1693 – William and Mary College is chartered in Williamsburg in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (second in North America)
1807 – Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon’s forces and Russian Empire – 1st battle Napoleon isn’t victorious
1889 – Flood ravages Dutch coast
1912 – British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength
1916 – French cruiser “Admiral Charner” torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1936 – 1st ski jumping tournament at Red Wing, Minnesota
1936 – German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic women’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Käthe Grasegger
1962 – In Paris, 8 people killed at a protest against independence for the French colony Algeria
1963 – 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1971 – Operation Lam Son 719 begins, a limited South Vietnamese incursion into Laos
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 7th February 2022
1792 – Domenico Cimarosa’s opera “Il Matrimonio Segreto” premieres in Vienna
1882 – Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
1889 – Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
1894 – The Cripple Creek miners’ strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado
1908 – Philadelphia A’s manager/owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
1944 – Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy
1974 – Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1991 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti’s 1st elected president
2000 – Bahria University is established through Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 by the Government of Pakistan.
2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.
Historical Events for 6th February 2022
1920 – Saarland administrated by League of Nations
1933 – -90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1941 – British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1947 – Magnum Photos founded in Paris by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour
1990 – Steve Briers of Wales recites entire lyrics of Queen’s album “A Night At The Opera” in 9 minutes 58.44 seconds backwards!
1992 – The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence
1994 – “Government Inspector” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
2013 – A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people
2014 – 64th Berlin International Film Festival: “Black Coal, Thin Ice” wins the Golden Bear
2016 – Eighth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by ABC, held in Goffstown, New Hampshire
Historical Events for 5th February 2022
1512 – French troops under Gaston de Foix rescue Bologna, which was under siege from a combined Papal-Spanish army
1644 – 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1782 – British garrison in Menorca (western Mediterranean) surrenders to French and Spanish fleet as part of the American Revolutionary War
1893 – Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
1941 – Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
1944 – “Captain American” serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside a comic
1953 – Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain
1976 – Last day of Test cricket for West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs and Australian opening batsman Ian Redpath, 6th Test in Melbourne
1986 – Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on “Nightline”
1994 – Medgar Evers’ murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime
Historical Events for 4th February 2022
211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta
1924 – Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics; Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Thoralf Strømstad and Johan Grøttumsbråten
1930 – 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
1938 – “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
1962 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
1967 – US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
1971 – Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1977 – Wings release their single “Maybe I’m Amazed”
2000 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2020 – Radio personality Rush Limbaugh is presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump during the State Of The Union Address
Historical Events for 3rd February 2022
1752 – Dutch States-General forbids export of windmills
1867 – Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1870 – US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races and colour
1903 – Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
1929 – Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1947 – Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1976 – 26th NBA All-Star Game, Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa: East beats West, 123-109; MVP: Dave Bing, Washington Bullets, PG
1978 – Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter discuss the Middle East peace process in Washington, D.C.
1992 – Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
2020 – First Democratic caucus in Iowa won narrowly by Pete Buttigieg (most delegates) and Bernie Sanders (most votes) after lengthy delays and irregularities in reporting the results
Historical Events for 2nd February 2022
1864 – -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
1888 – Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia
1923 – Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
1935 – Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin
1969 – Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
1969 – KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1976 – Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and umpire Cal Hubbard elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1977 – Toronto’s Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
1989 – 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states
Historical Events for 1st February 2022
1906 – Dorothy Grey, wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey fatally injured
1935 – James T Farrell finishes his “Studs Lonigan” trilogy
1957 – Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1957 – 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1964 – “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off…” closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
1970 – West-Germany and USSR sign gas contract
1986 – KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1991 – Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
1991 – American writer John Grisham publishes his second novel “The Firm” (bestselling novel of the year)
2009 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Spanish ace Rafael Nadal wins his first Australian title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2
Historical Events for 31st January 2022
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland: troops deployed against protesters for fear of a Bolshevik uprising
1924 – Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women’s event at the Games
1925 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Sydney: James Anderson of Australia wins 2nd straight Australasian crown; beats countryman Gerald Patterson 11-9, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
1951 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Thelma Coyne Long 6-1, 7-5 for her 6th and last Australian singles crown
1953 – Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835
1977 – Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie and Al López elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 – Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39)
1987 – 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Bob Hoskins, and Marlee Matlin win
2000 – A fight between Ray Lewis and his companions and another group of people results in the stabbing deaths of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, resulting in the indictment of Lewis 11 days on murder and aggravated-assault charges
2010 – 26th Sundance Film Festival: “Winter’s Bone”, directed by Debra Granik, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Historical Events for 30th January 2022
1667 – Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1889 – John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48″ (120cm) telescope
1911 – 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1940 – Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1954 – Fanfani government of Italy resigns
1966 – -19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
1968 – 1968 NFL Draft: Ron Yary from USC first pick by Minnesota Vikings
1979 – Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1994 – Kapil Dev takes 2/41 as India beats Sri Lanka by an innings and 95 runs in 2nd Cricket Test in Bengaluru; equals Sir Richard Hadlee’s world record of 431 Test wickets
1994 – Super Bowl XXVIII, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13; MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB