On This Day In History........
0239 -BC- 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster
0988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA)
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as king George of Greece
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR
1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY)
1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1911 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meter) completed
1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1918 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris France
1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 Stanley Cup: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montréal Maroons (NHL), 3 games to 1
1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds
1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana University beats Kansas 60-42
1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 USSR invades Austria during WWII
1946 "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 Australia beats New Zealand in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ
1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs England at Kingston
1955 27th Academy Awards: "On the Waterfront", Marlon Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed
1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in New York NY
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles)
1991 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Chanmpionship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan's 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People)
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs into A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York NY)
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 New South Wales beat Queensland by eight wickets to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain
1996 New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69
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Missing In Action......
1968 CICHON WALTER A. FARMINGDALE NJ 11/02/73 POSS CAPTURED
1969 LATIMER CLARENCE A. DUE WEST SC
1972 CROSBY BRUCE A. JR. SPRINGVILLE NY
1972 FINCH MELVIN W. FORT BELVIOR VA DIED QUANG BINH SEP 72 REMAINS RECOVERED 08/14/85
1972 WESTCOTT GARY P. POMONA CA
1975 HOSKINS THOMAS B. 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
1975 JUDSON LORENZO D. 05/76 LEFT SAIGON
1975 KOWLES ALEXANDER G. 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
1975 TABOR JOHN 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
0239 -BC- 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster
0988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA)
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as king George of Greece
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR
1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY)
1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1911 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meter) completed
1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1918 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris France
1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 Stanley Cup: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montréal Maroons (NHL), 3 games to 1
1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds
1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana University beats Kansas 60-42
1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 USSR invades Austria during WWII
1946 "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 Australia beats New Zealand in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ
1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs England at Kingston
1955 27th Academy Awards: "On the Waterfront", Marlon Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed
1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in New York NY
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles)
1991 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Chanmpionship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan's 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People)
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs into A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York NY)
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 New South Wales beat Queensland by eight wickets to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain
1996 New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69
______________________________________________________________________
Missing In Action......
1968 CICHON WALTER A. FARMINGDALE NJ 11/02/73 POSS CAPTURED
1969 LATIMER CLARENCE A. DUE WEST SC
1972 CROSBY BRUCE A. JR. SPRINGVILLE NY
1972 FINCH MELVIN W. FORT BELVIOR VA DIED QUANG BINH SEP 72 REMAINS RECOVERED 08/14/85
1972 WESTCOTT GARY P. POMONA CA
1975 HOSKINS THOMAS B. 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
1975 JUDSON LORENZO D. 05/76 LEFT SAIGON
1975 KOWLES ALEXANDER G. 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
1975 TABOR JOHN 10/75 LEFT SAIGON