
 1982Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's number
 
 1982Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
 
 1983Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY
 
 1983U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
 
 1984Lanford Wilson's 'Balm in Gilead,' premieres in New York City
 
 1984Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
 
 1986300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
 
 1986Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
 
 1986Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
 
 1986Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
 
 1986U.S.S.R. charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
 
 1987Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
 
 1987Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
 
 1987Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
 
 1988Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
 
 1988Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
 
 1988U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
 
 19896th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
 
 1989Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
 
 1989Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
 
 19907th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins
 
 199133rd Walker Cup: U.S., 14-10
 
 1991Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
 
 1991Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence
 
 1991U.S.S.R. recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics
 
 1992Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
 
 1993Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
 
 1993Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
 
 199411th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson win
 
 1994Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of 'Cyborg'
 
 1994Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
 
 1994Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
 
 1995Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games
 
 1995Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
 
 1996Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR
 
 1997Princess Diana's funeral
 
 1997Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open
 
 1998Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open
 
 1998Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
 
 2004Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation