Today’s Important Historical Events
1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1900 US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an ‘open door’ policy in China have essentially accepted his stand
1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour
Today’s Historical Events
141 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1345 Saturn, Jupiter and Mars-conjunction: thought “cause of plague epidemic”
1569 Duke of Alva leads “tenth penning” in Les Ponts de Cé
1598 Governor of Brittany, Philippe Emmanuel the Duke of Mercœur submits to French King Henry IV at Angers
1600 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden
1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV
1948 1st live televised symphony performances: Eugene Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra on CBS, followed 90 minutes later by Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Orchestra on NBC
1948 20th Academy Awards: “Gentleman’s Agreement”, Loretta Young, Ronald Colman win
1952 24th Academy Awards: “An American in Paris”, Humphrey Bogart & Vivien Leigh win
1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 The Supremes release single “The Happening”
1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of “Police Story”, based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh’s writings
1987 Soap opera “Capitol” final episode
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1885 Yiddish theater opens in NY with Goldfaden operetta
1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia.
1954 “King & I” closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1965 10th Eurovision Song Contest: France Gall of Luxembourg wins singing “Poupee de cire, poupee de son” written by Serge Gainsbourg in Naples
1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts’ “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” goes #1 for 7 weeks
1990 Singer Gloria Estefan fractures her spine when a truck hits her tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M deal with Sony Records to produce 6 albums
1994 “Cyrano – The Musical” closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1891 53rd Grand National: Irish jockey, trainer Harry Beasley wins aboard 4/1 Come Away
1892 54th Grand National: Capt. Roddy Owen wins aboard 20/1 chance Father O’Flynn
1911 National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC)
1914 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
1920 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Adelaide: Pat O’Hara Wood beats fellow Australian Ronald Thomas 6-3, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1, 6-3
1920 US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1934 American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1937 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
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