Today’s Important Historical Events
1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns
1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory
1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla
2020 China’s Hubei province, the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown
2020 Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world’s second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with COVID-19
Today’s Historical Events
1379 End of Gelderse war victory
1401 Timur attacks city of Damascus, second city of the Mameluke Empire. Though scholar and negotiator Ibn Khaldūn‘s life spared, the city is sacked and the Umayyad Mosque destroyed.
1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns
1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun, officially establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate which would rule Japan until 1867
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV
1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1935 Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1939 “Wuthering Heights” film based on the Emily Brontë novel, directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, premieres in Los Angeles
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie “Sun Valley Serenade”, starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox
1949 21st Academy Awards: “Hamlet”, Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win, Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win awards
1962 Emile Griffith beats Benny ” Kid” Paret by TKO in 12th round in welterweight boxing title fight at MSG, NYC; Paret dies 10 days later; first use of television slow motion replay
1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA professional wrestling champ
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
1824 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s “Missa Solemnis” in St. Petersburg
1924 1st performance of Jean Sibelius‘ 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertföreningenin in Stockholm
1934 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 premieres in Leningrad, USSR
1955 Tennessee Williams‘ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens for 694 performances
1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1975 New Orleans R&B piano player Professor Longhair with the Meters perform at record release party for Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Venus and Mars”, aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1876 38th Grand National: Joe Cannon aboard 25/1 chance Regal wins by a neck from Congress
1877 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2–1 (a.e.t.); Wanderers’ 4th title
1882 44th Grand National: Lord Manners aboard 10/1 shot Seaman wins in heavy snow and freezing conditions
1893 55th Grand National: Bill Dollery aboard 9/2 favourite Cloister wins by a massive 40 lengths from Aesop; owner Charles Duff fields 2 more winners 1912-13
1899 61st Grand National: George Williamson aboard 1897 winner Manifesto wins by 4 lengths from Ford Of Fyne
1911 73rd Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his first of 3 GN’s aboard 20/1 Glenside in torrential rain
1913 Dutch soccer forward Huug de Groot scores twice as Netherlands score first ever victory over England; 2-1 at HBS, The Hague
1922 81st Grand National: Lewis Rees aboard 100/9 chance Music Hall wins; only 5 out of 32 starters finish
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