422 St. Celestine I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 506 35 bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde, shedding light on the moral conditions of the clergy and laity in southern France 918 Arnulf I the Old becomes lord of Flanders 1349 Jews who survive Black Death riots in Constance, Prince-Bishopric of Constance, Holy Roman Empire, are burned to death as part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe 1510 Bishop Frederik of Bath recaptures the Dutch city of Oldenzaal 1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots 1547 England demands that the 10-year-old Edward VI marry the 5-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots , to unite the English and Scottish crowns 1608 John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown Colony Council, Virginia 1776 George Washington asks for a spy, and Nathan Hale volunteers 1785 Prussia signs a trade agreement with the US 1798 British Honduras defeats Spain in the Battle of St. George's Caye 1813 American naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie 1823 Peru’s Congress names Simón Bolívar President of Peru 1838 Hector Berlioz 's first full-length opera, "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris 1845 King Willem II opens the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine 1847 First theater opens in Hawaii 1849 Actor Edwin Booth makes his stage debut at age 15 in Richard III in Boston 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora 1858 John Holden hits the first recorded home run in a game between Brooklyn and New York 1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry in Virginia; 170 casualties 1861 Battle of Cheat Mountain, Elkwater, West Virginia (until September 15) 1863 US Civil War: The Battle of Bayou Fourche, also known as the Battle of Little Rock, begins and ends as Union forces capture the city of Little Rock, Arkansas 1869 Baptist minister Izumi Yosuke supposedly invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms 1880 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty with King Makoko Ilo I of the Teke Kingdom of Mbé, placing the kingdom under French protection and enabling France to establish a foothold at present-day Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo 1884 Congressman John R. Lynch presides over Republican National Convention 1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first person fined for drunk driving 1897 Lattimer Massacre: a sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by anarchist Luigi Lucheni 1898 Lord Kitchener sails from Khartoum to Fashoda to confront French attempts to claim territory in Sudan 1899 Second quake in seven days (magnitude 8.6) hits Yakutat Bay, Alaska 1900 20.3 cm of rainfall in Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) 1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes at her moorings after the magazine catches fire, killing 251 seamen 1913 Cleveland Call and Post newspaper forms 1913 George W. Buckner is named minister to Liberia 1919 China becomes a member of the League of Nations 1919 Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell no-hits the New York Yankees 3-0 at the Polo Grounds, New York City 1919 New York City welcomes home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 World War I soldiers 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany 1922 New York Yankees play their farewell home games at Polo Grounds, winning both games of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics; move to Yankee Stadium the following season 1923 Irish Free State joins the League of Nations 1924 Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in "the crime of the century" 1924 New York Giants defeat Boston Braves 22-1 at Polo Grounds; future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out 1926 Allies-German Treaty of Koblenz is drawn 1926 Germany joins the League of Nations 1930 Charles E. Mitchell is named minister to Liberia 1931 Lord Cecil of the British government says war is never so improbable 1931 Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by one of Charles Luciano's hitmen in the Helmsley Building in New York City 1932 Dodgers' Johnny Frederick hits record sixth pinch-hit home run of the season 1932 Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City 1933 First Negro League All-Star Game: West beats East 11-7 at Comiskey Park 1937 Cleveland Rams play their first NFL game and lose 28-0 1937 Second American Football League plays first game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) 1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King , declares war on Germany 1940 Buckingham Palace in London is hit during the German Blitz bombing campaign 1942 British RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Düsseldorf, Germany 1942 British troops land in Madagascar 1943 British 8th Army occupies Taranto, Italy 1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of Vatican City 1943 Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley arrives in Prestwick, London 1943 The Italian fleet anchors in Malta 1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning says to Field Marshal Montgomery , "But, Sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland, California changes its call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) 1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado, but survives for another 18 months before choking to death 1945 Vidkun Quisling , head of the Nazi-controlled Norwegian government during WWII, is sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis 1948 Bijz Criminal Division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life imprisonment 1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes the first to hit three home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium 1951 Britain begins an economic boycott of Iran 1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg, France 1952 West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signs a reparation pact for the Jewish people 1953 Swanson sells its first TV dinner, a turkey meal with cornbread dressing, peas, and sweet potatoes 1954 Attempting to handle New York Giants pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm 's knuckleball, catcher Ray Katt sets a major league record with four passed balls 1954 WLUK-TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV starring James Arness 1956 Great Britain performs a nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia 1956 Public schools integrate in Louisville, Kentucky 1956 WSYE (now WETM) TV channel 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) broadcasts for the first time 1958 WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1960 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs a world record 2:15:16.2 barefoot to win the men's marathon at the Rome Olympics, Africa's first Olympic gold medal 1960 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal-winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics, Gerevich's sixth consecutive gold medal in the event 1960 Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the US wins its fifth consecutive men's basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 victory over Brazil at the Rome Games 1960 Gymnastics competition at the Rome Olympics concludes with the Soviet Union taking 10 of the 15 gold medals; Soviet gymnasts Boris Shakhlin and Larisa Latynina win 3 gold medals each 1960 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits a 643-foot home run over the right field roof in Detroit 1960 Yugoslavia dominates Denmark 3-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Rome Olympics 1961 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch the F1 World Drivers' Championship, becoming the first American F1 world champion 1961 Italian F1 Grand Prix, Monza: A crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes the seventh player to hit home run number 400 1961 The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR 1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s 16-0 1963 Stan Musial hits a home run in his first at-bat as a grandfather, the first in MLB history to do so 1963 Twenty black students enter public schools in Alabama 1964 Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) forms 1964 Rod Stewart records his first single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," a cover of an American blues standard first recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson in 1937 1965 Great Britain performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the US 1965 MLB Philadelphia Phillies play their 10,000th game, winning 5-4 in 12 innings over the St. Louis Cardinals at their home field Connie Mack Stadium 1965 WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Muhammad Ali defeats Karl Mildenberger by TKO in the 12th round for the heavyweight boxing title 1966 Neil Diamond has his first Billboard chart success with the single "Cherry, Cherry," eventually peaking at No. 6 1966 The Beatles' "Revolver" album goes #1 and stays #1 for six weeks in the UK 1967 Chicago White Sox's Joel Horlen no-hits the Detroit Tigers 6-0 1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not become Spanish 1967 Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hitter win 1967 KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in first place for the first time 1969 US performs a nuclear test at Grand Valley, Colorado 1971 KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1972 American freestyle wrestler Dan Gable wins the 68 kg division gold medal at the Munich Olympics, becoming the only Olympic wrestler not to have a single point scored against him in the competition 1972 American long-distance runner Frank Shorter achieves a famous win in the men's marathon with a time of 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics 1972 American men's 4 x 100 m relay team of Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker, and Eddie Hart combine for a world record 38.19 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics 1972 Cuban boxer Teófilo Stevenson wins first of three consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when Munich Games opponent Ion Alexe of Romania withdraws from the final because of a broken thumb 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Virén wraps up the 5,000/10,000 m double at the Munich Olympics; runs Olympic record 13:26.42 for the 5,000 m gold medal

1972 In an American double in the inaugural Olympic archery competition in Munich, John Williams wins the men's individual gold medal, and Doreen Wilber takes the women's gold 1972 Kazimierz Deyna scores twice as Poland beats Hungary 2-1 in the Olympic football gold medal match; 80,000 spectators attend at Munich Olympic Stadium 1972 Three British soldiers are killed in a landmine attack near Dungannon, County Tyrone 1972 West Germany beats East Germany by 0.13 seconds for the gold medal in the East vs. West in a women's 4 x 100 m relay at the Munich Olympics 1972 West Germany beats Pakistan 1-0 to become the first European nation since 1920 to win the field hockey Olympic title marred by the disgraceful behavior of Pakistani players, fans, and officials after losing the Munich final 1972 WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1972 Yugoslavia beats Czechoslovakia 21-16 in the inaugural Olympic handball final in Munich 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton in a 12-round split decision for the NABF heavyweight boxing title at the Forum in Inglewood, California 1973 NASA astronauts aboard Skylab 3 prank Mission Control in Houston using recordings of Helen Garriott, wife of crew member Owen Garriott, to answer the morning call from Earth 1973 NFL New York Jets trade pro football's leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis Cardinals 1974 Controversial TV drama "Born Innocent" premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home 1974 MLB St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base record 1974 Portugal recognizes the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, its former West African colony 1974 Teuvo Louhivuori sets a cycling distance record of 515.8 miles (834.1 km) in 24 hours 1975 American rock band Kiss releases their first live album "Alive!" 1975 Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 1976 Five Croatian terrorists hijack TWA flight 355 from LaGuardia Airport, New York headed to Chicago, Illinois to advocate Croat independence from Yugoslavia; plane redirected to Paris, France where arrests are made 1976 Two airliners collide over Yugoslavia, killing all 176 aboard 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs the female world record marathon in 2:34:47.5 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France 1978 Arlyne Rhode sets the female footbow distance record of 1,113 yards and 30 inches (1,018.64 m) 1978 Fourth game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox 7-4 to tie for AL East first place; Yankees outhit archrivals 67-21; score 42-9 1978 The single point American Lotus driver Mario Andretti earns for finishing 6th at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship 1979 Three Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1980 Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick 1981 "Guernica," a painting by Pablo Picasso, returns to Spain 1982 Decca releases the Beatles' audition on the "Complete Silver Beatles" album 20 years after label executives rejected them, feeling that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business" 1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title 1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma 1984 First episode of the daily syndicated TV game show "Jeopardy!" with Alex Trebek as host 1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is the youngest to cycle across the US in 24 days 1984 Te Maori exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York 1985 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors 1986 Bryan O'Connor is named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel 1987 Polish composer Henryk Górecki's a cappella choral work "Miserere", composed in 1981 in response to aggressive police response to labor union sit-in, premieres at St. Stanisłaus Church in Włocławek, Poland with Stanisław Krawczyński conducting the Bydgoszcz Philharmonic Choir 1988 Hurricane Gilbert kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas, and Yucatan 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, setting a team defensive record 1989 East Germans begin their flight to the West via Hungary and Czechoslovakia 1989 Five days after hitting a home run for the Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first 1989 Indianapolis Colts running back Eric Dickerson rushes for 106 yards against San Francisco 49ers to become the fastest NFL player to surpass the 10,000-yard plateau in his 91st career game 1990 Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is consecrated by Pope John Paul II in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, as the largest church in the world at 30,000 square meters (320,000 sq ft) 1990 Ellis Island reopens as a museum 1990 For the first time in New York Yankees history, they are completely swept in a season series as the Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 1990 For the first time since 1968, all eight Grand Slam tennis champions are different people 1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada 1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq 1990 Mariner Matt Young becomes the 21st American League player to strike out four batters in one inning 1991 Gail Devers runs the US female record for the 100m hurdles in 12.48 seconds 1991 Rock band Nirvana releases their single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," often dubbed the anthem of Generation X 1991 US Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas ' nomination to the US Supreme Court 1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her psychiatric help fee from 5 cents to 47 cents 1993 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, debuts on Fox 1993 1,000th Boeing 747 jumbo jet is produced 1994 Chong Hey swims a female record in the 400m medley with a time of 4:01.67 and in the 100m backstroke 1995 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Frasier, and Candice Bergen win 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns and MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for the only time, and both win; Browns 22-6 vs. Tampa, Indians 5-3 vs. Orioles 1997 Discovery buys the Travel Channel for $20 million 1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe Ruth as the only players to hit 50 home runs in two consecutive years 1999 Pedro Martínez pitches a near-perfect game against the New York Yankees, allowing only a solo home run by Chili Davis 2000 52nd Emmy Awards: The West Wing , Will & Grace, James Gandolfini , and Sela Ward win 2000 Indiana University fires basketball coach Bob Knight after an altercation with a student; Knight has spent 29 years at the school, compiling a 662-239 record 2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations 2007 "There Will Be Blood," directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis , premieres in New York City 2007 Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile following a military coup in October 1999 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland 2012 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin Mines in Marikana, South Africa 2012 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam 2012 A leftover bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children 2012 Sixteen people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan 2012 Teachers in Chicago strike, affecting 350,000 students 2013 A Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Arctic Ocean, killing three people 2013 Sixteen people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq 2015 Floods and landslides in northeast Japan, centered on Joso, force 90,000 to evacuate their homes 2015 Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson resigns in the wake of the IRA's supposed killing of Kevin McGuigan 2015 Scientists and a team of female archaeologists announce the discovery of the remains of a new human-like species, Homo naledi, in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa 2017 Ai Mori wins gold in lead climbing at the IFSC Youth World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria 2017 Artist Marta Minujin begins redistributing books from her art installation "Parthenon of Banned Books," honoring books burned by Nazis in Kassel, Germany [1] 2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys in the US as a category 3 hurricane 2018 Australian newspaper "Herald Sun" is criticized for "racist" cartoon of American tennis star Serena Williams 2018 California passes a law to commit to carbon-free electricity sources by 2045 2018 John Legend , Andrew Lloyd Webber , and Tim Rice win Emmy Awards for the television special "Jesus Christ Superstar - Live In Concert," making them all EGOTs (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winners); Legend is the first Black male artist to achieve EGOT status 2018 South Carolina issues mandatory evacuation order affecting one million people ahead of Hurricane Florence 2018 UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for an urgent climate change conference, saying "climate change is moving faster than we are" 2019 Alibaba chairman Jack Ma steps down and is succeeded by Daniel Zhang 2019 Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres) of forest and grassland since August, according to College of Biologists in La Paz 2019 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran 2019 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency delivers half a million face masks to Sarawak state after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burn in Indonesia, causing hazardous levels of air pollution 2019 Novelist Margaret Atwood publishes "The Testaments," her follow-up to "The Handmaid's Tale" 2019 US President Donald Trump fires his third National Security Adviser, John Bolton 2020 Austrian-British researcher Martin Hairer wins the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics worth $3 million for his work on stochastic analysis 2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes the largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles) 2020 Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,000 people, 10% of the population, to evacuate with an unprecedented 900,000 acres burned 2021 Rhino Records releases "Chicago Live At Carnegie Hall Complete," a 16-CD box set commemorating the historic April 1971 series of sold-out shows at the famed venue by the American "rock band with horns" 2022 Best film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival is awarded to Laura Poitras’ documentary about photographer Nan Goldin, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" [1] 2022 U.N. 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