Today’s Important Historical Events
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
Today’s Historical Events
553 Second Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer, Germany
1494 On 2nd voyage to New World Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay
1640 English Short Parliament rises
1646 King Charles I surrenders in Scotland
1665 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1762 Russia & Prussia sign Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years’ War
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1949 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (also known as “Vitameatavegamin”) episode of “I Love Lucy” premieres, garnering 68% of US television viewers
1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 “West Side Story” soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1996 Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe
1997 “Married With Children” final episode on Fox TV
1999 34th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] releases the music video to new single “This is America” to wide acclaim
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris
1891 Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor
1900 “The Billboard” began weekly publication
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
1951 “Out of This World” closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
1955 “Damn Yankees” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1967 The Kinks release “Waterloo Sunset” as a single; peaks at #2 on the British charts
1971 Courtney, Courtney, and Link’s musical “Earl of Ruston” opens at Billy Rose Theater, NYC, runs for 5 performances
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1863 Irish boxer Joe Coburn KOs American Mike McCoole in the 67th round in his first defence of Heavyweight C’ship of America in Charlestown, Maryland
1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in “modern” baseball as the Boston Americans beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0
1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens aboard 66-1 chance Stone Street wins in muddy track conditions; 2:15.20 slowest Derby in history
1917 St Louis Browns pitcher Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Sportsman’s Park III
1922 After sharing the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants for 10 years construction begins on Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NYC
1925 Detroit center fielder Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6 with 4 runs, 5 RBI and 16 TBs in Tigers’ 14-8 win over the Browns at Sportsman’s Park III, St. Louis
1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
1930 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 185 in a tour match for Australia v Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, Leicester
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