Welcome to Today in History for Monday, May 12, 2008.
Historical Events for Yesterday in History ...
0254 - Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope 0919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich 1082 - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr 1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country 1328 - Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V 1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur 1525 - Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers 1534 - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian 1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens 1588 - Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris 1604 - Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius 1640 - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV 1641 - Prince Willem II (14) marries Engl princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9) 1689 - England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg 1695 - English king Willem III departs to Netherlands 1701 - Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701) 1733 - Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague 1776 - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns 1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette) 1780 - Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War) 1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina 1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses 1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented 1832 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan 1835 - Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile 1849 - Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam 1862 - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana 1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss 1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general 1864 - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River 1864 - Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid) 1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia 1864 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling) 1865 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas 1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada 1871 - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky 1874 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized 1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0 1877 - Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia 1881 - France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony 1881 - Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate 1885 - Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada 1888 - Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale 1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting 1891 - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname 1894 - Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC 1897 - 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Neth 1897 - Battle at Thessali‰: Turkish army beats Greece 1898 - Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters 1900 - Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city 1900 - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed 1901 - Pres McKinley visits SF 1908 - George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London 1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield 1909 - 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8 1910 - Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 1910 - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC) 1913 - Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2) 1915 - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250 1915 - Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week" 1917 - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4 1917 - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6 1919 - Yanks and Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 1921 - National Hospital Day 1st observed 1923 - 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6 1924 - 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2 1924 - 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind 1925 - Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics 1925 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament 1926 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole 1926 - Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared 1926 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad 1926 - British general strike ends 1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole 1928 - Opium laws enforced 1928 - Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1929 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) 1930 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) 1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ 1932 - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney 1933 - Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers 1934 - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2 1934 - "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1 1936 - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss," premieres in London 1937 - George VI crowned King of England 1937 - St Louis Cards beat Phila Phillies, 15-3 1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) 1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River 1940 - German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug 1940 - French mariners occupy St Maarten 1941 - Great British convoy marches into Alexandria 1942 - Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943 1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River 1942 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine 1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz 1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrender 1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US 1943 - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender 1944 - Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat 1944 - Krim purged of nazi troops 1944 - 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen and Brux 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina resigns 1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India) 1949 - West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade 1950 - Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris 1951 - 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll 1952 - Charlton Playground named in Bronx 1953 - KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 1955 - Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0) 1956 - Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0 1956 - East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves 1957 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1958 - "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo and The Dont's hits #40 1959 - "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances 1959 - Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher) 1960 - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special 1961 - Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1962 - Grevelingendam closes 1963 - Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show 1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open 1963 - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama 1964 - Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO 1965 - Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations 1966 - St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns 1967 - H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student 1967 - Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1968 - "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC 1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open 1968 - WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1969 - Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1970 - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) 1970 - KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1970 - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court 1970 - Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run 1971 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall 1972 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13) 1972 - Paul McCartney and Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb" 1973 - Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92 1973 - 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3 1974 - 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3 1974 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic 1975 - US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces 1976 - Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1 1977 - 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London) 1977 - Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation 1978 - Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female 1979 - Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end 1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson and son Chris) 1981 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 perfs 1981 - Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn 1982 - In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II 1982 - US Football League forms 1982 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich) 1982 - FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II 1983 - Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA 1983 - Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead 1984 - World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans 1984 - White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 1984 - S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years 1984 - Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole 1984 - France performs nuclear test 1984 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D 1985 - Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi 1985 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic 1986 - Fred Markham (US), unpaced and unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif 1986 - President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator 1986 - Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph 1988 - "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances 1989 - Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists 1989 - Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired 1989 - "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance 1990 - 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts) 1990 - Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million 1990 - Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting 1991 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic 1991 - A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1992 - 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest 1993 - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands 1993 - Last broadcast of "Knots landing" on CBS 1993 - Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV 1993 - Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II 1994 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan 1995 - Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4 1995 - Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves 1995 - Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59) 1996 - "Inherit the Wind" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 45 performances 1996 - "Night of the Iguana" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 perfs 1996 - 42nd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies 1996 - Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8 1997 - Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida 1997 - Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict 1997 - Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox 1997 - 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea 1997 - Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
