EVENTS
Event of Interest
1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution
Joan of Arc
- 1588 Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
- 1608 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna" premieres in Mantua
- 1635 Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V" premieres in Madrid
- 1644 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby (English Civil War)
- 1664 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
- 1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
- 1741 Spain and Bavaria sign treaty
- 1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1754 Battle of Jumonville Glen: forces led by George Washington kill French Canadian officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville
George Washington
Trail of Tears
1830 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the Army to force Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
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- 1845 Fire in Quebec, Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
- 1849 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands and Albrecht of Prussia separate
- 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London
- 1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in US Civil War
- 1866 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
- 1871 Paris communards revolt put down
- 1875 3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43.5
- 1880 8th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:40.5
Event of Interest
1889 Édouard and André Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company
André Michelin
- 1900 Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
- 1900 Total solar eclipse occurs
- 1900 In China, rioters provoked by Boxers burn the Fengtai Railway Station, where many Belgians work
- 1900 Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, flees its capital, Pretoria, goes to Watervalboven to evade the advancing British
- 1901 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2
- 1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
- 1904 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2
- 1906 Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor" premieres in NYC
- 1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
- 1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia v South Africa
- 1918 Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a Democratic Republic
- 1918 The Armenian National Council declares Armenia independent from the Russian Empire
- 1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
- 1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
- 1926 US Customs Court created by congress
- 1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
Walter Chrysler
Donald Bradman
- 1934 Sir Jack Hobbs scores his 197th & last first class cricket century at 51 years 163 days
- 1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy
- 1934 The Glyndebourne festival in Sussex, England, inaugurated
On Computable Numbers
1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
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- 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic
Election of Interest
1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain
Music Premiere
1940 Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase" premieres in NYC
Irving Berlin
Event of Interest
1946 Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
Manuel Roxas
- 1948 Israeli Air Force is officially founded shortly after the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- 1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
- 1949 French Championships Men's Tennis: Frank Parker retains title; beats fellow American Budge Patty 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
- 1949 French Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont wins her second French singles crown; beats Nelly Adamson of France 7-5, 6-2
Baseball Record
1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st major league home run
Willie Mays
Event of Interest
1951 Radio programme "Crazy People" (later titled The Goon Show) premieres on the BBC, created by Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
- 1952 Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
- 1952 The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
- 1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
- 1955 80th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6
- 1955 Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins
- 1955 Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria
- 1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
Event of Interest
1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1957 NL approves baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to the US west coast
- 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
- 1958 European Cup Final, Brussels: Francisco Gento scores the winner in extra time as Real Madrid beats AC Milan, 3-2; 3rd consecutive title for Los Blancos
- 1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
- 1959 Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters" premieres in London
- 1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, become 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
- 1960 "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
- 1960 59th Men's French Championships: Nicola Pietrangeli beats Luis Ayala (3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3)
Event of Interest
1960 59th Women's French Championships: Darlene Hard beats Yola Ramirez (6-3, 6-4)
Darlene Hard
- 1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
The Orient Express
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on the Orient Express (after 78 years)
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- 1961 Record 27 HRs hit in 7 AL games
- 1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, NY
- 1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
- 1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
- 1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
- 1963 Estimated 22,000 die in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal (India)
Event of Interest
1964 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet
Dmitri Shostakovich
Event of Interest
1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
- 1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
- 1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
- 1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
- 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
- 1967 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concert
- 1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
- 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
- 1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
Event of Interest
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon
Eugene McCarthy
- 1969 European Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid: AC Milan striker Pierino Prati scores 3 in 4-1 win over Ajax; second title for I Rossoneri
- 1970 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
- 1970 Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Album Release
1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
Paul McCartney
- 1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
- 1972 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
- 1972 Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast
- 1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 innings (game started 5/26)
- 1973 Indianapolis 500: Gordon Johncock wins in 2:05:25.320 (255.944 km/h)
- 1974 "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
Emmy Awards
1974 26th Emmy Awards: M*A*S*H, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win, 1st Daytime Award presentation
Mary Tyler Moore
- 1974 Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
- 1974 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres in NYC
- 1975 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 18 launches
- 1975 19th European Cup: Bayern Munich beats Leeds United 2-0 at Paris
- 1975 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is established by the Treaty of Lagos
Event of Interest
1976 29th Cannes Film Festival: "Taxi Driver" directed by Martin Scorsese wins the Palme d'Or
Martin Scorsese
Television Premiere
1979 ABC premiere of TV's "The House on Garibaldi Street", based on the 1960 capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
Adolf Eichmann
Papal Visit
1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain (Adrian IV was born in England, as Nicholas Breakspear)
John Paul II
Event of Interest
1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
Weird Al Yankovic
Event of Interest
1984 George Soros founds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism
George Soros
- 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
- 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
- 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
- 1986 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
- 1987 60th US National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
- 1987 Mathias Rust, 18 year old West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing near Red Square, Moscow in USSR
- 1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
- 1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
- 1987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
- 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
Event of Interest
1989 Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil first foreign-born winner since 1966; completes final lap under caution after crashing with Al Unser Jr
Al Unser Jr.
- 1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
- 1990 "Dave Thomas Comedy Show" debuts on CBS-TV
- 1990 Eugenia Charles' Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
- 1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
- 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
- 1991 "Forever My Lady" debut studio album by Jodeci is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1992)
- 1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
- 1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
- 1993 Polish government of Suchocka falls
- 1994 "Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
- 1995 "An Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
- 1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
- 1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
- 1995 White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
- 1995 Indianapolis 500: Jacques Villeneuve wins in 3:15:17.561 (247.221 km/h)
- 1995 48th Cannes Film Festival: "Underground" directed by Emir Kusturica wins the Palme d'Or
Event of Interest
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
Bill Clinton
Election of Interest
1996 Pavlo Lazarenko becomes Prime Minister of Ukraine
Pavlo Lazarenko
- 1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
- 1997 Tornado in Jarrell, Texas kills at least 28
- 1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time
- 1997 5th UEFA Champions League Final: Borussia Dortmund beats Juventus 3-1 at Munich
- 1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
Event of Interest
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display
Leonardo da Vinci
- 1999 Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase
- 2000 Indianapolis 500: Juan Pablo Montoya wins in 2:58:59.431 (269.737 km/h)
- 2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- 2002 NHL Eastern Conference Final: Carolina Hurricanes beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
- 2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct
Event of Interest
2003 Patrick Roy officially announces his retirement from the NHL
Patrick Roy
- 2003 11th UEFA Champions League Final: Milan beats Juventus (0-0, 3-2 on penalties) at Manchester
- 2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become Prime Minister of Iraq's interim government
- 2005 Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders claim their 5th title with a 35-25 win over the NSW Waratahs; Dan Carter lands 3 conversions & 2 penalties for the winners
- 2006 Indianapolis 500: Sam Hornish Jr wins in 3:10:58.7590 (252.804 km/h)
Baseball Record
2006 Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the MLB all-time list
Barry Bonds
Babe Ruth
- 2006 59th Cannes Film Festival: "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" directed by Ken Loach wins the Palme d'Or
- 2006 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak Tree GC: Jay Haas wins his first of 3 Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the third playoff hole against Brad Bryant
- 2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
Music Single
2010 "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" single released by Alicia Keys (Billboard Song of the Year 2010)
Alicia Keys
- 2011 UEFA Champions League Final, London: FC Barcelona beats Manchester United, 3-1; 4th title for Barça
- 2011 IPL Cricket Final, M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai: Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs; Murali Vijay 95 (52), Ravichandran Ashwin 3/16
- 2014 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt
- 2016 Harambe, a gorilla form Cincinnati Zoo, is shot after dragging a 3 year old boy who had slipped into it's enclosure.
ER SURAJ MOTTAN
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MANAGING DIRECTOR : LAKSHYA INSTITUTE OF IT EDUCATION
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