Curator of Experiments
1661 Robert Hooke appointed Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society, England
Royal Society Appoints James Cook
1767 Meeting of the Royal Society appoints James Cook as head of an expedition to the Pacific Ocean to observe the transit of Venus on Tahiti in 1769 (will be Cook’s 1st voyage aboard HMS Endeavour) [1]
- 1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers from enlisting black troops
- 1793 The 1st Mayor of Paris and astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly, is guillotined during the Reign of Terror
- 1799 Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys
- 1813 Allied troops occupy Zwolle, Netherlands
- 1823 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
- 1833 The great Leonid Meteor shower recorded
- 1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic
- 1859 Jules Leotard performs the first flying trapeze circus act in Paris; he also designs the garment that bears his name
- 1873 Bay District Race Track in San Francisco opens
1880 Best-selling American novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” by soldier Lew Wallace is published
- 1885 Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
Poems by Emily Dickinson
1890 Mabel Loomis Todd publishes the first edition of “Poems by Emily Dickinson“
- 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association’s 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
- 1893 The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan – the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
- 1894 Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew – but remained attached to the ground by piano wire
- 1899 British troops reach Durban, Natal
- 1900 Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors – Art Nouveau style dominates
- 1905 (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
- 1906 C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
PM Andrew Fisher
1908 Andrew Fisher assumes the position of prime minister for what turns out to be a short-lived second Labour government, Australia
Dirst Minister of Labour
1909 Politician William Lyon Mackenzie King takes his seat in the House of Commons as Canda’s first Minister of Labour
- 1910 First possible movie stunt: A man jumps into the Hudson River from a burning balloon
- 1912 Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas y Méndez is assassinated by an anarchist book shopping in Madrid
- 1914 Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
- 1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago in the Western Pacific
- 1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
- 1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia
- 1920 The Dalmatian coast between Italy and Yugoslavia is ceded to Yugoslavia
- 1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
- 1922 The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana
- 1923 Dr Hjalmar Schacht is appointed special commissioner to deal with the currency problem in Germany; by November 1924 the currency will have been restored
- 1927 Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
- 1928 British steamer “Vestris”, sailing from NYC to Uruguay, capsizes and sinks off Hampton Roads, Virginia, kills 111, including many women and children
Ballet Lady of Shalott
1931 Jean Sibelius and Ashton’s ballet “Lady of Shalott” premieres in London
- 1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto – Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
- 1932 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
- 1933 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia’s Baker Bowl – sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
- 1933 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field – sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Pirates lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0
- 1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photo of the so-called Loch Ness monster
- 1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in German parliamentary elections
- 1935 Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
- 1936 First-ever TV gardening show “In Your Garden” airs on the BBC
Nobel Prize in Literature
1936 Nobel Prize for literature awarded to American playwright Eugene O’Neill
- 1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
- 1936 St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
Goering’s Madagascar Plan
1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
- 1939 Jews in Lodz, Poland, ordered to wear a yellow star of David
- 1940 Blizzard strikes North American midwest, 154 die, including 69 on boat asail in the Great Lakes
- 1941 Alma Heflin becomes the first female test pilot for commercial aircraft at Piper Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
- 1941 Germany’s drive to take Moscow halted
- 1941 Radio stations WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
- 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands; US forces prevail after days of intense fighting
SS Robert E. Peary
1942 The SS Robert E. Peary, a Liberty ship built in 4 days and 15.5 hours at Henry J. Kaiser‘s Richmond Shipyard #2, is launched, setting a new record
- 1943 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
- 1944 RAF sinks German battleship Tirpitz at Tromso Fjord, Norway
- 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to American politician Cordell Hull (for establishing the UN)
- 1946 A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows
- 1946 Walt Disney’s “Song Of South” released
- 1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
- 1947 Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
Tojo’s Death Sentence
1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
- 1948 The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland
- 1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
- 1952 Philadelphia A’s pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
- 1952 White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
- 1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
- 1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor is closed
People’s Action Party
1954 Lee Kuan Yew and others form the People’s Action Party (PAP) in Singapore to work towards self-rule in Singapore
- 1955 1st West German officers sworn in
- 1955 Doc and Marty McFly are sent “Back to the Future” when lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower at exactly 10:04 pm, generating the power to send the DeLorean and Marty back to 1985 [fictional]
- 1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1964 Paula Murphy sets a female land speed record of 226.37 mph (364.31 km/h)
- 1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
- 1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
- 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
- 1966 18-year-old US High schooler Robert Smith kills 5 people at Arizona’s Rose-Mar Beauty College for fame
1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first “space selfie,” a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini 12 mission
- 1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
- 1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
- 1967 Packers’ Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
- 1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1968 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas declares unconstitutional the Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools
- 1969 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
- 1969 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
- 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers notch 1st NBA victory, in their 16th game, beating the Trail Blazers 105-103, in Portland, Oregon
- 1970 Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing up to 500,000 people, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
- 1970 Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
- 1970 The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is formed; the NIHE gradually took over control of the building and allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland
- 1972 Charity concert for United Crusade (now United Way) in San Diego, California attracts nearly 52,000; performers include: J. Geils Band, Jesse Colin Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Foghat, and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
- 1973 British sitcom series “Last of the Summer Wine” debuts on BBC; it goes on to become the longest running sitcom ever, airing for 31 seasons
Shostakovich’s 14th String Quartet
1973 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s 14th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad, Soviet Union
- 1974 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833
- 1974 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
- 1975 American Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas (77) retires after 36 years
- 1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest “Dutch” Morial
- 1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
- 1979 US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
- 1980 Baltimore’s Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
- 1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
- 1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
- 1981 Bill C Davis’ “Mass Appeal” premieres in NYC
- 1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
- 1981 Great Britain performs nuclear test
- 1982 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s ‘Fight of the Decade’
- 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Cricket History
1982 Zaheer Abbas scores his 100th first-class century while playing a Test for Pakistan against India and goes on to score 215 runs
- 1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
- 1985 Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
- 1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1986 France performs nuclear test
- 1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
- 1988 First commercial bungy jumping company begins operating near Queenstown, New Zealand, run by A. J. Hackett
- 1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
- 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1989 Brazil holds its 1st free presidential election in 29 years
- 1989 George Forrest’s musical “Grand Hotel” opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in NYC, runs for 1,018 performances, and wins five Tony Awards
- 1990 “The Body Bag Game” – after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly “they’ll have to be carted off in body bags” the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game
World Wide Web
1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau [1]
- 1991 Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of protesters in Dili, East Timor, killing at least 250
Full House #100
1991 US TV series “Full House” 100th episode, the twins are born
- 1992 British TV comedy “Absolutely Fabulous” written by Jennifer Saunders, starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley first appears on the BBC
- 1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 German Benetton driver Michael Schumacher crashes in the season-ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but claims second straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 33 points from Damon Hill
- 1995 Marino breaks Tarkenton’s NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
- 1995 NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
- 1995 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
- 1996 Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide in midair over Charkhi Dadri in India, killing 349 people, the third-deadliest aviation disaster in history
- 1996 Toronto’s Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
- 1997 Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
- 1998 NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
- 1999 Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2, killing 845 people and causing widespread destruction
- 2001 American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in NYC, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground
- 2001 Taliban forces abandon Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops
- 2003 In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, including the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq War, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base
- 2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world record for commercial railway systems with a speed of 501 km/h (311 mph)
- 2006 Former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a second referendum on independence from Georgia
- 2011 Opera “Silent Night” by Kevin Puts opens at the Ordway Theater, St. Paul sung in English, German, French, Italian and Latin (winner 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music) [1]
Berlusconi Resigns
2011 Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due in part to the European sovereign debt crisis
- 2012 Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
Đoković’s Second ATP
2012 Novak Đoković of Serbia wins his second season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title beating 6-time champion Roger Federer 7-6, 7-5 in the final in London. England
- 2014 European Space Agency’s Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Obama ‘Ally of the Year’
2015 Out Magazine names Barack Obama ‘Ally of the Year’, Obama becomes first sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine
- 2015 Suicide bombings in Lebanon kill 43, Isis claim responsibility
2016 Jackie Chan awarded honorary Oscar for his film achievements at 8th Annual Governors Awards ceremony
- 2017 7.3 earthquake hits near Halabjal, Iraq, on border with Iran, killing over 500 people, with 7,000 injured
Prince Charles Steps Up
2017 For the first time Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain’s war dead, replacing Queen Elizabeth
- 2018 Israeli secret operation in Gaza kills eight including one Israeli and an Hamas Commander, igniting tensions with retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza
Guru Nanak
2019 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak – the founder of Sikhism celebrated in India and Pakistan
- 2019 Disney launches its film and television streaming service Disney+
Morales Takes Asylum
2019 Former Bolivian President Evo Morales takes asylum in Mexico
- 2019 Former Houston Astros MLB pitcher Mike Fiers reveals team secretly “stole signs” via camera from visiting teams 2015-17; comms between opposing pitchers & catchers intercepted and relayed to Astros batters
- 2019 Israeli forces kill senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian militants setting off retaliatory rockets at Israel
The Mandalorian
2019 Space western TV series set in the Star Wars franchise “The Mandalorian” by Jon Favreau is released on Disney+
- 2021 At least 68 inmates killed in new fighting at Ecuadorean prison, the Litoral Penitentiary, Guayaquil, following earlier violence in September
Spear’s Conservatorship Ends
2021 LA judge rules to end Britney Spears‘ conservatorship, which had controlled almost all aspects of her life for 14 years
All Too Well
2021 Taylor Swift releases her directorial debut the short film “All Too Well” alongside her re-recorded album “Red (Taylor’s Version)”
Parton Wins Award
2022 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces his 3rd ‘Courage and Civility Award’ of $100M to country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton to distribute to charities of her choice
- 2022 New Zealand’s Black Ferns win Women’s World Rugby Championship defeating England 34-31 at Eden Park in Auckland in front of a capacity crowd [1]
- 2022 Two vintage aircraft crash in midair at the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow, killing all six people [1]
- 2022 US Mid-term elections: Democrats retain control of the Senate with Catherine Cortez Masto’s victory in Nevada 50-49, with run-off in Georgia still to be decided [1]
- 2023 Unprecedented heatwave in Brazil affects more than 3,000 towns with Rio de Janeiro reaching 42.5C – very high humidity makes it feel like 58.5C [1]
- 2023 WHO calls for attacks on and around hospitals in Gaza to stop, with newborn babies reportedly dying as a result of power, water and oxygen cuts [1]
- 2024 “Orbital” by British writer Samantha Harvey, set on the International Space Station, wins the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction [1]
Krasinski Sexiest Man
2024 Actor and director John Krasinski is named People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2024 [1]
- 2024 Former Massachusetts Air National Guard Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it online [1]
Appointment of Interest
2024 President-elect Donald Trump selects entrepreneur Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to head a newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) [1]
- 2024 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigns in the wake of a report into a church sex abuser that said he should have notified him to police [1]
- 2024 US State Department confirms over 10,000 North Korea troops have joined Russian forces in the Kursk region to fight Ukraine in a major escalation of the war [1]
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