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2013 Event - Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book

2013 Event - The first-ever European MP's of Croatia are determined in an election held in anticipation of Croatia gaining formal entry into the European Union

2013 Event - The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist

2012 Event - The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

2012 Event - The launch of a space satellite into space by North Korea is disputed by South Korean defense ministry, who claim it was a disguised test of a 10,000 km range missile

2012 Event - The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test

2012 Event - Wade Davis' non-fiction book, 'Into the Silence', wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize

2012 Event - The FBI claim to have completed it's investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya in one day

2012 Event - Inquiries into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya increase as the only surviving witness of the attack, Walid Faraj, has yet to be interrogated

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform

2012 Event - Scientists reveal new research identifying a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is pulled deep into the Southern Ocean, and locked away; scientists claim this process may be threatened by global warming

2012 Event - After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and officials, Pakistan reopens key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan

2012 Event - In the U.S. city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, a U.S. Navy FA-18 Superhornet crashes into an apartment complex

2012 Event - Between 60 to 70 artifacts of the ancient Olympic games are stolen by thieves who broke into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece

2012 Event - According to Israel's military chief, the country is preparing for a increase of Syrian refugees into Golan Heights

2012 Event - The failed Fobos-Grunt spacecraft is expected to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and crash into earth in the next week

2011 Event - An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981

2011 Event - Over 88 containers from the MV Rena, New Zealand's stranded cargo ship, fall into the Bay of Plenty

2011 Event - The Bank of England pumps an additional 75 billion pounds into the British economy via quantitative easing

2011 Event - A 26-year old American citizen is arrested by the FBI for a plot to fly remote-controlled planes filled with explosives into the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

2011 Event - In South Korea, the Financial Services Commission reveals they plan to inject more money into suspended local savings banks

2011 Event - The 8th largest search engine in the world, Russia's Yandex, marks its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by expanding into Turkey

2011 Event - In Kabul, a rocket is fired into the compound of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan

2011 Event - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces the country's plan to launch a manned shuttle into space by 2019

2011 Event - U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announces an inquiry into News of the World, allegedly involved in a phone hacking scandal

2011 Event - In France, a law banning wearing the burqa and hijab goes into effect

2011 Event - Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Dr.John, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love and Neil Diamond into its Hall of Fame

2011 Event - In the Battle of Az Zawiyah, rebels successfully overcome pro-Gaddafi forces trying to push into the city

2011 Event - Russia began searching for a missing military satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit

2011 Event - Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens

2010 Event - Italy's plan to ban plastic bags goes into effect; the country was using 20 billion plastic bags a year - about 300 per person

2010 Event - Experts believe three Russian satellites that failed to reach orbit after launching from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome have crashed into the Pacific Ocean

2010 Event - A professor searching into medical records of playwright Bertolt Brecht discovers he may have died after contracting undiagnosed rheumatic fever as a child

2010 Event - In Italy, a package at the Bologna Airport, addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bursts into flames during an inspection by police

2010 Event - Thirty Kurds are killed when the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution crosses the border into Iraq

2010 Event - China leads an investigation into its commercial pilots upon learning over 200 of them falsified their resumes

2010 Event - In Sichuan, China, massive flooding sweeps two passenger train carriages into the river

2010 Event - South Korea states that North Korea fired over 100 rounds of artillery into the Sea of Japan, signaling tension along the Korean Peninsula

2010 Event - The U.S. Government estimates the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico

2010 Event - Israel restricts a blacklist of weapons, construction materials and other items but drops all other restrictions on the free flow of consumer goods into the Gaza strip

2010 Event - At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine

2010 Event - The inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, 1972, determined British paratroopers first the first shot without warning, and concocted lies to cover up their acts

2010 Event - A food crisis in Niger causes Nigerians to flee across the border into Nigeria

2010 Event - Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell

2010 Event - A tsunami warning went into effect for Chile and Peru after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Conception, Chile

2010 Event - The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced foreign direct investment into China has risen for the sixth consecutive month, up $8.3 billion year-on-year

2010 Event - A 28-year old Somali male is shot for breaking into Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoonist Jurt Westergaard's home and threatening his family with an axe

2009 Event - En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board

2009 Event - Iran launches first domestically made satellite, Omid, into orbit

2008 Event - President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law

2005 Death - Wolfgang Bauer, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change', dies of heart failure in Graz, Styria

2003 Event - China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

2003 Event - Tony Awards, Hairspray, Take Me Out, Long Day's Journey Into Night revival and Nine revival won major awards

2003 Event - Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275

2002 Event - Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards

2002 Event - Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

2002 Event - Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119

2001 Event - Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12

2001 Event - Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry

2000 Death - Brian Statham, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009, dies in Stockport, England, of leukemia, at age 69

2000 Event - Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131

1999 Death - Bethel Leslie, actress/writer, Long Day's Journey into Night, dies at 70

1998 Event - Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10

1998 Event - STS-89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit

1997 Death - Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb', dies at 39

1997 Event - STS-87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit

1997 Event - 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11

1997 Event - STS-86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit

1997 Event - STS-85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit

1997 Event - STS-94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit

1997 Event - Michael Jackson and Bee Gees inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1997 Event - Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit

1997 Event - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space

1997 Event - Space Shuttle STS-81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space

1996 Event - Space Shuttle STS-80 (Columbia 21), launches into space

1996 Event - "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances

1996 Event - "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances

1996 Event - Space Shuttle STS-79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space

1996 Event - Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit

1996 Death - Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65

1996 Event - Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, launches into space

1996 Event - STS-77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit

1996 Event - STS-76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit

1996 Event - STS-75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit

1996 Event - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

1996 Event - Space Shuttle STS-72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space

1995 Event - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16

1995 Event - STS-74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit

1995 Event - STS-73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit

1995 Event - STS-69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit

1995 Event - Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit

1995 Event - New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization

1995 Event - STS-63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit

1994 Event - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed

1994 Event - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit

1994 Event - Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit

1994 Event - Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed

1994 Event - Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)

1994 Event - Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash

1994 Event - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center

1994 Event - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed

1994 Event - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300

1994 Event - STS-59, Endeavour, launches into orbit

1994 Event - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home

1994 Event - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit

1994 Event - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

1994 Event - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31

1994 Event - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit

1994 Event - Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead

1994 Event - Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit

1994 Event - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect

1993 Event - C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed

1993 Event - Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed

1993 Event - STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit

1993 Event - STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit

1993 Event - Dave Winfield hits 442nd home run to move into 19th place

1993 Event - Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit

1993 Event - STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

1993 Event - Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132

1993 Event - STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit

1993 Event - STS-56, Discovery, launches into orbit

1993 Event - New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl

1993 Event - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die

1993 Event - STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

1993 Event - Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia

1992 Event - Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141

1992 Event - Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) launches into space

1992 Event - Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus

1992 Event - El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)

1992 Event - Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies

1992 Event - Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die

1992 Event - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame

1992 Event - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space

1992 Event - 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space

1992 Event - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit

1992 Event - Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW

1992 Event - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect

1992 Event - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space

1991 Event - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei

1991 Event - New York Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame

1991 Event - MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993

1991 Event - Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York

1991 Event - Islanders Denis Potvan and Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame

1991 Event - Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees

1991 Event - Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy

1991 Event - Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs

1991 Event - U.S. 70th manned space mission STS-39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit

1991 Event - Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame

1991 Event - 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in U.S.S.R.

1990 Event - U.S. 69th manned space mission STS-35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit

1990 Event - U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit

1990 Event - U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit

1990 Event - 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda

1990 Event - New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th home run in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome

1990 Event - Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame

1990 Event - Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV

1990 Event - Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list

1990 Event - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

1990 Event - U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit

1990 Event - Pistons and 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)

1990 Event - U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit

1990 Event - Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1990 Event - 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1989 Event - U.S. 63rd manned space mission STS-33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit

1989 Event - U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit

1989 Event - Senegambia separates back into Gambia and Senegal

1989 Event - "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 764 performances

1989 Event - Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed

1989 Event - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)

1989 Event - Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river

1989 Event - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989 Event - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989 Event - Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy

1989 Event - AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 and 201

1989 Event - Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom

1989 Event - Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5

1989 Event - U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die

1988 Event - Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York

1988 Event - Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place

1988 Event - Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone

1988 Event - Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone

1988 Event - Mike Schmidt hits his 535th home run, moving into 8th place

1988 Event - Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US

1988 Event - Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran

1987 Event - South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

1987 Event - "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances

1987 Event - Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres

1987 Event - Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel

1987 Event - 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis

1987 Event - Jessica McClure rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft

1987 Event - Syrian army marches into Beirut

1987 Event - Philippines constitution goes into effect

1986 Event - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500

1986 Event - "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 6 performances

1986 Event - Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS

1986 Event - "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 6 performances

1986 Death - Cliff Burton, bass player for Metallica, a thrash metal band, dies in Sweden at age 24, when tour bus for the band skidded and crashed, inducted posthumously into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Metallica

1986 Event - Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die

1986 Event - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th home run passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

1986 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

1985 Event - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit

1985 Event - L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame

1985 Event - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th home run to move into 10th place

1985 Event - U.S.'s 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect in New York

1984 Event - Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit

1984 Event - Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl

1984 Event - Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36

1984 Event - Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame

1984 Event - Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game

1984 Event - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

1984 Event - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

1984 Event - Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit

1984 Event - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq

1984 Event - AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies

1983 Event - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet

1983 Event - B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame

1983 Event - Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab

1983 Event - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit

1983 Event - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1982 Event - Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut

1982 Event - Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place

1982 Event - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die

1982 Event - U.S.S.R. Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

1982 Event - Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard

1982 Event - Honduras constitution goes into effect

1982 Event - Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78

1981 Event - 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain

1981 Event - Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed

1981 Event - Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 Event - George Foster hits his 8th home run into red seats at Riverfront

1981 Event - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

1981 Event - European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit

1981 Birthday - Jessica Alba, born in Pomona, California, actress, appeared in television series, 'Dark Angel', films include, 'Sin City', 'Into the Blue', 'Good Luck Chuck'

1980 Event - New South Korean constitution comes into effect

1980 Event - Kaline, Snider, Klein, and Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame

1980 Event - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

1980 Event - Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81

1979 Event - Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on Antarctica kills 257

1979 Event - Mali's constitution goes into effect

1979 Event - Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)

1979 Event - Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt goes into effect

1979 Event - Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water

1978 Event - Spain constitution goes into effect

1978 Event - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

1978 Event - Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus

1978 Event - NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions

1978 Event - Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris

1978 Event - U.S. Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

1978 Event - Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect

1978 Event - South Africa military goes into Angola

1978 Event - Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

1977 Event - International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit

1977 Event - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van

1977 Event - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit

1977 Event - High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit

1977 Event - Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

1977 Event - Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596

1976 Event - Albania constitution goes into effect

1976 Event - Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt

1976 Event - Algeria Constitution goes into effect

1976 Event - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days

1976 Event - U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth

1976 Event - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

1976 Event - U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

1976 Event - ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA

1976 Event - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)

1976 Event - US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit

1975 Event - Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force

1974 Event - Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days

1974 Event - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153

1974 Event - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space

1974 Event - Malta's constitution goes into effect

1974 Event - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107

1974 Event - Taiwan police shoots into crowd

1973 Event - Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days

1973 Event - Bahrain's constitution goes into effect

1973 Event - Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit

1973 Event - New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league

1973 Event - Egyptian tanks move further into Israel

1973 Event - Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents

1973 Event - Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)

1973 Event - New York Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12 games

1973 Event - President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

1973 Event - Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame

1973 Event - Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma

1973 Event - Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park

1973 Event - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India

1973 Event - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

1973 Event - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

1973 Event - Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont

1972 Event - New North Korean constitution comes into effect

1972 Event - Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect

1972 Event - Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers

1972 Event - Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13

1972 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)

1972 Event - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel

1972 Event - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)

1972 Event - Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

1972 Event - Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats

1972 Event - Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

1971 Event - Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

1971 Event - Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)

1971 Event - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office

1971 Event - Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame

1971 Event - U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft

1971 Death - Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62

1971 Event - A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard

1971 Event - Bulgarian constitution goes into effect

1971 Event - 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru

1971 Event - 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos

1971 Event - Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2

1970 Event - Iraq's constitution goes into effect

1970 Event - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

1970 Event - U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

1970 Event - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days

1970 Event - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect

1970 Event - Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102

1970 Event - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France)

1970 Event - NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)

1970 Event - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect

1969 Event - Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

1969 Event - 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft

1969 Event - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use

1969 Event - Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame

1969 Event - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit

1968 Event - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit

1968 Event - U.S. pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team

1968 Event - France refuses U.K. entry into common market

1968 Event - NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969

1968 Event - Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions

1968 Event - Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1968 Event - AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions

1968 Event - Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect

1968 Event - Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala

1968 Event - Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central

1968 Death - Bill Masterson, (Minn Northstars), checked into the boards and killed

1968 Event - Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)

1968 Event - ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp and FM)

1967 Event - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL

1967 Event - U.S. launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit

1967 Event - Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play

1967 Event - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

1967 Event - Martial Law goes into effect in Greece

1967 Event - Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit

1966 Event - Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit

1966 Event - Medicare goes into effect

1966 Event - Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die

1966 Event - Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck

1966 Event - 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die

1966 Event - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit

1965 Event - Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit

1965 Event - 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125

1965 Event - Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)

1965 Event - Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)

1965 Event - India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect

1965 Event - Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)

1965 Event - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)

1965 Event - Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand

1965 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1965 Birthday - Corey Parker, born in New York City, actor, How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd

1965 Event - Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice

1965 Event - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

1965 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)

1965 Event - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, New Jersey, kills 84

1965 Event - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)

1964 Event - Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place

1964 Event - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson

1964 Event - President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1964 Event - Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit

1964 Event - 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes

1963 Event - Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)

1963 Event - Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot

1962 Event - Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit

1962 Event - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place

1962 Event - E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector

1962 Event - Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

1962 Event - Lou Brock is 2nd to home run into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers

1962 Event - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit

1962 Event - M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit

1962 Death - H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)

1962 Event - Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)

1962 Event - American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95

1962 Event - Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands)

1961 Event - Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit

1961 Event - Antarctic Treaty goes into effect

1961 Event - NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays

1961 Event - Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)

1961 Event - Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered

1961 Event - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit

1961 Event - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure

1961 Event - U.N. genocide pact goes into effect

1960 Event - Benelux treaty goes into effect

1960 Event - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea

1960 Event - International Development Association (U.N. agency) comes into existence

1960 Event - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil

1960 Event - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)

1960 Event - CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium

1960 Event - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space

1960 Event - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed

1960 Event - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions

1960 Event - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states

1960 Event - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus

1959 Event - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die

1959 Event - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit

1959 Event - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit

1959 Birthday - Magic Johnson, born in Lansing, Michigan, professional basketball player, inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame, 2002, played for Michigan State, NBA All-Star Games

1959 Event - Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)

1959 Birthday - Joyce Sims, born in Rochester, New York, singer, songwriter, released U.S. and UK hit single titled, 'Come Into My Life', 1987

1959 Event - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis

1959 Event - Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission

1959 Event - USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit

1958 Event - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

1958 Event - Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays

1958 Event - UP and International News Service merge into United Press International

1958 Event - Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City

1958 Event - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape

1958 Event - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled

1958 Event - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

1958 Event - Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic

1958 Event - Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen)

1958 Birthday - Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb'

1957 Event - USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space

1957 Event - Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400

1957 Event - 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win

1956 Event - U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest

1956 Event - Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

1956 Event - 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)

1956 Event - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame

1956 Event - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)

1955 Event - 1st separation of virus into component parts reported

1955 Birthday - Patrick McCabe, born in Clones, Ireland, novelist, wrote 'Butcher Boy', 'Breakfast on Pluto', both adapted into films by Neil Jordan

1955 Event - South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

1955 Event - U.S. federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO

1954 Event - Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being

1954 Event - U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy, Senator-R-Wisconsin, for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute"

1954 Event - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

1954 Event - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South

1954 Birthday - Jeremy Coney, cricketer, New Zealand captain turned them into world-beaters

1954 Event - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1954 Event - 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)

1953 Event - 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service

1953 Event - Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago

1953 Event - Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame

1953 Event - Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yankees beat Washington 12-4

1953 Event - Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers

1953 Birthday - Billy Sheehan, rocker, Mr Big-Lean Into It

1952 Event - Arab League security pact goes into effect

1952 Birthday - Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, U.S., sci-fi author, Door into Fire

1951 Birthday - Peabo Bryson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, R&B vocalist, I'm So into You

1950 Event - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea

1950 Event - Indies Constitution goes into effect

1950 Event - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1950 Event - Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4

1950 Birthday - Cathy Sherk, born in Bancroft, Ontario, professional golfer, achieved No. 1 World ranking by Golf Digest, 1978, earned silver medal with Canadian team at 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, joined LPGA tour, inducted into Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, 1995

1950 Birthday - Jack Youngblood, born in Jacksonville, Florida, professional football player, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, voted into College Football Hall of Fame

1949 Event - Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

1949 Event - NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect

1949 Event - NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association

1948 Event - U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit

1948 Event - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy

1948 Event - 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo

1947 Event - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

1947 Event - Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef

1947 Event - 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China

1947 Event - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece

1947 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

1946 Event - Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR

1945 Event - U.N. charter comes into effect

1945 Event - UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence

1945 Event - 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log

1945 Event - Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building

1945 Event - U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die

1945 Event - Canadian troops move into Amsterdam

1945 Event - British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands

1945 Event - Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands

1944 Event - Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1944 Event - 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp

1944 Event - British troops march into Athens

1944 Event - Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia

1944 Event - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany

1944 Event - Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest

1944 Event - U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed

1944 Event - U.S. troop march into Guam

1944 Event - Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland

1944 Event - Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland

1944 Event - British troops march into Caen

1944 Event - U.S. troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy

1944 Event - Allies march into Rome

1944 Birthday - Billy Vera, musician, & Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night

1944 Event - Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania

1944 Event - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16

1943 Event - Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die

1943 Event - New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the U.S. army

1943 Event - British 8th army marches into Tripoli

1942 Event - 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use

1942 Event - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

1942 Event - Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews

1942 Event - Germany troop march into Woronezj

1942 Event - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam

1942 Event - Germany troop march into Sebastopol

1942 Event - Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine

1942 Event - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol

1942 Event - Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road

1942 Event - U.S. move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers

1942 Event - Japanese troop march into Batavia

1942 Event - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra

1942 Event - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.

1942 Event - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine

1941 Event - State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia

1941 Event - Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II

1941 Event - Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto

1941 Birthday - Doris Coley, born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, lead singer of The Shirelles, married names are Doris Coley Kenner and Doris Kenner Jackson, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1941 Event - Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas

1941 Event - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia

1941 Event - Great British convoy marches into Alexandria

1941 Event - Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland

1941 Event - Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect

1941 Event - Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation

1941 Birthday - Wolfgang Bauer, born in Graz, Styria, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change'

1941 Event - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)

1941 Event - British troops march into Abyssinia

1940 Event - Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto

1940 Event - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)

1940 Event - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union

1940 Event - Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire

1940 Event - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into U.S.S.R.

1940 Event - German armour division moves into Northern France

1939 Event - Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service

1939 Event - German troops move into Danzig

1939 Event - Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland

1938 Event - Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use

1937 Event - 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie

1936 Event - 1st giant panda imported into US

1936 Event - Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee and survives

1935 Event - Saar incorporated into Germany

1935 Event - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

1935 Event - Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use

1934 Event - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines

1934 Event - Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays

1934 Event - Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play

1934 Birthday - Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1

1933 Event - NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions

1933 Birthday - Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1933 Event - Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"

1933 Event - 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March

1932 Event - Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest)

1932 Event - World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers

1932 Event - Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1932 Event - George Washington quarter goes into circulation

1931 Event - His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI

1931 Death - Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages

1931 Event - Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon

1930 Event - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a home run, now a double

1930 Birthday - Brian Statham, born in Gorton, England, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009

1930 Event - Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service

1929 Event - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

1929 Event - Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

1927 Birthday - Oskar Pastior, born in Sibiu, Romania, poet, writer, translator, studied German at University of Bucharest, translated Romanian literature into German, among other works by Tudor Arghezi, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Urmuz

1926 Birthday - Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing

1925 Birthday - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher, pitched perfect game into 12th

1925 Event - Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15

1925 Event - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind

1923 Event - Yankees hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2

1923 Event - Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production

1923 Event - Flying Scotsman goes into service

1922 Event - 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

1921 Event - Belgium's public library law goes into force

1921 Event - Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect

1920 Event - Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament

1920 Birthday - Vaino Linna, born in Urjala, Finland, author, wrote Finnish books, Under the North Star translated into English by Richard Impola

1920 Event - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany

1920 Event - Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect

1920 Event - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years

1920 Birthday - David Wright, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, given name David John Murray Wright, editor of 'X', autobiography 'Deafness. A Personal Account' gives insight into deafness

1920 Event - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933

1919 Event - Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play

1919 Event - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

1918 Event - 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect

1918 Event - Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River

1917 Birthday - Lawrence F O'Brien, Watergate conspirators broke into his office

1916 Event - U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico

1916 Event - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun

1916 Event - Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa

1916 Event - General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos

1915 Event - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands

1915 Event - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa

1914 Event - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

1914 Event - German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan

1914 Event - Von Ludendorff and von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia

1914 Event - U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1914 Birthday - Sammy Baugh, born in Texas, American football player, coach, inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame

1913 Event - President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law

1913 Event - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

1913 Event - Serbian troops march into Albania

1913 Event - Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th

1913 Event - Dutch Disability laws go into effect

1913 Event - Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania

1913 Event - Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments

1913 Event - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1912 Event - Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect

1912 Event - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1912 Event - New York Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12

1910 Event - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

1909 Event - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City

1903 Event - French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari

1903 Event - British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet

1903 Event - In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleveland, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game

1901 Birthday - Florence Elridge, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Long Days Journey into the Night

1901 Birthday - George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese

1900 Birthday - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author, Kordian into Cham

1900 Birthday - Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1900 Event - Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

1900 Event - Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect

1898 Birthday - Guomundur G Hagalin, Iceland author, Kristun/d into Hamravik

1898 Event - Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders

1898 Event - Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl

1897 Event - Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into New York City (1/1/1898)

1893 Event - Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)

1892 Birthday - Jack Hulbert, born in Ely, England, actor, Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack

1892 Birthday - David Garnett, England, novelist and editor, Lady into Fox

1890 Event - 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation

1890 Event - Captain Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo

1881 Event - World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)

1877 Death - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56

1877 Event - Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)

1877 Event - Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park

1877 Event - U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

1875 Event - William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities

1870 Event - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps

1870 Event - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree

1868 Event - Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect

1867 Event - U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson

1866 Event - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed

1866 Event - 1st ambulance goes into service

1865 Event - Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco

1864 Event - Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley

1864 Event - Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg

1863 Event - Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

1863 Event - 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect

1863 Event - 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1862 Event - Confederate armies officially divide into corps

1862 Event - 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi

1862 Death - Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines

1854 Event - Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use

1854 Event - Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine

1853 Event - Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay

1845 Event - Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1835 Event - HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)

1835 Event - HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion

1834 Event - German Tolunie goes into effect

1829 Death - Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls

1829 Event - "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service

1822 Event - In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US

1822 Event - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley

1822 Event - Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory

1817 Event - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi

1814 Event - Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon

1812 Event - Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!

1806 Event - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500

1805 Event - Napoleons army draws into the Rhine

1803 Event - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states

1800 Event - John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House

1798 Event - New conscription law goes into effect in France

1792 Event - Prussia army moves into French territory

1791 Event - President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session

1790 Event - Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China

1789 Event - U.S. constitution goes into effect

1789 Event - President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York

1788 Event - U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify

1787 Event - Prussian army moves into Netherlands

1774 Event - Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)

1765 Event - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies

1759 Event - Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages

1746 Birthday - Absalom Jones, Delaware, born into slavery

1745 Event - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester

1745 Event - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester and occupy Carlisle

1734 Event - Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples

1688 Event - Prince Willem III's troops pull into London

1667 Event - French troops attack into Southern Netherlands

1662 Event - Uniformity Act of England goes into effect

1655 Event - Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts

1653 Event - British Barebones Parliament goes into session

1621 Event - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night

1618 Event - Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht

1601 Event - Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London

1587 Event - Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet

1569 Event - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland

1556 Event - Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain

1553 Event - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

1544 Birthday - William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist, researcher into magnetism

1534 Event - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St. Lawrence River

1534 Event - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea

1522 Event - Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches

1391 Event - Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery

1265 Event - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester

1199 Event - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew

1187 Event - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem

1138 Event - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

1110 Event - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath

1099 Event - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire

609 Event - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church













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