1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian Mutiny
1883 – Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kills 71
1923 – Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1927 – US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1934 – 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1974 – Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women’s marathon (2:55:17)
1977 – “Party with Comden and Green” opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances
1978 – Frank C. Carlucci succeeds John F. Blake as deputy director of CIA
1980 – Ianford Wilsons “Talley’s Folly” premieres in NYC
2019 – The eight centrally owned and operated team Alliance of American Football gets underway; Orlando Apollos beat Atlanta Legends, 40-6 at Spectrum Stadium, Orlando, FL
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th February 2020
1861 – Tennessee votes against secession (US Civil War)
1885 – 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 – US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1895 – Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1909 – 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1922 – Italian government of Bonomi falls
1943 – National League of Baseball seeks a buyer for the Philadelphia Phillies as owner Gerry Nugent falls in arrears
1963 – 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7″)
1968 – A rare 3-way tie for silver in the women’s 500m speed skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; Soviet Lyudmila Titova wins from American trio of Jenny Fish, Mary Meyers and Dianne Holum
1974 – “The Americans (A Canadian’s Opinion)” by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
Historical Events for 8th February 2020
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot
1936 – Pandit Jawaharlal suceeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1958 – Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1962 – KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1984 – Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1989 – American jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2005 – Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a “new era of peace”
2009 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 30-21; MVP: Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals, WR
2017 – US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
Historical Events for 7th February 2020
1889 – Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
1945 – Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1959 – Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
1970 – “Hollywood Palace” last airs on ABC TV
1970 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1982 – Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
1989 – 40th NHL All-Star Game, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-5; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, LA Kings, C
1990 – USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1991 – The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
2018 – DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK’s oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes
Historical Events for 6th February 2020
337 – St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1862 – Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
1882 – The society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut
1900 – The Battle of Vaal Krantz, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1932 – Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1943 – 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1962 – Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1964 – France and Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1976 – George Harrison releases “This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying)”
1986 – NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
Historical Events for 5th February 2020
1831 – Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
1864 – Danish army begins its withdrawal from Danevirke to Dybbøl through driven snow, last time the Danes would occupy Danevirke, symbol of Danish identity
1900 – British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
1936 – “Modern Times”, silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
1938 – Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
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
1970 – 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six
1978 – 28th NBA All-Star Game, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Ga: East beats West, 133-125; MVP: Randy Smith, SD Clippers, G
1994 – 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
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.
Historical Events for 4th February 2020
1930 – 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
1937 – Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
1946 – Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” premieres in NYC
1950 – IV British Empire Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
1951 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
1962 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
1991 – Baseball’s Hall of Fame board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose, due to his betting on games while a player and manager
1997 – US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
2006 – A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71
2012 – Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland
Historical Events for 3rd February 2020
1882 – Circus owner P. T. Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1930 – The Indochinese Communist Party of Vietnam is established
1931 – New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake, kills 256 and injures thousands, devastating Napier and the Hawke’s Bay region
1938 – Paul Osborn’s “On Borrowed Time” premieres in NYC
1951 – Tennessee Williams’ “Rose Tattoo” premieres in NYC
1958 – Royal Teens’ “Short Shorts” enters Top 40 chart and peaks at #3
1971 – KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1984 – 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1991 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-21; MVP: Jim Kelly, Buffalo Bills, QB
1994 – STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
Historical Events for 2nd February 2020
1787 – Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation
1919 – Monarchist riot in Portugal
1920 – France occupies (German) Memel territory
1923 – US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
1931 – 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
1975 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1976 – “Rich Little Show” debuts on NBC-TV
1980 – FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors
2003 – Jennifer Lopez starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘All I Have’
2016 – First case of Zika contracted on US mainland (Texas) and second known sexually transmitted case confirmed in Texas
Historical Events for 1st February 2020
1810 – US Population: 7,239,881, African American population: 1,377,808 (19%)
1893 – Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
1920 – 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul, Minn)
1924 – Amsterdam’s Netherlands Press Museum opens
1951 – 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1953 – Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands’ first female assistant secretary of state
1960 – Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1982 – “Late Night With David Letterman” debuts on NBC-TV, Bill Murray is first guest
2015 – 31st Sundance Film Festival: “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
2017 – British MPs vote in favour of the European Union Bill, allowing the government to begin Brexit