1509 – France declares war on Venice
1798 – Mississippi Territory organized
1805 – Premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)
1865 – Battle of Farmville, Virginia
1922 – Warren G. Harding’s Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion the Teapot Dome scandals
1923 – Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1967 – Tom Donahue, San Francisco DJ begins new radio format – Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1969 – Dodgers’ Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1987 – Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on “Nightline”
1993 – Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 6th April 2019
1652 – Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
1924 – Völkische Block (Nazis) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
1936 – Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1941 – German bombardment of Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1947 – 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne and Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements
1973 – Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1987 – Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1997 – Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
1997 – Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
2014 – 49th Academy of Country Music Awards: George Strait, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert win
Historical Events for 5th April 2019
1424 – Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
1961 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Jack Paar Show”
1961 – Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1971 – Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1990 – NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1992 – Game 2 of Mayor Challenge – NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1994 – “Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect” opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
2013 – Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
Historical Events for 4th April 2019
1660 – English King Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1828 – Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg
1900 – British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1939 – Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1959 – Mali Federation founded, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1986 – Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
2018 – 21st Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast, Australia
Historical Events for 3rd April 2019
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
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