1312 – 2nd council of Vienna, Knights Templars supressed
1783 – Sweden and US sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce
1864 – Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1941 – Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1943 – Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1975 – Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
1986 – Maureen O’Boyle (future host of “A Current Affair”) is raped
1991 – UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
2014 – Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta
2016 – ANA Inspiration Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins by 1 from Charley Hull and Chun In-gee for her second major title
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd April 2019
1550 – Jewish physician Joseph Hacohen expelled from city of Genoa, all Jews soon after
1801 – Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen
1883 – Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patents for RADAR
1978 – TV soap show “Dallas” starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Bel Geddes premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1982 – Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain
1986 – NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs and brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect
1989 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Juli Inkster leads wire-to-wire to win her second DS event, 5 strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner and Tammie Green
2013 – 9 mutilated bodies are found in an SUV in Tamaulipas, Mexico
2017 – ANA Inspiration Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Ryu So-yeon of South Korea wins 2nd major in a playoff with Lexi Thompson who had earlier been penalised 4 strokes
Historical Events for 23rd March 2019
1066 – 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1864 – Encounter at Camden, Arkansas
1877 – 39th Grand National: Fred Hobson aboard 15/1 shot Austerlitz wins by 4 lengths from Congress
1881 – Gas lamp sets fire to opera house in Nice, France; 70 die
1949 – Sidney Kingsley’s “Detective Story” premieres in NYC
1950 – 22nd Academy Awards: “All The King’s Men”, Broderick Crawford and Olivia De Havilland win
1950 – “Great to Be Alive” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1956 – 18th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa, 83-71
1979 – Wings release “Goodnight Tonight”
1987 – Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party
Historical Events for 22nd March 2019
1829 – The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1874 – Young Men’s Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1917 – The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1944 – 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1958 – Under pressure King Saud appoints Faisal Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia
1971 – Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird the US Supreme Court rules unmarried people have same right to contraception as married people.
1982 – 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1986 – Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
2011 – Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation
Historical Events for 21st March 2019
1888 – Arthur Pinero’s “Sweet Lavender” premieres in London
1907 – US sends troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover
1921 – Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1925 – Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
1963 – David Hendon and Douglas Cross’ musical premieres in London
1970 – 1st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
1970 – 15th Eurovision Song Contest: Dana for Ireland wins singing “All Kinds of Everything” in Amsterdam
1973 – Montreal Canadiens’ left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals
2009 – Ireland completes a Grand Slam with a 17-15 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship
2013 – 12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
Historical Events for 20th March 2019
1816 – US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1917 – After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable
1937 – Franco offensive at Guadalajara, Spain
1956 – Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1973 – Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death in a plane crash
1974 – “The Super Cops” directed by Gordon Parks premieres in NYC, New York
1987 – NASA launches Palapa B2P
1991 – Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records
1994 – Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden, New York
2003 – A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires
Historical Events for 19th March 2019
1883 – Jan Matzeliger invents first machine to manufacture entire shoes
1911 – 1st International Women’s Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women’s right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened
1938 – Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1969 – British invade Anguilla
1975 – Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1985 – US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX “Peacekeeper” intercontinental ballistic missile
1987 – Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad and Tobago
1989 – Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva and S Grinkov (USSR)
2011 – Despite a final round 24-8 defeat to Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin, England wins the Six Nations Rugby Championship courtesy of their opening 4 straight victories
Historical Events for 18th March 2019
1781 – Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92
1793 – Second Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1892 – Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1903 – Following through on its attacks on Roman Catholic institutions, the French Government dissolves the Catholic religious orders
1915 – French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1953 – Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
1996 – 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT’s Swimathon ’96
1997 – Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
2003 – FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.
2014 – US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington and expels all Syrian diplomats
Historical Events for 17th March 2019
455 – Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
1860 – Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
1886 – Carrollton Massacre (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
1912 – Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1917 – Albert Anastasia is convicted of murdering longshoreman George Turino
1921 – Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain’s 1st birth control clinic in London
1931 – Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1989 – “Chu Chem” opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1994 – “Little More Magic” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
2013 – 54th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Ole Miss beats Florida, 66-63
Historical Events for 16th March 2019
1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who is evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy (US Civil War)
1920 – 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1961 – 18th Golden Globes: “Spartacus”, Burt Lancaster, and Greer Garson win
1969 – Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1971 – 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1975 – “Lieutenant” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1992 – Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1995 – Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1997 – NJ Devils’ Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.