On This Day in History.........
1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V
1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1664 Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy", is published
1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa" premieres in Vienna
1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem" premieres in Copenhagen
1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 seconds
1901 Clyde Fitch's "Climbers" premieres in New York City NY
1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City NY
1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa" premieres in Brno Czechoslovakia
1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten" premieres in Stockholm
1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1913 Aristide Briand forms French government
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President
1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End" premieres in London
1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1935 The Wilderness Society is founded
1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia PA merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way" premieres in New York City NY
1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1939 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX
1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1943 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of fleet
1944 447 German bombers attack London
1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1946 "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 16 performances
1947 "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City NY for 288 performances
1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
1948 West Indies vs England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1950 New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 460 performances
1950 T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party" premieres in New York City NY
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)
1954 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of the New Yorker
1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City NY after 849 performances
1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City NY (doesn't happen)
1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City NY after 8 performances
1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 Snow falls in San Francisco
1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1967 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 30-23
1967 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1968 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 25-24
1968 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-20
1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game West beat East 3-3 at Montréal
1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory
1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
1973 Leslie Nielsen appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
1973 3rd NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 33-28
1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London
1974 Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
1975 28th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montréal
1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1977 Italy legalizes abortion
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce
1979 Super Bowl XIII Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback
1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City NY for 54 performances
1982 "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY for 36 performances
1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1985 -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)
1985 -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)
1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana
1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player
1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director
1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
1990 41st NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6 38.77
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
1995 52th Golden Globes Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Brad Pitt
1996 53th Golden Globes Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1996 US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
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Missing in Action......
1966 EGAN JAMES T. JR. MOUNTAINSIDE NJ
1967 BAUGH WILLIAM J. PIQUA OH 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 1998
1967 CONLEY EUGENE O. AKRON OH
1967 HOGAN JERRY FRANKS TUSCALOOSA AL
1967 KERNS ARTHUR W. EL PASO TX ARMY PFOD 12/23/66 SAIGON VICINITY GRID XS820960 DIA=AWOL ARMY=PFOD REFNO 2058
1967 SPOON DONALD R. MOUND CITY MO 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 COALSTON ECHOL W. JR. MEMPHIS TN
1968 ELLIOTT JERRY W. GREENVILLE MS
1968 HILL BILLY D. FALLON NV
1968 KIMSEY WILLIAM A. JR. RELIANCE TN
1968 RAMSAY CHARLES J. NEWARK NJ RADIO CONTACT LOST
1973 CHRISTOPHERSEN KEITH A. SOUTH ST. PAUL MN OVERBOARD CVA61 SEARCH NEG
1973 PARKER CHARLES L. JR. SAN DIEGO CA OVERBOARD CVA61 SEARCH NEG
1973 WIEHR RICHARD D. MANKATO MN OVERBOARD CAV61 SEARCH NEG
1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V
1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1664 Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy", is published
1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa" premieres in Vienna
1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem" premieres in Copenhagen
1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 seconds
1901 Clyde Fitch's "Climbers" premieres in New York City NY
1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City NY
1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa" premieres in Brno Czechoslovakia
1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten" premieres in Stockholm
1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1913 Aristide Briand forms French government
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President
1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End" premieres in London
1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1935 The Wilderness Society is founded
1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia PA merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way" premieres in New York City NY
1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1939 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX
1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1943 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of fleet
1944 447 German bombers attack London
1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1946 "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 16 performances
1947 "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City NY for 288 performances
1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
1948 West Indies vs England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1950 New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 460 performances
1950 T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party" premieres in New York City NY
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)
1954 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of the New Yorker
1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City NY after 849 performances
1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City NY (doesn't happen)
1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City NY after 8 performances
1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 Snow falls in San Francisco
1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1967 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 30-23
1967 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1968 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 25-24
1968 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-20
1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game West beat East 3-3 at Montréal
1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory
1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
1973 Leslie Nielsen appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
1973 3rd NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 33-28
1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London
1974 Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
1975 28th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montréal
1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1977 Italy legalizes abortion
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce
1979 Super Bowl XIII Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback
1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City NY for 54 performances
1982 "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY for 36 performances
1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1985 -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)
1985 -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)
1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana
1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player
1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director
1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
1990 41st NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6 38.77
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
1995 52th Golden Globes Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Brad Pitt
1996 53th Golden Globes Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1996 US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Missing in Action......
1966 EGAN JAMES T. JR. MOUNTAINSIDE NJ
1967 BAUGH WILLIAM J. PIQUA OH 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 1998
1967 CONLEY EUGENE O. AKRON OH
1967 HOGAN JERRY FRANKS TUSCALOOSA AL
1967 KERNS ARTHUR W. EL PASO TX ARMY PFOD 12/23/66 SAIGON VICINITY GRID XS820960 DIA=AWOL ARMY=PFOD REFNO 2058
1967 SPOON DONALD R. MOUND CITY MO 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 COALSTON ECHOL W. JR. MEMPHIS TN
1968 ELLIOTT JERRY W. GREENVILLE MS
1968 HILL BILLY D. FALLON NV
1968 KIMSEY WILLIAM A. JR. RELIANCE TN
1968 RAMSAY CHARLES J. NEWARK NJ RADIO CONTACT LOST
1973 CHRISTOPHERSEN KEITH A. SOUTH ST. PAUL MN OVERBOARD CVA61 SEARCH NEG
1973 PARKER CHARLES L. JR. SAN DIEGO CA OVERBOARD CVA61 SEARCH NEG
1973 WIEHR RICHARD D. MANKATO MN OVERBOARD CAV61 SEARCH NEG