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• 951 Otto I the Great is crowned King of Italy

Concordat of Worms

1122 Concordat of Worms is agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V

King Richard's Feast

1387 One of the most extravagant medieval English feasts ever recorded is held for Richard II and John of Gaunt in London, including 14 salted oxen, 120 sheep, 1,200 pigeons, and 11,000 eggs [1]

• 1459 Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire: an inferior Yorkist force defeats a larger Lancastrian force in a major battle of the English Wars of the Roses

• 1492 John I Albert (32) becomes King of Poland, succeeding his father, Casimir IV

• 1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, holds its first commencement

• 1746 Jacob Gilles is appointed Dutch pension advisor

I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight

1779 John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero

West Point Plot Revealed

1780 British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point

• 1795 Conseil de Cinq-Cents (Council of 500) forms in Paris

• 1803 Battle of Assaye: British-Indian forces defeat the Maratha Army

• 1818 Border demarcation markers for Neutral Moresnet, a small territory administered jointly by the Netherlands and Prussia, are installed

• 1821 Fall of Tripolitsa: Greek forces massacre 6,000 to 15,000 Muslim and Jewish civilians during the Greek War of Independence

• 1830 Dutch troops occupy Brussels

• 1835 HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago

• 1845 The first baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers, organizes and adopts a rulebook, known as the Knickerbocker Rules

• 1846 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest discover Neptune

• 1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die

• 1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins

• 1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence, but it is crushed by Spain

• 1873 Tom Allen defeats Mike McCale for the Heavyweight Boxing title

Billy the Kid Arrested

1875 Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time and jailed after receiving clothing stolen from a Chinese laundry but escapes two days later

• 1876 Ottawa Rough Riders play their first game
• 1877 Hurricane strikes Curaçao and Bonaire, killing 200
• 1879 Baldwin steam motors are first tried in Sydney, Australia
• 1879 Richard Rhodes invents a hearing aid called the Rhodes Audiphone [1]
• 1880 Jules Ferry forms French government
• 1884 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, beginning the era of data processing
• 1887 Tongariro National Park forms in New Zealand after a proposal by local chief Ngāti Tūwharetoa, becoming the fourth national park in the world [1]
• 1889 Nintendo Koppai (later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
• 1890 Ed Cartwright bats in seven RBIs in one inning
• 1891 Vocational school Throop Institute, later California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is established in Pasadena, California
• 1895 French labor union CGT (Confédération Générale du Travail) forms
• 1897 First Frontier Days Rodeo Celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming
• 1904 British Colonel Francis Younghusband and his expedition, along with an accompanying military force, leave Lhasa, Tibet
• 1905 Siege of Fort Mahenge in German East Africa is broken
• 1907 Proclamation sets the fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada
• 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch second, causing the third out in the ninth and disallowing the winning run; the game ends tied, and the Cubs win the replay and pennant
• 1908 University of Alberta opens

Music History

1911 George M. Cohan's musical "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" closes at George M. Cohan's Theatre, NYC, after 424 performances

• 1911 United States Post Office Department designates Earl Ovington "Official Air Mail Pilot #1"

• 1913 French aviator Roland Garros (24) is the first to fly over the Mediterranean Sea from Fréjus, France, to Bizerte, Tunisia, completing the non-stop flight in 7 hours and 53 minutes

• 1913 Serbian troops march into Albania

• 1913 Women's protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burned in front of the municipal offices

• 1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves

• 1920 Alexandre Millerand is elected president of France

• 1920 Despite Japanese protests, China withdraws recognition of Tsarist representatives in China

• 1922 Polish parliament passes the Gdynia Seaport Construction Act

• 1923 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against the Fleet Law

• 1925 George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man" premieres in NYC

• 1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named American League MVP

Upset of the Decade

1926 "Upset of the Decade": Gene Tunney defeats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Sesquicentennial Stadium (later known as JFK Stadium) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the world heavyweight boxing title

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927 "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans," directed by F. W. Murnau and starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, is released (Academy Awards Unique and Artistic Picture 1927)

• 1930 German inventor Johann Ostermeyer receives a US patent for the flashbulb, initially marketed under the brand name Vacublitz

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1932 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud merges the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• 1933 MLB New York Yankees commit five errors (three by shortstop Frankie Crosetti) but beat the Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston

• 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Tigers

• 1938 Time capsule to be opened in the year 6939 is buried at the World's Fair in NYC; it contains a woman's hat, a man's pipe, and 1,100 feet of microfilm

• 1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6 as the Dodgers get 27 hits and beat the Phillies 22-4

Mondrian Leaves Europe

1940 Dutch artist Piet Mondrian leaves Europe for New York, where he lives for the rest of his life

Mussert Meets Hitler

1940 Dutch Nazi collaborator Mussert's first meeting with Adolf Hitler

• 1940 Unsuccessful Allied French and British attempt to capture Vichy-controlled Dakar; Allies withdraw on September 25
• 1941 General de Gaulle forms a government in exile in London
• 1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt; battleship Marat sinks
• 1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz concentration camp
• 1942 Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad
• 1942 Transport #36 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
• 1943 Beginning of the liquidation of Vilnius' ghettos in Lithuania, an estimated 50,000 people will be killed [1]
• 1944 Proclamation No. 30 is issued, declaring the existence of a state of war between the Philippines and the United States and the United Kingdom

Cavalcade of Jazz

1945 First Cavalcade of Jazz outdoor concert is held at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, featuring Count Basie, Valaida Snow, and others

• 1948 Braves clinch NL pennant

Indians Bury Pennant

1949 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck holds a funeral service to bury the 1948 pennant

Soviet Atomic Bomb

1949 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation

• 1950 Canada's first mountain rescue by helicopter of a forestry worker from a Wells Gray Park forestry lookout

Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Ralph Bunche for mediation in Israel, making him the first African American winner

• 1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British forces on Hill 282 in Korea, resulting in 17 deaths

• 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch the NL pennant with a record of 96-57 over the New York Giants' 92-62

• 1952 First closed-circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event

Marciano KOs Walcott

1952 Undefeated Rocky Marciano knocks out defending champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia, for the world heavyweight boxing title

Nixon's Checkers Speech

1952 US vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers Speech," defending the gift of a cocker spaniel named Checkers to his daughters

• 1953 KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting

Emmett Till Killers Found Not Guilty

1955 All-male, all-white jury finds Roy Bryant and John William Milam not guilty of the brutal murder of Black teenager Emmett Till in Sumner, Mississippi, in a landmark case that helps inspire the civil rights movement in the US; the two later sell an interview admitting to the murder

• 1955 Pakistan signs the Baghdad Pact
• 1955 Yankees clinch pennant by beating Red Sox 3-2

That'll Be the Day

1957 "That'll Be the Day" single by Buddy Holly and The Crickets reaches #1 in the US

• 1957 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cardinals 4-2

Little Rock Crisis

1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support the integration of nine Black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas after a white mob forces them to withdraw

• 1957 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting
• 1958 Great Britain performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• 1958 Stravinsky's "Thieni" premieres in Venice
• 1958 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1959 Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, the MS Princess of Tasmania, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait

The Jetsons

1962 ABC's first color TV series, "The Jetsons," created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres

Music History

1962 Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong debut songs from "The Real Ambassadors", a jazz musical loosely based on their experiences touring for the US State Department, at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California; libretto written by Iola Brubeck, Dave's wife [1]

• 1962 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills breaks Ty Cobb's 1915 MLB steals record, recording his 97th steal on his way to 104
• 1962 Martin Walser's play "Eiche und Angora" premieres in Berlin
• 1962 New York's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as the first unit of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• 1963 Georgette Ciselet is the first woman on the Belgian Council of State
• 1963 WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Greek Colonels' regime frees former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou
• 1967 Radio Malta stops broadcasting tests
• 1968 WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969 "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, premieres at the Roger Sherman Theater in New Haven, Connecticut

• 1969 First broadcast of "Marcus Welby, M.D." on ABC-TV

Paul McCartney Rumoured Dead

1969 Northern Star, the student newspaper for Northern Illinois University, starts rumors that Paul McCartney is dead

• 1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes Prime Minister of Malaysia
• 1970 Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), Arthur Young, announces his resignation
• 1970 IBM announces the System/370 Model 145, its first computer to employ semiconductors for main memory

Vermeer Painting Stolen

1971 Jan Vermeer's painting "The Love Letter" is stolen from the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, by a 21-year-old thief

• 1971 Two members of the Official Irish Republican Army die in a premature bomb explosion

State of Emergency

1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces a state of emergency and declares martial law

• 1973 Largest known prime number, 2^132,049 - 1, is found with computer aid by David Slowinski and holds as the largest until 1985
• 1974 BBC premieres the world's first teletext service, BBC Ceefax, allowing people to check the latest news without having to wait for the next news bulletin [1]

Whatever Gets You Thru the Night

1974 John Lennon's single "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night," featuring Elton John, is released in the US; it is Lennon's only solo no. 1 single during his lifetime

• 1976 Preston Jones's "Texas Trilogy" play premieres in New York City

• 1976 South Africa decides to allow multiracial national teams

• 1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth

• 1977 "I Just Fall in Love Again" single released by The Carpenters

• 1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on the TV show "Charlie's Angels"

• 1977 Third test of Space Shuttle Enterprise

Hero's Welcome for Sadat

1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Anwar Sadat home from Camp David peace summit

Fonda's Anti-Nuke Rally

1979 Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend an anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, NYC

• 1979 MLB St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock steals his 938th and final base of his career
• 1979 The president of Somalia approves the constitution

Bob Marley's Last Concert

1980 Reggae legend Bob Marley's final concert at Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• 1982 Amin Gemayel is sworn in as President of Lebanon

The Nylon Curtain

1982 Columbia Records releases "The Nylon Curtain," singer-songwriter Billy Joel's eighth studio album

• 1982 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1983 Argentine military regime grants amnesty to military and political assassins
• 1983 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating in preparation of STS-9
• 1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa knocks out American Michael Dokes in 10 rounds in Richfield, Ohio, for the WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1983 MLB Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton becomes the 16th pitcher to win 300 games, beating the Cardinals 6-2 in St. Louis
• 1983 MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry (45) announces his retirement after 22 seasons, with a career record of 314-265, a 3.11 ERA, and 3,534 strikeouts
• 1984 36th Emmy Awards: "Hill Street Blues," "Cheers," John Ritter, and Tyne Daly win
• 1984 Detroit Tigers' Sparky Anderson becomes the first MLB manager to win 100 games in both leagues
• 1984 NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games
• 1986 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out the first 8 Dodgers of the game and ends with 10
• 1986 Congress selects the rose as the US national flower

Olympic World Record

1988 Americans Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Jager, and Matt Biondi swim a world record of 3:16.53 to win the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay at the Seoul Olympics

• 1988 East German swimmer Uwe Dassler sets a world record of 3:46.95 to win the 400 m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics, edging Australian Duncan Armstrong by 0.2 seconds
• 1988 Fiji's new constitution is proposed
• 1988 Jose Canseco is baseball's first player to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs

Mota Wins Marathon Gold

1988 Portuguese world champion Rosa Mota runs 2:25:40 to achieve a famous Olympic marathon win over Australian Lisa Martin at the Seoul Games

• 1988 Premiere of director Paul Schrader's crime biopic "Patty Hearst"

• 1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in the 6th inning

• 1990 PBS begins an 11-hour miniseries on the Civil War

• 1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel

• 1992 Bill Comrie purchases the BC Lions from the CFL

• 1992 Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City

• 1992 Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah

• 1992 Manon Rheaume becomes the first female to play in an NHL exhibition game as she plays goalie for the Tampa Bay Lightning, allowing 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period

• 1992 Mudstorm kills 30 in southern France

• 1993 Paul Chu's group reports superconductivity at -123°C (a record high)

• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (WZMT 97.9 FM) and in West Palm Beach, Florida (WCLB 95.5 FM)

• 1997 Seattle Mariners break record for most home runs in a year (258)

• 1999 NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter

• 1999 Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers in what is then the worst crash in the airline's long history

• 2002 First version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox, dubbed Phoenix 0.1, is released to the public

• 2003 Crime drama "NCIS," starring Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, and David McCallum, premieres on CBS in the US

• 2004 At least 1,070 people in Haiti are reported killed by floods caused by Hurricane Jeanne

• 2005 FBI shoots and kills militant and fugitive Filiberto Ojeda Ríos on the outskirts of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico

• 2012 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine

• 2012 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer

• 2012 Twenty Iranian US visas are denied, including those for diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York

• 2013 25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China

Illuminate

2016 Shawn Mendes releases his album "Illuminate", debuting at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200

Trump Withdraws Invitation

2017 US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend

• 2017 Women are allowed in King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time during Saudi Arabia's 87th National Day celebrations
• 2018 39-year-old New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees throws a 17-yard pass to Michael Thomas to become the NFL career pass leader, breaking Brett Favre's record of 6,300 completions; Saints beat Falcons 43-37

Modicare

2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare," a free healthcare program for 500 million people, the world's largest healthcare initiative

• 2018 Japan's space agency is the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid, Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft
• 2018 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Chicago: Alexander Zverev beats Kevin Anderson 6-7, 7-5, 10-7 to complete a 13-8 win for Team Europe over Team World
• 2018 Mud volcano Otman-Bozdag erupts near Baku, Azerbaijan, sending smoke and flames 300 meters (980 feet) high and creating cracks 40 meters (131 feet) deep
• 2019 178-year-old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travelers worldwide and prompting the largest postwar repatriation effort by the UK government

How Dare You!

2019 Climate activist Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders with "How dare you" for not addressing climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York

• 2019 Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire, hitting a journalist while leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
• 2019 Renewed violence in the West Papua region, Indonesia, leaves 27 dead in the capital Wamena after protesters set fire to buildings over racism claims
• 2019 US police officer is fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanor battery in Florida

Lukashenko's Secret Ceremony

2020 Alexander Lukashenko is sworn in for a sixth term as President of Belarus in a secret ceremony amid continued widespread protests against his re-election

Officer Indicted in Taylor Case

2020 Kentucky grand jury indicts only one of three officers for wanton engagement for shooting unarmed Breonna Taylor in Louisville

• 2020 President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election during a White House press conference
• 2021 Fossilized footprints 23,000-21,000 years old from White Sands, New Mexico indicate settlement by humans of North and South America earlier than previously thought [1]

1st Regulations Against Greenhouse Gases

2021 The Biden administration and EPA introduce the first regulation against greenhouse gases, reducing hydrofluorocarbons by 85% in 15 years

The Mini-Budget that Broke Britain

2022 British Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng release "the mini-budget that broke Britain," containing the largest tax cuts, leading to an economic crisis and the downfall of both

• 2022 Russia holds sham referendums in four partly occupied Ukrainian regions, with some Ukrainian citizens forced to vote at gunpoint
• 2022 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hits 2 home runs with 5 RBIs in an 11-0 win over the Dodgers in LA; becomes the fourth player in MLB history to hit 700 career home runs

Federer's Final Match

2022 Tennis great Roger Federer plays his final professional match during Laver Cup in London; teams with friend and rival Rafael Nadal but loses 6–4, 6–7 [9–11] to Americans Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe

National Humanities Medal

2022 US President Joe Biden awards British singer Elton John with National Humanities Medal

• 2024 Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people [1]
• 2025 Flooding from Typhoon Ragasa kills 14 people in Hualien County, Taiwan

Return of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2025 Late night television talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" returns to most ABC stations after being halted due to complaints about his political jokes. The suspension triggered boycotts and concerns of censorship; approximately 20% of network affiliates initiate their own pre-emptions [1]