Date | Event |
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522 |
Darius I of Persia kills Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. |
480 |
Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I. |
61 |
Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. |
BC AD | |
219 |
Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome |
235 |
St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
440 |
Pope Leo I the Great, installed |
855 |
Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1227 |
Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II |
1349 |
People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells |
1364 |
Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French in Brittany |
1521 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
1564 |
Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester |
1567 |
War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX |
1567 |
At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason. |
1608 |
Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists |
1650 |
2nd Fronde-uprising ends |
1650 |
Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England) |
1678 |
France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty |
1785 |
Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Kraków Poland |
1789 |
1st congress adjourns |
1789 |
US War Dept established a regular army |
1793 |
Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine |
1815 |
King Willem I forms Dutch Order of the Lion |
1829 |
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers". |
1848 |
Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence. |
1849 |
1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad) |
1853 |
Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 |
1859 |
Great auroral display in US |
1863 |
Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris) |
1864 |
Battle of Battle of Chaffin's Farm & New Market Heights VA |
1872 |
"3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village |
1872 |
Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree |
1875 |
US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion |
1879 |
NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players |
1880 |
1st pro baseball game at Polo Grounds, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings |
1885 |
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. |
1892 |
1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn) |
1898 |
French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught |
1902 |
Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater |
1904 |
1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio) |
1906 |
US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma |
1907 |
Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral |
1908 |
Calgary Rugby Football Union forms |
1911 |
Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode |
1911 |
Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War |
1911 |
Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning |
1911 |
Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. |
1912 |
French/British troops lands on Samoa |
1913 |
Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC |
1913 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game |
1913 |
The Treaty of Constantinople between Turkey and Bulgaria restores peace; the Turks recover Adrianople and Maritza River line |
1914 |
Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant |
1915 |
1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent |
1915 |
British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia |
1915 |
Dutch Opera's 1st performance |
1915 |
Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat" premieres in NYC |
1915 |
Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta |
1915 |
Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant |
1916 |
John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire. |
1918 |
Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line |
1920 |
Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54 |
1920 |
Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy |
1920 |
Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10 |
1921 |
Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL |
1922 |
Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program |
1923 |
6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY |
1923 |
Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public |
1924 |
Santo Domingo joins League of Nations |
1924 |
Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees |
1925 |
French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed |
1925 |
Greek republican constitution enforced |
1927 |
Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
1927 |
Telephone service begins between US & Mexico |
1927 |
Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die |
1928 |
Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston |
1928 |
Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10 |
1930 |
1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC |
1930 |
Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute |
1930 |
Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons |
1930 |
NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising |
1932 |
"Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair |
1933 |
Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut |
1935 |
5th Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club (Ridgewood, New Jersey, US) |
1936 |
Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign |
1937 |
Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km) |
1938 |
1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC |
1940 |
"Double or Nothing", a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net |
1940 |
"Strike Up the Band" opens |
1940 |
1st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware |
1941 |
Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
1941 |
Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade |
1941 |
Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union |
1942 |
32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
1942 |
French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich |
1943 |
1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel |
1943 |
Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice |
1943 |
German riots at Amsterdam Jews |
1943 |
Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug |
1944 |
Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH |
1944 |
Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia |
1945 |
Cubs clinch NL pennant |
1946 |
"Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio |
1946 |
1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers) |
1946 |
Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs |
1946 |
Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA |
1946 |
NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms |
1947 |
Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY |
1947 |
Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox |
1947 |
Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828) |
1948 |
Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema |
1948 |
WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins |
1948 |
WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
"Front Page" debuts on CBS-TV |
1949 |
"Inside USA With Chevrolet" debuts on CBS-TV |
1949 |
Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli |
1950 |
"Tin Pan Alley TV" last airs on ABC-TV |
1950 |
Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories |
1950 |
Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel |
1951 |
1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS) |
1951 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile |
1951 |
S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter |
1952 |
"Lights Out" last airs on NBC-TV |
1952 |
Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance |
1953 |
"Buick-Berle Show" debuts on NBC-TV |
1953 |
"Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV |
1953 |
1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois |
1953 |
Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000 |
1953 |
Milton Berle Show premieres |
1953 |
US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China |
1954 |
"Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol |
1954 |
"Masquerade Party" TV game Show; moves to ABC |
1954 |
"Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres |
1954 |
Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom |
1954 |
KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive |
1955 |
"Sergeant Preston" debuts on CBS |
1955 |
Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia |
1955 |
Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge" premieres in NYC |
1956 |
"I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87 |
1956 |
"Oh! Susanna" debuts on CBS-TV |
1956 |
Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season |
1957 |
"DuPont Show of the Month" debuts on CBS-TV |
1957 |
"Paul Winchell Show" debuts on ABC-TV |
1957 |
300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan) |
1957 |
Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away" |
1957 |
NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts) |
1957 |
Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die |
1958 |
"Studio One" TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV |
1958 |
"Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8 |
1958 |
"Texan" debuts on CBS-TV |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1959 |
"Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" debuts on CBS-TV |
1959 |
"Philip Marlowe" debuts on ABC-TV |
1959 |
Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant |
1959 |
Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop" |
1959 |
Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution |
1960 |
"Johnny Ringo" TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV |
1960 |
"My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV |
1960 |
"Outlaws" TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV |
1960 |
"Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK |
1960 |
"lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances |
1961 |
"Detectives" TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV |
1961 |
Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester |
1961 |
Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria |
1962 |
"Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7 |
1962 |
"Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3 |
1962 |
"My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs |
1962 |
"Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show" debuts on ABC-TV |
1962 |
"You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48 |
1962 |
Algerian government of Ben Bella forms |
1962 |
Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader |
1962 |
JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi |
1962 |
Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket) |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
"Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
1963 |
"My Favorite Martian" starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV |
1963 |
2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome |
1963 |
Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th HRs |
1963 |
Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
1963 |
Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council |
1963 |
Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros) |
1964 |
Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries |
1965 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
1965 |
St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13) |
1965 |
WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season |
1966 |
Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana |
1966 |
Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season |
1966 |
The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced. |
1967 |
-Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod |
1967 |
Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" |
1967 |
Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system |
1967 |
Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater |
1968 |
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1968 |
Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown |
1968 |
Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts) |
1969 |
"Bright Promise" TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV |
1969 |
"Letters To Laugh-In" debuts on NBC-TV |
1969 |
"Love American Style" premieres on ABC-TV |
1969 |
"Name Droppers" debuts on NBC-TV |
1969 |
"Sale Of Century" debuts on NBC-TV |
1969 |
7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6 |
1969 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1969 |
Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart" |
1969 |
Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season |
1969 |
Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver |
1970 |
"NET Festival" last aired |
1971 |
"McMillan & Wife" debuts on NBC-TV |
1971 |
Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 |
1971 |
Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched |
1971 |
Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season |
1971 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1972 |
Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations |
1973 |
"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33 |
1973 |
"We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1 |
1973 |
Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit) |
1973 |
Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents |
1973 |
Soyuz 12 returns to Earth |
1974 |
4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29 |
1974 |
5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30 |
1974 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
1975 |
"Three For Money" debuts on NBC-TV |
1975 |
Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984 |
1975 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1975 |
WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting |
1975 |
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster. |
1976 |
"Alice" debuts on CBS-TV |
1976 |
2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law |
1976 |
Boy George expelled from school |
1976 |
SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0 |
1976 |
Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon |
1976 |
Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1976 |
Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest |
1977 |
"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" by Meco hits #1 |
1977 |
Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship |
1977 |
James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked |
1977 |
Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1977 |
Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam |
1977 |
Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit |
1978 |
"Flying High," debuts on CBS |
1978 |
"For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV |
1979 |
"Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35 |
1979 |
"Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14 |
1979 |
"Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56 |
1979 |
"Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16 |
1979 |
"Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12 |
1979 |
"Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18 |
1979 |
"Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15 |
1979 |
"Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65 |
1979 |
"Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6 |
1979 |
"Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK |
1979 |
"What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22 |
1979 |
Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313 |
1979 |
Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong |
1979 |
John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival |
1979 |
LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit |
1979 |
Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland |
1980 |
Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen |
1982 |
1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV |
1982 |
Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago |
1982 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1983 |
"A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show |
1983 |
1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act |
1983 |
Airport of Beirut reopens |
1983 |
Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon |
1983 |
Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 |
1984 |
"(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39 |
1984 |
"Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9 |
1984 |
"Drive" by Cars peaks at #3 |
1984 |
"Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66 |
1984 |
"Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1 |
1984 |
"Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75 |
1984 |
"Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17 |
1984 |
"When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14 |
1984 |
"Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84 |
1984 |
Elizabeth Taylor undergoes rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic |
1985 |
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV |
1985 |
"Amazing Stories" by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV |
1985 |
"MacGyver" starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV |
1985 |
1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies |
1985 |
Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions! |
1985 |
Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys) |
1986 |
"Airwolf" TV Adventure; moves to USA |
1986 |
"Designing Women" TV Comedy, debuts on CBS |
1986 |
Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers) |
1986 |
Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees |
1986 |
Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast |
1986 |
USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges |
1987 |
"Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1 |
1987 |
"thirtysomething" debuts on ABC-TV |
1987 |
8th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1987 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year |
1988 |
26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched |
1988 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1988 |
Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34) |
1988 |
UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize |
1988 |
Union Station reopens in Wash DC |
1989 |
Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981) |
1989 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills |
1990 |
"Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart |
1990 |
"Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs |
1990 |
Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year |
1990 |
US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister |
1990 |
Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years |
1990 |
"Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book |
1990 |
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. |
1991 |
"My Own Private Idaho" premieres |
1991 |
29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean Course (South Carolina, US) |
1991 |
Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic |
1992 |
Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title |
1992 |
Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't) |
1992 |
Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor |
1993 |
"Grace Under Fire" starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV |
1993 |
27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins |
1994 |
1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen) |
1994 |
House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress |
1994 |
Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
1995 |
Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games) |
1995 |
OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury |
1995 |
Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka |
1995 |
US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun |
1996 |
"Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC |
1996 |
34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0) |
1996 |
Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas) |
1996 |
Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs |
1996 |
Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34 |
1996 |
Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan) |
1996 |
Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs |
1996 |
SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title |
1996 |
Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic |
1996 |
US wins Federation Cup over Spain |
1997 |
Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins |
2001 |
The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication. |
2003 |
Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia. |
2004 |
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. |
2004 |
The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize. |
2005 |
Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season |
2005 |
Amnesty referendum in Algeria. |
2006 |
US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced. |
2007 |
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a controlled explosion. |
2008 |
Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history. |
2009 |
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami . |
2013 |
42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria |
2013 |
16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria |
2014 |
Ashraf Ghani becomes President of Afghanistan |
2016 |
Protests continue over police-involved shooting of unarmed black man in El Cajon, Calif. |
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