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Search for "Home Financing" 0041 Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew. 1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen 1438 The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. 1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary 1534 François I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy 1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire 1568 In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw 1613 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized 1616 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver 1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor 1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders 1644 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win 1652 Duke of Orléans joins Fronde rebels 1656 The first Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland 1679 King Charles II disbands English parliament 1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed first US divinity professor (Harvard) 1742 Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. 1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor 1776 Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga. 1826 Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi. 1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society 1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price 1848 Gold is discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutters Mill triggering the San Francisco gold rush of '49. 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA 1848 UK hist Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California – starts the California gold rush 1857 The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia. 1859 Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler. 1861 Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy 1861 Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens 1862 Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza 1874 General J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die 1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg Russia 1878 The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg. 1885 The CPR telegraph reaches the Pacific from Halifax; now operating from coast to coast. 1887 Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians. 1888 Jacob L. Wortman (of Philadelphia) receives a U.S. patent for the typewriter ribbon. 1892 Battle at Mengo, Uganda French missionaries attack British missionaries 1899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan 1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, formed in England 1900 UK hist Spion Kop reached by British; massive losses by Lancashire Regimant 1901 Emily Hobhouse views Lord Kitchener's concentration camp at Bloemfontein 1902 Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA 1907 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement. 1908 General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts 1908 Robert Baden-Powell organizes the first Boy Scout troop in England. 1913 Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished 1915 German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland 1916 In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional. 1917 Ernest Borgnine Academy Award-winning actor: Marty [1955], The Poseidon Adventure, The Dirty Dozen, McHale’s Navy was born 1918 Oral Roberts evangelist: founder: Oral Roberts University was born 1918 The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective from February 14(NS) 1922 -54ºF (-48ºC), Danbury WI (state record) 1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo) 1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established 1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1924 Petrograd, formerly St. Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad. 1924 Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad 1924 The Russian city of St. Petersburg is renamed Leningrad to honor the late revolutionary leader. It was later renamed back to St. Petersburg. 1925 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island 1925 Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden 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 1927 Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England. 1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, New Zealand vs England, Wellington 1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's first Test century 1935 The first canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co in Richmond VA 1936 Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France 1936 Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile 1939 Spanish government moves to Figueras 1940 The Naval Secretary notifies Secretary of War Henry Stimson, "Hostilities would be initiated by a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor." 1941 British troops march into Abyssinia 1942 Battle of Makassar Strait, destroyer attack on Japanese convoy in first surface action in the Pacific during World War II 1942 In Ottawa Wartime Prices and Trade Board rations sugar to 3/4 lb per person per week; cut to 1/2 lb 1943 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1943 Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg 1946 Canada is appointed to the UN Atomic Energy Commission, set up to control and promote the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes 1948 Australia all out 674 vs India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*) 1948 Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD) 1948 In the Philippine Islands a 8.2 earthquake occurred near the southwest coast of Panay. Over $3.5 million property damage was sustained in the islands, and 72 people were killed. 1949 John (Adam) Belushicomedian: Second City improvisational troupe, original cast: Saturday Night Live was born 1950 Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history 1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base 1952 Vincent Massey 1887-1967 sworn in as Governor General; first Canadian-born; serves from February 28, 1952 to September 15, 1959. 1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record) 1960 Algeria uprises against French President De Gaulle 1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany 1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles 1962 Jackie Robinson is first Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Shadows - Dance On 1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes 1964 Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking 1965 British statesman Winston Churchill dies in London at age 90. 1966 An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117. 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Georgie Fame - The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 1969 Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa 1969 Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency 1970 3rd ABA All-Star Game West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana 1971 Panarctic Oils caps a natural gas well on King Christian Island,NWT that had burned out of control for 3 months 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. 1973 Canada joins the International Commission for Control and Supervision in Vietnam for 60-day period; ICCS a truce-observance commission; with Hungary, Poland, Indonesia. 1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England 1976 George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest 1977 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid 1977 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy. 1978 A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite disintegrates as it falls into the atmosphere, spreading radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada. 1978 Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radioactive debris over the barrens east of Great Slave Lake; Canadian Armed Forces launches operation to recover debris; USSR later pays Canada $3 million under a UN treaty covering costs of cleanup. 1978 Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland. 1978 Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. 1980 North of Livermore Valley, California s 5.9, earthquake injured 44 people and caused and estimated $11.5 million in property damage (of which, $10 million damage occurred at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at Livermore 1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 vs India at Adelaide 1983 Hulk Hogan pins the Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title 1983 Oaxaca, Mexico a 7.0 earthquake occured. Damage in the Juchitan area and slight damage in the Mexico City area. Felt strongly in southeastern Mexico. 1984 ABC network agrees to pay $386 million for US TV rights to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; a record sum to that date; CTV will handle the Canadian feed. 1984 Apple Computer Inc unveils its Macintosh personal computer 1984 The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched 1985 Penny Harrington is sworn in as the first woman police chief of a major American city (Portland, OR). 1986 43rd Golden Globes Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win 1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president 1986 The NASA space probe Voyager Two passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus. 1986 Voyager 2 makes first fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons 1986 Wapping dispute. Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International. 1987 61st Australian Women's Tennis H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76) 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body 1988 Ben Johnson named the Associated Press (AP) male athlete of the year, the first Canadian track athlete so honoured 1988 First WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins 1989 Serial killer Ted Bundy is put to death in Florida's electric chair. 1989 The first reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex 1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon 1993 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000 1993 Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 84. 1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed 1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches 1993 Turkish journalist and writer Uur Mumcu assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara 1996 Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for Moscow. 2008 Personal posting - Louie Fessler was born 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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