1497 – Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlies’ army draws to Glasgow
1802 – Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador
1950 – “Happy as Larry” opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
1951 – Ganghwa massacre: Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered
1953 – WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
1971 – Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1985 – AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 45-28
1991 – “Real Life With Jane Pauley” premieres on NBC-TV
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th January 2020
1349 – Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland and Zealand
1593 – William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
1709 – The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe’s coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.
1800 – 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service in Baltimore
1904 – -34°F (-36.7°C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
1963 – “Carnival!” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
1964 – AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium, San Diego: San Diego Chargers beat Boston Patriots, 51-10; Chargers RB Keith Lincoln rushes for 206 yards, 2 TDs
1972 – President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman freed by the newly elected President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
1990 – J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
2019 – Orthodox Church of Ukraine granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Historical Events for 4th January 2020
1862 – Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
1885 – Dr William Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy in America on Mary Gartside, aged 22
1920 – Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1943 – Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, “Joseph and His Brothers”
1957 – Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1965 – LBJ’s “Great Society” State of the Union Address
1970 – More than 15,000 people are killed in Tonghai County, China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
1989 – US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
2011 – 77th Sugar Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #8 Arkansas, 31-26
Historical Events for 3rd January 2020
1338 – Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1638 – Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of “Hostage rights of Aemstel”
1831 – 1st US building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1870 – Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883
1945 – British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
1948 – Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 and 127* [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
1971 – 1st AFC Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders, 27-17
1993 – “Tommy Tune Tonite!” closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
1996 – 1st clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold.
1997 – The People’s Republic of China announces it will spend $US27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys
Historical Events for 2nd January 2020
1896 – Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
1920 – Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists
1922 – 8th Rose Bowl: California ties Washington and Jefferson, 0-0
1960 – Roger Sessions’ 4th Symphony, premieres
1968 – KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 – Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
1982 – “Camelot” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances
1983 – “Annie” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances
1995 – Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
2014 – 80th Sugar Bowl: #11 Oklahoma beats #3 Alabama, 45-31
Historical Events for 1st January 2020
630 – Prophet Muhammad sets out with his army towards Mecca, capturing it bloodlessly
1951 – 17th Sugar Bowl: #7 Kentucky beats #1 Oklahoma, 13-7
1952 – 18th Orange Bowl: #6 Georgia Tech beats #9 Baylor, 17-14
1954 – Rose and Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
1957 – Benjamin Britten’s ballet “Prince and the Pauper,” premieres in London
1960 – Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars
1981 – Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing
1991 – Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
2008 – A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.
Historical Events for 31st December 2019
870 – Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1670 – France and England sign Boyne-treaty
1910 – US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1941 – Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1972 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-7
1974 – Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1988 – Pittsburgh NHL center Mario Lemieux accounts for all his team’s goals in Penguins 8-6 win over the NJ Devils; famously scores 5 goals, each in a different way: even strength, power play, shorthanded, penalty shot and empty net; also 3 assists
1995 – 62nd Sugar Bowl: #13 Virginia Tech beats #9 Texas, 28-10
2017 – Indian movie star Rajinikanth announces he is entering politics
2018 – Houston guard James Harden scores 43 points in Rockets’ 113-101 win over Memphis Grizzlies; 4th straight NBA game with 40+ points and 8th straight with 35+; joins Oscar Robertson as only player with at least 35 points and 5 assists in 8 straight games
Historical Events for 30th December 2019
1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River
1854 – Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1861 – US banks stops payments in gold
1913 – Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103)
1935 – Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1939 – “Of Mice and Men”, starring Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released
1968 – Frank Sinatra first records “My Way” with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song “Comme d’habitude”
1977 – Carter holds 1st news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1992 – Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
Historical Events for 29th December 2019
1539 – St Jacob’s Church burns after being hit by lightning
1705 – Prosper Jolyot’s “Idomenée,” premieres in Paris
1841 – King and Grand Duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
1926 – Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras’ work on the index
1934 – Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma” premieres in Madrid
1937 – Constitution of Ireland (Irish: Bunreacht na hÉireann) is enacted and Irish free state is named Eire
1962 – British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM; takes out his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark
1982 – Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1991 – 12th United Negro College Fund
Historical Events for 28th December 2019
418 – St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
1905 – NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings and 253
1942 – Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1958 – Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
1970 – “Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen” opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
1972 – Martin Bormann’s skeleton is found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1973 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes “Gulag Archipelago” – a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union
1981 – Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR