Today’s Important Historical Events
1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
2006 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
Today’s Historical Events
296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
536 St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
1073 Pope Alexander II buried and Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
1370 Building begins on the Bastille fortress in Paris
1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1948 WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
1976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News)
1976 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
1984 CBS premiere of TV film “Pope John Paul II“, starring Albert Finney in title role
1991 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from “The Tonight Show”
1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
1998 Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1804 Gioachino Rossini (12) performs in Imola
1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet “Swan Lake”
1927 Roger Sessions’ 1st Symphony in E premieres with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
1970 “Park” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1978 23rd Eurovision Song Contest: Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta for Israel wins singing “A-Ba-Ni-Bi” in Paris
1979 The Rolling Stones play two benefit concerts for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, in Oshawa, Ontario; performance part of guitarist Keith Richards’ sentence for heroin conviction on heroin charges
1989 “Welcome to the Club” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 performances
1990 “Truly Blessed” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1876 1st official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia
1876 Philadelphia native Tim McGinley of the Boston Red Caps scores baseball National League’s 1st run, in Philadelphia
1898 Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
1898 Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park
1906 Intercalated Games opens in Athens
1906 New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
1908 Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
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