* 1897 Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater
* 1900 Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
* 1900 Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
* 1903 USA recognizea independence of Panama
* 1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst
* 1908 Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St Petersburg
* 1910 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
* 1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
* 1913 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in S Afr
* 1915 1st military flight in Neth East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
* 1915 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek govt
* 1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
* 1917 NY allows women to vote
* 1918 Republic of Poland proclaimed
* 1918 Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
* 1919 1st Dutch radio program: Soir‚e Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"
* 1922 King George V proclaims Irish Free state
* 1923 Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver
* 1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
* 1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
* 1928 Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
* 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
* 1928 Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
* 1932 German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
* 1934 NFL Phila Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
* 1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
* 1935 Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
* 1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
* 1936 RCA displays TV for press
* 1936 Terence Rattigans "French Without Tears," premieres in London
* 1938 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
* 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
* 1939 WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
* 1940 Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
* 1941 Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
* 1941 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
* 1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
* 1942 Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
* 1942 Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai
* 1943 Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
* 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
* 1943 Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
* 1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
* 1949 Greeks civil war ends
* 1950 Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pitts Pirates
* 1950 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
* 1950 King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
* 1952 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres
* 1953 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
* 1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles
* 1953 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
* 1955 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
* 1955 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
* 1956 Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
* 1956 Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
* 1957 "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
* 1957 Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
* 1958 AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
* 1958 Belgium govt of Eyskens & Lilar forms
* 1958 Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
* 1961 US govt issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
* 1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
* 1962 Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
* 1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
* 1962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
* 1962 Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery
* 1962 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
* 1964 WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
* 1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
* 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
* 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
* 1967 Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Cura‡ao, kills 15
* 1967 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
* 1968 Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
* 1968 Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
* 1969 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
* 1970 Boog Powell wins AL MVP
* 1970 Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
* 1971 "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
* 1971 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
* 1973 "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting
* 1973 Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
* 1973 Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
* 1974 Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
* 1975 "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
* 1975 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
* 1976 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
* 1976 Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team,
joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
* 1977 "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
* 1977 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation
* 1977 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
* 1978 Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms govt
* 1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
* 1979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
* 1981 Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
* 1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
* 1982 Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
* 1983 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
* 1983 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
* 1983 Tor Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minn Vikings
* 1983 Turkey Turgut ™zals Moederland party wins elections
* 1984 Pres Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
* 1984 Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
* 1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
* 1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
* 1985 M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogot Colombia
* 1985 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
* 1986 Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
* 1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
* 1986 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
* 1987 Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
* 1988 18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07
* 1988 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
* 1988 Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
* 1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
* 1988 Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title
* 1989 US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
* 1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
* 1990 Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
* 1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
* 1990 Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
* 1991 "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
* 1991 Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
* 1991 Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
* 1991 Maximus 2.0 BBS released
* 1991 Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
* 1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
* 1993 Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
* 1993 Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
* 1993 Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
* 1993 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood
Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter
* 1994 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
* 1994 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
* 1994 Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
* 1994 George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship
* 1994 Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
* 1995 Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
* 1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with
Palestinians
* 1996 LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
* 1997 "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
* 1997 SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
* 2003 Philip Effiong, the first Vice President and the second and last President of the
defunct Republic of Biafra, died.
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