Welcome to Today In History for Saturday, July 19, 2008.
Historical Events on this Day in History ...
0064 - Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire 0532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle 1195 - Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia 1380 - Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais 1425 - Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good 1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia 1524 - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest 1525 - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau 1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die 1551 - Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania 1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days 1572 - Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries 1575 - Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater 1590 - King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio P‚rez escapes jail 1599 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java 1639 - French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan 1674 - Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer 1688 - Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo 1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crack¢w 1816 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension 1848 - 1st US women's rights convention (Seneca Falls NY) 1848 - German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg 1850 - Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) 1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas 1862 - Forrest's 1st raid 1863 - Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio 1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20] 1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights 1867 - Reconstruction enacted 1867 - Dutch Red Cross forms 1867 - Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto 1870 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins 1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC 1877 - 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) 1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books 1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms 1900 - Michel Th‚ato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k) 1902 - NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw 1904 - Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play 1904 - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber 1908 - Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam 1909 - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play 1910 - Cy Young registers his 500th career victory 1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1 1914 - Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL 1915 - Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning 1915 - Naval accident 1915 - Dutch accidents at sea law enforced 1918 - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) 1918 - Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt 1923 - WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions 1926 - 2nd French govt of Herriot, forms 1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit 1928 - King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament 1933 - 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox 1933 - Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers 1936 - Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief 1936 - Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jos‚ Giral 1937 - Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood 1937 - Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich 1939 - 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St Louis, Mo 1939 - Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures 1940 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films 1940 - Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald 1940 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders 1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala) 1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven 1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1942 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague 1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US 1943 - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II 1944 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann 1944 - NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe 1944 - Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas 1944 - General Bradley flies to England 1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem 1944 - Democratic convention opens in Chicago 1944 - Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen 1944 - Danish defiance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort at Copenhagen 1944 - Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen 1944 - 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Munich 1944 - 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity 1944 - 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany 1945 - Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy 1945 - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue 1948 - French govt of Schuman, resigns 1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1950 - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh 1950 - NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes 1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris 1951 - "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs 1952 - India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day 1952 - Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford 1952 - 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland 1952 - "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs 1953 - KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 - WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum 1955 - Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel 1956 - US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada 1957 - Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) 1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1958 - "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances 1958 - Charly Gaul wins Tour de France 1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance 1960 - Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns 1960 - SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies 1961 - 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA) 1962 - Hungarian communist party expels R kosi and Ger” 1963 - Phila Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300 1963 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 1964 - 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio 1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open 1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1965 - Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" 1966 - Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot) 1966 - France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island 1966 - 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas 1967 - 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line) 1967 - Race riots in Durham NC 1967 - US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) 1969 - Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit 1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open 1971 - Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees 1973 - Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) 1974 - Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 1974 - David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC 1974 - Soyuz 14 lands 1975 - Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit 1975 - NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single and RBI are 1975 - Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate 1976 - Rock group Deep Purple disbands 1976 - Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony 1977 - Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 1977 - All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers) 1977 - 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY 1978 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island 1978 - Yanks start 14« game comeback with 2-0 win 1979 - Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW 1979 - Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza 1979 - Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe 1979 - 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill 1980 - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US and others boycott 1980 - David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver 1981 - 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George 1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic 1982 - 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2 1982 - David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon 1982 - Bolivian govt resigns 1982 - 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC 1984 - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) 1984 - Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination 1985 - Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die 1985 - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle 1986 - Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41) 1986 - Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with 1986 - Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic 1987 - Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games 1987 - 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane 1989 - Cleve Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game 1989 - United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 1990 - Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee 1990 - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif 1990 - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 1990 - BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies 1991 - Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game 1991 - Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington) 1991 - With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better 1992 - NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife 1992 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic 1992 - Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America 1992 - Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife 1992 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) 1992 - "Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances 1993 - Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions 1993 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham 1993 - Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes 1994 - 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles) 1994 - Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed 1994 - Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president 1996 - Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final 1996 - Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire 1996 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia 1998 - 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale 1998 - JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
