Category: Historical Events

1941 – PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
1965 – Beatles “Ticket to Ride” single is released in UK
1977 – Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1986 – TV show “Dallas” announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1992 – Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston and Coleman
2000 – 64th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Fijian Vijay Singh wins by 3 strokes from Ernie Els of South Africa
2013 – The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
2017 – Suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 17, Al-Shabaab group claim responsibility
2018 – Fleetwood Mac announce new members Neil Finn and Mike Campbell after firing long-standing member Lindsey Buckingham

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1802 – French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled
1913 – China’s National Assembly opens in Peking, the first free democratic parliament in Chinese history
1945 – 1945 NFL Draft: Charley Trippi from University of Georgia first pick by Chicago Cardinals
1965 – India and Pakistan forces engage in a border fight
1975 – 47th Academy Awards: “The Godfather Part II”, Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win
1989 – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo is arrested in Mexico and charged with kidnapping, murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, drug trafficking and other crimes
1994 – MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for substance abuse rehabilitation
1994 – Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
2006 – 159th Grand National: 11–1 Irish shot Numbersixvalverde, ridden by Niall Madden wins by 6 lengths from defending champion Hedgehunter
2013 – 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan

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1498 – Crowd storms Savonarola’s convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1862 – Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1917 – J.M. Barrie’s play “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” premieres in London
1976 – Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1985 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
1996 – Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya hits the fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls vs Pakistan in Singapore
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers , Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
2018 – Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories; previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks and Florida Panthers 1993-94
2020 – China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
2020 – Australia’s highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell

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1652 – Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, is established by the Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
1865 – Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1889 – George Eastman begins selling Kodak flexible roll film for the first time
1941 – German bombardment of Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1957 – NYC ends trolley car service
1973 – Federal court rules in favor of the Smothers Brothers in breach of contract lawsuit against CBS-TV, awarding them $776,300 USD
1982 – Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1991 – 145th Grand National: In Canadian distillery Seagram’s final year of race sponsorship, New Zealand-bred chestnut gelding Seagram wins, ridden by Nigel Hawke
1992 – British Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses
2002 – France beats Ireland 44-5 at Stade de France, Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; their 13th title

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1652 – Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, is established by the Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
1865 – Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1889 – George Eastman begins selling Kodak flexible roll film for the first time
1941 – German bombardment of Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1957 – NYC ends trolley car service
1973 – Federal court rules in favor of the Smothers Brothers in breach of contract lawsuit against CBS-TV, awarding them $776,300 USD
1982 – Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1991 – 145th Grand National: In Canadian distillery Seagram’s final year of race sponsorship, New Zealand-bred chestnut gelding Seagram wins, ridden by Nigel Hawke
1992 – British Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses
2002 – France beats Ireland 44-5 at Stade de France, Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; their 13th title

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456 – Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1242 – Russian Prince of Novgorod Alexander Nevsky defeats the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice
1894 – 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1922 – WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
1967 – ’76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1970 – WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1984 – Galt MacDermot and William Dumaresq’s musical “The Human Comedy”, based on the novel by William Saroyan, opens at Royale Theater, NYC; runs for 13 performances
2009 – 44th Academy of Country Music Awards: Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley win
2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks
2021 – Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds

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1737 – Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1818 – Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.
1957 – Heitor Villa-Lobos’ 10th Symphony premieres French Radio National Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Paris
1964 – Deposed President João Goulart leaves Brazil under threat of arrest, moves into life of exile in Uruguay, and later Argentina
1973 – World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.
1987 – “Always and Forever” second studio album by Randy Travis (Billboard Album of the Year 1988)
1996 – Revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s stage drama “Inherit the Wind”, starring George C. Scott and Charles Durning, opens at Royale Theater, NYC; runs for 45 performances
1999 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Graham Marsh of Australia wins his second Champions Tour major by 3 strokes from Larry Nelson
2011 – 73rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Butler, 53-41; Huskies’ point guard Kemba Walker scores 16 points

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1924 – Istanbul’s Ottoman Topkapi Palace is converted into a museum on orders of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1933 – 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1941 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg’s book “Howl” against obscenity charges
1965 – 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1984 – Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1996 – Cricketer Rahul Dravid makes his international debut for India in an ODI against Sri Lanka
2016 – ICC Women’s Cricket T20 World Cup, Eden Gardens, Kolkata: Hayley Matthews with 66 from 45 balls leads West Indies to 149/2; beat Australia 148/5 by 4 wickets with 2 balls to spare
2017 – 79th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina defeats Gonzaga, 71–65; Tar Heels point guard Joel DeWayne Berry II, 22 points
2022 – The Taliban government bans cultivation of opium in Afghanistan, with consequences for world supply as it produces 80%

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1884 – London prison for debtors closed
1921 – Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new “Theory of Relativity”
1963 – USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1972 – Tennessee Williams’ “Small Craft Warnings” premieres in NYC
1973 – CBS radio begins on the hour news, 24 hours a day
1986 – Paul Coffey of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 47th and 48th goals of the season in an 8-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks to break Bobby Orr’s NHL record for most goals by a defenseman
1995 – NY Police Department and NY Transit Police merge into one organization
2000 – Atlanta center Ray Ferraro scores a goal and added 2 assists as the Thrashers end an NHL record 17-game home winless streak (0-15-2) with a 5-4 win against the visiting New York Islanders
2001 – New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens becomes American League all-time strikeout leader, recording his 3,509th K in a 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals; Walter Johnson previous record 3,508 Ks
2022 – Ukraine liberates the entire Kyiv region from retreating Russian forces

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1724 – Jonathan Swift publishes “Drapier’s Letters” a series of seven pamphlets against a privately minted copper coinage Swift saw as inferior and corrupt
1900 – 1st edition of Dutch newspaper “The People”
1941 – Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1966 – “Hold On, I’m Comin'” single released by Sam and Dave
1973 – Despite a final round, 5-3 loss to Montreal, Boston Bruins center Phil Esposito wins his third consecutive NHL scoring title with 130 points from 55 goals and 75 assists in the 78-game season
1976 – Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
1978 – Philippine College of Commerce becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by presidential decree
1982 – Quebec center Peter Šťastný scores 4th career hat trick and 4 assists, and his brother Marián adds 5 assists to lead the Nordiques to an 8-5 win at Boston
2007 – Kraft Nabisco Championship Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Morgan Pressel wins by 1 from Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew and Suzann Pettersen; youngest-ever winner of an LPGA major at 18 years, 313 days
2019 – Major archaeological site announced discovered on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in Andes, dated 8th and 10th centuries AD from Tiwanaku state

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