1717 – Netherlands, Great Britain and France sign Triple Alliance
1780 – Snowstorm hits George Washington’s army at Morristown, New Jersey
1881 – Johannes Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture” premieres in Breslau
1896 – Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
1966 – Military coup in Upper Volta leads to a new national constitution
1970 – AFL Championship, Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland: Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders, 17-7; Chiefs defence forces 4 interceptions
1971 – Philadelphia’s Veteran’s Stadium dedicated
1977 – Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play
1999 – Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2011 – 77th Sugar Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #8 Arkansas, 31-26
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd January 2019
1407 – Bloody battles between Hoeksen and Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1746 – Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
1899 – 1st known use of the word “automobile”, appears in an editorial in The New York Times
1945 – Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan
1946 – As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy
1948 – Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) v India MCG
1952 – Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
1955 – Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
1970 – Marxist government takes over in Congo
2005 – 71st Sugar Bowl: #3 Auburn beats #8 Virginia Tech, 16-13
Historical Events for 2nd January 2019
1925 – Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
1939 – 5th Orange Bowl: #2 Tennessee beats #4 Oklahoma, 17-0
1961 – 27th Sugar Bowl: #2 Mississippi beats Rice, 14-6
1969 – “Soviet Sport” calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
1972 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Virginia Wade of England wins her first Grand Slam title; beats home favourite Evonne Goolagong 6-4, 6-4
1979 – Sid Vicious’ trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins
1981 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 1st of 3 Australian singles crowns; beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-7, 6-4, 7-5
1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
2000 – 29th Fiesta Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #6 Tennessee, 31-21
2015 – The Economist lists Daniel Kahneman as the 7th most influential economist in the world
Historical Events for 1st January 2019
1808 – Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1892 – Ellis Island becomes the reception center for new immigrants to the United States
1921 – 7th Rose Bowl: California beats Ohio State 28-0
1941 – 7th Orange Bowl: #9 Mississippi State beats #13 Georgetown, 14-7
1946 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
1948 – 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)
1957 – Benjamin Britten’s ballet “Prince and the Pauper,” premieres in London
1990 – 19th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Florida State beats #6 Nebraska, 41-17
1992 – The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is renamed the Russian Federation, becoming the successor state to the Soviet Union.
2009 – The government of the Republic of China adopts Hanyu Pinyin as its official Chinese romanization (before this time, the most commonly used was Tongyong Pinyin.
Historical Events for 31st December 2018
1711 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, fired as English army commander
1944 – 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1946 – French troops leave Lebanon
1949 – 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
1966 – Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
1968 – 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1974 – Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1980 – A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1990 – United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
2007 – Bocaue Fire. Seven people injured when a fire razed several fireworks stores in the Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
Historical Events for 30th December 2018
1884 – Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1903 – American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1932 – Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG
1933 – Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
1948 – “Kiss Me, Kate” opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1956 – NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
1959 – George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 – Anthony Shaffer’s “Whodunnit” premieres in NYC
2006 – Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
Historical Events for 29th December 2018
1862 – Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General William T. Sherman
1933 – New York Yankees refuses to release Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
1948 – Canada recognizes Israel
1972 – Life magazine ceases publication
1974 – AFC Championship Game: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders 24-13
1979 – Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1982 – Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1983 – US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1993 – Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1997 – Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
Historical Events for 28th December 2018
1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan, begins
1836 – Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh
1928 – Last recording of Ma Rainey, “Mother of the Blues,” made
1952 – Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
1958 – “The Greatest Game Ever Played”, Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in the first every sudden-death overtime game in NFL history (17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were involved in the game)
1966 – 13 die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts
1976 – Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
1980 – Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
1984 – Ted Hughes is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Elizabeth II
2009 – 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
Historical Events for 27th December 2018
1679 – Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java
1923 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly evades an assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang
1943 – Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower and Bedell Smith
1944 – Greece: British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London
1956 – 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)
1960 – 1961 NFL Draft: Tommy Mason from University of Tulane first pick by Minnesota Vikings
1961 – Styne, Comden and Green’s musical “Subways are for Sleeping” premieres at St James Theater NYC for 205 performances
1972 – LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
1972 – “Purlie” opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 14 performances
2007 – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber in Rawalpindi
Historical Events for 26th December 2018
1198 – French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1773 – Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1813 – Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1830 – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena” premieres in Milan
1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1965 – Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
1978 – India’s former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1996 – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force
2015 – Floods in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay displace 150,000, blamed on El Nino