Year - Event
715 - St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1517 - Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1547 - Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
1568 - English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1585 - Spain confisquates English ships
1588 - Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
1608 - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1643 - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim
1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1652 - Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
1662 - Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
1780 - About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained
1792 - Russian army enters Poland
1793 - Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1796 - Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1802 - French Order of L‚gion dHonneur forms
1848 - 1st department store opens
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
1853 - Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
1856 - Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
1857 - William Francis Channing and Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
1862 - Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)
1864 - Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1864 - Skirmish at Cassville Georgia
1865 - President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1878 - Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
1884 - Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 - 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1885 - German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland
1885 - Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes
1886 - Camille Saint-Sa‰ns 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
1891 - Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1892 - Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
1892 - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1893 - Heavy rain wash quick clay into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
1896 - 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
1898 - Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1900 - Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
1900 - Worlds longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switz, opens
1902 - Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1905 - Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
1906 - Dutch King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 - Federated Boys Club (Boys Club of America) organizes
1906 - Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 - Portugals King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Jack OBrien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
1910 - Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 4-May in 11 innings
1911 - Maurice Ravels opera LHeure Espagnole, premieres in Paris
1911 - Phila Athletics are 12« games back in AL, and will win World Series
1912 - AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobbs suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1913 - Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
1916 - Escadrille Am‚ricaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1918 - Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland Jan-00 in 18 innings
1921 - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1923 - 49th Kentucky Derby
1923 - KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1926 - French air force bombs Damascus Syria
1928 - Firedamp explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
1928 - 51 frogs enter 1st annual Frog Jumping Jubilee (Angels Camp, Cal)
1928 - Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
1929 - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929 - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
1930 - White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
1931 - Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1934 - Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1934 - Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in Sat Review of Lit Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
1935 - NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
1937 - John Murray/Allen Boretz Room Service, premieres in NYC
1939 - Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
1940 - Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
1940 - French counter attack at P‚ronne under Gen De Gaulle
1941 - Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
1941 - New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1942 - Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner)
1943 - Berlin is declared Judenrien (free of Jews)
1943 - Churchill pledges Englands full support to US against Japan
1944 - 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Neth
1944 - German defense line in Italy collapsed
1945 - Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Aust Services
1946 - Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
1950 - NY Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
1951 - 77th Preakness
1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1953 - Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
1955 - Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI v Australia
1956 - 82nd Preakness
1956 - Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
1957 - Adone Zoli forms Italian govt
1958 - Premiere of Harold Pinters Birthday Party, in London
1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
1958 - US and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1959 - Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1960 - Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960 - Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 - DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
1960 - Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
1960 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
1961 - New pier opens in Scheveningen
1962 - Bravo, Giovanni opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1962 - John Birch Society, by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
1962 - 88th Preakness
1962 - Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 - Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagners NL hit record with 3,431
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1964 - US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1965 - Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 - West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
1967 - US bombs Hanoi
1967 - USSR ratifies treaty with Engl and US banning nuclear weapons in space
1968 - 20th Emmy Awards
1968 - Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
1968 - Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
1971 - USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Daisy A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
1973 - Smith opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances
1973 - 99th Preakness
1974 - Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
1974 - Stanley Cup
1974 - Valeri Giscard dEstaing wins French presidential election
1975 - 27th Emmy Awards
1975 - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1975 - Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
1976 - Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1976 - Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
1976 - Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Smokey and the Bandit, premieres
1979 - In The Navy by Village People hits #3
1979 - 105th Preakness
1979 - Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1980 - Blackstone opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
1980 - Ringo and Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
1981 - Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1982 - IFK G”teborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at G”teborg
1982 - Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
1983 - NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 - Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC
1984 - King Of Suede by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
1984 - 110th Preakness
1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - Stanley Cup
1984 - Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
1986 - Anti-apartheid activist H‚lŠne Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr
1987 - 1st American Comedy Award
1988 - Red Sox retire Bobby Doerrs #1
1988 - Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombias Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1989 - Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 - Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1990 - 116th Preakness
1990 - General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
1991 - Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs
1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1991 - Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
1992 - 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
1992 - Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI
1992 - Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
1992 - Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
1992 - VP Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
1993 - Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medell¡n Colombia, kills 132
1993 - Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
1993 - Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino
1994 - Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994 - Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
1995 - Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
1995 - Worlds youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
1996 - STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
Year - Who was Born
1890 - Ho Chi Minh was born
1914 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, was born
1925 - Malcolm X was born
1939 - James Fox was born
1941 - Nora Ephron was born
1945 - Pete Townshend was born
1946 - Andre the Giant was born
1951 - Joey Ramone was born
1952 - Grace Jones was born
1968 - Kyle Eastwood was born
1992 - Rachel Appleton was born
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