Today's History - March 1st
Those born today...
1980 Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1976 Maringo Vl*ter, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1974 Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
1971 Andr* Kamebeek, soccer player (FC Twente)
1967 Aron Winter, Surnamese/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Lazio)
1966 John David Cullum, actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
1964 Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1963 Arnold Oosterveer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1963 Maurice Benard, actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital)
1963 Robert James Affuso, Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1962 Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1961 Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1961 Mike Rozier, NFLer
1958 Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
1957 Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1956 Timothy Daly, Sufferin NY, actor (Almost Grown, Diner, Made in Heaven)
1955 Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1954 Catherine Bach, Warren Oh, oh those legs, actress (Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1953 Ron Howard, Okla, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
1949 Sido Martens, Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1947 Alan Thicke, Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains)
1946 Lana Wood, [Svetlana Gurdin], Santa Rosa Calif, (Diamonds are Forever)
1946 Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1945 Burning Spear, [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1944 Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1944 John B Breaux, (Rep-D-LA, 1972-88)
1944 John Napier, London, set designer (Royal Shakesphere Company)
1944 Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1943 Benjamin W Jipcho, Mt Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Oly-silver-1972)
1943 Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1943 Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
1942 Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 Michael L Lampton, Williamsport Pa, astronaut
1940 Ralph Towner, rocker
1939 Leo Brouwer, composer
1939 Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1938 Michael J[oseph] Kurland, US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
1936 Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
1935 George G*n*reux, Canada, trap shooter (Olympic-gold-1952)
1935 Robert Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West)
1934 Jim Ed Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1934 Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1933 Istvan Lang, composer
1933 Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
1932 Jacques Leduc, composer
1930 Pierre Max Dubois, composer
1930 Raymond St Jacques, actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
1927 Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
1926 Cesare Danova, Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas)
1926 Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner (1960-89)
1926 Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1925 Al Rosen, Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953)/NY Yankee pres
1924 Donald "Deke" K Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
1923 Duncan White, Ceylon, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1948)
1922 Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel, 19??-95)/Nobel 1994
1921 Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
1921 Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke, NY
1920 Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
1920 Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1917 Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1917 Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
1915 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/S Afr economist (Madame Sans G*ne)
1914 Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/UDF-chairman
1914 Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1909 David Niven, Kirriemuir Scotland, actor (Casino Royale)
1909 Richard de Guide, composer
1909 Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1907 Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
1905 Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1904 Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1904 Paul Hartman, SF Calif, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
1903 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
19-- Georgina Spelvin, XXX actress (Devil in Miss Jones, Exposed)
19-- Jed Allan, Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, CC-Santa Barbara)
19-- Melanie Moore, XXX actress ($exce$$, Money Hole, Misfits of Society)
19-- Richard Shoberg, actor (Tom-All My Children, Edge of Night, Somerset)
19-- Tom Mason, Bkln NY, actor (Jack & Mike, Our Family Honor)
1896 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
1895 G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer (elected 1958)
1893 Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
1890 Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
1886 Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1885 Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
1883 Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1882 Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1880 Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
1880 Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923)
1878 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1874 Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
1864 Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree
1860 Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
1858 Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
1856 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1852 Theophile Delcass*, French statesman
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
1841 Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
1841 Romualdo Marenco, composer
1838 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
1837 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
1837 William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
1835 Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
1832 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
1831 Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1828 James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1826 John Thomas, composer
1822 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 Charles Champion Gilbert, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1820 George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1820 Richard Redhead, composer
1811 Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1810 Fr*d*ric Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1799 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1788 Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1780 L*onard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
1779 Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1771 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1734 Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor
1711 Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1709 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1703 Dieudonne Raick, composer
1690 Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1630 Flemish painter Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, baptized
1610 Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
1607 Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1528 Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1494 Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1456 Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
772 Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
Those who died today...
1995 Vladislav Listjev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1994 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
1994 Walter Knows, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1993 Luis Kutner, US co-founder of Amnesty International, dies at 84
1993 Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
1992 Maria D*a, French actress (Pi*ges), dies at 73
1991 Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1991 Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
1991 Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
1990 Claude Spaak, Belgian playwright, dies
1989 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies
1989 Josephine van Gasteren, actress/director (Bluejackets), dies
1988 Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1988 Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello) dies at 80
1985 Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1984 Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1980 John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
1979 Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1976 Jean Martinon, composer, dies at 66
1974 Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1972 Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
1970 Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1968 Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1965 Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 78
1964 Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
1962 Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
1958 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies
1953 Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1947 J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1944 ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1940 Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1938 Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist politician (Il fuoco), dies
1932 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1930 Alo*s Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies
1928 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 63
1928 Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 78
1926 Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies
1924 Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1921 Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies
1920 Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1918 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 65
1914 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Neth chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1906 Jos* M de Pereda y S*nchez de Porr*a, Spanish writer, dies at 73
1906 Moriz Heyne, German germanist (German W*rterbuch), dies
1901 Bernhard Erdmannsd*rffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies
1899 Gy*rgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament, dies at 90
1896 ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1892 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1870 Francisco S L*pez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies
1865 Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1865 Gerard Vissering, banker/president (Javan Bank)
1859 Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1826 JJ Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies
1817 Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1804 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1797 Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1788 Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1777 Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62
1773 Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
1771 Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
1693 Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1633 George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
1619 Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1535 Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1510 Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
1383 Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1131 Stefanus II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
965 Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
Things that happened today...
2002 Archdiocese of Boston turns over list of people molested by
priests
2002 Eleven Israelis killed by Palestinian suicide bomber.
2002 NASA reports Mars Odyssey spacecraft found evidence of vast regions
of water on Mars
1996 Lenny Wilkins, winningest coach in NBA, wins 1000th game.
1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced.
1997 5th annual ESPY awards show on TV.
1995 37th Grammy Awards
1995 Belgium ends military conscript
1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 Julio Mar*a Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1994 36th Grammy Awards in NYC
1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees
1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle US record (54.48 secs)
1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1984 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3066 McFadden & #3420 Standish
1984 Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup
1982 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a L*z-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 NY Times raises it's price from 25* to 30*
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1982 Venera 13 lands on Venus
1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2788, #3016, #3308 Ferreri & #3740
1981 Irish Rep Army Bobby Sand begins hunger strike in Maze Prison
1981 S J Bus discovers asteroid #3029, #3030 Vehrenberg, #3042,
#3075, #3135, #3472 Upgren, #3498, #3503, #3685 & #3725
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
1980 Snow falls in Florida
1979 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd," premieres in NYC
1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
1972 David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones," premieres in NYC
1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Wash DC
1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
1970 Atje Cologne-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
1970 End of US coml whale hunting
1970 Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1970 White govt of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
1969 Doors' Jim Morrison is arrested for exposing his penis in Miami
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball
1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain
1967 House of Reps expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast
1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1965 Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)
1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95
1962 US/British nuclear experiment in Nevada
1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Pr*s debut in Wigmore Hall
1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US house of reps injuring 5 reps
1954 Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training
after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1954 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
1953 WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1950 USSR issues golden rubles
1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
1947 Intl Monetary Fund began operations
1946 Panam* accepts its new constitution
1945 British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1945 US infantry regiment captures M*nchengladbach
1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1943 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2988
1942 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago
1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn
1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
1941 German troops take Bulgaria
1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1937 Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1934 HW champ Primo Carnera KOs Tommy Loughran
1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1932 Charles Lindbergh Jr kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
1924 Germany: prohibits KPD party
1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
1921 Rwanda ceded to England
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
1920 Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1919 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #910 Anneliese
1917 1st federal land bank chartered
1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1914 Minister of war H Col*n named director of British Petroleum
1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND
1913 F Kaiser discovers asteroids #745 Mauritia & #746 Marlu
1913 Federal income tax takes effect, as per 16th amendment
1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC
1911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #711 Marmulla
1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range
118 die. Worst snow slide in US history
1909 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn
1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
1894 M Wolf discovers asteroids #385 Ilmatar & #386 Siegena
1891 E Millosevich discovers asteroid #306 Unitas
1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1879 Library of Hawaii founded
1878 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #185 Eunike
1876 Guernsey cattle club formed, Farmington, Conn
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1867 Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1866 2 Brazilian ships sink off Rio Parana
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
1859 Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
1854 A Marth discovers asteroid #29 Amphitrite
1854 R Luther discovers asteroid #28 Bellona
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the
death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1845 US annexes Texas
1815 Dutch law makes Sunday holy
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha body in Citadel of Cairo found
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands
1809 Embargo act of 1807 is repealed
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state
1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1790 1st US census authorized
1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery
1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, MA)
1642 York, Maine becomes 1st American city to incorporate
1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de S* founds Rio de Janeiro
1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank of Borselen
1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1382 French uprising against taxes
1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
0705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0492 St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy
0001 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome
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