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.
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 31st January 2020
1915 – 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1924 – Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women’s event at the Games
1948 – J. D. Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Banana Fish” appears in the New Yorker
1948 – An unprecedented 3-way tie for the silver medal in the 500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Americans Robert Fitzgerald and Ken Bartholomew, and Thomas Byberg of Norway are equal on 43.2s; Finn Helgesen of Norway wins gold, 43.1s
1952 – Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries
1962 – General Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1965 – Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1975 – Barry Manilow’s single “Mandy” goes gold
2000 – Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2019 – Blockbuster NBA trade: NY Knicks send Kristaps Porziņģis, Tim Hardaway Jr., Courtney Lee and Trey Burke to Dallas Mavericks for Dennis Smith Jr., DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews and 2 future 1st-round picks
Historical Events for 30th January 2020
1592 – Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 – After nine months of negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English Parliament for around £100,000
1835 – Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in 1st attempted assassination of a US President
1902 – Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan’s ‘special interest’ in Korea
1933 – Australian Championships Men’s Tennis: Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title; beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
1956 – KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – Dutch communist trade union EVC’58 disbands
1965 – State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Then world’s largest ever state funeral.
1996 – Commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet Scott Redd states that Iran test-fired a new anti-ship missile near the Strait of Hormuz
2000 – 16th Sundance Film Festival: “Girlfight” and “You Can Count on Me” (tie) win Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Historical Events for 29th January 2020
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher
1732 – Paris churchyard of Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1900 – Boers under Joubert beat British at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1936 – 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson
1940 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her 2nd Australian singles titles; beats Thelma Coyne 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1959 – ‘The Great Smog’ hits London, many die of chest and lung-related illnesses
1966 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1968 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: American Billie Jean King beats home favourite Margaret Court 6-1, 6-2 for her 13th Grand Slam singles title
2012 – 59th NHL All-Star Game, Scotiabank Place, Ottawa: Team Chara beats Team Alfredsson, 12-9; Marián Gáborík, NY Rangers, LW
Historical Events for 28th January 2020
1848 – King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1935 – Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion
1949 – NY Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith
1959 – Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
1960 – “The Goon Show”‘s final episode on BBC radio
1975 – 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
1979 – Pope John Paul II addresses the Third General Conference of Latin American Episcopate in Puebla, Mexico
1981 – “5 O’Clock Girl” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances
1988 – “Saratina!” opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
Historical Events for 27th January 2020
1945 – Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
1951 – US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1968 – French submarine Minerve dissappears in the Mediterranean with the loss of 52 crew
1969 – Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
1972 – World premiere of Scott Joplin’s rediscovered opera “Treemonisha” at Morehouse College in Atlanta
1985 – “Doug Henning and His World…” closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 performances
1996 – Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston
1996 – Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop
2013 – Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men’s Handball Championship
2019 – Landslide kills 15 at a wedding party in a hotel in Abancay, Peru