Today’s Important Historical Events
1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
Today’s Historical Events
772 Pope Adrian I [Hadrian I] elected
800 Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1420 Henry V of England enters Paris
1566 Spanish King Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1626 Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical governor of Jerusalem, driven out
1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule following a revolution by Portuguese nobility; the Portuguese Restoration War begins and lasts until 1668 with recognition by Spain of the country’s independence
1641 Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1949 WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine’s 1st centerfold
1956 Musical comedy film “The Girl Can’t Help It” starring Jayne Mansfield with cameos by rock ‘n’ roll stars Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, and Gene Vincent
1957 Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly and the Crickets debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
1962 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
Today’s Historical Music Events
1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
1924 George and Ira Gershwin‘s musical “Lady Be Good” premieres in NYC
1944 Béla Bartòk’s Concerto for orchestra, premieres
1951 Benjamin Britten‘s opera “Billy Budd” premieres in London
1956 “Candide” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
1958 “Flower Drum Song” opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances
1960 Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany accused of attempted arson
1968 “Promises Promises” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
1912 Boston Braves MLB franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston with a plan to construct a ball park there; ground breaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915
1923 Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Queen’s University retains title with 54-0 win over Regina Rugby Club; biggest Grey Cup victory margin ever
1924 The Boston Bruins beat fellow expansion Montreal Maroons, 2-1 at Boston Arena; first NHL game to be played in the United States
1928 National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or ‘designated hitter’, to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL vote in favour of proposal, but the American League turn it down
1928 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers win 3rd Cup with 30-0 shutout of Regina Roughriders
1930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
1934 Toronto Maple Leafs beat St. Louis Eagles, 4-3 to set an NHL record for the most wins to start the season with 8; Leafs do it again 59 years later; won 10 in a row to start 1993-94 season
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