Starts - Notable Historical Events
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Starts - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
3114 |
Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar). |
BC AD | |
1377-02-03 |
Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term |
1397-04-17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. |
1483-10-13 |
Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible |
1519-09-20 |
Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world |
1651-06-28 |
Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts. |
1652-07-04 |
Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris |
1665-03-06 |
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing |
1739-10-23 |
War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain. |
1812-10-14 |
Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. |
1830-05-03 |
1st regular steam train passenger service starts |
1832-11-26 |
1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare) |
1840-01-10 |
Penny Post mail system starts |
1844-03-21 |
Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1) |
1845-06-04 |
Mexican-US war starts |
1847-01-01 |
Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing |
1848-07-23 |
Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts |
1849-02-18 |
1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28) |
1850-05-11 |
Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco |
1851-05-06 |
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts |
1851-09-18 |
New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy) |
1853-09-24 |
Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London |
1854-11-02 |
Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts |
1861-10-16 |
Confederacy starts selling postage stamps |
1866-07-04 |
Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Mainee, US |
1876-02-03 |
Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football |
1878-04-10 |
California St Cable Car RR Co starts service |
1878-09-01 |
1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) |
1880-07-19 |
SF Public Library starts lending books |
1884-04-22 |
Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos) |
1884-11-22 |
T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper |
1886-03-06 |
1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA |
1887-02-01 |
Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) |
1887-11-11 |
Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham. |
1895-03-26 |
King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day |
1895-11-28 |
America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH |
1896-01-06 |
1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden |
1896-04-25 |
Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado) |
1896-10-08 |
Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks |
1901-06-24 |
Jewish National Fund starts |
1906-09-30 |
Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana. |
1906-11-12 |
C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps |
1907-08-01 |
Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division |
1908-01-24 |
Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouts |
1912-12-28 |
SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI) |
1913-12-08 |
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF |
1914-11-20 |
US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports |
1915-04-24 |
Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) |
1918-09-18 |
Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts |
1920-01-29 |
Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week |
1920-08-31 |
Belgium starts paying old age pensions |
1921-08-28 |
Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games |
1922-01-01 |
Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road |
1922-06-28 |
The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin. |
1927-09-02 |
Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers |
1928-04-14 |
Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA |
1928-12-14 |
2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man |
1933-02-20 |
Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech |
1933-12-17 |
NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game |
1935-10-06 |
Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches |
1937-03-23 |
LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars |
1937-12-29 |
Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service |
1938-01-21 |
Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance |
1939-07-11 |
7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees |
1939-09-01 |
WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig |
1940-06-05 |
Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme |
1940-07-27 |
Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts |
1940-08-12 |
Netherlands starts rationing textiles |
1941-05-15 |
Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1 |
1941-06-22 |
Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation |
1942-01-07 |
WW II siege of Bataan starts |
1942-04-18 |
"Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts |
1943-02-10 |
Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau |
1943-02-27 |
The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin |
1944-07-01 |
Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank |
1946-04-18 |
League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts) |
1947-07-27 |
Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak |
1948-09-14 |
Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater |
1952-10-16 |
Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi |
1954-06-10 |
PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting |
1955-04-11 |
Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted |
1955-04-15 |
Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois) |
1957-10-24 |
The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. |
1958-01-01 |
European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation |
1958-05-23 |
Mao Zedong starts "Great leap forward" movement in China |
1958-08-18 |
TV game show scandal investigation starts |
1959-07-28 |
Great-Britain starts using postal codes |
1961-02-06 |
"Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC |
1961-10-27 |
American Basketball League starts play |
1962-02-12 |
Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia |
1962-05-25 |
US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week |
1962-12-23 |
Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion |
1964-11-16 |
Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission |
1964-12-12 |
Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) |
1965-07-01 |
Kinderstraf trial starts |
1965-08-11 |
6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles |
1967-07-01 |
BBC starts their World Radio Club |
1967-09-30 |
BBC starts its own popular music radio station (Radio 1) |
1967-12-24 |
Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand |
1968-03-11 |
Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting |
1969-10-04 |
UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters |
1970-09-21 |
New York Times starts first modern op-ed page. |
1970-09-26 |
The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²). |
1971-01-30 |
UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak |
1971-11-05 |
NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak |
1972-05-10 |
An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store |
1972-06-16 |
The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador. |
1973-07-20 |
Chic's Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0 |
1973-11-05 |
BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
1975-12-12 |
Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) |
1976-01-26 |
Belgium Catholic elite starts amnesty campaign for war criminals |
1976-12-13 |
Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur |
1977-06-22 |
Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison |
1980-10-08 |
British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro |
1981-04-22 |
Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts |
1981-06-12 |
3rd baseball strike starts |
1984-08-15 |
The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military |
1985-04-09 |
White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game |
1985-10-26 |
On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series |
1993-07-14 |
Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY |
2001-09-13 |
Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts |
2001-10-07 |
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. |
2002-02-17 |
'Always On Time' by R&B artist Ja Rule featuring Ashanti starts a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. |
2003-02-02 |
Jennifer Lopez starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All I Have' |
2004-06-28 |
The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul. |
2004-09-21 |
Construction of the Burj Dubai starts. |
2005-08-17 |
The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts. |
2007-06-24 |
The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours. |
2010-08-14 |
2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics, officially starts in Singapore. |
2017-02-19 |
Iraq Starts Offensive to Retake Western Mosul From ISIS |
2017-03-07 |
Yelp Starts Tracking Gender-Neutral Bathrooms for Transgender Users |
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Starts - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1907-01-30 |
Henry Murray, Adventure Starts Tomorrow |
1920-08-04 |
Helen Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences) |
1928-10-15 |
Keith Fordyce, The New Year Starts Here |
1931-08-19 |
Willie Shoemaker, jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts) |
1938-9-11 |
David Barclay, And Now the Screaming Starts! |
1939-10-01 |
Geoffrey Whitehead, And Now the Screaming Starts! |
1943-01-01 |
Alison Gordon, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home |
1947-06-13 |
Françoise Bette, It All Starts Today |
1953-02-02 |
Louis Sclavis, It All Starts Today |
1966-10-16 |
Jeff Coatney, Fits & Starts |
1968-05-13 |
Arne Johnson, The Future Starts Here |
1981-02-14 |
Brian Zarin, It Always Starts with Lotion |
1983-07-10 |
Gemma Sanderson, The Girl That Starts a Romance |
1987-05-18 |
Adam J. Reeb, It Starts with One |
Starts - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1984-01-29 |
Henry Murray, Adventure Starts Tomorrow |
1993-03-30 |
David Barclay, And Now the Screaming Starts! |
2006-03-03 |
Françoise Bette, It All Starts Today |
2011-03-22 |
Keith Fordyce, The New Year Starts Here |
2015-02-12 |
Alison Gordon, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home |
