Today’s Important Historical Events
- 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
- 1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
- 1935 Flying boat “China Clipper” takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
- 1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas
- 1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
- 2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany
Today’s Historical Events
- 498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
- 845 First King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats Frankish King Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon, near Redon
- 1220 Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III
- 1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
- 1492 Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Christopher Columbus‘s fleet
- 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
- 1542 Spain delegates “New Laws” against slavery in America
- 1573 The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
Events in Film & TV
- 1944 Film musical “Meet Me In St Louis”, starring Judy Garland, and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premieres at Loew’s State Theater on Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1961 Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
- 1964 WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1965 “Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees” broadcast on CBS, watched by 25 million, brings Jane Goodall to international attention
- 1967 BBC unofficially bans “I Am the Walrus” by Beatles, due to the suggestive lyric “Boy, you’ve been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.”
- 1968 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek – Captain Kirk and Uhura)
- 1984 Fred Rogers of PBS “Mr Rogers Neighborhood” presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
- 1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
Today’s Historical Music Events
- 1831 Opera “Robert Le Diable” is produced (Paris)
- 1851 Opera “La Perle Du Brésil” is produced (Paris)
- 1862 Opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]
- 1898 Opera “Iris” premieres (Rome)
- 1927 George Gershwin‘s musical “Funny Face” premieres in NYC
- 1928 “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)
- 1945 “Day Before Spring” opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
- 1955 RCA Records make its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley‘s contract
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
- 1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
- 1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
- 1936 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Pinehurst CC: Denny Shute wins first of his consecutive PGA titles, defeating Jimmy Thomson, 3 & 2
- 1945 Cleveland Rams end Jim Benton gains 303 yards in 28-21 win over Detroit Lions; NFL single game rushing record – stands for 40+ years
- 1950 7,021 see Fort Wayne Pistons edge Minneapolis Lakers, 19-18 at Minneapolis Auditorium; lowest ever NBA score of 37 combined points
- 1956 XVI Summer Olympic Games open in Melbourne, Australia; first to be staged in Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as first to be held outside Europe and North America
- 1956 Boston shooting guard Bill Sharman hits 10 free throws in Celtics 101-78 over Philadelphia Warriors at Philadelphia Civic Center; begins NBA FT streak of 55 games
- 1957 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP for the 2nd time
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