History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Their


2004 Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate

2004 Lynn Cartwright, actress, A League of Their Own, dies at 76

1999 Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves

1998 U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan

1998 Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach

1997 Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild

1997 Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth

1996 Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou

1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever

1996 Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate

1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34

1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

1996 Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena

1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself

1995 Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)

1995 Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)

1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14

1995 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals

1994 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects

1994 Netherlands averages 21.4 degrees C; their warmest July since 1783

1994 Stockholms avgs 21.5 degrees C; their warmest July since 1855

1994 Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup

1994 U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup

1993 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game

1993 Indians play their last game at Cleveland Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0

1993 Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4

1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins

1993 Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub

1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak

1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game

1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"

1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp

1992 Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant

1992 Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title

1992 Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings

1992 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia

1992 Florida Marlins unveil their uniform

1992 Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft

1992 Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft

1992 Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows and Light"

1992 New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game

1992 New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils)

1992 Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit

1991 Florida Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez

1991 San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3

1991 New Jersey Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues

1991 San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game

1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34

1991 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game

1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital

1990 Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement

1990 Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint session

1990 NFL's New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both

1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album

1990 Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)

1990 East and West Germany merge their economies

1990 New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak

1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known

1990 Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history

1990 Greenidge and Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best

1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired

1989 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia)

1989 Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announce their separation

1989 Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play, vs. Yankees

1989 Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster

1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4

1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance

1989 Critics Siskel and Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show

1989 New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster

1988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record

1988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)

1988 New Jersey Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs)

1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war

1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

1988 Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field

1988 Writers guild end their 6 months strike

1988 Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft

1988 Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate

1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season

1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series

1987 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive

1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

1987 Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds

1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer

1987 New York Yankees play their 13,000th game

1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91

1986 Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish

1985 James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages

1985 Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win

1985 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships

1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs vs. India

1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula

1985 New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds

1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)

1983 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins

1983 Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record

1983 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship,

1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)

1983 New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England

1983 New Jersey Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team

1983 Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, vs. Australia

1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs. Essex, their lowest score ever

1982 Prince Chuck and Lady Di name their baby "William"

1982 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)

1982 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game

1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days

1981 Brewers (since 1970) and Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason

1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th U.S. tour at John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia

1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike

1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike

1981 New York Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames

1980 Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute

1980 Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history

1980 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour

1980 Phillies and San Francisco Giants end their game at 3:11 AM

1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant

1979 Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play, 5-4-3 vs. Cleveland

1979 Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles

1978 Yankees win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year

1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)

1978 Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight

1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"

1977 New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games

1977 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27

1977 N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship

1977 Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)

1977 Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs Kansas City Royals)

1977 Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"

1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards

1976 The Cars played their 1st gig

1976 Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"

1976 New AL franchises in Seattle and Toronto fill up their rosters

1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title

1976 36-hour kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California

1976 Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain

1976 Kiss performs their 1st concert

1976 Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title

1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth

1976 New Zealand scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, vs. India

1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning

1974 Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)

1974 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour

1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)

1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play, 5-4-3 vs Oakland

1973 Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps

1973 UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title

1973 Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row

1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens New York)

1972 In 1 of their worst trades Yankees get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen

1971 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"

1971 Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches

1971 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms

1971 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title

1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet

1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)

1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92

1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike

1970 U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England)

1970 Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)

1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom

1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"

1969 John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK

1969 Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together

1969 Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps

1969 New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)

1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals

1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon

1969 John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)

1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead

1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert

1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games

1969 John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)

1969 John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)

1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert

1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"

1968 John and Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK

1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson

1968 Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album

1968 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)

1968 Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls

1968 Yankees turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins

1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"

1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"

1967 Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement

1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station

1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager

1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship

1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club

1967 Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series

1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)

1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"

1967 Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership

1967 New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker)

1966 Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant

1966 NFL and AFL announce their merger

1966 Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating New York Mets 8-4

1966 Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love

1965 Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to California

1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit)

1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"

1965 Kinks arrive in New York City beginning their 1st U.S. tour

1965 Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand"

1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)

1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down

1965 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV

1964 Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, and 29th in club's history

1964 Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago

1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st U.S. visit

1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK

1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles and their fans at London Airport

1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden

1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards

1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income

1963 Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)

1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)

1963 Beatles release their 1st single in U.S. "Please Please Me"

1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)

1963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album

1962 Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles

1962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"

1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"

1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz

1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

1962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone

1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1

1962 Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne, League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie

1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio

1962 Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"

1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit

1961 Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name

1961 Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games

1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps

1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies

1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)

1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs

1960 Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park

1959 Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

1959 New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard

1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)

1959 San Francisco Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park

1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay

1958 Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months

1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo

1958 U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1

1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series

1957 New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)

1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game

1957 New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958

1957 Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic

1956 Jeff Dujon, cricket wicket-keeper, WI 1981-91, their most successful

1956 New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win

1955 Washington Senators lose their 99th and 100th games of season

1955 Australia score 8-758 vs. West Indies at Kingston, their best ever

1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics)

1955 Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"

1954 Bill Pullman, actor, Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day

1954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns and win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Washington 62-3

1954 Yankees tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning

1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition

1953 Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)

1953 Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply

1953 Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary

1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

1952 Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins

1952 Mahes Goonatillake, cricketer, Sri Lankan keeper in their 1st 5 Tests

1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution

1950 Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium

1950 New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes

1949 U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb

1949 New York Giants purchase Monty Irvin and Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks

1949 New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith

1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists

1947 U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps

1946 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game

1946 Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay

1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia

1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

1944 St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance

1944 St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant

1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker

1944 Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row

1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats

1943 Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany

1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others

1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France

1942 Lynn Farleigh, Bristol England, actress, Lovers of Their Time

1942 German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach

1942 New York Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games

1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years

1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto

1941 Yankees beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant

1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead

1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain

1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps

1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings

1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan

1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1939 New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant

1939 Yankees beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win

1938 Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws

1938 Phil Emmett Mueller and Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat

1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0

1935 Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship

1935 Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China

1933 Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating New York Giants 23-21

1932 New York Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant

1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment

1929 Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps

1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane

1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game

1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW

1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St. Pats 4-1

1926 U.S. defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship

1926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match

1925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row

1924 Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7

1924 Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1

1924 Yankees win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win

1923 Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks

1923 U.S. beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup

1923 Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production

1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader

1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster

1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3

1917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game

1917 Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn

1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)

1915 Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating

1915 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant

1915 Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series

1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves

1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index

1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture

1909 Bruce Mitchell, cricketer, South African bat, their top run-scorer, 3471,

1908 Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba

1907 U.S. Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500

1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year

1906 Yankees win by forfeit, for their 1st time

1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win

1904 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II

1904 Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to U.S. by their chiefs

1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Washington Senators 7-2

1903 New York Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth and Washington

1903 George Dickinson, cricketer, bowled for New Zealand in their 1st 3 Tests

1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw

1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL

1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs. England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever

1901 In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4

1898 Tom Lowry, cricketer, New Zealand batsman in seven Tests and their 1st Test captain

1896 Cyril Allcott, cricketer, New Zealand all-rounder in their early Tests

1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever

1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory

1895 Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads

1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience

1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith

1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game

1887 England all out for 45 vs. Australia SCG, their lowest total ever

1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses

1882 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association

1881 Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations

1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players

1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match

1876 Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game

1870 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king

1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings

1869 Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7

1865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up

1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising

1849 1st chamber music group in U.S. gives their 1st concert (Boston)

1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US

1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826

1788 Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves

1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval

1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it

1783 Britain evacuates New York City, their last military position in US

1782 Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies

1774 England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes

1766 London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale

1752 This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives

1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues

1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief

1476 Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg and duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children

1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I


History Home    Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com