1895 – -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1897 – White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1927 – US Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1958 – Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY
1968 – Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1975 – Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party
2009 – Uri Geller purchases Lamb Island, Scotland, previously known for its witch trials
2014 – 77 people are killed after a military transport plane crashes in Algeria
2018 – Norway sweeps the medals in the Olympic 30k cross country skiathlon at Pyeongchang; Simen Hegstad Krüger wins gold ahead of teammates Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund
2019 – Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in “Nature Medicine”, A.I. won, just
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th February 2023
1855 – US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1940 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1971 – Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1971 – “Tapestry”, second album by Carole King, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1972)
1984 – Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo; 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980
1985 – Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
1998 – Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
2004 – Kanye West releases his debut album “The College Dropout” (2005 Grammy Best Rap Album)
2013 – 5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
2019 – Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered
Historical Events for 9th February 2023
1744 – Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
1918 – US Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe, Virginia
1924 – Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1939 – Belgian Spaak government falls
1956 – KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1971 – Elektra Records releases eponymous debut album of American singer-songwriter Carly Simon; garners two Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist
1972 – British government declares state of emergency after month-long coal miners’ strike
1974 – “The Americans (A Canadian’s Opinion)” by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1986 – 36th NBA All-Star Game, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: East beats West, 139-132; MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G
1989 – Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
Historical Events for 8th February 2023
1627 – Gunpowder is used in a mining operation instead of mechanical tools in present-day Slovakia, reportedly the first time explosives had been used in mining
1735 – First opera performance in North American colonies “Flora” opens in Charleston, South Carolina
1744 – French and Spanish fleet leave Toulon
1862 – Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1924 – 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1930 – “Happy Days Are Here Again” by Benny Mereoff hits #1
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name “Mountbatten-Windsor”.
1963 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2009 – Singer Rihanna cancels appearance at the Grammys after being assaulted by boyfriend Chris Brown
Historical Events for 7th February 2023
1550 – Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1889 – Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
1908 – Philadelphia A’s manager/owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
1946 – Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) bill
1969 – Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1976 – World’s largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
1979 – Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
1984 – American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
1988 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 15-6; MVP: Bruce Smith, Buffalo Bills, DE
2018 – DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK’s oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes
Historical Events for 6th February 2023
1902 – Young Women’s Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1934 – Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France
1943 – Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio’s “Your Hit Parade”
1948 – World and European champion Barbara Ann Scott becomes the first Canadian to win a women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games
1969 – The New Ulster Movement forms, promoting moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who support Northern Ireland Prime MinisterTerence O’Neill
1973 – 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
1993 – 44th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Wales beats Campbell, 16-6; MVP: Mike Gartner, NY Rangers, RW
1994 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 17-3; MVP: Andre Rison, Atlanta Falcons, WR
1995 – MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days for positive cocaine test
2019 – Quadriga, Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange is unable to get to $145 million of bitcoin assets after its CEO dies with its access passwords
Historical Events for 5th February 2023
1864 – Danish army begins its withdrawal from Danevirke to Dybbøl through driven snow, last time the Danes would occupy Danevirke, symbol of Danish identity
1897 – Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
1917 – The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year
1933 – Crew of Dutch “7 Provinces” mutiny after pay cuts
1967 – Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
1969 – Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice-president, general manager, and head coach of NFL Washington Redskins
1970 – Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban
1978 – Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
1994 – 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
1997 – Japan’s Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products
Historical Events for 4th February 2023
1600 – Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague
1846 – Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois, for settlement in the west
1855 – Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
1922 – WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II
1982 – Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
1982 – Musical “Pump Boys and Dinettes” opens at Princess Theater, NYC; runs for 573 performances
1990 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 27-21; MVP: Jerry Gray, LA Rams, DB
1991 – Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time (Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration, To Tell the Truth)
2014 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland
Historical Events for 3rd February 2023
1930 – William Howard Taft resigns as US chief justice for health reasons
1945 – Walt Disney’s “3 Caballeros” released
1964 – French sisters Marielle Goitschel (gold) and Christine Goitschel (silver) repeat (in reverse order) their top-2 finish in the slalom 2 days earlier, in the giant slalom at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
1974 – “Pajama Game” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
1975 – Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1976 – 26th NBA All-Star Game, Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa: East beats West, 123-109; MVP: Dave Bing, Washington Bullets, PG
1980 – 30th NBA All-Star Game, Capital Centre, Landover, Md: East beats West, 144-136 (OT); MVP: George Gervin, San Antonio Spurs, SF
1989 – Baseball’s National League announces Yanks’ broadcaster Bill White will its 1st African American President
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1999 – In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
Historical Events for 2nd February 2023
1349 – By this date at least 200 people a day were being buried in London as a result of the Black Death
1823 – Gioachino Rossini’s opera “Semiramide” premieres in Venice
1848 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War: US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
1878 – Greece declares war on Turkey
1925 – Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism and socialism
1941 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1959 – Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach NFL Green Bay Packers
1977 – Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
1982 – Government troops and Muslim fundamentalists battle in Hamah, Syria
2003 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 45-23; MVP: Ricky Williams, Miami Dolphins, RB