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Search for "Home Financing" 0055 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, Heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious curcimstances in Rome, and later Emperor Nero rises to the throne. 1354 Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania. 1429 English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings). 1502 Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India. 1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia. 1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. 1624 English parliament comes together 1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com 1689 The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication. 1709 Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe") 1719 The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded. 1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day). 1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah 1736 Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor François I) 1737 The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. 1762 English fleet occupies Martinique 1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "[eats] himself to death". 1772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India 1773 Savannah, Georgia is founded by English colonists, led by James Oglethorpe. 1793 US fugitive slave law passed which requires return of escaped slaves 1800 Abraham Lincon was born in Kentucky 1809 UK hist Birth of Charles Darwin 1816 St. John's Newfoundland is almost completely destroyed by a fire 1817 Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco. 1818 Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence of Chile near Concepcin. 1818 Chile gains independence from Spain 1825 Creek Indian treaty signed; Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826 1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west. 1832 Ecuador annexes the Galpagos Islands. 1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK 1865 Henry Highland Garnet, is first black to speak in US House of Representatives 1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada 1870 Women residents of the Utah Territory are granted the right to vote. 1873 Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins 1874 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is first king to visit US 1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop 1877 American railroad workers strike against wage reduction 1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358) 1879 Artificial ice is created in at Madison Square Garden for the first time 1879 At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens. 1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London 1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam 1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society 1886 2nd British government of Salisbury forms 1892 Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States. 1892 President Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday. 1894 Anarchist mile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20. 1899 -47ºF (-44ºC), Camp Clarke NB (state record) 1901 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed 1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel 1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded 1912 China adopts the Gregorian calendar 1912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates 1912 Robert Cromie publishes first issue of the Vancouver Sun, to "consistently advocate the principles of Liberalism" 1912 Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicates. 1914 In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. 1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC 1915 Lorne Greene broadcaster, actor, born on this day at Ottawa Ontario 1917 Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet 1920 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike 1921 Soviet troops invade the republic of Georgia 1924 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio. 1924 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York. 1924 Premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman's Palais Royal Orchestra in Aeolian Hall in New York City 1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes first presidential radio speech 1925 Estonia forbids Communist Party 1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 1929 Actress Lilly Langtree dies. 1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees 1933 German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis 1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists 1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espaola. 1934 The Austrian Civil War begins. 1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. 1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean 1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden 1938 German troops entered Austria 1940 The Adventures of Superman serial premieres on the Mutual radio network, featuring Bud Collyer in the title role. 1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1942 Three German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany much to the frustration of the Royal Navy 1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa 1945 San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference 1946 Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. 1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia 1947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands 1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances 1949 Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0. 1949 Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line. 1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio 1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem 1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1951 Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at the age of 17. 1953 USSR breaks relations with Israel 1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks 1955 President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam 1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan 1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers 1960 Personal posting - Brad Martin is born. 1961 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus. 1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus 1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon GA 1963 Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron 1964 Beatles first NYC concert (Carnegie Hall) 1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 1966 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced famous Six Points in Karachi as election manifesto of Awami League that later led to formation of Bangladesh. 1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - Amen Corner - (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 1970 Three-month-old baby receives Canada's first successful liver transplant at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital 1973 Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs. 1973 The first US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Julie Covington - Don't Cry For Me Argentina 1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances 1980 Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117 1981 Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1984 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics receiving all perfect scores for quality & the gold medal 1985 Defence Minister Robert Coates resigns news reports reveal he visited a nightclub featuring nude dancers and prostitutes while on ministry business in West Germany 1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages 1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel 1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours 1990 In Hagersville, Ontarioa tire dump fire set by teenage boys forces hundreds of families from their homes, causes massive air pollution 1991 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence 1991 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition 1991 Personal posting - Dustin A. Littlejohn was born at 1:23a.m yakima memorial hospital 1993 A pair of 10-year-olds kidnap and beat to death a two-year-old child at a Liverpool, England shopping mall. 1994 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway 1994 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston 1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) 1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose 1994 Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada 1994 Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease 1995 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections 1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500 meter (38.94 seconds) 1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement 1997 Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea's Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong. 1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt 1998 Intel unveils its first graphics chip i740 1999 American Airlines pilots defy a federal court order and continue their sickout, causing the airline to cancel over a thousand flights. 1999 The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice in his impeachment trial. 2000 Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry dies at age 75 after battling leukemia for nine months. 2000 Peanuts creator Charles Schulz dies of colon cancer in his Santa Rosa, California, home at age 77. 2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. 2002 An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119. 2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloevi begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion. 2002 US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository. 2006 A powerful Nor'easter Blizzard of 2006|Winter Storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City. More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at:infoATdatesinhistory.com change the AT to @ "This site contains links to other Internet sites. These links are not endorsements of any products or services in such sites, and no information in such site has been endorsed or approved by this site. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. We do not vouch for accuracy of the dates listed on this site." Privacy Policy .