What Happend This Day

* 0306 - St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
* 0722 - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop
* 1215 - Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
* 1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
* 1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
* 1554 - England reconciles with Pope Julius III
* 1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
* 1648 - English army captures King Charles I
* 1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
* 1700 - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS]
* 1700 - Turkey declares war on Russia
* 1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
* 1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
* 1735 - States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
* 1747 - Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women
* 1753 - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny
* 1776 - Capt Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
* 1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
* 1787 - Spanish governor leaves Philippines
* 1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
* 1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
* 1813 - Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
* 1838 - Mexico declares war on France
* 1861 - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
* 1863 - Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
* 1864 - Battle of Franklin Tenn: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
* 1864 - Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
* 1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
* 1872 - 1st intl soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
* 1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
* 1887 - 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
* 1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published
* 1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
* 1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
* 1912 - 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
* 1915 - St John Ervine's "John Ferguson," premieres in Dublin
* 1922 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
* 1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
* 1923 - Dutch Catholic minority govt of Wilhelm Marx forms
* 1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
* 1924 - Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied
* 1928 - Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England
* 1931 - His Master's Voice & Columbia Records merge into EMI
* 1933 - CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
* 1936 - London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
* 1937 - 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
* 1938 - Fascist coup in Romania, fails
* 1938 - Germany bans Jews being lawyers
* 1939 - Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7," premieres in NYC
* 1939 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
* 1940 - Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
* 1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run
* 1941 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano
* 1942 - -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
* 1942 - German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama
* 1944 - Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
* 1946 - Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba
* 1947 - Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine
* 1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
* 1948 - Baseball's Negro National League disbands
* 1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
* 1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking
* 1949 - KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
* 1950 - US Pres Truman threatens China with atom bomb
* 1952 - Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
* 1953 - French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
* 1954 - 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
* 1954 - John Str˜dom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
* 1955 - Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
* 1956 - 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)
* 1956 - Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
* 1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8
* 1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
* 1958 - WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
* 1960 - French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
* 1961 - USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
* 1962 - U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
* 1964 - USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
* 1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
* 1966 - Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
* 1967 - Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence
* 1967 - Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement
* 1967 - Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
* 1967 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
* 1967 - People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
* 1967 - Sen Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency
* 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
* 1972 - Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
* 1974 - Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson & Gray in Ethiopia)
* 1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin
* 1978 - France performs nuclear test
* 1979 - Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
* 1980 - Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum
* 1981 - South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested
* 1982 - STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
* 1982 - US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
* 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test
* 1983 - Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
* 1983 - Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
* 1983 - Ra£l Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election
* 1986 - Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
* 1987 - Afghanistan Constitution adopted
* 1988 - Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
* 1988 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
* 1988 - NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
* 1988 - Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
* 1988 - UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
* 1990 - Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
* 1991 - 1st world championship of women's soccer, US defeats Norway 2-1
* 1991 - 93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die
* 1992 - Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
* 1994 - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at BBC," is released in Britain
* 1994 - Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
* 1994 - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal