1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City
1822 – Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
1839 – Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 – US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free
1923 – Amsterdam taxi strike ends
1926 – Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle and 1st female mayor of any major US city
1945 – 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1948 – Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1962 – Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1987 – Chrysler Corp offers to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 28th February 2025
1653 – -Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beat Dutch
1832 – Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, arrives in the town of Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia
1914 – Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the San Francisco Exposition
1939 – The erroneous word “Dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1951 – 8th Golden Globes: “Sunset Boulevard”, Jose Ferrer, and Gloria Swanson win
1969 – Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert of Great Britain
1972 – US President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1982 – FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1994 – Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
2005 – 19th Soul Train Music Awards: Ice Cube, Usher and Ciara win
Historical Events for 27th February 2025
1700 – English explorer William Dampier is the first British person to visit the Pacific Island of New Britain, which he names
1922 – G B Shaw’s “Back to Methusaleh I/II” premieres in NYC
1933 – Jean Genet’s play “Intermezzo” premieres in Paris
1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1977 – Swedish pop group ABBA arrives in Australia for the first time, sparking “ABBA-mania”
1982 – Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
1987 – “Washington Week In Review” 20th anniversary on PBS
1994 – Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas’ percussion revue “Stomp” opens at the Orpheum Theatre, NYC; runs for 11,475 performances
2014 – Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine
Historical Events for 15th February 2025
1386 – Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
1799 – First US printed ballots are authorized in Pennsylvania
1939 – German battleship Bismarck was launched
1944 – 891 British bombers attack Berlin in the largest raid by the RAF against the city
1956 – Pirates and KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama, due to a local ordinance barring Black players from playing against White players
1970 – Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1985 – Teen film “The Breakfast Club” is released, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy
1995 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at record 3986.17
2012 – United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
2023 – Scientists warn the Thwaites Glacier, the so-called “Doomsday Glacier” and the size of Florida, is weakening threatening a global sea level rise of 1.6 meters
Historical Events for 31st January 2025
1865 – Congress passes, by a vote of 121-24, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States except as punishment for a crime
1924 – Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women’s event at the Games
1925 – Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
1944 – US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
1961 – USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
1966 – USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
1972 – British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling to House of Commons on ‘Bloody Sunday’, “The Army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs”
1981 – 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Robert De Niro, and Mary Tyler Moore win
2010 – 26th Sundance Film Festival: “Winter’s Bone”, directed by Debra Granik, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
2015 – Atlanta Hawks set a new NBA monthly win record as they move to 17-0 for January, with a 91-85 win against the Philadelphia 76ers
Historical Events for 15th January 2025
1535 – King Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
1552 – France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1925 – Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
1943 – 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
1955 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s “From Jewish Folk Poetry” premieres in Leningrad
1967 – Super Bowl I, LA Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10; MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
1974 – TV sitcom “Happy Days” created by Garry Marshall and starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, and Tom Bosley, begins an 11 year run on ABC
1994 – Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL
2005 – ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2019 – Beginning of humanity’s largest gathering, the Kumbh Mela Hindu festival with 15 million people bathing at the joining of Ganges and Yamuna rivers, India. 120 million expected over next 49 days.
Historical Events for 2nd January 2025
1492 – Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula
1757 – British troops occupy Calcutta India
1843 – Richard Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman” premieres in Dresden, Germany
1900 – US Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
1903 – US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1967 – 33rd Sugar Bowl: #6 Alabama beats #3 Nebraska, 34-7
1984 – 50th Orange Bowl: #5 Miami (FL) beats #1 Nebraska, 31-30
1984 – 13th Fiesta Bowl: #14 Ohio State beats #15 Pittsburgh, 28-23
1987 – Troops of Chadian President Hissène Habré conquer the Fada oasis
2014 – 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
Historical Events for 24th December 2024
1593 – Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1777 – James Cook is first European to visit Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island
1832 – 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia
1895 – George Vanderbilt opens Biltmore estate, the largest privately owned house in America at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m2) in Asheville, North Carolina
1921 – Ottawa’s Harry Broadbent scores in 10-0 Senators blowout of the Montreal Canadiens; first in 16-game NHL record goal-scoring streak; Charlie Simmer’s 13 game streak (1979) is considered modern-day record
1933 – Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1946 – US General MacNarney gives 800,000 “minor Nazis” amnesty
1946 – French Fourth Republic is founded
1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government
1984 – Palace coup in Mauritania
Historical Events for 8th December 2024
1794 – 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
1864 – Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura (“Syllabus errorum”)
1914 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Watch your Step” premieres in NYC
1921 – Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1949 – Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1951 – AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL’s suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
1959 – President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1981 – France performs nuclear test
1993 – 4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win
2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
Historical Events for 30th November 2024
1936 – London’s Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire
1964 – USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1980 – “Banjo Dancing” closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances
1982 – Ottumwa, Iowa, declared “Video Game Capital of the World” by mayor Jerry Parker
1988 – Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1991 – FIFA Women’s World Cup Final, Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China: Michelle Akers scores twice as US beats Norway, 2-1
2003 – 92nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Melbourne (3-1)
2009 – Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation
2015 – 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or COP21 begins in Paris
2019 – On the way to 36 in 2nd Test v Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run-tally of 6,996 Test runs; becomes fastest batsman to 7000, in terms of innings (126)