Events in History
1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East
1619 Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude
1741 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
1905 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of T’ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus (Qing dynasty)
1968 During the night 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring
1993 Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month
Events in Flim and TV
1930 Dumont’s 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1950 11th Venice Film Festival: “Justice est faite” (“Justice is Done”) directed by Andre Cayatte wins the Golden Lion
1953 14th Venice Film Festival opens. No Golden Lion awarded
1961 22nd Venice Film Festival: “Last Year at Marienbad” directed by Alain Resnais wins Golden Lion
1997 Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
Events in Music
1882 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s “1812 Overture” debuts in Moscow
1957 “Simply Heavenly” opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1965 Rolling Stones release their single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK
1979 American singer Vikki Carr (39) weds businessman Michael Nilsson
1995 “The Play’s the Thing” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 performances
2022 Premiere of saxophone concerto “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)”, by Tyshawn Sorey at the Lucerne Festival – 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music [1] [2]
Events in Sports
1888 Longest US men’s single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
1900 Great Britain beats France by 158 runs in Paris; cricket’s only appearance at an Olympic Games
1915 Chicago White Sox obtain ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer & $31,500; Jackson involved in ‘Black Sox Scandal’ 1919
1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for .505 average)
1921 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory wins her 6th US singles title; beats 3-time champion Mary Browne 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
1922 1st Women’s World Games (first track & field competition for women) is conducted over 1-day at the Pershing Stadium in Paris
1945 17-year-old Dodgers utility Tommy Brown becomes youngest player to hit a MLB home run in Brooklyn’s 11-1 rout of Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1949 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1957 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0
1958 Chicago Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st major league lefty catcher since 1906
1961 Philadelphia Phillies beat Milwaukee Braves, 7-4 at County Stadium; end losing streak with dubious MLB record of 23 straight loses
1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
1980 Cleveland Indians pitcher Dan Spillner, 5.45 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when Chicago White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 Pittsburgh Pirate Omar Moreno pillages record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1982 Don Lever becomes first captain of NHL New Jersey Devils
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