This Day in History
1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army 1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique 1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area 1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die 1779 Battle of Stone Ferry 1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol 1789 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent 1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) 1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin 1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa) 1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state 1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska 1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss 1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons) 1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass 1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) 1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe 1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation 1907 1st Portland Rose festival 1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal 1911 NAACP incorporates (NY) 1912 NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice) 1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader 1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott 1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed 1921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record) 1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University 1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2 1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga 1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants 1943 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes 1943 New Qu�bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu�bec (3� km dia) 1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY 1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency 1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act 1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV 1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2 1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France 1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2 1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income 1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line" 1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman 1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services 1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time 1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds 1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear 1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR 1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen 1976 Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled 1976 River Country opens 1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez 1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton 1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision 1982 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington 1983 Yankee Bobby Murcer retires 1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon 1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass 1988 NYC WABC-AM becomes the flagship radio station of the NJ Devils 1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera 1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran 1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US 1993 Warren Michael ******** was born..and The Cranky One became a mother
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