1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II, who is killed in the battle
Battle of Old Byland
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence
Treaty of Peronne
1468 Treaty of Peronne: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and French King Louis XI (held under duress) confirm the Treaty of Arras of 1435, Treaty of Conflans of 1465 and limited territorial gains for the Duke of Burgundy
- 1700 Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
- 1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
- 1758 Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia
- 1773 American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland
- 1773 The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland
- 1774 First Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia
- 1805 Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
- 1806 Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
- 1812 Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts
- 1834 First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
- 1834 In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone, and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning of a block of buildings
- 1840 Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta
- 1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell in Clontarh, near Dublin, charging him with conspiracy, later cleared by appeal to the House of Lords
- 1862 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
- 1862 Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
- 1863 Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
- 1865 Cheyennes & Arapahos sign “peace treaty” then chased out Colorado
- 1882 University of the Punjab is founded in Lahore in present-day Pakistan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” a collection of 12 stories originally published serially in “The Strand Magazine”
- 1893 George Edwarde’s “Gaiety Girl” premieres in London
- 1893 Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret
- 1901 Justin Huntly McCarthy’s “If I were King” premieres in NYC
- 1911 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A’s, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
- 1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
- 1912 Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government
- 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives.
- 1914 German troops occupy Brug
- 1916 Perm State University is founded in Russia
Paul Robeson Excluded
1916 Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refuses to play against a Black person
- 1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
- 1922 The first Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue, New York City
- 1922 The Pennsylvania exchange in New York City sees the start of automated dialing
- 1924 Arnold Schoeberg’s opera “Die Gluckliche Hand” premieres in Vienna
- 1925 Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
- 1931 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
- 1931 Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State
- 1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations
- 1934 “Lux Radio Theatre” premieres
- 1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
- 1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
- 1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
1940 Balham tube station in London is bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, killing 64-66 people
- 1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga
- 1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
- 1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
- 1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
- 1943 600 Jewish prisoners mount an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland, 300 successfully escape
Japanese Occupation
1943 Japan declares the Philippines independent under President José P. Laurel
1st Supersonic Flight
1947 Chuck Yeager makes the first supersonic flight in the Bell XS-1 at Mach 1.06
Charles TKOs Valentino
1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Unité d’Habitation
1952 One of the most influential Modernist buildings, the Unité d’Habitation, designed by Le Corbusier, is officially inaugurated in Marseille, France
- 1952 UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York
- 1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
- 1953 Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die
- 1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
- 1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
- 1953 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower promises to fire any federal worker taking 5th amendment with regard to communist party affiliation
- 1953 WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
Mass Conversion to Buddhism
1956 Indian social reformer B.R. Ambedkar and 500,000 supporters convert to Buddhism in Nagpur
Nobel Peace Prize
1957 Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize, for his aid in resolving the Suez Crisis; the 1st Canadian to win the award [1]
- 1957 Everly Brothers’ single “Wake Up Little Susie” reaches #1
1st Monarch to Give Speech from the Throne
1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne
- 1958 Brendan Behan‘s play “The Hostage” premieres in London
- 1958 District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members
- 1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
- 1958 Paul Osborn’s “World of Suzie Wong” premieres in NYC
- 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1960 Belgian senator Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
Peace Corps
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy in a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
- 1962 Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17
- 1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1963 Algeria & Morocco border conflict
- 1963 WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins
- 1964 American swimmer Cathy Ferguson sets world record 1:07.7 to beat Kiki Caron of France by 0.2s and win the women’s 100m backstroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
- 1964 American swimmer Dick Roth sets world record 4:45.4 to beat teammate Roy Saari and win the men’s 400m individual medley gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
- 1964 Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s; only American to ever win the event
- 1964 Martin Walser‘s play “Der Schwarze Schwan” premieres in Stuttgart, Germany
- 1964 Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the women’s long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
- 1964 New York Yankees Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hit HRs runs on back-to-back pitches
- 1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV
- 1964 US 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Steve Clark, Mike Austin, Gary Ilman & Don Schollander swim world record 3:33.2 to beat Germany by 4.0s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
- 1965 USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches an altitude of 50.5 miles (81.3 km) and a top speed of 3,554 mph (5,720 km/h) (Mach 5.08)
- 1966 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
- 1966 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
- 1968 6.8 earthquake wrecks Australian town of Meckering, rupturing all nearby major roads and railways
- 1968 First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
- 1968 Gruner and Watson (US) set a scuba depth record of 133 m in the Bahamas
- 1968 MLB National League expansion draft: San Diego Padres pick San Francisco Giants outfielder ‘Downtown’ Ollie Brown and Montreal Expos pick Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Manny Mota 1st as they choose 30 players each
1968 Opening of the rebuilt Euston railway station in London, England
- 1968 The Beatles finish recording their double album “The Beatles” more commonly known as “The White Album”
- 1968 Viorica Viscopoleanu of Romania sets world record 6.82m to win the women’s long jump at the Mexico City Olympics; beats Sheila Sherwood of Great Britain by 0.14m
- 1969 Palme government forms in Sweden
- 1969 Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 1969 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971
- 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
- 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1971 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
- 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on “Dick Cavett Show”
- 1972 North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition
- 1973 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
Motorcade Mishap
1975 US President Gerald Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
- 1976 Chris Chambliss’ 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
Nobel Prize for Economics
1976 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman
- 1976 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
- 1977 American rock band Kiss release their 2nd live album “Alive II”
- 1977 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
Heroes
1977 RCA releases David Bowie‘s 12th studio album, “Heroes”; his second collaboration with Brian Eno in what becomes known as his ‘Berlin trilogy’ features contributions from guitarist Robert Fripp
- 1978 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- 1978 Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 NY Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
- 1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
Gretzky Scores 1st Goal
1979 Edmonton Oilers Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal agsinst the Vancouver Canucks to tie the score at 4 with just over a minute remaining
- 1979 First Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
- 1979 NHL New York Rangers retire Rod Gilbert’s uniform number 7, the first number to be retired by the team
- 1979 NHL Philadelphia Flyers beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3, starting what becomes a 35-game unbeaten streak
The Miracle Worker
1979 TV adaptation of Helen Keller‘s life story “The Miracle Worker” premieres on NBC, starring Melissa Gilbert in title role and Patty Duke, who played Keller in earlier stage and film productions, as teacher Anne Sullivan
- 1980 Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
Supreme Court Justice Pledge
1980 Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to the US Supreme Court
- 1981 Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner
- 1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
- 1982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- 1982 Islanders assessed 108 penalty minutes, Penguins 125 (233 total)
- 1982 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
- 1982 US President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs
- 1983 Grenada Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard launches a leftist coup within the revolutionary government and takes power for 3 days
- 1983 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
- 1984 NFL Cleveland Browns’ Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds, in 24-20 loss to visiting NY Jets
Jets Retire #12
1985 New York Jets retire Joe Namath‘s #12 on nationally televised Monday Night Football; beat Miami Dolphins, 23-7
- 1986 IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, for his efforts to ensure the Holocaust was remembered
- 1986 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
- 1987 In Midland, TX, 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22 feet (7 meters) down a well and is rescued 58 hours later
- 1988 Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
- 1988 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1988 NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant by winning the Patrick Division Playoff Championship
- 1989 Texas A&I University running back Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards
- 1990 SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
- 1991 NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner becomes 1st NHL player to score his 500th goal, 500th assist, and 1000th point all in the same season
- 1992 Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A’s to win their 1st AL pennant
- 1994 NASA Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
- 1995 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
- 1996 Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
- 1996 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
- 1996 Packer Chris Jacke kicks the longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
- 1998 Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia
- 1998 NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
- 2001 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship by 58 points from David Coulthard; takes out Japanese GP at Suzuka for 9th win of the season
- 2003 Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou. Cubs give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Marlins 8-3, and the Bartman incident is seen as the turning point in the series
Birgit Nilsson Prize
2009 Spanish opera singer Plácido Domingo is awarded the first $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
PM Mark Rutte
2010 Mark Rutte sworn in as Prime Minister of the Netherlands after his People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy party became the largest party in the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections
- 2012 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
- 2012 Felix Baumgartner becomes the first skydiver to break the sound barrier, jumping from 24 miles above Earth
- 2013 Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices
- 2014 Richard Flanagan’s novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize
- 2014 Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian‘s planned lecture the following day
- 2014 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%
Weinstein Expelled from the Academy
2017 Film producer Harvey Weinstein is expelled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after historical revelations of sexual harassment and rape
- 2017 Terrorist bomb attack in a truck in Mogadishu, Somalia leaves at more than 300 dead and hundreds injured
- 2018 Afghan batsman Hazratullah Zazai becomes only the 6th player in cricket history (3rd in T20) to hit 6-sixes in an over; scores 62 in 17 balls in Kabul Zwanan loss v Balkh Legends in Afghanistan Premier League
- 2018 Flash floods in Aude region, France kill at least 10 people
Booker Prize
2019 Booker Prize awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo for “Girl, Woman, Other”, Evaristo 1st black woman to win
- 2019 British Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Pakistan to begin a 5-day royal tour
- 2019 Hundreds of forest fires break out in western Lebanon, killing three and prompting calls for international help
- 2019 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for research on ways to fight poverty
- 2019 Spain’s Supreme Court jails nine Catalan separatist leaders for sedition for 2017 independence referendum, prompting violent clashes in Barcelona
Shakespeare’s First Folio
2020 A copy of William Shakespeare‘s First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York
- 2020 Details of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor created by scientists at the University of Rochester, NY, published in “Nature” [1]
2020 French president Emmanuel Macron announces a public health emergency and a curfew of 9 pm for nine cities due to surge in COVID-19 cases
- 2021 Record price for a Banksy artwork is paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for “Love is in the Bin,” which was famously shredded on purchase in 2018 [1]
- 2022 Coal mine explosion in Amasra, northern Turkey, kills 41 and injures 11 [1]
- 2022 Psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 2023 Annular solar eclipse, a “ring of fire,” is visible across parts of the US, Mexico, and South and Central America [1]
- 2023 Australia votes against altering its constitution to give indigenous communities more rights in a referendum [1]
- 2023 New Zealand general election won by a right-wing coalition headed by Christopher Luxon [1]
- 2024 Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses 43,000 points for 1st time, closing at 43,065.22 [1]
- 2024 NASA’s Europa Clipper launches on a mission to investigate the subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa [1]
- 2024 New largest-known prime number 2^136279841-1 found by programmer Luke Durant as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search [1]
- 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity” [1]
- 2024 Russian man is rescued after 67 days adrift in an inflatable boat after his brother and nephew die in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia’s Far East [1]
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