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Search for "Home Financing" 1130 Pope Honorius II dies this day and Gregorio Papareschi is elected to succeed him as Innocent II, but Cardinal Pierleone is elected as an antipope, and Innocent flees to France 1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. 1503 Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. 1510 Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery. 1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange 1566 St Augustine FL founded 1575 Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims. 1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1635 America's first public school was established - the Boston Latin School 1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded 1635 The first public school in America opens in Boston, Massachusetts. 1641 The Iroquois Confederacy of the Long House formally declares war against New France; still resent Champlain's treaty with the Hurons and Algonquins 1651 Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo 1668 Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent country. 1668 Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes Portugal 1678 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system 1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1689 William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England. 1692 MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III 1692 Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange. 1692 Under orders from King William a Royalist force, under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, carried out the Massacre of Glencoe which resulted in the death of 38 MacIan MacDonalds. 1693 College of William & Mary opens 1706 Battle at Fraustadt Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen 1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (The American Magazine) 1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java 1759 In Halifax Nova Scotia the first use of secret ballot in Canada in Nova Scotia Assembly; first legislature in British territory to permit secret voting 1777 Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress 1782 French fleet occupies St Christopher 1786 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia 1795 The first state university in US opens, University of North Carolina 1799 The first US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts 1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege 1815 The Cambridge Union Society founded. 1816 Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire 1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston 1832 The first appearance of cholera at London 1833 Hamilton Ontario is incorporated as a city; the oldest in Ontario. 1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour 1858 Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa 1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared President 1861 Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians 1861 The first military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona 1862 Siege of Ft Donelson TN 1864 Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi 1866 Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri. 1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000) 1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna 1880 Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. 1881 The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert. 1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class 1894 Auguste and Louis Lumire patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. 1895 Moving picture projector patented 1899 -16ºF (-27ºC), Minden LA (state record) 1899 -1ºF (-18ºC) New Orleans LA 1899 -2ºF (-19ºC) Tallahassee FL (state record) 1899 Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit. 1905 -29ºF (-34ºC) Pond AR (state record) 1905 -40ºF (-40ºC) Lebanon KS (state record) 1905 -40ºF (-40ºC) Warsaw MO (state record) 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested 1907 Portage la Prairie Manitoba is incorporated as a city 1912 England regains cricket's Ashes 1914 ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is founded in New York City. 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York NY 1914 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland 1920 National Negro Baseball League organized 1920 Switzerland rejoins League of Nations 1920 Switzerland's perpetual neutrality is recognized by the League of Nations. 1920 The Negro National League is formed. 1923 The first Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes 1924 King Tut's tomb opened 1925 US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult 1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated 1929 Cruiser Act OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier 1929 Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow 1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang" 1934 Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party 1934 The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. 1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. 1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant 1935 The first US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland OH 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail 1937 Bradman scores 123 South Africa vs Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4 1-6 in cricket 1937 Halifax native Harold Foster 1892-1982 publishes his first Prince Valiant comic strip, calling his original creation 'an illustrated historical novel. 1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship 1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC 1940 Bradman scores 209 in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council 1942 Hitler's Operation Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled 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 1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front 1943 Women's Marine Corps created 1945 Allied bombers began pounding Dresden, Germany, during WWII. 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die 1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1945 Soviet forces capture Budapest, saving 120,000 Jews. 1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die 1945 World War II: Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from Wehrmacht forces. 1946 Main Australian contingent of BCOF (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) sails for Japan During the six year occupation of Japan an estimated 40,000 Australians served with BCOF 1947 Vern 'Dry Hole' Hunter strikes oil near Leduc, sparking a new Alberta oil boom 1948 Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings 1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England 1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win 1954 The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is opened between Sept Isles, Que. and Schefferville, Labrador, construction having commenced in 1950. 1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls 1955 Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. 1955 Personal posting - My wife Salematou Bangoura is born at Dakar - senegal at the central hospital 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans 1959 Barbie doll goes on sale 1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns 1960 France enters the nuclear era when it explodes its first atomic bomb. 1960 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria 1960 Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb. 1961 Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus 1965 Quebec Liquor Board Employees end 70-day strike. How dry they were in the province!! 1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam 1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released 1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns 1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi 1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos 1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2 1971 Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. 1971 Personal posting - Jane was born 1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway 1973 US dollar devalues 10% 1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR 1975 A fire erupts in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York. 1975 Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympics figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria 1976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes 1977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship 1977 Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic 1978 Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation 1979 The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm 1980 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated 1980 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin 1980 Opening ceremonies for the 13th Winter Olympics begin in Lake Placid, New York. 1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jam - Town Called Malice / Precious 1982 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week 1983 Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup 1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds 1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant 1984 Konstantin Chernenko is selected as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, after the death of Yuri Andropov. 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders 1988 15th Winter Olympics games open at Calgary, Canada 1988 European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 1988 The 15th Winter Olympics opens in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed 1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients 1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa 1990 German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1990 Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $75-100,000 in compensation for each victim of the drug thalidomide born between 1959 and 1961 1991 Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdad. The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraqi civilians. 1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel 1991 US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW 1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game 1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200 1995 A Netherlands tribunal indicts 21 Serbs for atrocities committed at a Bosnian prison camp. 1995 Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov start 1500 km ski trek from Canada's northernmost point of land to the North Pole 1995 West Indies beat New Zealand by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55 1996 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts" 1996 Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway 1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope 1998 In Victoria, BC three girls of ages 14, 15, and 16 found guilty of the murder of 14 year old schoolmate Reena Virk; three others plead guilty to assault charges 2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. 2001 Personal posting - Famous latin american thinker and known Catholic Germ n Doig passed away 2004 The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. 2004 Personal posting - February 13, 2004 Robert and Julie Lane married-Topeka KS 2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 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. 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