Welcome to Today In History for Friday, May 9, 2008.
Historical Events on this Day in History ...
1092 - Lincoln Cathedral consecrated 1336 - Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux 1386 - Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England 1460 - Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings 1502 - Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World 1519 - Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government 1573 - Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king 1588 - Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris 1671 - Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels 1689 - English King Willem III declares war on France 1738 - England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea and West-Indies 1753 - King Louis XV disbands French parliament 1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die" 1766 - John Byron back in England after trip around the world 1785 - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle 1788 - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade 1836 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius 1837 - "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies 1846 - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande 1862 - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI 1862 - Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS 1862 - Battle of Farmington, MS 1864 - -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia 1864 - Battle of Cloyd's Mt, and Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling) 1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA 1864 - Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark 1868 - Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres 1874 - Victoria Embankment, in London opens 1882 - Telegraph Hill RR Co organized 1889 - 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34« 1896 - 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) 1899 - Lawn mower patented 1901 - Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne 1901 - Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2 1908 - Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname 1911 - Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland 1913 - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote 1914 - 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4 1914 - Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 1915 - German and French fight Battle of Artois 1916 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey 1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid 1926 - Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole 1927 - 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6 1927 - Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia 1929 - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates 1929 - WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions 1930 - 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6 1931 - 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59 1932 - 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8 1932 - Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity 1932 - WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC 1933 - Spanish anarchists call for general strike 1934 - Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University! 1936 - 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire 1936 - Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) 1937 - Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6) 1939 - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha 1941 - English Army breaks German spy codes 1942 - 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57 1943 - 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia 1943 - Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens 1944 - Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol 1944 - Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested 1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana 1944 - 1st eye bank opens (NYC) 1945 - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) 1945 - Jersey liberated from nazis 1945 - Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested 1945 - New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier 1945 - Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested 1945 - Victory celebration at Red Square 1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto 1946 - 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres 1946 - 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres 1949 - Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London 1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco 1950 - French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 1950 - Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville 1951 - Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River 1955 - German Federal Republic joins NATO 1958 - Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship 1959 - Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox 1960 - Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth 1960 - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally 1960 - US send U-2 over USSR 1961 - Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings 1961 - FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland" 1961 - Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins 1962 - Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone 1962 - Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 - Khrushchev visits Egypt 1964 - Peter and Gordon release "World Without Love" 1965 - Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert 1965 - Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) 1966 - 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) 1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1967 - 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship 1967 - Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam 1969 - BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick 1970 - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War 1971 - 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton 1971 - Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) 1971 - Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes 1971 - Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history 1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open 1973 - For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game 1974 - House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment 1975 - Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) 1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead 1976 - Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament 1976 - "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs 1977 - Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed 1977 - Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon 1977 - Patty Hearst let out of jail 1978 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs 1978 - Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found 1978 - Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage 1978 - Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC 1978 - PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth 1979 - US and USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons 1980 - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge 1981 - Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian 1982 - "9" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 739 performances 1982 - Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC 1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic 1983 - 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson 1984 - Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000 1984 - Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8) 1984 - White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game 1987 - Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games 1987 - Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry 1987 - 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw 1988 - A's winning streak hits 14, ends tommorow 1988 - Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth 1988 - Belgium: 8th govt of Martens forms 1989 - VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste" 1989 - NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher 1989 - NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop 1989 - Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press 1989 - "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances 1990 - Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II 1990 - NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur 1991 - Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 - Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer 1992 - America Cup finals begin in San Diego 1992 - Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV 1992 - Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe 1993 - Paraguay holds its 1st pres and parliamentary elections in 50 years 1993 - Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC 1993 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic 1993 - Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300 1993 - "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs 1993 - "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs 1994 - "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances 1994 - Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY 1995 - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus 1995 - Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0 1997 - 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam 1997 - San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones 1998 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by
