1554 – Queen of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason
1821 – Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
1825 – Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1873 – US Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1873, abolishing bimetallism and placing the country on the gold standard
1912 – China adopts the Gregorian calendar
1931 – Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 – 38th Berlin International Film Festival: “Red Sorgum” wins the Golden Bear
2014 – German Nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel wins the 1st of 3 career Olympic gold medals in Individual normal hill/10 km event in Sochi; wins event again Pyeongchang and long hill 4 x 5k relay
2018 – German biathlete Laura Dahlmeier wins her 2nd gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women’s 10k pursuit; also wins 7.5k sprint gold
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 11th February 2021
824 – St Paschal I ends his reign as Pope
1903 – Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1916 – Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1922 – “April Showers” by Al Jolson hits #1
1929 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Dynamo” premieres in NYC
1958 – Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY
1971 – US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1975 – Tv drama “Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic”, starring Linda Blair, premieres on US network NBC
1982 – Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1990 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
Historical Events for 10th February 2021
1763 – Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1880 – Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
1890 – Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians, then opened for settlement
1940 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1954 – Ladies’ Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER
1967 – 25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability and Succession) ratified
1989 – Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham’s 1st black sheriff
1989 – Ron Brown chosen 1st African American chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
2008 – The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.
2013 – 55th Grammy Awards: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for the ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
Historical Events for 9th February 2021
1621 – Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
1926 – Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1934 – -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City
1934 – Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)
1971 – 5 men are killed near a BBC transmitter on Brougher Mountain, County Tyrone, in a landmine attack carried out by the Irish Republican Army
1986 – West German team swims world record 4×200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1991 – “This Is Ponderous” by 2nu peaks at #46
2014 – Olympic teams figure skating event debuts in Sochi with Russia taking the gold medal; pairs champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win first of 2 gold at the Games
2016 – US primary elections: New Hampshire Primary, In Republican race Donald Trump wins (35%), John Kasich 2nd (16%), and Bernie Sanders (60%) defeats Hillary Clinton (38%) in Democratic race
2020 – Storm Ciara makes landfall in northern Scotland bringing widespread wind and flooding to northern Europe resulting in 18 deaths
Historical Events for 8th February 2021
1600 – Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1909 – France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1923 – Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1927 – Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1955 – The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1967 – Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
1968 – Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
1976 – Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
1979 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2014 – Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium
Historical Events for 7th February 2021
1792 – Domenico Cimarosa’s opera “Il Matrimonio Segreto” premieres in Vienna
1795 – Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1914 – Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in “Kid Auto Races at Venice”
1945 – Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1960 – Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1968 – Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls
1970 – “Hollywood Palace” last airs on ABC TV
1992 – Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
1994 – Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
1995 – Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting
Historical Events for 6th February 2021
1926 – St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees
1935 – 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1948 – Nils Karlsson wins the 50k cross country gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Swedish skiers win all 3 cross-country events at the Games
1961 – “Jail, No Bail” Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill, South Carolina
1970 – Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban
1971 – Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army (BA) during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast
1971 – 1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
1974 – Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
2012 – Laureus World Sports Awards, Central Hall Westminster, London, England: Sportsman: Novak Đoković; Sportswoman: Vivian Cheruiyot; Team: FC Barcelona
2018 – Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declares state of emergency ordering arrest of two judges
Historical Events for 5th February 2021
1825 – Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
1887 – Snow falls on San Francisco
1897 – 1st showing of a motion picture in Hawaii at the Hawaiian Opera House
1901 – Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
1947 – Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland
1948 – Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
1991 – All American Bowl ends after 14 years
1995 – Japan’s Shinshinto Party wins local elections
2013 – The US Postal Service announces the cessation of Saturday first-class mail delivery from August 2013
2015 – 65th Berlin International Film Festival: “Taxi” wins the Golden Bear
Historical Events for 4th February 2021
1787 – Shays’ Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
1913 – National Institute of Arts and Letters founded
1924 – George Kelly’s play “Show-Off,” premieres in New York City
1924 – Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway wins ski jumping gold at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; in 1936 he earns a silver medal in sailing at Berlin Summer Games
1939 – Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
1951 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
1970 – “Gantry” opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
1971 – National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1986 – 38th NHL All-Star Game, Hartford Civic Centre: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 4-3 (OT); MVP: Grant Fuhr, Edmonton Oilers, G
2016 – Fifth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on MSNBC, held in Durham, New Hampshire
Historical Events for 3rd February 2021
1783 – Spain recognizes US independence
1923 – The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
1924 – Alexei Ryko elected as President of People’s commission (succeeds Lenin)
1932 – “Shanghai Express” directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook and Anna Mae Wong premieres in Los Angeles
1956 – Toni Sailer of Austria wins the downhill at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics; becomes first athlete to sweep all 3 alpine skiing events in a single Olympics
1965 – Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1967 – “Purple Haze” recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1982 – Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1989 – Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
1990 – Jockey Bill Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race