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- 1025 Bolesaw I the Brave was crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
- 1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
- 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1676 Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
- 1689 Death of British Chief Justice Judge George Jeffreys in the Tower of London. He presided over the "Bloody Assizes" following the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
- 1775 American Revolution: Two lanterns were hung in the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts, indicating British advancement by sea; Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
- 1775 At about 10 p.m., three men took to their horses to ride from Boston to Concord, MA to warn the citizens of the approaching British army. The famous poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, glorified the Bostonian as the lone rider. He was, in fact, accompanied by William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. Only Prescott made it all the way to Concord. Revere was nabbed by a British cavalry patrol near Lexington, MA (Dawes and Prescott escaped).
- 1775 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
- 1797 Battle of Neuwied - French victory against the Austrians.
- 1831 Publication starts of the weekly Sydney Herald, Australia's oldest still existing newspaper
- 1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
- 1839 Henry Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
- 1846 The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City.
- 1853 First train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
- 1861 Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
- 1863 In Weston-super-Mare, England Augustus Love born. Love waves, named after A.E.H. Love, are earthquake waves that move horizontally with respect to the direction of travel, with no vertical motion.
- 1868 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #98 Ianthe
- 1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
- 1869 First international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
- 1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
- 1880 A F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
- 1881 Billy the Kid escapes from his two jailers at the Liconln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town.
- 1889 In Germany First distant earthquake recorded. Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake.
- 1889 In Japan a 7+ quake occured near east coast of Honshu, Japan. Teleseism first identified on a seismogram. The instruments were horizontal pendulums, designed by Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz to measure slight changes in the direction of the vertical. Two of these pendulums, located in Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven, recorded a large earthquake on April 17, 1889. The earthquake had been felt in Japan about an hour before it was recorded in Germany
- 1895 New York State passed an act that established free public baths! They were to be open 14 hours a day and provide hot and cold water.
- 1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- 1906 An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 destroys much of San Francisco, California.
- 1906 SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city
- 1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5:13 a.m.
- 1906 The Los Angeles Times runs a front-page story on the Azusa Street Revival, launching Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 1907 Fairmont Hotel opens
- 1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 1910 Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.
- 1911 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #713 Luscinia
- 1915 French pilot Roland Garros was shot down and glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- 1916 In the Fox Islands, Alaska area a 7.4 quake was one of the largest earthquakes in the United States
- 1919 Virginia O'Brien - American actress born. Died Jan 16, 2001) - USA
- 1923 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
- 1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania
- 1923 Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY
- 1923 Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
- 1924 Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first " Crossword Puzzle Book".
- 1925 World's fair opens in Chicago
- 1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1277 Dolores
- 1934 The first "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft Worth, Tx)
- 1934 The first Laundromat opened -- in Fort Worth.
- 1935 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on the 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
- 1936 Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
- 1938 Find headless Mad Butcher victim Cleveland
- 1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
- 1942 James H Doolittle bombed Tokyo & other Japanese cities
- 1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1942 Tor Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup
- 1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs.
- 1943 World War II: "Operation Peacock", Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 Gerard Coté of Canada wins the 48th Boston Marathon won in 2:31:50.4.
- 1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
- 1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)
- 1946 The League of Nations is dissolved.
- 1948 Lockhead Hudson aircraft crashes at Lae, Papua New Guniea, claiming 37 lives.
- 1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
- 1949 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force.
- 1950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip
- 1950 Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
- 1952 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #1614 Goldschmidt
- 1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power in Egypt
- 1954 Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1955 Albert Einstein developer of relativity theory, dies
- 1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
- 1957 Asteroid #2307 discovered
- 1958 A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
- 1960 French President Charles de Gaulle arrives in Ottawa for four-day visit.
- 1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
- 1963 Henrietta Kreis 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
- 1964 Ben Hecht playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
- 1966 Bill Russell became first black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
- 1967 Manitoba imposes 5% sales tax, effective June 1.
- 1968 SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished
- 1970 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dana - All Kinds Of Everything
- 1971 Howard Hughes billionaire, dies
- 1971 Kingston penitentiary inmates stage four-day riot, holding five guards hostage; two convicts murdered, 11 injured.
- 1974 Italian prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
- 1974 Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.
- 1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
- 1976 Percy Julian holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
- 1977 Jerome Drayton wins the 81st Boston Marathon in in 2:14:46; the eighth Canadian to win the Marathon.
- 1977 The Hall Commission Report on Grain Handling and Transportation is published. This recommends limited branch line abandonment on the prairies.
- 1978 US Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panam
- 1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
- 1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
- 1980 Zimbabwe's (Rhodesia) formal independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
- 1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
- 1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at the US Embassy in Lebanon
- 1983 A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 1983 Joan Benoit set a women's record for the Boston Marathon
- 1983 KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)
- 1983 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2933 Amber, #3151 Talbot & #3561 Devine
- 1984 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
- 1984 John Lee Mahin screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
- 1984 Michael Jackson faced surgery in Los Angeles. Doctors performed scalp surgery to repair damage done after the megastar’s hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial on January 27. Jackson was hospitalized and recuperated for months before he could return to work.
- 1985 In Yunnan Province, China a 5.8 quake resulted in Twenty-three people killed, 300 injured and damage in the Luquan-Xundian area
- 1987 An unconscous skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
- 1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
- 1988 Barbra Striesand records "Warm All Over"
- 1988 U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
- 1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
- 1990 On the Minahassa Peninsula a 7.4 quake resulted in at least 3 people killed and 25 people injured. More than 1,140 houses damaged in the Bolaang-Gorontalo area
- 1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
- 1992 General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
- 1993 In Peru a 6.3 earthquake centered centered about 70 kilometers northeast of Lima, killed six people
- 1993 President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves the National Assembly and dismisses Cabinet.
- 1994 Richard Nixon, former President of the United States, suffers a stroke and dies four days later.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Future hockey star Scotty Mello is born
- 1995 Visitor posting - Amy Carlton born today:) wheeeew! - United Kingdom
- 1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Kathryn M. born - United Kingdom
- 1999 Hockey player Wayne Gretzky's number (99) is retired league wide in the NHL.
- 1999 NATO launches its most active day of airstrikes in its assault on Yugoslavia,
- 2002 Visitor posting - Yven Caleb Locust was born to proud parents Stacie & Lamont Locust
- 2007 32 Chinese steel workers burn to death in the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster.
- 2007 The US Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
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