2009 – Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe
2006 – Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident
1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998 – Lyrics to “Candle in the Wind 1997,” auctioned for $442,500
1997 - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets
1997 – STS-82 (Discovery 22) launches
1996 – 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
1995 – Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
1995 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995 – Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995 – Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1995 – U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995 - West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand
1994 – Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994 – Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1993 - Howard Stern’s radio show begins transmitting to Rochester New York (WRQI)
1993 – Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 seconds)
1993 – Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General
1992 – F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
1992 - Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1991 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague
1990 – 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
1990 - James “Buster” Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1990 – U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1989 – Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 – U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988 - Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1987 – British Airways begins trading stocks
1987 – England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987 – U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 – Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country
1986 – Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986 – Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1985 - Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985 – Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1985 - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins
1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1984 – Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
1983 – “Weird Al” Yankovic records “Ricky” and “Buckingham Blues” debut LP
1983 - 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18″(46 cm))
1982 – Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1981 - Australia all out 83 vs. India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981 – Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1979 – “They’re Playing Our Song” opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances
1979 – 43 million watch “Elvis!” on ABC
1979 – Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1979 – Iran’s premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979 - Musical “They’re Playing Our Song,” premieres in New York City
1978 – 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1978 – 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1978 – China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens
1978 – EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1977 – 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1975 – Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1974 – Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball’s new arbitration rule
1974 – Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974 – 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
1973 - 1st one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand
1973 – 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
1973 – Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1971 – Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971 – U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38″) of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hr rec)
1970 – Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit
1970 - John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland
1969 – Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1969 – Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1968 – Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968 – Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City)
1966 – San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1965 – Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1965 - Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
1964 – Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum
1964 – Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964 – Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1962 - Beatles record “Please, Please Me”
1961 – Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1959 – Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
1958 - 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
1958 – Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
1958 – WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 – KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings’ Ted Lindsay elected president
1954 - 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O’Connor and Eve Arden wins
1953 – “Hazel Flagg” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances
1953 – J. Styne/B. Hilliard’s musical “Hazel Flagg,” premieres in New York City
1953 – President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1953 - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1950 – “Rag Mop” by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1949 – Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
1948 - Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs. WI, out for 140
1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1948 - Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain
1945 – 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California
1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin
1944 – German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy
1944 – U-424 sunk off Ireland
1943 - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943 – Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - “Archie” comic book debuts
1941 – 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
1941 - Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
1941 – Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
1938 – Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends
1936 – Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1935 – -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1935 – 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York
1932 - 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1929 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Dynamo,” premieres in New York City
1929 – Vatican City, world’s smallest country, made an enclave of Rome
1928 – 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1927 – U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1927 - U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1926 - Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand
1922 – “April Showers” by Al Jolson hits #1
1922 – U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras
1921 – Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City
1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1916 – Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1908 – Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1908 – Heemskerk’s government begins in Holland
1907 – De Master’s Dutch government resigns
1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
1905 - James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299 -last pin breaks but stands
1905 – Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1903 – Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1902 – Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1899 - -15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record)
1899 - -61 degrees F, Montana (record low temperature)
1898 – Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1897 – White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City
1896 – Oscar Wildes “Salom” premieres in Paris
1895 – -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895 – Georgetown became part of Washington D.C.
1889 – Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1878 – 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1878 – 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1873 – Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C.
1861 – U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1854 – Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1852 – 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1851 - 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston
1843 – Opera “I Lombardi,” premieres in Milan
1840 – Gaetano Donizetti’s Opera “La Fille du Regiment,” premieres in Paris
1837 – American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1826 – London University founded
1814 – Norway’s independence proclaimed
1812 – Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st “gerrymander”
1811 – President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1810 – Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
1809 – Robert Fulton patents steamboat
1808 – Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1794 – 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public
1793 – Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands
1790 – Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1768 – Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1766 – Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened
1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1638 – Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
1575 – King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1573 – 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1543 – Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
y… en 1986… nació la que firma este blog…