1260 The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
1360 The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1492 24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenburg, Germany
1531 Bavaria joins Schmalkaldic League
1593 Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico
1596 -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany
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1601 Johannes Kepler succeeds Tycho Brahe as imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolph II
Astronomer Johannes Kepler
Astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer Tycho Brahe
Astronomer
Tycho Brahe
1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized
1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1681 Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London
1795 3rd Partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
BattleBattle of Interest
1812 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte
Music concertMusic Concert
1818 Felix Mendelssohn aged 9 performs his first public concert in Berlin
Composer and Pianist Felix Mendelssohn
Composer and Pianist
Felix Mendelssohn
1836 Earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts
1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
1857 World's first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in Yorkshire, England
1861 First US transcontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.)
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1871 Mob in Los Angeles, California hangs 18 Chinese
1881 Levi P Morton, US ambasador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
1885 Johann Strauss' operetta "Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron)" premieres in Vienna
1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1899 Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army
1900 General Redvers Buller returns to England
1901 First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1902 Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing 6,000 people and becoming one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century
1903 First trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1903 George Sutton becomes billards champion
1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
1909 Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans
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1911 Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
Polar Explorer Robert Scott
Polar Explorer
Robert Scott
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1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
Aviator Orville Wright
Aviator
Orville Wright
1913 Joe Tinker fired as Cincinnati Reds manager
1916 Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont
1917 Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
1922 German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1923 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1924 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
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1926 Harry Houdini's last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan
Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini
Magician & Escape Artist
Harry Houdini
1929 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 Rudy Vallee's "The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour" begins broadcasting on NBC radio
1929 Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails
BattleCoup d'état
1930 A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington LuÃs Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president."
President and Dictator of Brazil Getulio Vargas
President and Dictator of Brazil
Getulio Vargas
1931 George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day
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1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
Gangster Al Capone
Gangster
Al Capone
1932 British government signs trade treaty with USSR
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1933 Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC
Poet and Playwright Langston Hughes
Poet and Playwright
Langston Hughes
1935 Judge Landis fines umpire George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm & Chicago players W English, B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series
1938 US forbids child labor in factories
1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
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1939 Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio
Baseball Player
Joe DiMaggio
1939 Nazi require wearing of Star of David by Jews
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington, Delaware)
1940 US Fair Labor Standards of 1938 comes into effect - minimum wage, 44 hr week
Conference meetingMeeting of Interest
1940 Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Pétain
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1942 Second day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1944 Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
United NationsUnited Nations Charter
1945 Charter of United Nations comes into effect
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Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations
Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations
1945 In France PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)
1946 Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 Series of forest fires burn over $30 million of timber across the New England States
1948 Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
1948 Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta" premieres
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
1948 WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 Contruction begins on the United Nations headquaters in New York
1951 Jan de Hartog's "Four Poster" premieres in NYC
1951 United Nations publishes its first postage stamps
1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes only political party in Syria
1953 KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States' support to South Vietnam
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th US President & WWII General
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1954 Britain's Mike Hawthorne wins season ending Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes; Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio takes second FIA World Championship of Drivers title by 17 points from countryman José Froilán González
1956 AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
1956 Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)
1957 Cincinnati Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
1957 The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1958 USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
1959 US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
1960 Disaster on USSR's Baikonoer launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden Theatre, NYC for 55 performances
Battle of InterestCuban Missile Crisis
1962 Cuban missile crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba
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Reconnaissance photo of Soviet missiles in Cuba shown to John F. Kennedy on October 16, 1962
Reconnaissance photo of Soviet missiles in Cuba shown to John F. Kennedy on October 16, 1962
Film release premierFilm Release
1962 "The Manchurian Candidate", directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, is released
Singer and Actor Frank Sinatra
Singer and Actor
Frank Sinatra
1963 "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 performances
1963 KRO shows first episode of Bonanza
1963 Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
1964 "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1964 Belgian paratroops liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1964 Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) with Kenneth Kaunda becoming President
1964 Test Cricket debut of Pakistani cricketers Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs Australia. Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on debut.
1965 Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today" premieres
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1965 16th Formula One WDC: Jim Clark wins by 14 points
1965 Jim Clark in a Lotus is forced to retire from season-ending Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos RodrÃguez with engine trouble; American Richie Ginther is race winner and Clark claims his second World Championship of Drivers
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1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail
Rock Star Mick Jagger
Rock Star
Mick Jagger
1968 The People's Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1968 16 year old American swimmer Debbie Meyer wins the inaugural women's 800m gold medal in 9:24.0 at the Mexico City Olympics; first swimmer to win 3 individual gold medals at a Games (200/400m)
1968 Australian swimmer Michael Wendon wraps up the Mexico City Games sprint double when he wins the men's 200m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 1:55.2
1969 Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together
1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Electoral defeatElection of Interest
1970 Marxist Salvador Allende elected President of Chile by the Chilean Congress
Marxist and President of Chile Salvador Allende
Marxist and President of Chile
Salvador Allende
1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1971 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
1971 President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, addresses a party conference in Dublin and proclaims that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as a first step to achieve a united Ireland
1971 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast
1972 2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at Aughinahinch, near Newtownbbutler, County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry out the killings
1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike
1973 John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone
1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1975 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
1976 1st Jewish film & TV festival
1976 6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11
1976 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
1976 Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score hundreds in same Test Cricket innings v NZ
1976 English McLaren driver James Hunt finishes 4th in the season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway to win his first World Formula 1 Drivers title by 1 point from Niki Lauda
1976 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
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1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
Guitarist and Songwriter Keith Richards
Guitarist and Songwriter
Keith Richards
1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
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1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as all-time best selling singer-songwriter
Musician and Beatle Paul McCartney
Musician and Beatle
Paul McCartney
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
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1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
Musician and Beatle John Lennon
Musician and Beatle
John Lennon
1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
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1981 Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth
Painter Pablo Picasso
Painter
Pablo Picasso
1982 "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 performances
1982 12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1982 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
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1982 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
Tennis Player Steffi Graf
Tennis Player
Steffi Graf
1984 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
1986 Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement
1986 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
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1988 NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
Ice Hockey Great Mike Bossy
Ice Hockey Great
Mike Bossy
1988 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
1989 After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
1989 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1989 American televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
1990 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1991 "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
1991 Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
1992 Toronto beats Braves, 4-3 in Game 6 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to win their first Baseball World Series; Toronto catcher Pat Borders MVP
1992 10th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 10-6
1993 "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
1994 Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
1995 Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
1996 Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days
1996 Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)
1997 Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
1998 Launch of Deep Space 1 on comet and asteroid mission
2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
2003 Concorde makes its last commercial flight
2004 10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.
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2004 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher finishes 8th at season-ending Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace; his 5th straight World Drivers title, record 7th career World title; Ferrari's 6th straight Constructors title
Formula 1 Driver Michael Schumacher
Formula 1 Driver
Michael Schumacher
2006 Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act
2006 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Venus flyby
2008 "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
2008 Iceland receives a £1.3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1st European country to require an emergency loan as a result of the financial crisis
2008 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Ventura, Maram, Stardom Bound, Together Forever, Zenyatta
2009 First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis.
2012 Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
2012 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage
2013 St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to tie the MLB 2013 World Series 1-1
2015 Even results in Argentine Presidential Election between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macrieven trigger 1st ever Presidential run off 22 Nov
2016 Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS claims responsibility
2017 Dog doping scandal confirmed by officials of Iditarod, Alaskan dog sled race after dogs test positive for a banned substance
2017 Crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman vows to return Saudi Arabia to moderate Islam after announcing 500bn independent economic zone
Event of interestEvent of Interest
2017 Albert Einstein's "Theory of Happiness", written as a note for a bellboy instead of a tip in Tokyo in 1922 sells for $1.56 million
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist
Albert Einstein
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