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MOST INTERESTING DATE: 1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
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0532 Nika riots in Constantinople.
0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
0888 Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1328 Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.
1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
1602 William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
1605 The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1607 Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.
1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
1622 Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.
1625 John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.
1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1770 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris
1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times
1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
1822 The patterns of the Greek flag are adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1832 President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion
1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY
1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1864 Composer Stephen Foster dies in New York at age 39, while recuperating from loss of blood from a fever-induced fall in his hotel room.
1865 Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC
1869 Colored National Labor Union, first Black labor convention
1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..
1873 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor
1874 Battle between jobless & police in New York City NY, 100s injured
1874 Imperial Russian Government issues second decree which amended the one of June 4, 1871. The second decree instituted compulsory military conscription for the German colonists. These two decrees impelled thousands of German Russians to immigrate to North and South America.
1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)
1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
1893 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
1893 US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris
1899 The Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage.
1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
1906 The first radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1908 French pilot Henry Farman is first European to fly roundtrip
1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
1910 Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
1911 South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide
1912 -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)
1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1915 An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000
1915 SS Roebuck, formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank.
1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests
1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA
1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears
1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
1934 the Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
1937 The U.S. government announces that Americans are cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 Church of England accepts theory of evolution.
1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
1939 The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1941 Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.
1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
1942 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat. German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1943 HMCS Ville de Quebec (Corvette) make Canada's first U-Boat sinking in the Mediterranean
1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov
1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
1953 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
1955 Personal posting - David Randal Luckow born - USA
1957 Personal posting - Ray Parks was born
1957 Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee
1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
1958 Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1958 Personal posting - Susan Irene Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pa, USA
1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
1962 Comedian Ernie Kovacs is killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.
1963 Personal posting - Joe Christopher Trujillo born in Alamosa, Colorado
1964 Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
1964 USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown
1966 First black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1967 Coup in Togo
1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances
1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
1968 Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison
1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)
1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
1972 Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
1974 Seraphim is elected elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
1978 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.
1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective
1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes
1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
1982 Seventy-eight people die in Washington, D.C., when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.
1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.
1983 Alan Webb (American record holder in the mile) is born.
1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1988 Personal posting - Cara Jane Gorman is born.
1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run
1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1990 L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough
1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
1991 Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.
1991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad
1992 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1992 Japan formally apologizes for forcing thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during WWII.
1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1995 America3 becomes first all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
1995 Lamberto Dini becomes prime minister of Italy.
1995 Philippine authorities unearth a plot by militant Muslims to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit.
1995 The National Hockey League teams unanimously ratify agreement to end the players strike
1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
1999 Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the Chicago Bulls (for the second and final time).
2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
2003 Visitor posting - The Queen has knee arthroscopy at King Edward VII hospital, London - United Kingdom
2007 Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened.
0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
0888 Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1328 Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.
1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
1602 William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
1605 The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1607 Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.
1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
1622 Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.
1625 John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.
1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1770 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris
1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times
1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
1822 The patterns of the Greek flag are adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1832 President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion
1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY
1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1864 Composer Stephen Foster dies in New York at age 39, while recuperating from loss of blood from a fever-induced fall in his hotel room.
1865 Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC
1869 Colored National Labor Union, first Black labor convention
1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..
1873 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor
1874 Battle between jobless & police in New York City NY, 100s injured
1874 Imperial Russian Government issues second decree which amended the one of June 4, 1871. The second decree instituted compulsory military conscription for the German colonists. These two decrees impelled thousands of German Russians to immigrate to North and South America.
1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)
1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
1893 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
1893 US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris
1899 The Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage.
1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
1906 The first radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1908 French pilot Henry Farman is first European to fly roundtrip
1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
1910 Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
1911 South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide
1912 -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)
1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1915 An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000
1915 SS Roebuck, formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank.
1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests
1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA
1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears
1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
1934 the Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
1937 The U.S. government announces that Americans are cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 Church of England accepts theory of evolution.
1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
1939 The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1941 Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.
1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
1942 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat. German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1943 HMCS Ville de Quebec (Corvette) make Canada's first U-Boat sinking in the Mediterranean
1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov
1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
1953 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
1955 Personal posting - David Randal Luckow born - USA
1957 Personal posting - Ray Parks was born
1957 Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee
1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
1958 Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1958 Personal posting - Susan Irene Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pa, USA
1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
1962 Comedian Ernie Kovacs is killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.
1963 Personal posting - Joe Christopher Trujillo born in Alamosa, Colorado
1964 Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
1964 USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown
1966 First black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1967 Coup in Togo
1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances
1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
1968 Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison
1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)
1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
1972 Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
1974 Seraphim is elected elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
1978 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.
1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective
1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes
1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
1982 Seventy-eight people die in Washington, D.C., when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.
1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.
1983 Alan Webb (American record holder in the mile) is born.
1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1988 Personal posting - Cara Jane Gorman is born.
1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run
1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1990 L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough
1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
1991 Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.
1991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad
1992 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1992 Japan formally apologizes for forcing thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during WWII.
1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1995 America3 becomes first all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
1995 Lamberto Dini becomes prime minister of Italy.
1995 Philippine authorities unearth a plot by militant Muslims to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit.
1995 The National Hockey League teams unanimously ratify agreement to end the players strike
1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
1999 Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the Chicago Bulls (for the second and final time).
2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
2003 Visitor posting - The Queen has knee arthroscopy at King Edward VII hospital, London - United Kingdom
2007 Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened.
MOST INTERESTING DATE: 1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
NOTE: This is a re-run of an older thread i made. Which turned out quite popular, well popular..ish
So thought i'd repost.com!
