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In 1852 the first Chinese contract workers arrived in Hawaii from southeast China to work on sugar plantations, aboard the British bark Thetis captained by John Cass. Earlier contact with China for trade led to the islands being dubbed Tan Heung Shan (Fragrant Sandalwood Hills); in 1911 two Latvian anarchists, members of a gang that had killed three policemen after a failed robbery, were trapped in a house in east London, starting the seven-hour Siege of Sidney Street, which ended in the deaths of the criminals and the collapse of the building. Winston Churchill, the home secretary, attended the incident, as did a detachment of Scots Guards; in 1969 Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, announced an embargo on arms and military spare parts to Israel; in 2022 Apple, the maker of the iPhone, became the first company to have a stock market value of $3 trillion. The technology group was also the first to reach the $1 trillion and $2 trillion market cap milestones (August 2, 2018, and August 19, 2020).
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In 1809 Louis Braille was born. He lost his sight after an accident at the age of three. In 1829 he published his tactile reading and writing system for use by blind or visually impaired people; in 1884 the Fabian Society was founded, reflecting a surge in socialist activity. It is the UK’s oldest political think tank and derives its name from Roman general Quintus Fabius, a master strategist; in 1951 Chinese and North Korean forces captured Seoul, the South Korean capital, during the Korean War. UN forces won back control in March 1951, and an armistice on July 27, 1953, ended the war; in 1986 Phil Lynott, the former frontman of rock band Thin Lizzy, died aged 36 from heart failure and pneumonia. Among the band’s hits: Whiskey in the Jar (1972) and The Boys Are Back in Town (1976).
In 1809 Louis Braille was born. He lost his sight after an accident at the age of three. In 1829 he published his tactile reading and writing system for use by blind or visually impaired people; in 1884 the Fabian Society was founded, reflecting a surge in socialist activity. It is the UK’s oldest political think tank and derives its name from Roman general Quintus Fabius, a master strategist; in 1951 Chinese and North Korean forces captured Seoul, the South Korean capital, during the Korean War. UN forces won back control in March 1951, and an armistice on July 27, 1953, ended the war; in 1986 Phil Lynott, the former frontman of rock band Thin Lizzy, died aged 36 from heart failure and pneumonia. Among the band’s hits: Whiskey in the Jar (1972) and The Boys Are Back in Town (1976).
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In 1895 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain in the French army, was publicly stripped of his rank after being convicted (falsely) of passing secrets to Germany. He began a life sentence at Devil’s Island Prison in French Guyana. He was officially exonerated on July 12, 1906; in 1919 the German Workers’ Party was founded, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Adolf Hitler made his first appearance and speech at a meeting of the party in September 1919; in 1964 Pope Paul VI met Athenagoras, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, in Jerusalem in the first encounter in 525 years between leaders of the two churches; in 1970 A Question of Sport was first broadcast on the BBC, hosted by David Vine. Henry Cooper and Cliff Morgan were the team captains. George Best, Ray Illingworth, Lillian Board and Tom Finney were the panellists; in 1993 the Liberian-registered tanker MV Braer ran aground off the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil.
In 1895 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain in the French army, was publicly stripped of his rank after being convicted (falsely) of passing secrets to Germany. He began a life sentence at Devil’s Island Prison in French Guyana. He was officially exonerated on July 12, 1906; in 1919 the German Workers’ Party was founded, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Adolf Hitler made his first appearance and speech at a meeting of the party in September 1919; in 1964 Pope Paul VI met Athenagoras, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, in Jerusalem in the first encounter in 525 years between leaders of the two churches; in 1970 A Question of Sport was first broadcast on the BBC, hosted by David Vine. Henry Cooper and Cliff Morgan were the team captains. George Best, Ray Illingworth, Lillian Board and Tom Finney were the panellists; in 1993 the Liberian-registered tanker MV Braer ran aground off the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil.
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In 1929 Alexander I established a royal dictatorship over the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. On October 3, 1929, he changed the name of the country to Yugoslavia. He was assassinated in 1934; in 1941 Franklin D Roosevelt (US president 1933-45) gave his Four Freedoms speech (the 1941 State of the Union address) to the US Congress. The global goals, set out during the Second World War, were: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. The concept was later embedded in the charter of the United Nations; in 1983 the Danish trawler owner (and Euro MP) Kent Kirk was arrested and later charged with illegally entering UK coastal waters. He won his case against the UK government, and a £30,000 fine returned.
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In 1451 the University of Glasgow was founded, after Pope Nicholas V issued a papal bull. It is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world; in 1610 Galileo Galilei made the first observations that led to his discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the largest of the planet’s satellites; in 1917 Sergeant Thomas Mottershead became the only non-commissioned officer of the Royal Flying Corps to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War, dying five days later of burn injuries sustained during the combat in Belgium, aged 24. His medal (“for most conspicuous bravery, endurance and skill”) was presented to his widow by individual George V.
Today
In 1929 Alexander I established a royal dictatorship over the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. On October 3, 1929, he changed the name of the country to Yugoslavia. He was assassinated in 1934; in 1941 Franklin D Roosevelt (US president 1933-45) gave his Four Freedoms speech (the 1941 State of the Union address) to the US Congress. The global goals, set out during the Second World War, were: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. The concept was later embedded in the charter of the United Nations; in 1983 the Danish trawler owner (and Euro MP) Kent Kirk was arrested and later charged with illegally entering UK coastal waters. He won his case against the UK government, and a £30,000 fine returned.
Tomorrow
In 1451 the University of Glasgow was founded, after Pope Nicholas V issued a papal bull. It is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world; in 1610 Galileo Galilei made the first observations that led to his discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the largest of the planet’s satellites; in 1917 Sergeant Thomas Mottershead became the only non-commissioned officer of the Royal Flying Corps to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War, dying five days later of burn injuries sustained during the combat in Belgium, aged 24. His medal (“for most conspicuous bravery, endurance and skill”) was presented to his widow by individual George V.
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For the second straight Grey Cup the Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Montreal Alouettes this time by a score of 34-19. And Jackie Parker was the star of the game playing quarterback on offence, and halfback on defence. However, there were some changes. The value of a touchdown was raised from 5 points to 6, and the game was played in the West for the first time at Vancouver's Empire Stadium before a crowd of 39,414 fans on 26 November 1955. The ground game of Edmonton did Montreal in. The Als had trouble figuring out who had the ball, The China Clipper, Normie Kwong, was tackled sixty times although he only carried the ball thirty times for 145 yards and two touchdowns. Etcheverry, the Montreal quarterback, completed thirty of 39 passes for 508 yards, but it wasn't enough. Parker, the star of the game, completed eight of sixteen passes for 128 yards and a touchdown, carried the ball six times for sixty-nine yards, and was a stalwart on defence breaking up passes, made a number of hard-hitting tackles and came up with a key interception in the third quarter.
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The full game is available here,
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In 1800 Victor of Aveyron, a feral child aged about nine, emerged from a forest in southern France. He was the focus of studies that led to advances in rudimentary learning and died in 1828 of pneumonia. The “wild boy” was the subject of François Truffaut’s 1970 film L’Enfant sauvage; in 1926 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud was proclaimed individual of the Hejaz in the Grand Mosque at Mecca. He was the founder (1932) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; in 1935 the singer and actor Elvis Presley was born, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He died on August 16, 1977, aged 42. His first single with RCA, Heartbreak Hotel, was a worldwide hit in 1956; in 1967 Operation Cedar Falls was launched by US and South Vietnamese forces against the Vietcong. It was the largest US ground operation of the Vietnam War; in 1990 two people died as a result of a commuter train crash into buffers at Cannon Street station, London. Cannabis was found in the driver’s blood, leading to mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
In 1800 Victor of Aveyron, a feral child aged about nine, emerged from a forest in southern France. He was the focus of studies that led to advances in rudimentary learning and died in 1828 of pneumonia. The “wild boy” was the subject of François Truffaut’s 1970 film L’Enfant sauvage; in 1926 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud was proclaimed individual of the Hejaz in the Grand Mosque at Mecca. He was the founder (1932) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; in 1935 the singer and actor Elvis Presley was born, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He died on August 16, 1977, aged 42. His first single with RCA, Heartbreak Hotel, was a worldwide hit in 1956; in 1967 Operation Cedar Falls was launched by US and South Vietnamese forces against the Vietcong. It was the largest US ground operation of the Vietnam War; in 1990 two people died as a result of a commuter train crash into buffers at Cannon Street station, London. Cannabis was found in the driver’s blood, leading to mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
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It was certainly a busy day.
49 BC Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, uttering "alea iacta est" (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war and his appointment as Roman dictator for life.
69 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar
236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
381 Roman Emperor Theodosius issues edit ordering all churches be surrendered to bishops of the Catholic faith as he saw it
532 Constantinople chariot racing green and blue supporters due to be executed escape, prompting Nika revolt
1072 Robert Guiscard's Norman force conquers Palermo
1356 German Emperor Charles I promulgates the 'Golden Bull', to regulate the election of a new individual - the most important constitutional document of the Holy Roman Empire
1430 Catholic Order of the Golden Fleece is founded in Bruges in celebration of the prosperous and wealthy domains of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui
1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1642 individual Charles I and family flee London for Hampton Court fearing for their lives, not to return for 7 years
1663 individual Charles II affirms a new charter for the Royal African Company granting it a monopoly over trade along the west coast of Africa in "redwood, elephants' teeth, negroes, slaves, hides, wax, guinea grains, or other commodities of those countries"
1731 Charles Farnese becomes Duke of Parma and Piacenza
1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine published, advocating American independence
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini" premieres in Weimar
1801 William Henry Harrison is appointed the first governor of the Indiana Territory
1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1808 Herman Daendels succeeds Albertus Wiese as Governor-General of Dutch-East Indies
1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
1833 Felix Mendelssohn's cantata "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin, Germany
1839 First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam, India, arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate]
1840 Uniform Penny Post mail system starts throughout the United Kingdom an idea championed by Rowland Hill to increase the volume of mail and its availability to poorer classes
1853 Charles Reade's play "Gold" premieres in London
1861 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War)
1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 Romney expedition, Confederate Army military expedition begins in Romney, West Virginia (US Civil War)
1863 1st underground railway opens in London
1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman, Arkansas
1863 January uprising begins in Poland
1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes after Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that elected African Americans who had been expelled had the right to hold office and were reinstated
1870 Standard Oil Company created by John D. Rockefeller (30%), his brother and other business partners. Then controlled about 10% of world oil.
1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1897 Henrik Ibsen's play "John Gabriel Borkman" premieres in Helsingfors
1897 Ukrainian bacteriologist Wademar Haffkine performs the first human trial for a vaccine for the plague on himself during the Bombay epidemic
1900 British generals Frederick Roberts and Herbert Kitchener reach Cape Town during the Second Boer War
1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop, Beaumont, marking the start of the Texas oil boom (gusher age)
1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1902 Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa
1906 The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues
1910 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
1914 Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen skates world 500m record in 43.7s in Oslo, Norway
1914 Yuan Shih-k'ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor
1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of Mexico's Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood
1917 Suffragettes the "Silent Sentinels" first protest outside The White House, in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party
1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected
1927 Fritz Lang's silent film "Metropolis" premieres in Berlin
1927 Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's stage comedy "Tommy", starring Alan Bunce, Peg Entwistle, and Sidney Toler, opens at the Gaiety Theatre, NYC; runs for 232 performances
1928 George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie" premieres in New York
1930 New Zealand's 1st game of Test cricket is held in Christchurch, NZ. Englishman Maurice Allom takes a Test hat-trick.
1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed" premieres in NYC
1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace" premieres in NYC
1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1942 Japan invades North Celebes, Dutch East Indies
1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1943 Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered in Philadelphia
1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1946 UN General Assembly meets for the first time in London
1946 US Army bounces 1st radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
1948 Harold Rome's musical "Call Me Mister", starring Betty Garrett closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 734 performances
1948 J.B Priestley's stage drama "An Inspector Calls" closes at the Booth Theatre, NYC, after 95 performances
1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1951 Maurice Richard scores his 16th career hat trick in the Montreal Canadiens' 3-0 win over NY Rangers to bring his career total to 274 goals; passes Howie Morenz as NHL's #2 all-time leading goal scorer
1952 "The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Charlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)
1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 performances
1953 3rd NFL Pro Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: National Conference beats American Conference, 27-7; MVP: Don Doll, Detroit Lions, DB
1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1954 A Comet jet airliner crashes in the Mediterranean; 35 people are missing
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1955 "Ordet", directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, is released
1956 Elvis Presley records single "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 After Anthony Eden's resignation Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1964 Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres
1965 Bollingen Prize for Poetry awarded to Horace Gregory [1]
1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord
1966 The Georgia House of Representatives votes 184-12 to deny Julian Bond his seat as a result of his opposition to the Vietnam War
1967 Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate
1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia
1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1969 Sweden is the 1st Western country to recognize North Vietnam
1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1971 Canadian scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki begins his broadcasting career as host of CBC TV program "Suzuki on Science"
1971 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast
1971 Musical "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 87 performances
1972 Geoge Harrison and Friends' triple live album set "The Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1977 Steve Allen's "Meeting Of The Minds", a round table talk-show in which he interviews figures from history debuts on PBS
1978 Soyuz 27 launches, carrying 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1980 Last broadcast of "The Rockford Files" on NBC
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
1982 -17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
1982 AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers, 27-7 in the "Freezer Bowl"
1982 NBC's premiere of TV film "Will: G. Gordon Liddy", based on the Watergate conspirator, participant and convict
1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
1984 Argentine ex-president and general Reynaldo Bignone arrested
1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" in commercial for Wendy's hamburger chain
1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1984 US re-establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after almost 117 years
1985 Daniel Ortega inaugurated as President of Nicaragua for the first time
1986 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his 34,000th career point during 124-102 win over Indiana Pacers; only NBA player to reach the milestone at that time, holds career record until 2023
1989 LA Kings center Wayne Gretzky becomes NHL’s all-time leading scorer in combined regular season & playoff points; 4 assists in 5-4 home win over Edmonton brings his total to 2,011, 1 more than Gordie Howe
1990 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1993 Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, musical "My Favorite Year", adapted from the 1982 film, and starring Evan Pappas, Tim Curry, Andrea Martin, and Lainie Kazan, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 37 performances and a Tony Award for Martin
1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 "The Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM; hosts the program until 1999
1996 Boston guard Dana Barros sinks a 3-point field goal in his 89th straight game, during the Celtics' 113-104 win over Sacramento Kings; NBA record streak ends in next game when he goes 0 from 9
1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996 individual Hussein of Jordan visits Israel
1997 "Rehearsal" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1998 Vancouver Canucks veteran center Mark Messier becomes the 6th player in NHL history to record 1,000 assists in a 2-2 tie against the Florida Panthers at General Motors Place
1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO
Whew, that's enough for today.
It was certainly a busy day.
49 BC Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, uttering "alea iacta est" (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war and his appointment as Roman dictator for life.
69 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar
236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
381 Roman Emperor Theodosius issues edit ordering all churches be surrendered to bishops of the Catholic faith as he saw it
532 Constantinople chariot racing green and blue supporters due to be executed escape, prompting Nika revolt
1072 Robert Guiscard's Norman force conquers Palermo
1356 German Emperor Charles I promulgates the 'Golden Bull', to regulate the election of a new individual - the most important constitutional document of the Holy Roman Empire
1430 Catholic Order of the Golden Fleece is founded in Bruges in celebration of the prosperous and wealthy domains of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui
1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1642 individual Charles I and family flee London for Hampton Court fearing for their lives, not to return for 7 years
1663 individual Charles II affirms a new charter for the Royal African Company granting it a monopoly over trade along the west coast of Africa in "redwood, elephants' teeth, negroes, slaves, hides, wax, guinea grains, or other commodities of those countries"
1731 Charles Farnese becomes Duke of Parma and Piacenza
1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine published, advocating American independence
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini" premieres in Weimar
1801 William Henry Harrison is appointed the first governor of the Indiana Territory
1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1808 Herman Daendels succeeds Albertus Wiese as Governor-General of Dutch-East Indies
1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
1833 Felix Mendelssohn's cantata "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin, Germany
1839 First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam, India, arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate]
1840 Uniform Penny Post mail system starts throughout the United Kingdom an idea championed by Rowland Hill to increase the volume of mail and its availability to poorer classes
1853 Charles Reade's play "Gold" premieres in London
1861 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War)
1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 Romney expedition, Confederate Army military expedition begins in Romney, West Virginia (US Civil War)
1863 1st underground railway opens in London
1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman, Arkansas
1863 January uprising begins in Poland
1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes after Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that elected African Americans who had been expelled had the right to hold office and were reinstated
1870 Standard Oil Company created by John D. Rockefeller (30%), his brother and other business partners. Then controlled about 10% of world oil.
1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1897 Henrik Ibsen's play "John Gabriel Borkman" premieres in Helsingfors
1897 Ukrainian bacteriologist Wademar Haffkine performs the first human trial for a vaccine for the plague on himself during the Bombay epidemic
1900 British generals Frederick Roberts and Herbert Kitchener reach Cape Town during the Second Boer War
1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop, Beaumont, marking the start of the Texas oil boom (gusher age)
1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1902 Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa
1906 The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues
1910 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
1914 Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen skates world 500m record in 43.7s in Oslo, Norway
1914 Yuan Shih-k'ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor
1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of Mexico's Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood
1917 Suffragettes the "Silent Sentinels" first protest outside The White House, in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party
1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected
1927 Fritz Lang's silent film "Metropolis" premieres in Berlin
1927 Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's stage comedy "Tommy", starring Alan Bunce, Peg Entwistle, and Sidney Toler, opens at the Gaiety Theatre, NYC; runs for 232 performances
1928 George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie" premieres in New York
1930 New Zealand's 1st game of Test cricket is held in Christchurch, NZ. Englishman Maurice Allom takes a Test hat-trick.
1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed" premieres in NYC
1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace" premieres in NYC
1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1942 Japan invades North Celebes, Dutch East Indies
1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1943 Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered in Philadelphia
1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1946 UN General Assembly meets for the first time in London
1946 US Army bounces 1st radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
1948 Harold Rome's musical "Call Me Mister", starring Betty Garrett closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 734 performances
1948 J.B Priestley's stage drama "An Inspector Calls" closes at the Booth Theatre, NYC, after 95 performances
1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1951 Maurice Richard scores his 16th career hat trick in the Montreal Canadiens' 3-0 win over NY Rangers to bring his career total to 274 goals; passes Howie Morenz as NHL's #2 all-time leading goal scorer
1952 "The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Charlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)
1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 performances
1953 3rd NFL Pro Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: National Conference beats American Conference, 27-7; MVP: Don Doll, Detroit Lions, DB
1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1954 A Comet jet airliner crashes in the Mediterranean; 35 people are missing
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1955 "Ordet", directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, is released
1956 Elvis Presley records single "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 After Anthony Eden's resignation Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1964 Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres
1965 Bollingen Prize for Poetry awarded to Horace Gregory [1]
1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord
1966 The Georgia House of Representatives votes 184-12 to deny Julian Bond his seat as a result of his opposition to the Vietnam War
1967 Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate
1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia
1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1969 Sweden is the 1st Western country to recognize North Vietnam
1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1971 Canadian scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki begins his broadcasting career as host of CBC TV program "Suzuki on Science"
1971 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast
1971 Musical "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 87 performances
1972 Geoge Harrison and Friends' triple live album set "The Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1977 Steve Allen's "Meeting Of The Minds", a round table talk-show in which he interviews figures from history debuts on PBS
1978 Soyuz 27 launches, carrying 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1980 Last broadcast of "The Rockford Files" on NBC
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
1982 -17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
1982 AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers, 27-7 in the "Freezer Bowl"
1982 NBC's premiere of TV film "Will: G. Gordon Liddy", based on the Watergate conspirator, participant and convict
1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
1984 Argentine ex-president and general Reynaldo Bignone arrested
1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" in commercial for Wendy's hamburger chain
1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1984 US re-establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after almost 117 years
1985 Daniel Ortega inaugurated as President of Nicaragua for the first time
1986 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his 34,000th career point during 124-102 win over Indiana Pacers; only NBA player to reach the milestone at that time, holds career record until 2023
1989 LA Kings center Wayne Gretzky becomes NHL’s all-time leading scorer in combined regular season & playoff points; 4 assists in 5-4 home win over Edmonton brings his total to 2,011, 1 more than Gordie Howe
1990 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1993 Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, musical "My Favorite Year", adapted from the 1982 film, and starring Evan Pappas, Tim Curry, Andrea Martin, and Lainie Kazan, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 37 performances and a Tony Award for Martin
1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 "The Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM; hosts the program until 1999
1996 Boston guard Dana Barros sinks a 3-point field goal in his 89th straight game, during the Celtics' 113-104 win over Sacramento Kings; NBA record streak ends in next game when he goes 0 from 9
1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996 individual Hussein of Jordan visits Israel
1997 "Rehearsal" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1998 Vancouver Canucks veteran center Mark Messier becomes the 6th player in NHL history to record 1,000 assists in a 2-2 tie against the Florida Panthers at General Motors Place
1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO
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In 1820 the Astronomical Society of London was conceived by 14 men attending a dinner at the Freemason’s Tavern in Lincoln’s Inn Fields — and officially founded on March 10, 1820. A royal charter was signed on March 7, 1831, creating the Royal Astronomical Society; in 1954 Queen Elizabeth II performed the centennial opening of the New Zealand parliament. During the tour the Queen also delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast away from Britain; in 1991 the US Congress authorised President George HW Bush to use military force against Iraq, before a January 15 UN deadline for the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to end the occupation of Kuwait; in 2001 the Swedish football coach Sven-Göran Eriksson arrived in the UK. He was the first foreign manager of the England football team, which he led until 2006, with 40 wins out of 67 matches played; in 2004 Kimani Maruge enrolled in the first grade at primary school in Kenya, at the age of 84, with two of his 30 grandchildren also at the school. The former Mau Mau rebellion fighter wore school uniform and was made senior head boy for his study efforts.
In 1820 the Astronomical Society of London was conceived by 14 men attending a dinner at the Freemason’s Tavern in Lincoln’s Inn Fields — and officially founded on March 10, 1820. A royal charter was signed on March 7, 1831, creating the Royal Astronomical Society; in 1954 Queen Elizabeth II performed the centennial opening of the New Zealand parliament. During the tour the Queen also delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast away from Britain; in 1991 the US Congress authorised President George HW Bush to use military force against Iraq, before a January 15 UN deadline for the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to end the occupation of Kuwait; in 2001 the Swedish football coach Sven-Göran Eriksson arrived in the UK. He was the first foreign manager of the England football team, which he led until 2006, with 40 wins out of 67 matches played; in 2004 Kimani Maruge enrolled in the first grade at primary school in Kenya, at the age of 84, with two of his 30 grandchildren also at the school. The former Mau Mau rebellion fighter wore school uniform and was made senior head boy for his study efforts.
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In 1759 the British Museum opened to the public at Montague House, London, the first national public museum in the world; in 1867, 40 skaters drowned when the ice broke on Regent’s Park lake, London. The lake was drained and its depth reduced as a result of the incident; in 1943 the Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, was completed in Arlington, Virginia. It is the largest office building by floor area at about 6.5 million sq ft; in 2019 the prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was defeated by 230 votes, the then largest defeat for a sitting government in history.
In 1759 the British Museum opened to the public at Montague House, London, the first national public museum in the world; in 1867, 40 skaters drowned when the ice broke on Regent’s Park lake, London. The lake was drained and its depth reduced as a result of the incident; in 1943 the Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, was completed in Arlington, Virginia. It is the largest office building by floor area at about 6.5 million sq ft; in 2019 the prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was defeated by 230 votes, the then largest defeat for a sitting government in history.
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In 1865 William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union army general during the US civil war, made a special field order to give newly freed African-Americans property confiscated from Confederate landowners. Known as “forty acres and a mule”, the order was overturned by President Andrew Johnson, although 15 million acres of land were acquired by 1910; in 1942 Carole Lombard, the US actress best known for starring in screwball comedies, died aged 33 in an aircraft crash while returning home from a war bond rally. Her husband, the actor Clark Gable, was interred alongside her when he died in 1960, even though he had remarried twice after her death. Lombard had asked Gable to enlist during the Second World War, and although over combat age he did so on August 12, 1942. After appearing in slapstick comedies from 1927, Lombard went on star in No Man of Her Own (1932, alongside Gable), Twentieth Century (1934) and My Man Godfrey (1936); in 1979 David Attenborough presented the first programme in his natural history series Life on Earth. The series had taken three years to make; in 2014 Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who on March 9, 1974, became the second to last Japanese holdout to surrender after the end of the Second World War, died aged 91. Having been on the island of Lubang in the Philippines since December 1944, he refused to surrender until relieved of his duty by his former commanding officer. On February 20, 1974, a Japanese “hippy boy” made the initial contact, having set out to find “Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order”.
In 1865 William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union army general during the US civil war, made a special field order to give newly freed African-Americans property confiscated from Confederate landowners. Known as “forty acres and a mule”, the order was overturned by President Andrew Johnson, although 15 million acres of land were acquired by 1910; in 1942 Carole Lombard, the US actress best known for starring in screwball comedies, died aged 33 in an aircraft crash while returning home from a war bond rally. Her husband, the actor Clark Gable, was interred alongside her when he died in 1960, even though he had remarried twice after her death. Lombard had asked Gable to enlist during the Second World War, and although over combat age he did so on August 12, 1942. After appearing in slapstick comedies from 1927, Lombard went on star in No Man of Her Own (1932, alongside Gable), Twentieth Century (1934) and My Man Godfrey (1936); in 1979 David Attenborough presented the first programme in his natural history series Life on Earth. The series had taken three years to make; in 2014 Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who on March 9, 1974, became the second to last Japanese holdout to surrender after the end of the Second World War, died aged 91. Having been on the island of Lubang in the Philippines since December 1944, he refused to surrender until relieved of his duty by his former commanding officer. On February 20, 1974, a Japanese “hippy boy” made the initial contact, having set out to find “Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order”.
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In 1841 the Royal Navy, in its drive to eradicate slavery, intercepted a Portuguese ship near St Helena on its way from Angola to Brazil with 308 slaves “in good health” and 108 “sick” slaves; in 1928 Vidal Sassoon, the British hairdresser credited with creating the modern “bob” haircut and revolutionising women’s hairstyling in the 1960s, was born; in 1998 Bill Clinton became the first sitting US president to give testimony in a civil case as a defendant, answering questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused him of sexual harassment; in 2013 the cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted doping, saying in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used banned substances through all of his Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005.
In 1841 the Royal Navy, in its drive to eradicate slavery, intercepted a Portuguese ship near St Helena on its way from Angola to Brazil with 308 slaves “in good health” and 108 “sick” slaves; in 1928 Vidal Sassoon, the British hairdresser credited with creating the modern “bob” haircut and revolutionising women’s hairstyling in the 1960s, was born; in 1998 Bill Clinton became the first sitting US president to give testimony in a civil case as a defendant, answering questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused him of sexual harassment; in 2013 the cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted doping, saying in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used banned substances through all of his Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005.
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Busiest highway in the World: Highway 401 in the Province of Ontario, Canada, has volumes surpassing an average of 500,000 vehicles per day. And, it's still happening.
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In 1778 Captain James Cook sighted the Hawaiian islands, and named them the Sandwich Islands, after the fourth Earl of Sandwich; in 1909 Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) committed his first murder when he shot a bartender who had attacked Kitty O’Brien, a prostitute for whom he pimped. He spent 54 years in prison (42 in solitary) and wrote a book on bird diseases and care. From 1941 to 1959 he was an inmate at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (no 594), and died on November 21, 1963, aged 73; in 1911 an aircraft landed on a ship for the first time. Pilot Eugene B Ely flew on to the deck of the USS Pennsylvania. For safety he wore a padded football helmet and had bicycle inner tubes on his body; in 1945 Auschwitz guards forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to leave the concentration camp and its satellites in sub-zero temperatures as the Soviet Red Army approached during the Second World War; in 1991 Iraq attacked Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, its main seaport, with Scud missiles; in 1996 six leading environmental groups voiced support to a protest against a road bypass at Newbury, Berkshire. The road opened in 1998, after the clearance of 360 acres of land, including 120 acres of forestry.
In 1778 Captain James Cook sighted the Hawaiian islands, and named them the Sandwich Islands, after the fourth Earl of Sandwich; in 1909 Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) committed his first murder when he shot a bartender who had attacked Kitty O’Brien, a prostitute for whom he pimped. He spent 54 years in prison (42 in solitary) and wrote a book on bird diseases and care. From 1941 to 1959 he was an inmate at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (no 594), and died on November 21, 1963, aged 73; in 1911 an aircraft landed on a ship for the first time. Pilot Eugene B Ely flew on to the deck of the USS Pennsylvania. For safety he wore a padded football helmet and had bicycle inner tubes on his body; in 1945 Auschwitz guards forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to leave the concentration camp and its satellites in sub-zero temperatures as the Soviet Red Army approached during the Second World War; in 1991 Iraq attacked Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, its main seaport, with Scud missiles; in 1996 six leading environmental groups voiced support to a protest against a road bypass at Newbury, Berkshire. The road opened in 1998, after the clearance of 360 acres of land, including 120 acres of forestry.
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Is that when he was topped, Uncle?Laan Yaa Mo wrote: ↑January 18, 2024, 12:38 pmon this day
In 1778 Captain James Cook sighted the Hawaiian islands, and named them the Sandwich Islands, after the fourth Earl of Sandwich;
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That would come later.jackspratt wrote: ↑January 18, 2024, 8:36 pmIs that when he was topped, Uncle?Laan Yaa Mo wrote: ↑January 18, 2024, 12:38 pmon this day
In 1778 Captain James Cook sighted the Hawaiian islands, and named them the Sandwich Islands, after the fourth Earl of Sandwich;
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In 1943, in Casablanca, Winston Churchill, the prime minister, and Franklin D Roosevelt, the US president, pledged that the Second World War could end only with the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan; in 1966 an Air India Boeing 707 crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc, France, with 117 deaths. In 2013 a climber came across jewels worth €246,000 in a metal box from the aircraft; in 1984 the Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer went on sale, at a cost of $2,500; in 1995 opening statements began at the OJ Simpson trial, where he was charged with murdering his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was declared not guilty on October 3, 1995.
In 1943, in Casablanca, Winston Churchill, the prime minister, and Franklin D Roosevelt, the US president, pledged that the Second World War could end only with the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan; in 1966 an Air India Boeing 707 crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc, France, with 117 deaths. In 2013 a climber came across jewels worth €246,000 in a metal box from the aircraft; in 1984 the Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer went on sale, at a cost of $2,500; in 1995 opening statements began at the OJ Simpson trial, where he was charged with murdering his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was declared not guilty on October 3, 1995.
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In 1327 Edward III acceded to the throne, aged 14; in 1533 Henry VIII married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, in a private ceremony. He was still married to Catherine of Aragon; in 1919 the League of Nations was founded, by representatives from the UK, France, Italy, Japan and the US; in 1970 the premiere of the film MASH was held in New York. Starring Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould as surgeons in a Korean War field hospital, the film inspired the television series (1972-83); in 1990 Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani prime minister, gave birth to Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari. She was the first head of government to give birth while in office. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007.
In 1327 Edward III acceded to the throne, aged 14; in 1533 Henry VIII married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, in a private ceremony. He was still married to Catherine of Aragon; in 1919 the League of Nations was founded, by representatives from the UK, France, Italy, Japan and the US; in 1970 the premiere of the film MASH was held in New York. Starring Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould as surgeons in a Korean War field hospital, the film inspired the television series (1972-83); in 1990 Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani prime minister, gave birth to Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari. She was the first head of government to give birth while in office. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007.
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In 1790 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte was first performed in Vienna; in 1926 John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of his television system, to Royal Institution members and a reporter from The Times. His “televisor” first showed the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy, and then an office worker. The Times reported: “The image as transmitted was faint and often blurred, but substantiated a claim that … it is possible to transmit and reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the face”; in 1998 President Clinton gave a press conference in which he denied having “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern; in 2021 the prime minister Boris Johnson announced that more than 100,000 people had died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19. The UK was the first European country to pass this number.
In 1790 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte was first performed in Vienna; in 1926 John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of his television system, to Royal Institution members and a reporter from The Times. His “televisor” first showed the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy, and then an office worker. The Times reported: “The image as transmitted was faint and often blurred, but substantiated a claim that … it is possible to transmit and reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the face”; in 1998 President Clinton gave a press conference in which he denied having “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern; in 2021 the prime minister Boris Johnson announced that more than 100,000 people had died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19. The UK was the first European country to pass this number.
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In 1728 the premiere of The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay was held at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields theatre in London. The satirical ballad opera, drawing characters from real-life criminals, was an instant sensation and ran for 62 consecutive performances; in 1813 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published. Initially titled First Impressions, Austen had completed the novel in 1797 but struggled to find a publisher until after the success of Sense and Sensibility (1811). On receipt of the book (in three leather-bound volumes) she wrote to Cassandra, her sister: “I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London”; in 1856 the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration, was established by royal warrant; in 1942 Roy Plomley presented the first edition of Desert Island Discs. His guest was the comedian Vic Oliver. Plomley presented 1,791 editions; in 1985 academics at the University of Oxford refused to award Margaret Thatcher, the Oxford-educated prime minister, an honorary degree, in protest at education funding cuts.
In 1728 the premiere of The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay was held at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields theatre in London. The satirical ballad opera, drawing characters from real-life criminals, was an instant sensation and ran for 62 consecutive performances; in 1813 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published. Initially titled First Impressions, Austen had completed the novel in 1797 but struggled to find a publisher until after the success of Sense and Sensibility (1811). On receipt of the book (in three leather-bound volumes) she wrote to Cassandra, her sister: “I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London”; in 1856 the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration, was established by royal warrant; in 1942 Roy Plomley presented the first edition of Desert Island Discs. His guest was the comedian Vic Oliver. Plomley presented 1,791 editions; in 1985 academics at the University of Oxford refused to award Margaret Thatcher, the Oxford-educated prime minister, an honorary degree, in protest at education funding cuts.
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In 1607 at least 2,000 people were reported to have died when about 200 square miles of the Bristol Channel flooded, possibly the result of a tsunami; in 1797 a petition by four freed African-American slaves was presented to Congress seeking protection from capture and resale of freed slaves. The petition was denied: yes 33, no 50; in 1933 Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, became chancellor of Germany; in 1972 British troops killed 13 people during a civil rights march in Londonderry, known as Bloody Sunday; in 2020, 9,976 global cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) were reported. The World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. On December 31, 2020, the Johns Hopkins University virus Dashboard recorded 83,192,664 global cases and 1,813,087 deaths. The total number of UK cases: 2,496,204 (world rank 6th) and 73,622 deaths (rank 6th).
In 1607 at least 2,000 people were reported to have died when about 200 square miles of the Bristol Channel flooded, possibly the result of a tsunami; in 1797 a petition by four freed African-American slaves was presented to Congress seeking protection from capture and resale of freed slaves. The petition was denied: yes 33, no 50; in 1933 Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, became chancellor of Germany; in 1972 British troops killed 13 people during a civil rights march in Londonderry, known as Bloody Sunday; in 2020, 9,976 global cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) were reported. The World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. On December 31, 2020, the Johns Hopkins University virus Dashboard recorded 83,192,664 global cases and 1,813,087 deaths. The total number of UK cases: 2,496,204 (world rank 6th) and 73,622 deaths (rank 6th).
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