- 587 Treaty of Andelot: signed between Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia and King Guntram of Burgundy; King Guntram names his cousin Childebert II as heir
1240 Batu Khan’s Mongol army lays siege to Kyiv and begins assaulting its city walls with catapults; the city falls eight days later
- 1443 Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Krujë in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag
The Royal Society
1660 Lecture by Sir Christopher Wren, Professor of Astronomy at England’s Gresham College, inspires the formation of a scientific group that later becomes the Royal Society of London
Blackbeard Captures his Flagship
1717 Blackbeard attacks and captures a French merchant slave ship, renaming it “Queen Anne’s Revenge” and equipping it with 40 guns
Anne Bonny and Mary Read Sentenced to Death
1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution
- 1757 Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven
- 1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people
- 1795 US pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis
- 1813 Cossacks liberate Utrecht from French occupation
- 1814 The Times of London is first printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, making newspapers available to a mass audience
- 1821 Panama declares independence from Spain
- 1843 Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day; the United Kingdom and France officially recognize the Kingdom of Hawaii as an independent nation
- 1847 Church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali in Bologna, Italy, initiated with the premier of Rossini’s “Tantum ergo”
- 1853 Olympia is selected as the capital of Washington Territory by Governor Isaac Stevens
- 1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
- 1861 Confederate Congress officially admits Missouri as the 12th Confederate State
- 1862 Battle of Cane Hill is fought between Union and Confederate forces in northwestern Arkansas
- 1864 Confederates under Thomas Rosser ride to New Creek, surprising and capturing more than 700 Union soldiers
- 1864 Joseph Wheeler attacks Judson Kilpatrick’s camp south of Waynesboro, Georgia
- 1871 Ku Klux Klan trials begin in Federal District Court in South Carolina
- 1875 British explorer Verney Cameron arrives on the Atlantic coast of Africa, becoming the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea
- 1879 General Wolseley defeats King Sekhukhune I of the Bapedi people
1895 America’s first auto race is organized by the “Chicago Times-Herald” from Chicago to Evanston and back; six cars participate in the 55-mile race, and Frank Duryea wins, averaging 7 mph
Battle of Modder River
1899 Second Boer War: Battle of Modder River (Cape Colony), British Lord Methuen defeats Boer forces of Piet Cronjé and Koos de la Rey
- 1904 German forces defeat the Bondelswarts (Hottentots) in Warmbad, German South-West Africa
Sinn Féin Forms
1905 Arthur Griffith formally launches the Sinn Féin political movement in Dublin
Mayer’s 1st Theater
1907 Scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts
- 1908 154 men die in a coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3
1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff‘s Piano Concerto No. 3, one of the genre’s most difficult, premieres at the New Theatre in New York City with the composer as soloist and the New York Symphony Society conducted by Walter Damrosch
Event of Interest
1912 Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent in Vlorë from the Ottoman Empire after 400 years of rule
- 1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading
- 1916 First German daylight air raid on London by a lone airplane
- 1917 Sigmund Romberg’s revue “Over the Top” premieres in New York
- 1918 Bukovinian Romanians declare their union with Romania
Wilhelm II Abdicates
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates as German Emperor and King of Prussia while in exile in Amerongen, Netherlands
1st Woman MP
1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor is elected as the first female member of the British House of Commons (to take her seat)
- 1920 Kilmichael Ambush: Irish Republican Army attacks one week after Bloody Sunday
- 1922 RAF Captain Cyril Turner performs the first skywriting exhibition in New York City, spelling out “Hello USA Call Vanderbilt 7200”; 47,000 people call
- 1922 Trial of the Six: Six Greek ex-ministers are executed for treason, two are imprisoned for life, and one is exiled
- 1925 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM Radio in Nashville, Tennessee
Georges Vezina
1925 NHL goalie Georges Vézina collapses during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and dies four months later of tuberculosis
- 1929 Chicago fullback Ernie Nevers sets the NFL record for most points scored in a single game with all 40 in the Cardinals’ 40–6 rout of the Chicago Bears; Nevers holds the NFL record with 6 touchdowns and 4 extra points
Romantic
1930 Howard Hanson‘s Symphony No. 2 “Romantic” premieres for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Parker and Barrow Indicted
1933 A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis
Judenrat
1939 Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenräte (Jewish councils)
- 1944 Detroit Tigers pitcher Hal Newhouser is named American League MVP
- 1944 Fort Cataraqui is the first allied ship to sail into Antwerp via the Scheldt
- 1945 Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
- 1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert is sentenced to death
- 1946 The French Fourth Republic government, led by Georges Bidault, resigns
- 1948 Edited film serial “Hopalong Cassidy” premieres on TV, later becoming the 1st network western series on NBC
- 1950 Walter O’Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager and replaces him with Chuck Dressen
- 1954 KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, Kansas (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 1956 NFL Draft: Gary Glick from University of Colorado A&M first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
- 1955 KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, Hawaii (IND), begins broadcasting
- 1955 KTHV TV channel 11 (CBS affiliate) in Little Rock, Arkansas, begins broadcasting
- 1956 Lee Calhoun leads an American trifecta in the men’s 110m hurdles at the Melbourne Olympics, setting a hurdles Olympic record of 13.5 seconds to beat teammates Jack Davis and Joel Shankle
- 1956 Leonid Spirin leads a Soviet Union 1-2-3 to win the men’s 20 kilometre walk gold medal in 1:31:27.4 at the Melbourne Olympics; beats teammates Antanas Mikėnas and Bruno Junk
- 1956 Photography begins on French film “Et Dieu… créa la femme / And God Created Woman”
- 1956 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty of Australia retains her 80m hurdles Olympic title in 10.7 seconds, defeating German Gisela Birkemeyer by just 0.2 seconds at the Melbourne Games
- 1956 Soviet runner Vladimir Kuts wraps up the Olympic middle distance double by winning the 5,000m gold medal at the Melbourne Games; runs Olympic records in both 5k and 10,000m events
Look Homeward, Angel
1957 “Look Homeward, Angel”, a play based on the book by Thomas Wolfe, adapted by Ketti Frings and starring Anthony Perkins, premieres in New York City
- 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community
- 1958 Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of the French Community
- 1958 KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, South Dakota (ABC), begins broadcasting
- 1958 Legendary cricket fast bowler Wes Hall makes his Test debut for West Indies v India in 1st Test at Bombay; Hall’s match figures 4/107
- 1958 The American League announces that the 1959 Opening Day will be the earliest ever on April 9
- 1958 US reports 1st full-range firing of an Intercontinental ballistic missile
- 1959 KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook, Nebraska (NBC), begins broadcasting
Princeps Pastorum
1959 Pope John XXIII publishes the encyclical Princeps Pastorum (Prince of the Shepherds), focusing on the missionary apostolate
- 1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
- 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
Der Abstecher
1961 German writer Martin Walser‘s play “Der Abstecher” (The Detour) premieres in Munich
- 1962 Telegraph communication between Netherlands and Indonesia is restored
- 1963 The Beatles “She Loves You” unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold
- 1963 WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, Alabama (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1964 1965 NFL Draft: Tucker Frederickson from Auburn University first pick by New York Giants
- 1964 NASA launches Mariner 4, the first probe to successfully fly by Mars
- 1966 The Kingdom of Burundi becomes a republic: Michel Micombero performs a coup, overthrowing King Ntare V and the monarchy
- 1967 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA quarterback
Radio Pulsars
1967 First radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
John Lennon
1968 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
- 1969 Infielder Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
- 1972 Two members of the Provisional IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry
- 1973 Baltimore Oriole’s Al Bumbry wins the American League Rookie of the Year award
- 1973 The Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian People
George Steinbrenner Suspended
1974 Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for two years due to his federal conviction for illegal contributions to political campaigns [1]
- 1974 John Lennon‘s last concert appearance is as a guest of Elton John at Madison Square Garden in New York City; they perform “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” and “I Saw Her Standing There”
- 1975 “As the World Turns” and “The Edge of Night”, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes
- 1975 Test cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding for West Indies against Australia in Brisbane
- 1975 The Democratic Republic of East Timor is proclaimed by Fretilin
- 1978 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma running back
Briefcase Full of Blues
1978 Atlantic Records releases “Briefcase Full of Blues,” the debut album by The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi); the album tops the chart and becomes the best-selling blues record of all time
- 1978 Cincinnati Reds fire their manager Sparky Anderson after nine years with the team
- 1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers, making it New Zealand’s deadliest peacetime disaster
- 1979 LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins the National League Rookie of the Year award
John Paul II in Turkey
1979 Pope John Paul II‘s first papal visit to Turkey, almost 1 1/2 years before Turkish native Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to kill him
- 1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to surpass Amos Alonzo Stagg, becoming college football’s winningest coach
Muldoon Re-elected
1981 The New Zealand general election is won by the ruling National Party and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon
William and Hannah Penn
1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn, become Honorary Citizens of the United States [1]
- 1986 Hilbert van der Duim skates the one-hour world record with 39.4928 km
- 1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 passengers
Henderson’s Record Contract
1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 contract per year with baseball’s Oakland Athletics
Lee Kuan Yew Resigns
1990 Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore’s longest-serving Prime Minister
- 1993 Carlos Roberto Reina wins the Honduran presidential election
Murder of Jeffrey Dahmer
1994 Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin
- 1994 Norway votes against joining the European Union with 52.2% of the vote
- 1995 James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
- 1997 200th and final episode of original “Beavis and Butt-head” airs on MTV
- 1997 First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia
- 1998 Albanians overwhelmingly endorse a new constitution in a national referendum, with 93.5% of voters in support
- 2000 Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze
- 2005 American Congressman Duke Cunningham admits to accepting $2.4 million in bribes and pleads guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit bribery [1]
2005 Ballon d’Or: FC Barcelona’s Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho is named the best football player in Europe ahead of Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard and Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard
- 2008 Sweden technically enters a recession after experiencing a contraction of 0.1% in the second and third quarters
- 2012 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria
Fury vs. Klitschko
2015 British boxer Tyson Fury defeats Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision to win WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, The Ring magazine, and lineal heavyweight titles in Düsseldorf, Germany; ends Klitschko’s 9-year reign as champion
Vardy’s Record Score
2015 Jamie Vardy scores for Leicester City in a 1-1 draw against Manchester United at the King Power Stadium; EPL record 11th consecutive game in which Vardy scores
- 2016 LaMia Flight 2933, carrying the Brazilian Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, including players and journalists
Kenyatta’s 2nd Term
2017 Uhuru Kenyatta is sworn in for a second term as President of Kenya
- 2018 Australian state Queensland raises its fire warning to “catastrophic” for the first time as 130 fires burn across the state [1]
- 2018 French director Luc Besson is accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to the four already made public [1]
- 2019 Iraqi security forces open fire on protesters, killing at least 25 in Nasiriya a day after the Iranian embassy in Najaf is burned down [1]
- 2019 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: US retains trophy with an 11-8 win over Europe; MVP: Skyler Woodward (USA)
- 2019 The European Parliament declares a climate emergency
- 2019 Zimbabwe is on the brink of man-made starvation, according to a UN expert
- 2020 At least 110 people are killed in an attack on Koshobe village in north-east Nigeria by the Boko Haram jihadist group [1]
- 2020 Thousands of farmers begin entering Delhi to protest the proposed agriculture reforms [1]
- 2021 Dan Campbell records his first victory as head coach of the Detroit Lions with a win against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 13
- 2022 50 million birds are killed in a record-breaking outbreak of avian flu across the US, according to the Department of Agriculture, amid similar outbreaks elsewhere around the world [1]
- 2022 Canadian scientists announce the discovery of two new minerals, elaliite and elkinstantonite, within a 70-gram sample of the El Ali meteorite found in Somalia [1]
- 2022 London’s Horniman Museum becomes the first UK museum to return items, including Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria, originally looted from Benin City by British troops in 1897 [1]
- 2022 Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “gaslighting,” while Collins Dictionary’s is “permacrisis” [1]
- 2022 Qatar Football World Cup Chief Hassan Al-Thawadi confirms 400 to 500 migrant workers died during the building of the World Cup venues [1]
- 2022 Recent protests in Iran have killed 451 protesters and 60 security forces, according to the Human Rights Activists in Iran group, with 18,000 detained. The Iranian government says the number killed is 300. [1]
- 2022 The cocaine “super-cartel” that controls one-third of European trade is broken up in ‘Operation Desert Light’ by Europol, with 30 tons of the drug seized and 49 people arrested [1]
- 2023 41 Indian construction workers are successfully rescued after 41 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand, India [1]
- 2024 Archaeologists reveal the first evidence of two different early human species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, coexisting in the same location in Kenya [1]
- 2024 Australia becomes the first country to pass legislation banning children under 16 from using social media [1]
- 2024 More than 1 million Ukrainian households are left without power after a widespread Russian missile strike targets the country’s energy infrastructure [1]
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