On This Day in History...
0236 St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0269 St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0936 Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1407 Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1638 Schouwburg Theatre, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
1667 Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow
1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherlands
1752 East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka 92 killed
1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey
1780 Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian", 1st sung
1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1831 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford PA
1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
1840 1st deep sea sounding
1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1861 US Fort Pulaski & Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
1862 Romney Campaign - Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
1865 Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
1868 Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY
1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1876 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA
1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg WA, asks for statehood
1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1896 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid
1900 Perihelion Passage
1900 Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau" premieres in Berlin
1902 Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, vs England at MCG
1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day
1911 US postal savings bank inaugurated
1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
1914 Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari" premieres in New York City NY
1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
1920 Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon" premieres
1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1922 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
1924 British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1926 Greek General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator
1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president
1929 Bradman scores 112 vs England at MCG - his 1st Test century
1931 Nels Stewart of Montréal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 seconds (record)
1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease)
1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania
1941 Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City NY)
1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France
1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government
1945 John Patrick's "Hasty Heart" premieres in New York City NY
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
1948 Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) vs India MCG
1949 "Colgate Theatre" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1952 Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
1955 José Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panamá
1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA
1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs South Africa at Cape Town
1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor
1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1967 WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey
1969 Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo
1970 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 1508 performances
1970 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
1971 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game
1971 "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City NY after 72 performances
1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1974 Burma accepts its constitution
1974 Miguel Piñero's "Short Eyes" premieres in New York City NY
1974 New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Apple Computer incorporated
1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce
1981 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey #34, Austin Carr
1981 55th Australian Womens Tennis H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
1981 Greg Chappell scores 204 vs India at the SCG
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 meter butterfly (58.91)
1983 Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush, Dallas vs Minnesota
1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
1987 "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY after 56 performances
1987 "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 48 performances
1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1987 Former Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City NY
1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1989 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1990 Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders
1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1992 Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs India at Sydney
1993 "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City NY after 452 performances
1993 "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY after 22 performances
1993 "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City NY after 780 performances
1993 "Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 706 performances
1993 "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin New York City NY after 10 performances
1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
1994 "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City NY after 13 performances
1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed
1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
1997 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare
1997 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs England 3-0
1998 "Side Show" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City NY after 91 performances
1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
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Missing in Action...
1968 ANDERSON ROGER D. DAYTON TX 01/12/68 ESCAPED
1968 BEAN JAMES E. COX'S CREEK KY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV
1968 ELLIS BILLY J. ELIZABETHTON TN
1968 ESTES EDWARD D. MARIONVILLE MO 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV
1968 LANCASTER KENNETH R. SILVER SPRINGS MD
1971 AYRES JAMES H. PAMPA TX
1971 HOLGUIN LUIS G. OXNARD CA
1971 MAGEE PATRICK J. ALDER MT
1971 OMELIA DENNIS W. SMITHFIELD NC
1971 OKERLUND THOMAS R. SEATTLE WA
1971 PALEN CARL A. DUBUQUE IA
1971 PARSONS MICHAEL D. RENO NV
1971 RHODES FERRIS A JR. GREENWOOD SC
1971 STRATTON CHARLES W. DALLAS TX
1973 SCAIFE KENNETH DOYLE JOHNSTOWN PA
1975 RAWLINGS JAMES REFNO 2050 REMAINS ID 07 FEB 94
0236 St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0269 St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0936 Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1407 Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1638 Schouwburg Theatre, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
1667 Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow
1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherlands
1752 East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka 92 killed
1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey
1780 Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian", 1st sung
1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1831 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford PA
1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
1840 1st deep sea sounding
1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1861 US Fort Pulaski & Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
1862 Romney Campaign - Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
1865 Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
1868 Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY
1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1876 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA
1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg WA, asks for statehood
1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1896 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid
1900 Perihelion Passage
1900 Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau" premieres in Berlin
1902 Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, vs England at MCG
1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day
1911 US postal savings bank inaugurated
1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
1914 Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari" premieres in New York City NY
1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
1920 Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon" premieres
1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1922 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
1924 British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1926 Greek General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator
1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president
1929 Bradman scores 112 vs England at MCG - his 1st Test century
1931 Nels Stewart of Montréal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 seconds (record)
1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease)
1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania
1941 Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City NY)
1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France
1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government
1945 John Patrick's "Hasty Heart" premieres in New York City NY
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
1948 Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) vs India MCG
1949 "Colgate Theatre" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1952 Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
1955 José Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panamá
1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA
1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs South Africa at Cape Town
1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor
1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1967 WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey
1969 Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo
1970 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 1508 performances
1970 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
1971 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game
1971 "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City NY after 72 performances
1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1974 Burma accepts its constitution
1974 Miguel Piñero's "Short Eyes" premieres in New York City NY
1974 New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Apple Computer incorporated
1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce
1981 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey #34, Austin Carr
1981 55th Australian Womens Tennis H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
1981 Greg Chappell scores 204 vs India at the SCG
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 meter butterfly (58.91)
1983 Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush, Dallas vs Minnesota
1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
1987 "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY after 56 performances
1987 "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 48 performances
1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1987 Former Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City NY
1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1989 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1990 Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders
1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1992 Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs India at Sydney
1993 "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City NY after 452 performances
1993 "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY after 22 performances
1993 "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City NY after 780 performances
1993 "Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 706 performances
1993 "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin New York City NY after 10 performances
1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
1994 "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City NY after 13 performances
1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed
1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
1997 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare
1997 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs England 3-0
1998 "Side Show" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City NY after 91 performances
1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Missing in Action...
1968 ANDERSON ROGER D. DAYTON TX 01/12/68 ESCAPED
1968 BEAN JAMES E. COX'S CREEK KY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV
1968 ELLIS BILLY J. ELIZABETHTON TN
1968 ESTES EDWARD D. MARIONVILLE MO 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV
1968 LANCASTER KENNETH R. SILVER SPRINGS MD
1971 AYRES JAMES H. PAMPA TX
1971 HOLGUIN LUIS G. OXNARD CA
1971 MAGEE PATRICK J. ALDER MT
1971 OMELIA DENNIS W. SMITHFIELD NC
1971 OKERLUND THOMAS R. SEATTLE WA
1971 PALEN CARL A. DUBUQUE IA
1971 PARSONS MICHAEL D. RENO NV
1971 RHODES FERRIS A JR. GREENWOOD SC
1971 STRATTON CHARLES W. DALLAS TX
1973 SCAIFE KENNETH DOYLE JOHNSTOWN PA
1975 RAWLINGS JAMES REFNO 2050 REMAINS ID 07 FEB 94