On This Day in History......
1236 English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence
1526 Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid; Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders
1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome
1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford
1639 Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"
1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed
1659 Battle at Elvas Portuguese beat Spanish
1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nüremberg, Germany
1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1739 England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow
1783 Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England
1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
1785 Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1799 King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies
1813 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
1814 King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel
1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
1861 Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands
1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA
1864 Battle of Cosby Creek TN
1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South
1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
1868 South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority
1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
1873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Mississippi legislature
1878 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1897 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed
1898 Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in Rome
1905 Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana" premieres in New York City NY
1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut vs England Adelaide (116)
1909 Coöp Far Central Management forms
1912 Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France
1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks
1918 Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1919 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge McQuade buy New York Giants
1924 Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy
1925 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin
1927 Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs New York Rangers
1929 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
1932 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah
1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)
1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends
1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
1940 NFL Pro Bowl Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1943 Alex Smart (Montréal) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game
1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII
1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed
1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1950 US recalls all consular officials from China
1950 "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 420 performances
1951 NFL Pro Bowl 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26
1953 Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1953 Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica" premieres in Manchester
1953 WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio
1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend" premieres in London
1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join the AFL
1962 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 31-30
1963 George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination
1964 14th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 111-107 at Boston
1964 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs England, 21 maiden overs in a row
1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco
1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1967 Sonny & Cher release "The Beat Goes On"
1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1968 Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback
1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1971 John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
1972 WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted for drugs in California
1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minutes on BBC TV
1973 Super Bowl VII Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Jake Scott, Miami, Safety
1974 World Football League founded
1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 meters
1975 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1976 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, San Francisco)
1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens
1980 Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 seconds
1981 FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1984 Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1985 British pound (£) sinks to record low-$1.11
1985 Martina Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected President of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1987 Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY after 297 performances
1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf
1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
1990 11th ACE Cable Awards
1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA
1991 Jorge Serrano Elías sworn in as President of Guatemala
1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
1993 "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 54 performances
1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
1994 Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61 meters)
1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
1995 16th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 23 awards
1996 "Holiday" closes at Circle in Square Theater New York City NY after 49 performances
1996 "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater New York City NY after 97 performances
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions
1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs
1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
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Missing in Action
1964 HICKMAN VINCENT JOSEPH NEW YORK NY ACFT CRASH EXPLODE BURN REFNO 0027
1964 MITCHELL CARL BERG MT STERLING KY ACFT CRASH EXPLODE BURN
1966 PRUNER WILLIAM R. 01/17/66 REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 CANUP FRANKLIN H. JR. CONCORD NC
1968 HORNE STANLEY W. LOS ANGELES CA REMAINS RETURNED 4/08/90 I.D. 11/14/90
1968 LEBERT RONALD M. WATERTOWN SD 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 SUMPTER THOMAS W. NASHVILLE TN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED 02/26/95
1968 TERRELL IRBY D. HOUSTON TX 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV " ""DAVE""
1968 WALKER HUBERT C. TULSA OK 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV " ""CLIFF"" ALIVE AND WELL 98"
1969 GUGGENBERGER GARY J. COLD SPRING MN 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED
1236 English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence
1526 Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid; Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders
1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome
1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford
1639 Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"
1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed
1659 Battle at Elvas Portuguese beat Spanish
1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nüremberg, Germany
1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1739 England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow
1783 Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England
1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
1785 Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1799 King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies
1813 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
1814 King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel
1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
1861 Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands
1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA
1864 Battle of Cosby Creek TN
1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South
1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
1868 South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority
1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
1873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Mississippi legislature
1878 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1897 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed
1898 Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in Rome
1905 Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana" premieres in New York City NY
1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut vs England Adelaide (116)
1909 Coöp Far Central Management forms
1912 Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France
1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks
1918 Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1919 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge McQuade buy New York Giants
1924 Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy
1925 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin
1927 Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs New York Rangers
1929 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
1932 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah
1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)
1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends
1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
1940 NFL Pro Bowl Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1943 Alex Smart (Montréal) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game
1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII
1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed
1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1950 US recalls all consular officials from China
1950 "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 420 performances
1951 NFL Pro Bowl 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26
1953 Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1953 Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica" premieres in Manchester
1953 WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio
1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend" premieres in London
1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join the AFL
1962 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 31-30
1963 George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination
1964 14th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 111-107 at Boston
1964 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs England, 21 maiden overs in a row
1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco
1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1967 Sonny & Cher release "The Beat Goes On"
1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1968 Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback
1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1971 John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
1972 WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted for drugs in California
1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minutes on BBC TV
1973 Super Bowl VII Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Jake Scott, Miami, Safety
1974 World Football League founded
1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 meters
1975 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1976 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, San Francisco)
1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens
1980 Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 seconds
1981 FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1984 Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1985 British pound (£) sinks to record low-$1.11
1985 Martina Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected President of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1987 Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY after 297 performances
1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf
1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
1990 11th ACE Cable Awards
1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA
1991 Jorge Serrano Elías sworn in as President of Guatemala
1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
1993 "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 54 performances
1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
1994 Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61 meters)
1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
1995 16th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 23 awards
1996 "Holiday" closes at Circle in Square Theater New York City NY after 49 performances
1996 "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater New York City NY after 97 performances
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions
1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs
1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
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Missing in Action
1964 HICKMAN VINCENT JOSEPH NEW YORK NY ACFT CRASH EXPLODE BURN REFNO 0027
1964 MITCHELL CARL BERG MT STERLING KY ACFT CRASH EXPLODE BURN
1966 PRUNER WILLIAM R. 01/17/66 REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 CANUP FRANKLIN H. JR. CONCORD NC
1968 HORNE STANLEY W. LOS ANGELES CA REMAINS RETURNED 4/08/90 I.D. 11/14/90
1968 LEBERT RONALD M. WATERTOWN SD 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 SUMPTER THOMAS W. NASHVILLE TN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED 02/26/95
1968 TERRELL IRBY D. HOUSTON TX 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV " ""DAVE""
1968 WALKER HUBERT C. TULSA OK 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV " ""CLIFF"" ALIVE AND WELL 98"
1969 GUGGENBERGER GARY J. COLD SPRING MN 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED