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Today is Thursday, May 17, 2012. |
Birthdays |
| 1977 Jere Michael, Aspen Colo, figure skater (1994 National Jr champ) |
| 1976 Peter Devine, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96) |
| 1976 Daniel Komen, Nyaru Kenya, 5k runner |
| 1976 Anna Windsor, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96) |
| 1974 Marcia Turner, Cambridge Mass, Miss America (Mass-Top 10-1996) |
| 1973 Jay Riemersma, tight end (Buffalo Bills) |
| 1972 John Burrough, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons) |
| 1972 Elena Wagner, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1996 ITF/Redbridge-GBR) |
| 1971 Mark Williams, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars) |
| 1971 Bill Lindsay, Big Fork, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers) |
| 1970 Todd Mundt, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks) |
| 1970 Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer (95 State Farm Rail Classic-11) |
| 1970 Renzo Furlan, Italy, tennis star |
| 1970 Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough) |
| 1970 John Karelse, soccer player (NAC) |
| 1970 Jodie Rogers, Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96) |
| 1970 Jim Cummins, Dearborn, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks) |
| 1970 Hubert Davis, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NY Knicks) |
| 1970 Derrick Deese, NFL guard (SF 49ers) |
| 1970 Alan Wetmore, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes) |
| 1969 Ujesh Ranchod, cricketer (Zimbabwe off-spinner 1993) |
| 1969 Paige Turco, Boston MA, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light) |
| 1969 Craig Erickson, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins) |
| 1969 Aaron Ruffin, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats) |
| 1968 Tim Grunhard, NFL center (KC Chiefs) |
| 1967 Debbie Dutch, Titusville NJ, actress (Hell's Paradox) |
| 1967 Cameron Bancroft, actor (Beverly Hills 90210) |
| 1966 Mark Schmocker, Interlaken Switz, US team handball goalie (Oly-96) |
| 1966 Mark Kratzmann, Australia, tennis star |
| 1966 Danny Manning, NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns) |
| 1965 Trent Reznor, musician (9 Inch Nails) |
| 1963 Jon Koncak, NBA center (Orlando Magic) |
| 1962 Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee) |
| 1962 Scott Case, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys) |
| 1961 Enya, [Eithne N¡ Bhraon in], Gweedore Ireland, vocalist (Watermark) |
| 1960 Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light) |
| 1959 Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist |
| 1958 Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound) |
| 1956 Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, Willington SC, boxer (Olympics-gold-76) |
| 1956 Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist |
| 1956 Bob Saget, Phila, comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video) |
| 1955 Bill Paxton, actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies) |
| 1954 Michael Roberts, jockey |
| 1954 John Iles, dolby supervisor (Elephant Man, Richard III) |
| 1953 Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun) |
| 1953 Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England |
| 1953 Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show) |
| 1953 George Johnson, LA Calif, rocker (Brothers Johnson) |
| 1952 Jody Pijper, Dutch (background) singer |
| 1951 Simon Hughes, MP |
| 1951 I R Evans, CEO (Hyder, Welsh Water) |
| 1950 Keith Bradley, MP |
| 1950 Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills) |
| 1950 A A Johnson, MP |
| 1949 Timothy Cordy, British director (Town/Country Planning Assn) |
| 1948 Bill Bruford, English pop drummer (Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis) |
| 1947 John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93) |
| 1946 Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976) |
| 1945 George Miller, (Rep-D-CA, 1975- ) |
| 1945 D A S Pennefather, Maj-General/Commandant (General Royal Marines) |
| 1944 Paul Crossley, concert pianist |
| 1944 Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it) |
| 1944 Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG |
| 1944 Arif Butt, cricketer (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65) |
| 1942 Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (Real Thing) |
| 1942 Caroline Charles, fashion designer |
| 1941 Miriam Margolyes, actress (Will Be) |
| 1941 Malcom Hale, rocker |
| 1941 David Howell Cope, composer |
| 1939 Wim de Bie, CEO (Simplistic Covenant) |
| 1939 Hugh Dykes, MP |
| 1938 Trinus Riemersma, Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden) |
| 1938 Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners) |
| 1938 Jason Bernard, actor (Judge-Liar Liar) |
| 1938 Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital) |
| 1936 Philippe Boesmans, composer |
| 1936 Lars Gustafsson, writer |
| 1936 Dennis Hopper, KS, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider) |
| 1935 Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker |
| 1935 Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie) |
| 1934 Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts) |
| 1932 Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR |
| 1932 Peter Burge, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman of 50's & 60's) |
| 1932 Colin Hope, CEO (T/N) |
| 1932 Arthur Jones, principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester) |
| 1931 Dewey Redman, jazz musician |
| 1929 Raymond Hide, geophysicist |
| 1928 Vivian Moses, biotechnologist |
| 1928 Ian Griggs, bishop (Ludlow) |
| 1928 Donald Cameron Watt, historian |
| 1927 Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO (British Steel) |
| 1926 Tenniel Evans, rev/actor (10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper) |
| 1926 Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet |
| 1926 Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific) |
| 1926 Earl of Airlie, KT |
| 1926 David Young, Lt-Gen/CEO (Cairn Tech) |
| 1926 Cicely Berry, voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company) |
| 1924 Thomas Baird, vice-admiral |
| 1924 Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce) |
| 1924 Frantisek Kovaricek, composer |
| 1923 Peter Mennin[i], Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick) |
| 1923 Miles Wingate, deputy master (Trinity House) |
| 1923 Michael Beetham, Marshal (RAF) |
| 1921 John Garlick, British senior civil servant |
| 1921 Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade) |
| 1920 Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952) |
| 1920 Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls) |
| 1918 Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome) |
| 1916 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter |
| 1916 Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician |
| 1915 Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer |
| 1914 Guido Masanetz, composer |
| 1913 Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant |
| 1913 Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn) |
| 1912 Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor |
| 1912 Clarence "Ace" Parker, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks) |
| 1912 Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate) |
| 1911 Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice) |
| 1911 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative |
| 1909 Magda Schneider, actress (Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight) |
| 1909 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant |
| 1908 Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927) |
| 1908 Sigismund Toduta, composer |
| 1907 Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48) |
| 1907 Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye) |
| 1907 Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power |
| 1906 Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft) |
| 1905 John Patrick, screenwriter |
| 1904 Jean Gabin, [Alexis Moncorg‚], actor (Stormy Waters, French Can Can) |
| 1903 Douglas Packard, British Lt General |
| 1902 John Vincent, composer |
| 1901 Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige) |
| 1900 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah (1979-89) |
| 1900 Nicolai Berezowsky, composer |
| 1899 Ralf Harolde, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off) |
| 1896 Hannah Tillich, writer |
| 1896 Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer |
| 1890 Philip James, composer |
| 1889 Marcel Moyse, Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et ‚tudes) |
| 1889 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel) |
| 1888 Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp) |
| 1888 A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent & England) |
| 1886 Alfonso XIII, Borb¢n King of Spain (1902-31) |
| 1878 Conway Tearle, US actor (Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?) |
| 1876 Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist |
| 1873 Henri Barbusse, Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu) |
| 1873 Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist |
| 1871 Henricus P Bremmer, art historian (Modern Kunstwerken) |
| 1867 Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher |
| 1866 Erik Satie, composer |
| 1866 Erik Alfred Satie, Honfleur France, composer (M‚moirs d'un Amb‚sique) |
| 1850 Antonio Scontrino, composer |
| 1846 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle |
| 1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine) |
| 1823 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer |
| 1819 Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer |
| 1812 Joseph Warren Revere, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1880 |
| 1808 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer |
| 1804 Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions) |
| 1803 Robert Smith Surtees, novelist |
| 1800 Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer |
| 1796 Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Cura‡ao (christen slaves) |
| 1794 Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer |
| 1768 Caroline, Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV |
| 1749 Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination |
| 1741 John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [OS=May 6] |
| 1732 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer |
| 1691 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist |
| 1673 Jozef LD von K”nigsegg, Austria, milt minister of Austrian Netherlands |
| 1576 Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized |
| 1568 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer |
| 1551 Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist |
| 1490 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia |
| 1451 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg |
| 1444 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) |
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Events |
| 1998 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship |
| 1997 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom |
| 1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London |
| 1997 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54 |
| 1996 Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs |
| 1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe |
| 1994 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election |
| 1993 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled |
| 1992 Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk) |
| 1992 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe |
| 1990 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann |
| 1990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women |
| 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71 |
| 1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI |
| 1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M |
| 1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa |
| 1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart |
| 1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000! |
| 1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
| 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| 1987 "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances |
| 1986 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8 |
| 1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart |
| 1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska |
| 1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA |
| 1984 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning |
| 1983 Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games |
| 1983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
| 1981 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| 1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff |
| 1981 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances |
| 1980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live |
| 1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured |
| 1980 Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours |
| 1980 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2 |
| 1979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs |
| 1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation |
| 1979 -12øF (-11øC), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
| 1978 Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run |
| 1977 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
| 1976 Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed |
| 1976 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned |
| 1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time |
| 1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches |
| 1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love" |
| 1975 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 |
| 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 |
| 1974 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet |
| 1974 Bayern Mnchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels |
| 1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's |
| 1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado |
| 1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
| 1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
| 1973 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run |
| 1973 "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances |
| 1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London |
| 1972 Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors |
| 1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination |
| 1971 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway |
| 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra |
| 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament |
| 1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits |
| 1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus |
| 1969 Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL |
| 1969 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 |
| 1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92 |
| 1968 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game |
| 1968 European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite |
| 1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" |
| 1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s |
| 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
| 1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1 |
| 1963 Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ |
| 1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district |
| 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers |
| 1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA |
| 1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 |
| 1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria |
| 1958 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 |
| 1957 School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education |
| 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) |
| 1955 Dutch Govt of Drees resigns |
| 1954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, overthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
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| 1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision |
| 1953 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game |
| 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open |
| 1952 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 |
| 1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland |
| 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel |
| 1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi |
| 1947 "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances |
| 1946 Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
| 1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections |
| 1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu |
| 1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea |
| 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th |
| 1944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma |
| 1944 -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
| 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler |
| 1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack |
| 1940 Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance |
| 1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France |
| 1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball |
| 1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network |
| 1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy |
| 1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier |
| 1932 Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" |
| 1930 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6 |
| 1928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam |
| 1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings |
| 1926 German govt of Marx takes power |
| 1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton |
| 1925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit |
| 1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 |
| 1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) |
| 1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show |
| 1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union |
| 1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij) |
| 1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol |
| 1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced |
| 1915 National Baptist Convention chartered |
| 1915 Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls |
| 1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever |
| 1915 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 |
| 1911 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 |
| 1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins |
| 1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks |
| 1906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic |
| 1905 Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball |
| 1904 Maurice Ravel's "Sh‚h‚razade," premieres in Paris |
| 1903 Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio |
| 1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) |
| 1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England |
| 1898 Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503] |
| 1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol |
| 1894 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¬ |
| 1890 Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome |
| 1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London |
| 1890 Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC |
| 1884 Alaska becomes a US territory |
| 1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha |
| 1881 Revised version of New Testament |
| 1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC |
| 1881 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40 |
| 1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm |
| 1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln |
| 1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75 |
| 1872 Bohemian Club incorporated |
| 1871 Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches |
| 1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat |
| 1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS |
| 1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities |
| 1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election |
| 1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri |
| 1848 Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns |
| 1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax |
| 1845 Rubber band patents |
| 1837 Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly) |
| 1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll |
| 1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day) |
| 1809 Papal States annexed by France |
| 1804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase |
| 1804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase |
| 1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine |
| 1794 Hard frost in southern New England |
| 1792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange |
| 1792 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street |
| 1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes |
| 1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) |
| 1750 -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem |
| 1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands |
| 1742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians |
| 1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions |
| 1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands" |
| 1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty |
| 1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi |
| 1672 Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada) |
| 1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria |
| 1631 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg |
| 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface |
| 1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey) |
| 1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian |
| 1544 Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII |
| 1536 Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed |
| 1527 P nfilo de Narva‚z departs to explore Florida |
| 1525 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels |
| 884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I |
| 218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| Norwegian Independence Day |
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