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This day In history
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627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
1098 - 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession of Bosnia.
1474 - Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon
1479 - Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
1524 - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1527 - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1653 - English Barebones Parliament ends
1677 - Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23]
1769 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
1791 - Bank of US opens
1792 - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800 - Washington DC established as capital of US
1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.
1822 - Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1858 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent)
1862 - Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1870 - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
1884 - 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
1897 - Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
1897 - Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded.
1898 - 1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
1899 - 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1899 - George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing", composed
Inventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi 1901 - Gugliemo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland
1903 - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
1904 - CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna" premieres in NYC
1906 - Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1912 - R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly" premieres in NYC
1913 - Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
1915 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1915 - Aristide Briand forms French war government
1915 - Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1917 - French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
1917 - Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
1920 - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse" premieres in Paris
1925 - Arthur Heinman coins term "motel"; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
1925 - Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rez Shh Pahlavi takes over
1926 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert
1928 - Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe" premieres in NYC
1930 - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1930 - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
1930 - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1931 - Japanese government of Imukai forms
1932 - S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC
1932 - USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937 - NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1937 - Washington Redskins win NFL championship
1937 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1939 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1940 - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
1941 - European reservists on Java mobilize
1941 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941 - Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
1942 - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
1945 - Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death
1946 - Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
1946 - Tide detergent introduced
1946 - UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
1947 - United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
1949 - AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
1950 - 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
1950 - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 - Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
1953 - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1955 - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell
1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.
1957 - Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
1957 - US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
1958 - Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
1958 - Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
1959 - UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1961 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. 1961 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
1963 - Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1964 - Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1964 - Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
1965 - Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)
1965 - Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
1966 - US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
1967 - US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
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Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 251
1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1574 - Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish King Frederik II and Queen Consort of James I of England (d. 1619)
1579 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer
1610 - Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
1630 - Olof Rudbeck, composer
1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
1660 - Peter Rabus, poet/translator (Liberated Britanje)
1673 - Ahmed III, 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30)
1685 - Lodovico Giustini, composer
1712 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen
1715 - Gennaro Manna, composer
British Admiral Samuel Hood (1724) 1724 - Samuel Hood, Butleigh, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral, (d. 1816)
1745 - John Jay, New York, NY, American statesman, 1st US Chief Justice
1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
1786 - William L. Marcy, American sta -
1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
1791 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
1792 - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter
1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
1805 - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
1806 - Stand Watie, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1818 - Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
1830 - Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1832 - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (liberal)
1833 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
Ist US Chief Justice John Jay (1745) 1835 - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer
1838 - Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars)
1845 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
1848 - William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
1859 - Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
1859 - Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Lten, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream), (d. 1944)
1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss -
1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
1874 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa)
1875 - Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
1875 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-fieldmarshal (Normandy)
1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
1879 - Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland
Painter/Print Maker Edvard Munch (1863) 1879 - Laura Hope Crews, US, actress (Camille, Gone with the Wind)
1879 - Percy Fletcher, composer
1882 - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theory)
1886 - Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (She Done Him Wrong)
1887 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer
1889 - Vaclav Stepan, composer
1892 - Herman Potonik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
1893 - Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
1896 - Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson
1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988) -
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