On This Day in History....
0842 Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1349 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France
1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
1613 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1711 Händels opera Rinaldo, premieres
1746 Henry Pelham appointed English premier
1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1794 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia PA
1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA
1848 James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues 1st policy
1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta GA)
1872 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1879 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
1890 1st New South Wales vs South Australia 1st-class cricket game
1894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895 Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs South Africa, 8-7 for inning
1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs England - their lowest ever
1896 Stanley Cup Winnipeg Victorias beat Montréal Victorias, 2-0
1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
1899 US Congress begins using voting machines
1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1907 1st US fox hound association forms in New York NY
1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton CT
1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1918 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1918 H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad" premieres in New York NY
1919 United Parcel Service forms
1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses", New York
1921 Canadian 5¢ nickel coin is authorized
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
1931 Bradman scores 152 Australia vs West Indies, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1931 Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
1932 South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)
1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1936 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1945 Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador join the United Nations
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1949 1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
1950 USSR & China sign peace treaty
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
1952 6th Winter Olympics games opens in Oslo, Norway
1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1954 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg FL (NBC) begins
1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
1956 Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
1958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY
1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley CA
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
1962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniël found guilty
1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central
1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1979 "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1980 13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY
1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Gary Player
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay
1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1990 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment" premieres in London
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991 "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991 Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 million salary arbitration
1992 Andre Cason runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.41 seconds)
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800 meter freestyle (7 minutes 46.60 seconds)
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.96 seconds)
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 meter (36.33)
1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
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Missing In Action....
1966 HILLS JOHN R. SOUTH BEND IN
1967 MARVIN ROBERT C. DEXTER MI
1968 DUNN JOSEPH P. HULL MA
1968 ELLIOT ROBERT M. SPRINGFIELD MA SEVERAL OBS INDICATE CAPTURE REMAINS RETURNED 12/27/99
1968 MC MAHAN ROBERT C. JACKSONVILLE IL REMAINS RETURNED 9/90 11/28/90 I.D.
1969 CLARK STANLEY S. MODESTO CA
1969 STEVENS LARRY J. CANOGA PARK CA
0842 Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1349 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France
1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
1613 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1711 Händels opera Rinaldo, premieres
1746 Henry Pelham appointed English premier
1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1794 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia PA
1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA
1848 James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues 1st policy
1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta GA)
1872 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1879 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
1890 1st New South Wales vs South Australia 1st-class cricket game
1894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895 Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs South Africa, 8-7 for inning
1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs England - their lowest ever
1896 Stanley Cup Winnipeg Victorias beat Montréal Victorias, 2-0
1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
1899 US Congress begins using voting machines
1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1907 1st US fox hound association forms in New York NY
1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton CT
1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1918 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1918 H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad" premieres in New York NY
1919 United Parcel Service forms
1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses", New York
1921 Canadian 5¢ nickel coin is authorized
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
1931 Bradman scores 152 Australia vs West Indies, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1931 Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
1932 South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)
1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1936 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1945 Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador join the United Nations
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1949 1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
1950 USSR & China sign peace treaty
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
1952 6th Winter Olympics games opens in Oslo, Norway
1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1954 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg FL (NBC) begins
1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
1956 Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
1958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY
1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley CA
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
1962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniël found guilty
1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central
1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1979 "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1980 13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY
1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Gary Player
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay
1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1990 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment" premieres in London
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991 "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991 Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 million salary arbitration
1992 Andre Cason runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.41 seconds)
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800 meter freestyle (7 minutes 46.60 seconds)
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.96 seconds)
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 meter (36.33)
1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
=====================================================
Missing In Action....
1966 HILLS JOHN R. SOUTH BEND IN
1967 MARVIN ROBERT C. DEXTER MI
1968 DUNN JOSEPH P. HULL MA
1968 ELLIOT ROBERT M. SPRINGFIELD MA SEVERAL OBS INDICATE CAPTURE REMAINS RETURNED 12/27/99
1968 MC MAHAN ROBERT C. JACKSONVILLE IL REMAINS RETURNED 9/90 11/28/90 I.D.
1969 CLARK STANLEY S. MODESTO CA
1969 STEVENS LARRY J. CANOGA PARK CA