Events

1998 Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)

1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minn Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini

1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)

1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund

1995 Sandra V”lker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77

1995 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13

1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections

1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime

1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV

1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA

1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160

1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India

1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar

1992 Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case

1991 Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl

1991 LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points

1991 Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame

1991 Big East Football conference forms

1991 All American Bowl ends after 14 years

1991 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides

1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)

1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points

1988 Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs

1988 Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham

1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan

1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches

1987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time

1986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"

1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic

1984 NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days

1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

1982 Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Neth

1982 Laker Airways collapse owing œ270M ($351M)

1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people

1982 Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname

1981 Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy

1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane

1981 "Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances

1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel

1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit

1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS

1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time

1979 According to Census Bureau, US population reaches 200 million

1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded

1977 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

1977 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight

1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio

1977 "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91

1977 "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98

1977 "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40

1977 "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56

1977 "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67

1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath

1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies

1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure

1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped

1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph

1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win

1974 British mine strike

1974 Mariner 10 takes first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure

1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War

1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted

1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage

1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame

1972 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65

1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs

1971 Apollo 14, 3rd manned expedition to moon, lands near Fra Mauro

1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting

1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1970 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban

1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six

1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins

1969 US population reaches 200 million

1969 "Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly

1968 Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m

1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting

1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren

1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua

1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)

1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels

1963 Soviet lunar probe failure

1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars

1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16ø

1962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed

1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence

1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide

1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances

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

1958 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain

1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic

1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)

1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert

1956 NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build

1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open

1956 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes wins

1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC

1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released

1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic

1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion

1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion

1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time

1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland

1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla

1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim

1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)

1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin

1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission

1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt

1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore

1942 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City

1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands

1940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"

1940 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)

1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed

1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released

1936 National Wildlife Federation forms

1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary

1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license

1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins

1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF

1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed

1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy

1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium

1919 NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers

1918 Separation of church & state begins in USSR

1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson

1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted

1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)

1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration

1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co

1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam

1907 Arnold Sch”nberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna

1904 American occupation of Cuba ends

1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp

1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot

1900 British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal

1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel

1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms

1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)

1887 Snow falls on SF

1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy

1887 Snow falls on San Francisco.

1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

1881 Phoenix, Az incorporates

1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi

1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress

1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila

1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale

1855 British govt of Palmerston forms

1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY

1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast

1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30

1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar

1817 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)

1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome

1795 Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud

1783 Sweden recognizes US independence

1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000

1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English

1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina

1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture

1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia

1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France

1663 Earthquake in Canada

1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II

1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England

1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours

1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out

1556 Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles

1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna

1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium

1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons

816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity

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