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2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
1999 Shel Silverstein, writer, Where the Sidewalk Ends, dies at 66 1998 19th U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California 1997 California law ends affirmative-action 1997 Cleveland Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games 1997 Cleveland Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17) 1997 U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields Golf Club Illinois 1997 Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends 1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission 1996 After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends 1996 Alanis Morissette ends her 1st U.S. tour (Houston Texas) 1996 Dare and Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16 1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million 1995 Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip 1995 Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days 1995 Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39 1995 Belgium ends military conscript 1995 Amtrak New York City - Tampa run ends 1994 1st phase of O. J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen) 1994 Cleveland Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yankees 11-6 1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] 1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election 1994 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru 1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 home runs 1993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands 1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA 1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA 1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years 1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps 1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc 1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days 1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends 1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games 1991 Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games 1991 Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception 1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA 1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain 1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy 1991 Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157 1991 U.N. weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq 1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1991 William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA 1991 Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning 1991 With 3 runs in 9th, Baltimore ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 1991 Angola's civil war ends 1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games 1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first 1991 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated 1991 All American Bowl ends after 14 years 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans 1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM 1990 Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight U.S. Open final 1990 Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak 1990 New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case 1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends 1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games 1989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games 1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions 1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50 1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1989 "Ryan's Hope" ends 13 year run on ABC-TV 1988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA 1988 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires 1988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest 1988 Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24 1988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager 1987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws 1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34 1987 Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions 1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends 1987 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games 1987 State of siege ends in Taiwan 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law 1987 Andy Van Slyke home runs off R McDowell in both ends of double header 1987 Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins 1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 vs. Pak 1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze 1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA 1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run 1986 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) 1986 John N. McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1986 South Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends 1985 Indians-Brewers game at Cleveland Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out 1985 U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua 1984 TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run 1984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends 1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner 1984 Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends 1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts 1984 Detroit Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins 1984 John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1984 U.S. ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak 1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia 1983 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745 1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak 1983 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games 1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law 1983 Reagan ends U.S. arms embargo against Guatemala 1982 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run 1982 Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins) 1982 Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions 1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Illinois 31-6 1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th) 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict 1982 Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak 1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends 1981 33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2 1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain 1981 U.S. ends grain embargo against U.S.S.R. 1981 Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA 1981 Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1981 Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege 1980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions 1980 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike 1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for 1980 George Brett ends hitting streak at 30 1980 Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England 1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run 1980 Minn ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends 1979 India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours 1979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) 1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians 1978 China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension 1978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL) 1978 Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd 1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1977 NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends 1977 George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA 1977 KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams 1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run 1976 Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 1976 Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter 1976 William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games 1975 Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM 1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years 1974 Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years 1974 David Bowie's 'Diamond Dog' tour ends in New York City 1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands 1974 A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Baltimore ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games 1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run 1974 Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands 1974 Gas rationing ends in Netherlands 1974 A college basketball game ends 210-67 1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak 1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus 1973 Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2 years) 1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia 1973 James R. Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA 1973 After a 5 year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak 1973 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA 1972 U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China 1972 President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines 1972 British harbor strike ends 1972 Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue 1972 "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio 1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days 1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China 1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria 1971 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1971 Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie" 1971 U.S. ends ban on China trade 1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China 1970 4 day NFL strike ends 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" 1970 U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam 1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria 1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary 1969 Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing 1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1968 St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA 1968 Theatre censorship ends in Britain 1968 Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch 1968 Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69 1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages 1967 Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) 1966 U.S. RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays 1966 Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM 1966 Vice Admiral William F Raborn, Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA 1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government 1966 12 day New York City transit strike ends 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends 1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission 1965 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia 1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia 1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends 1965 Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, vs. New Zealand at Lord's 1964 Rebellion ends in Zaire 1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium 1964 Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked 1964 Artisans strike in Belgium ends 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) 1964 Panama ends diplomatic relations with U.S. 1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends 1963 New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends 1963 Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games 1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury 1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years 1962 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cincinnati for 10 yrs 1962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years 1962 Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases 1962 Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends 1962 A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk 1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) 1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school 1962 Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees 1962 General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1961 Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak 1961 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston 1961 Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak 1961 Niagara ends St. Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak 1960 Australia vs. West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie 1960 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series 1960 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army 1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua 1959 Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis 1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) 1958 International Geophyscial Year ends 1958 Dutch Government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers 1957 Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0 1957 Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights 1957 International Geophysical Year begins, ends December 31, 1958 1957 New York City ends trolley car service 1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games 1956 Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service 1956 3rd class travel on British Railways ends 1956 Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header 1956 U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses 1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends 1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH 1955 Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield 1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing 1955 English harbor strike ends 1955 Argentine state of siege ends 1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia 1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends 1955 Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw 1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany 1955 U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak 1954 Food rationing ends in Britain 1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with U.S.S.R. 1953 Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games 1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA 1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ends 1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends 1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1951 William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany 1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career 1950 Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar 1950 Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis 1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule 1950 University of Miami ends William and Mary straight tennis match victories at 82 1949 Greeks civil war ends 1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights 1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends 1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader 1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends 1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie 1947 U.S. control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue ends 1947 Cincinnati Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4 1947 Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA 1946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run 1946 President Truman ends wage/price freeze 1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards and Dodgers) 1946 Bulgaria ends monarchy 1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA 1945 Rationg of auto tires ends in US 1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends 1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) 1945 President Truman ends Lend-Lease program 1945 U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends 1945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe 1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima 1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion 1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends 1944 Meat rationing ends in U.S. 1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats 1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed 1943 Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) 1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium 1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle 1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends 1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan 1942 New York City ends night baseball games for rest of WW II 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat 1941 German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends 1941 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland 1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria 1940 Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends 1939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yankees beat Tigers 22-2 1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends 1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends 1936 International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends 1936 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends 1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska 1936 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 minutes and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0 1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact 1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa 1935 Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends 1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay 1935 Paul O[sborne] Williams, U.S., sci-fi author, Ends of the Circle 1934 Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7 1934 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" 1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days 1933 Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0) 1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League 1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed 1932 Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games 1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand 1932 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery 1931 Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's 1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH 1931 Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak 1930 George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him 1930 Boqueron battle ends Paraguay border dispute 1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games 1930 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) 1930 4th Test Cricket WI vs. England ends in a draw after nine days 1930 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days 1929 Yankees Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 1929 WOR (New York City) ends affiliation with CBS radio network 1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight 1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde 1929 Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days) 1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends 1926 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike 1926 British general strike ends 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 1925 Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139) 1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed 1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record) 1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim 1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam 1924 8 month Twenste textile strike ends 1924 London public transport strike ends 1923 Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied 1923 London harbor strike ends 1922 German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends 1922 Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games 1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends 1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio 1919 1st transcontinental air race ends 1919 Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany 1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days 1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front) 1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I 1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans 1918 In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends 1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends 1918 Battle of Somme, ends 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak 1916 Dutch government ends all miltary engagements 1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men 1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law 1915 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties 1914 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow 1914 Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat 1914 Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) 1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army 1914 Mexico ends diplomatic relations with U.S. 1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses 1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London 1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings 1912 Italo-Turkish war ends 1912 Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends 1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak 1911 President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends 1910 China ends slavery 1910 Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty 1908 4th Olympic games ends in London 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant) 1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris 1906 Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning 1905 Union of Sweden and Norway ends 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War 1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play 1904 Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games 1904 Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends 1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal 1902 U.S. military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends 1901 Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China 1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends 1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US 1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate 1898 Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam 1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 1892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) ends 1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing and lasted 20 years 1890 New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton 1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear 1879 Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus 1878 Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends 1877 President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends 1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1876 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan 1871 English - U.S. treaty ends Alabama dispute 1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war 1866 President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia 1866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman 1865 Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match 1864 Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities 1864 Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties 1864 Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties 1864 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties 1864 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults 1864 Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person 1864 Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13) 1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500) 1864 General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN 1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania ends, major victory for North 1863 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends 1862 Battle of Corinth ends 1862 Battle of Princeton, West Virginia, ends, about 128 casualities 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal 1861 Pony Express ends 1861 Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade 1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins 1860 Slavery ends of in Netherlands Indies 1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends 1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended March 3rd 1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million 1846 U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty 1846 Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India 1842 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war 1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma 1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates 1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends 1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war 1828 Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay and Brazil 1818 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends 1815 U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1815 U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates 1804 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad 1803 Peace of Amiens ends 1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends 1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France 1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy 1793 France ends forced worship of God 1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances 1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges 1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends 1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends 1776 Austria ends interregation torture 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England 1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession 1748 Ceasefire at Aken ends 1740 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press 1722 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards 1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War 1721 Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy 1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 1713 Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions 1703 Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage 1697 Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war) 1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick 1689 English parliament ends king Charles II reign 1676 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England 1668 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution 1667 Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends 1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1660 English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion) 1654 Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht 1653 Barebone-parliament ends 1650 2nd Fronde-uprising ends 1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire 1634 Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat 1626 Battle between king Bethlen Gabor and earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends 1621 Spain and Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends 1614 Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends 1613 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark and Sweden 1574 Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht 1538 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I 1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague 1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war 1515 Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory 1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders 1477 Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie 1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland 1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire 1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 1409 Austrian civil war ends 1312 Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg 1294 Pope Coelestinus V ends term 1212 Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) 891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope 884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople 858 Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 855 St. Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 844 Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope 842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches 824 St. Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 772 Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 768 [Philip] begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope 767 St. Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 741 St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope 707 John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope 701 St. Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 685 St. Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 683 St. Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 672 St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope 657 St. Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 653 St. Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 642 John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected 625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope 618 St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 615 St. Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 607 Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 555 Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 537 St. Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 536 St. Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 535 John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 530 [Discorus] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 530 St. Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 523 St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope 498 Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 496 St. Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 492 St. Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 461 St. Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 440 St. Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 432 St. Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 422 St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 418 St. Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 401 St. Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 399 St. Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 384 St. Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 365 [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws 336 St. Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope 335 St. Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity 314 St. Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope 310 St. Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 296 St. Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 283 St. Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope 274 St. Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 268 St. Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 258 St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 257 St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 250 Saint Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50) 236 St. Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 235 St. Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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