The American Scholar
1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous “The American Scholar” speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, declares American literary independence from Europe
- 1864 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, 1900 casualties
- 1876 Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II
- 1881 1st US men’s single tennis championships held at Newport, Rhode Island
- 1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina, 110 die
Jack the Ripper’s 1st Victim
1888 The body of Jack the Ripper’s first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London’s East End
Joule, Watt and Quadrant Adopted
1889 Second International Electrical Congress adopts the joule as unit of energy (after James Prescott Joule), the watt as unit of power (after James Watt) and the quadrant as unit of electrical inductance (later renamed henry)
- 1894 Phillies outfielder Billy Hamilton equals George Gore’s MLB single game stolen bases record with 7 steals in 10-8 win vs Washington Senators in Philadelphia
- 1894 The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act passed by Richard Seddon’s Liberal government, making New Zealand the first country in the world to outlaw strikes in favour of compulsory arbitration
- 1895 First professional football game: QB John Brallier is paid $10 and his team wins 12-0
- 1896 Louis Napoleon Parker’s play “Rosemary” premieres in NYC
Kinetoscope Patented
1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device that produces moving pictures
- 1900 British troops over run Johannesburg
- 1900 Brooklyn pitcher Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Philadelphia Phillies in 2nd inning of the Superbas’ 9-4 loss at Washington Park; Kennedy still achieves his 4th 20-win season
- 1902 Split skirt first worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg, a horse rider
- 1903 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
- 1905 Mbunga rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East Africa
- 1907 Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
- 1907 Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente
- 1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
- 1909 Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon (2:40:34.2) in Stockholm
A Square Deal
1910 Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a ‘square deal’: property shall be ‘the servant and not the master of the commonwealth’
- 1911 The “Sullivan Act” requiring New Yorkers to possess licences for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect
- 1913 Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police
- 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 1914 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
- 1914 Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
- 1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
- 1914 German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
- 1915 Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
- 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
- 1916 Oscar Asche’s musical “Chu Chin Chow” premieres in London
Sun Yat-sen Takes Command
1917 Sun Yat-sen and his supporters’ ‘rump’ parliament establish a military government in China and elect Sun Yat-sen as Commander-in-Chief
- 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
- 1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
- 1919 Petlyura’s Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
- 1919 Ukrainian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
- 1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
- 1920 Detroit radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
- 1923 Italian troops occupy Corfu
- 1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
World Record 10,000m
1924 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
The Threepenny Opera
1928 Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weil’s play with music “The Threepenny Opera” premieres at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
Young Plan
1929 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the “Young Plan” to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years
- 1935 Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
- 1937 Det’s rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August
- 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
- 1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
- 1939 Staged “Polish” assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
- 1940 1st edition of illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
- 1940 German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing
- 1940 RAF Fighter Command loses 39 aircraft against Luftwaffe’s 41
- 1940 US National Guard assembles
- 1941 Radio program “Great Gildersleeve,” a spin-off of “Fibber McGee & Molly”, debuts on NBC
- 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
- 1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)
- 1943 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
- 1943 Japanese occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
- 1944 Allied offensive at “Gothen-linie” Italy
- 1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
- 1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux
- 1944 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest
- 1946 Foghorn Leghorn, a Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), debuts in “Walky Talky Hawky”
- 1947 Hungarian communist party wins election
- 1947 NY Giants set a season record for HRs by a club with 183 and end the season with 221
Baseball History
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
- 1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
- 1953 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
- 1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
- 1954 Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 die. Costliest ever hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired.
- 1954 Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A’s)
- 1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
- 1955 First sun-powered automobile is demonstrated in Chicago, Illinois
- 1955 KTRE TV channel 9 begins broadcasting in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC affiliate)
Baseball Record
1959 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean’s NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
- 1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
- 1960 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m, ahead of countrymen Parry O’Brien and Dallas Long
- 1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
- 1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) with Eric Williams as first Prime Minister
- 1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of MLB California Angels
- 1965 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
- 1965 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development
- 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
- 1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake which destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
- 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
Nude Lennon and Ono Album Cover
1968 Private Eye magazine reports that John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s upcoming album “Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins” will feature a cover picture of them nude
- 1968 Roy Face ties W. Johnson’s record of 802 pitching appearances with club
- 1968 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minnesota to become NWA champ
- 1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
- 1970 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador’s home in Wassenaar
- 1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
- 1971 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced
Lennon Moves to NY
1971 Beatle John Lennon leaves England for the final time, moving to New York City
World Record 200m Relay
1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70
- 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
Darling of Munich
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins balance beam & floor exercise gold medals at the Munich Olympics; follows gold in the teams all-round
Earl Anthony
1973 Bowler Earl Anthony wins PBA National Championship – begins first of his two three-peats
- 1974 Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen, Neteherlands harbor
- 1976 Mexican peso devalued
- 1976 Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
- 1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets an aircraft altitude record of 37,650 meters (123,523 feet)
- 1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate’s vote
- 1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
- 1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
Hearst Kidnappers Plead Guilty
1978 Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of American publishing heiress Patty Hearst
- 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
- 1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador
- 1980 Poland’s Solidarity trade union federations forms and is officially recognised by the Polish government
- 1980 The Gdańsk Agreement is signed, allowing Polish citizens to bring democratic changes within the communist political structure
- 1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord’s
- 1981 MLB Kansas City Royals fire manager Jim Frey, replace him with Dick Howser
- 1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
- 1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1985 “Prakas” sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
- 1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized California captured in East Los Angeles
- 1986 Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)
- 1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
Curtis Strange Earnings Record
1987 Curtis Strange sets golf’s earning for year record ($697,385)
Jackson’s Bad Premieres
1987 Michael Jackson‘s “Bad” video, directed by Martin Scorcese, premieres during TV special “Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns” on CBS
- 1987 South Africa’s longest mine strike in history ends
- 1987 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team [1] [2]
- 1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
- 1988 Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
- 1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
- 1989 Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
Baseball Record
1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the first father and son to play on the same team, the Seattle Mariners; the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both score
- 1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
- 1990 East Germany and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems
- 1991 Colorado Rockies bat out of order against Montreal Expos in 1st inning
- 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
- 1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- 1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union following the failed coup in Moscow
William H. Webster
1991 William H. Webster ends his term as 14th director of CIA – only person to head both FBI and CIA
1992 44th Emmy Awards: “Northern Exposure” (Best Drama & Best Drama Writing), Christopher Lloyd (Road To Avalonlea), and Dana Delany (China Beach) win
- 1992 Dynamite explosion in a mine in the Philippines kills 500
- 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM
1993 50th Venice Film Festival: “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman and “Three Colors: Blue” directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski are jointly awarded the Golden Lion
- 1993 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy’s communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.
- 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
- 1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
Kasarov Loses to Computer
1994 A Pentium computer running Richard Lang’s ChessGenius 2 program defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov
- 1994 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
- 1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland
Thierry Henry Debut
1994 Thierry Henry makes his professional debut for Monaco in a 2–0 loss against Nice
Sports History
1997 Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
- 1997 Last episode of Rolanda airs
- 1998 North Korea reportedly launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1. While the North Korean government claims the launch is successful, no objects are tracked in orbit from the launch.
Fly
1999 “Fly,” the 5th studio album by the Dixie Chicks is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album 2000, Billboard Album of the Year 2000)
- 1999 LAPA Flight 3142, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbery Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65 people, including 2 on the ground
- 1999 The first of a series of apartment bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
- 2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 965 people
2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch‘s famous painting “The Scream” is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
- 2012 Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan
Mt. McKinley now Denali
2015 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its native American name
- 2015 US President Barack Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change
- 2015 Violent protests in Kiev after Ukraine parliament vote leave 1 national guard dead, 100 injured
President Rousseff Impeached
2016 Brazilian Senate votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, removing her from office
- 2017 Indications that Neanderthals are the first to make glue out of tar are strengthened by research published in “Scientific Reports”
- 2017 International Organization for Migration states 18,500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh
- 2018 19-year-old Indonesian boy is rescued after 49 days adrift when his floating fish trap becomes detached
- 2019 Gunman kills seven and injures 22 during high speed chase in Odessa, Texas
- 2019 India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens
- 2019 Major track crash during Formula 2 race at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium kills Anthoine Hubert and critically injures Juan Manuel Correa
- 2019 Minnesota Twins smash 6 HRs in 10-7 loss to the Tigers in Detroit; break MLB record by hitting 268th home run of the season
- 2019 US missile attack in al-Qaeda jihadist training camp in Idlib province, Syria, kills 40
- 2020 US cases of COVID-19 pass 6 million with 183,300 deaths with California (699.000), Florida (619,000) recording the most (Johns Hopkins)
Ronaldo’s Second Man U Transfer
2021 36-year old Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed as a Manchester United player for a second time when his transfer from Juventus is ratified; Ronaldo left United in 2009 to join Real Madrid
- 2022 Mary Peltola is the first Alaskan Native to be elected to US Congress, defeating Sarah Palin in a special election [1]
- 2022 UN releases report accusing China of serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang region, “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity” [1]
- 2022 UN weather agency predicts a rare “triple dip” La Nina pattern to last till the end of 2022, the first this century, likely to extend droughts in Horn of Africa, South America [1]
- 2022 US life expectancy falls to its lowest level since 1996 (76.1 yrs vs. 79 yrs in 2019), with COVID-19 the main contributing factor according to the CDC [1]
- 2023 At least 76 die in a fire in a office building housing migrants and vulnerable people in Johannesburg, South Africa [1]
- 2023 New computer model study suggests humanity was almost wiped out 900,000 years ago with just 1,280 reproducing individuals remaining [1]
- 2023 Two leaders of right wing group the Proud Boys given lengthy sentences for sedition for their assault on the US Capitol – Joseph Biggs 17 years and Zachary Rehl 15 years [1]
- 2024 Bodies of six Israeli hostages are found in a tunnel near Rafah, Gaza, shot just before their discovery. Hamas blames Israeli failure to sign a ceasefire prompting large Israeli protests. [1]
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