Louis Grants Immunity
816 King of the Franks Louis the Pious grants the Archbishop of Salzburg immunity to secure loyalty from the clergy
Conversion Sermons
1428 King Alfonso V orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
- 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescue Bologna, which was under siege from a combined Papal-Spanish army
Treaty of Vaucelles
1556 King Henry II of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sign the Treaty of Vaucelles, creating a temporary truce in the Italian War of 1551–59
- 1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk in the Netherlands, drive nuns out
Henry of Navarre Rejects Catholicism
1576 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
1597 A group of early Japanese Christians, known as the 26 Martyrs, are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society
Roger Williams Arrives in Boston
1631 Puritan minister and founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams first arrives in Boston from England
- 1644 Connecticut passes the first US livestock branding law
King Charles II
1649 Prince of Wales proclaimed King Charles II of Great Britain by Covenanter Parliament of Scotland
- 1663 Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England
On the Shoulders of Giants
1676 Isaac Newton writes to fellow polymath Robert Hooke “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
- 1679 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I signs a peace treaty with France
Wesley Brothers Arrive in Savannah
1736 British Methodist religious leaders John Wesley and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
- 1777 American British Colony of Georgia becomes 1st US territory to abolish both entail and primogeniture land and estate inheritance practices
1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 2nd state, South Carolina
- 1782 British garrison in Menorca (western Mediterranean) surrenders to French and Spanish fleet as part of the American Revolutionary War
- 1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria in Italy, killing 30,000
- 1783 Sweden recognizes US independence
- 1795 Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud
- 1803 English explorer George Bass and crew set sail from Sydney to Tahiti and Chile - they're never seen again
George Made Prince Regent
1811 Prince George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, is appointed as Prince-Regent after his father King George III is recognized as insane due to mental illness
- 1817 First US gas company incorporates in Baltimore (coal gas for streetlights)
- 1818 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway
- 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates the first detachable shirt collar
- 1831 Jan van Speyk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp to avoid capture by the Belgian, killing about 30
- 1846 Oregon Spectator is the first newspaper to be published on the West Coast
- 1850 D.D. Parmelee patents the first key-driven adding machine in New Paltz, NY
Hermitage Museum
1852 Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg opens to the public with Catherine the Great's collection of 4,000 paintings forming its core collection
- 1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities
- 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
- 1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress (US Civil War)
- 1864 Danish army begins its withdrawal from Danevirke to Dybbøl through driven snow, last time the Danes would occupy Danevirke, symbol of Danish identity
- 1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
- 1865 US Civil War: Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
- 1869 World's largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, is found by John Deason and Richard Oates (weighing 97.14 kg) in Moliagul, Australia
- 1870 First motion picture shown to a theater audience airs in Philadelphia
- 1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
- 1881 Phoenix, Arizona incorporates
- 1885 News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London
Otello
1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Italy, Verdi's first new opera for over 15 years
- 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco
- 1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
- 1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
- 1897 First showing of a motion picture in Hawaii takes place at the Hawaii Opera House
- 1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
- 1900 British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
1900 Draft of the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty to build the Panama Canal is sent to the US Senate by President William McKinley
- 1901 First Loop-the-loop roller coaster opens on Coney Island, NY, built by Edwin Prescott
- 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends
- 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
O Solo Mio
1916 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso records "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey
- 1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
- 1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
Pershing's Troops Leave Mexico
1917 The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year
- 1918 Separation of church and state begins in USSR
- 1918 Stephen W. Thompson becomes the first US pilot to down an enemy airplane
- 1919 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
- 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
- 1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
- 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar Territory (previous part of Germany occupied by Allied forces after WWI)
- 1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1924 1st Winter Olympic Games close at Chamonix, France
Gandhi Released
1924 Mahatma Gandhi is released from Yerwada Prison in Pune, British India, on health grounds after a bout of appendicitis
- 1924 Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips"
The General
1927 "The General", American silent film starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack, co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, premieres in New York City
- 1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco
- 1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
Campbell's Blue Bird Record
1931 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 246.08 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida
- 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
- 1932 American speed skater Jack Shea wins the 1,500m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches sprint double after also taking out the 500m
- 1933 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
Reichstag Arsonist Heads to Germany
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch-German border, will later set fire to the German Reichstag
Ferguson's Patents Tractor Hydraulics
1936 Harry Ferguson patents the suction side hydraulic control system, allowing control of three-point mounted agricultural implements attached to tractors [1]
- 1936 National Wildlife Federation forms
- 1936 Silent film "Modern Times," directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
Supreme Court Packing
1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
- 1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
- 1938 III British Empire Games open in Sydney, Australia
- 1940 General Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
- 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
- 1942 MLB Boston Braves get minor league outfielder Tommy Holmes from New York Yankees in trade for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore
- 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt
- 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
LaMotta vs. Robinson
1943 Jake LaMotta defeats future multi-weight world boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson by unanimous points decision in Detroit in the 2nd of their 6 meetings; his only win of their rivalry; Robinson’s first loss in his first 40 pro bouts
Captain America
1944 "Captain America" serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside of a comic book
- 1944 358 RAF bombers attack Stettin
- 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
1945 WWII: US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manila in the Philippines after a month-long battle, ending three years of Japanese military occupation
- 1946 The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea
- 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland
- 1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
Olympic Gold
1948 18-year-old Dick Button becomes first American men's figure skating Olympic gold medallist at the St. Moritz Winter Games; first to complete a double axel in competition; retains title in 1952
- 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic ski slalom champion
- 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
- 1953 "Peter Pan," an animated film by Walt Disney, opens at the Roxy Theater in NYC
- 1953 Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain
- 1954 WCDC-TV channel 19 in Adams, Massachusetts (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Finland goes 1-2 in the ski jumping at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; Antti Hyvärinen takes gold ahead of teammate Aulis Kallakorpi
- 1956 NYC Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build a new stadium for the Dodgers baseball team
- 1956 VII Winter Olympic Games close in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
- 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US African American foreign minister (to Romania)
- 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
- 1962 Black and White parents stage an overnight sit-in after school board denies transfer requests of nine Black families for their children to be transferred to newer school facility in Englewood, New Jersey
- 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all within 16 degrees
- 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
- 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure
- 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
- 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
- 1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" variety show premieres on CBS TV [1]
- 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
- 1968 A fishing trawler from Hull sinks off the coast of Iceland
- 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1968 Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
- 1969 "Turn-On," debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
- 1969 United States population reaches 200 million
- 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice-president, general manager, and head coach of NFL Washington Redskins
- 1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six
- 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
Apollo 14
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
- 1972 Bob Douglas is the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame
- 1972 German speed skater Erhard Keller wins his 2nd consecutive Olympic 500m gold medal at the Sapporo Winter Games after taking out the event in Grenoble (1968)
- 1972 Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely
- 1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
- 1973 Funeral held for US Army Lt. Col. William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
- 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
- 1974 John Murtha of Pennsylvania becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the United States Congress
- 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
- 1974 Maximum speed on Germany's Autobahn highway reduced to 100 kph
- 1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
Sugar Ray Leonard's Debut
1977 Future 5-division world boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard makes his professional debut with a 6-round unanimous decision over Luis Vega at Baltimore’s Civic Center
- 1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
- 1978 Blizzard forms in US North East, 100 people killed in New England and New York over 3 days
- 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
- 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
- 1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
- 1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
Canadian Hall of Fame
1981 Joni Mitchell inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
- 1981 Largest Jell-O made in Brisbane with 9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavored gelatin
- 1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with the enemy during the Vietnam War
- 1982 British airline Laker Airways collapses owing 270M pounds ($351M)
- 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
- 1982 President of Suriname Hendrick Chin A Sen resigns and flees to the Netherlands
Barbie Trial Begins
1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie extradited to France from Bolivia to stand trial
- 1984 NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
- 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,200 for 1st time
- 1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches
- 1988 Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham
- 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
- 1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
- 1991 All American Bowl ends after 14 years
- 1991 Big East Football conference forms
Stern Kisses Marshall
1991 Howard Stern kisses NFL New York Giants Leonard Marshall's derrière over bet Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl
- 1991 LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
Assisted Suicide Barred
1991 Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
1992 Jury selection begins in the trial of Los Angeles police charged with beating Rodney King
- 1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
- 1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
- 1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160
- 1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
- 1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
- 1994 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
- 1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
- 1995 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 3, for string orchestra, premieres with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, in Künzelsau, Germany
- 1996 British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree, the first GM food sold in the country
- 1997 Japan's Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products
- 1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
- 1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
- 2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion
- 2004 Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
- 2006 Super Bowl XL, Ford Field, Detroit, MI: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Seattle Seahawks, 21-10; MVP: Hines Ward, Pittsburgh, WR
- 2008 A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
- 2009 The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef
Pro Football Hall of Fame
2011 Ed Sabol, co-founder of NFL Films, elected for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
2012 Super Bowl XLVI, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 21-17; MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB
- 2013 UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage
- 2014 Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
Wojcicki YouTube CEO
2014 Google Vice President Susan Wojcicki (35) is named CEO of YouTube
Obama Calls for Release of Journalists
2014 US President Obama and journalists globally call for the release of 3 Al Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt
Glitter Found Guilty
2015 70's glam rocker Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) found guilty of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one of having sex with a girl under the age of 13 between 1975 and 1980
- 2016 Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
- 2017 African Cup of Nations 2017: Cameroon defeat Egypt 2-1 in Libreville
- 2017 Heavy metal band Black Sabbath play their last concert in their home town Birmingham, England
- 2017 Romanian government scraps corruption degree after 6 days of mass demonstrations
2017 Super Bowl LI, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX: New England Patriots defeat Atlanta Falcons, 34-28; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
Paul Simon's Farewell Tour
2018 American singer-songwriter Paul Simon announces his farewell tour - a retirement from touring, but not necessarily from live performance
- 2018 Share market sell off starts on Wall Street and spreads around the globe, Dow Jones Industrial Average has largest intraday point swing before finishing down 1,413 points or 4.6%
- 2019 China’s first science fiction blockbuster, “The Wandering Earth” premieres, directed by Frant Gwo, based on a story by Liu Cixin
- 2019 Pierre Davis is the first transgender designer to show at New York Fashion Week with label No Sesso
Pope Admits Cleric's Abuse
2019 Pope Francis admits for the first time that clerics have sexually abused nuns
Senate Acquits Trump
2020 US Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress
- 2021 Ocean life is being drowned out by human noise, especially shipping, construction, sonar and seismic surveys according to new research [1]
- 2022 Body of five-year old Moroccan boy Rayan Oram retrieved from the well he fell down four days previously after huge rescue effort [1]
- 2022 Sanaz Toossi's play "English" premieres off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2023) [1]
- 2022 Six days before his 50th birthday, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater wins his 8th Pipeline title beating 22-year old Hawaiian Seth Moniz in the final
2023 65th Grammy Awards: Best Album Harry Styles "Harry’s House”, Best Record Lizzo "About Damn Time", Best Song Bonnie Raitt “Just Like That”, Beyoncé breaks record for most wins with her 32nd Grammy [1]
- 2024 Brazil warns it is expecting a very bad year of dengue fever with over 4.2 million cases - with Rio de Janeiro already declaring a public health emergency [1]
Charles Diagnosed with Cancer
2024 King Charles III diagnosed with cancer according to Buckingham Place, Queen Camilla takes on his public duties while he receives treatment [1]
- 2024 One of Los Angeles' rainiest days causes mudslides and flooding, brought by the "Pineapple Express", an atmospheric river from Hawaii [1]
- 2025 Thailand cuts power to several areas bordering Myanmar in an effort to curtail the large scam-factories located there, that house thousands of employees held against their will [1]
- 2025 US President Donald Trump signs an executive order banning transgender women from competing in female sports [1]
