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Search for "Home Financing" 0141 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought "cause of plague epidemic" 1413 King Henry IV, the first English monarch from the Lancastrian dynasty, dies after years of illness, and his eldest son, Henry, ascends to the English throne 1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants 1569 Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé 1598 French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty 1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years imprisonment. 1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana 1627 France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism 1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land" 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 1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. 1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1760 The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings. 1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo 1804 A royalist conspiracy against France's first consul Napoleon Bonaparte comes to light in February One conspirator, Gen Jean Victor Moreau, 41, escapes to America, but the duc d'Enghien Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon Condé, 32, is seized in Baden, condemned by a commission acting under Bonaparte's orders without regard to law, and shot at Vincennes the night of March 20 1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands 1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions 1833 US & Siam conclude commercial treaty 1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez 1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. 1854 Republican Party Founded: In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig political party meet to establish a new political party that would oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories 1856 Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers. 1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, a city in western Argentina. 1863 Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by Federals 1865 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC 1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives 1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville KY of $14,000 1878 Postmaster-General John Delaney and meteorologist John Higgins install Newfoundland's first telephone. 1883 Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. 1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed; protects industrial property 1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine 1890 German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens 1896 Uprising in Matabeleland 1897 France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia 1899 At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair. 1901 General Electric starts construction of a large Canadian factory in Toronto. 1911 National Squah Tennis Association formed (New York NY) 1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. 1914 In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place. 1916 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium 1917 Lieutenant FH McNamara, 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, becomes the only member of the AFC to win a Victoria Cross for his action in the raid on Tel el Hasi, Palestine 1920 The first flight from London to South Africa lands (1˝ months) 1922 The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. 1923 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA 1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent 1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn 1929 British Columbia Telephone Company sets up subsidiary, North-West Telephone Company, the world's first radiotelephone company 1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph 1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin 1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR 1933 Dachau, first concentration camp, completed 1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1934 1934 Great Hakodate fire, 4,170 square kilometers has lost, caused fire. Japanese authority estimated 2,165 killed, injured 9,485, 145,500 homeless. The great urban fire has worst disaster, except air bomb, earthquake fire in Japanese history. 1934 Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany 1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio 1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain 1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania 1939 Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King tells Parliament that Canada will consider any attack on Britain as an attack on the Commonwealth. 1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier 1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn 1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia 1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return" 1942 Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, German SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto. 1942 In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans. 1942 Major German assault on Malta 1943 British offensive against Mareth-line 1943 German U-384 bombed & sunk 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16 1944 Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 appointed to command of 1st Canadian Army; largest field formation ever formed by Canada; includes British, Dutch, Belgian, and Polish units. 1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar 1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic 1948 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win 1948 With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC. 1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honsh is founded. 1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java 1952 24th Academy Awards: "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win 1952 US Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan 1954 "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances 1954 Newspaper vending machine first used (Columbia Pennsylvania) 1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes 1956 Tunisia gains independence from France 1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp 1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it 1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line 1958 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth first transmission 1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater 1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke 1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization 1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. 1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi 1966 In Uganda a 6.75 earthquake was the most destructive earthquake in recent African history, about 140 fatalities and hundreds of injuries were reported 1967 Supremes release "The Happening" 1968 Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Legend Of Xanadu 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money 1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar 1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - T Rex - Hot Love 1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche 1972 Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M. Malfatti as chairman of European Committee 1973 On the Kerguelen-Gausberg Rise a 5.4 earthquake, the first instrumental epicenter associated with this structure and is located in the Antarctic plate 1,800 kilometers from the nearest seismic belt 1974 A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. 1974 Hydro Quebec workers on James Bay project riot; destroy millions of dollars of equipment; project closes down 1976 In California, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of taking part in a 1974 armed robbery of a San Francisco bank 1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery 1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century 1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India 1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center 1979 The last variant of the P-2 Neptune rolled off the production line at ceremonies in Japan. This was the longest production run of any aircraft type in history, 34 years from the first model which was built in 1945 1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks 1980 The Quebec National Assembly approves wording of referendum question on Sovereignty Association, and so it begins 1980 The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast. 1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran 1981 Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón sentenced to 8 years 1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor 1982 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Islands vs Barbados 1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 weeks 1982 Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa 1983 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1984 Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres 1984 Personal posting - Porscha Rachel Stiger was born in Silver Spring, Maryland 1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools 1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. 1985 Libby Riddles is first woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record) 1986 Jacques Chirac become Prime Minister of French government 1986 Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France. 1986 Sondra Gotlieb, wife of Canada's then-ambassador to the USA Alan Gotlieb, slaps an aide in public during a reception for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. 1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) 1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode 1987 Personal posting - Steve Michael Diaz Jr. was born to Steve and Mary Diaz of Rancho Cucamonga, California USA 1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit 1988 David Henry Hwang's "M Butterfly", premieres in New York NY 1988 Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation 1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA 1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. 1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident 1991 Consumer and Corporate Affairs reports that personal and business bankruptcies reached their highest level ever; up 68% from 1990. 1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney 1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records 1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland 1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set 1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses 1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England 1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs 1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins 1994 Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X 1994 El Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war 1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on first inn to win Logan Cup 1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna 1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa 1995 A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons. 1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, first Fab Four single in more than 30 years 1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record) 1995 In Tokyo, Japan, at the height of the morning rush hour, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air 1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured 1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents 1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease) 1997 Tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive 1999 Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California. 1999 Personal posting - James B. McMillan died from cancer 2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead. 2004 Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, thus becoming the first leader in the party's history. 2006 Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop. 2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby. 2008 Jewish Holiday - Ta'anit Esther - Work permitted 2008 Personal posting - Robert Palmer weds Tammie McBrayer 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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