In southern England, Saint Distaff’s Day was when work began again after the Christmas holiday. Saint Distaff’s Day was not a saint’s day at all, but rather a tongue-in-check commemoration of the day on which women returned to their distaffs of unspun wool.
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1941 Chinese Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-shek open fire on the surrounded Communist New Fourth Army at Maolin, Anhui Province, killing or capturing 7,000 troops
1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb
1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM’s head office in New York
1999 President Bill Clinton‘s impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
1325 Afonso IV succeeds Denis as King of Portugal
1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by France
1566 Antonio “Michele” Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and The Holy Roman Empire
1598 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I
1601 Robert, Earl of Essex, leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1894 William K.L. Dickson captures “Fred Ott’s Sneeze” as a motion picture at Thomas Edison‘s Black Mariah Studio, West Orange, New Jersey [1]
1925 Musical “Big Boy” with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA wrestling champion
1968 “GE College Bowl” quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1982 TV series “Fame”, based on the film of the same name, starring Debbie Allen and an ensemble cast premieres on NBC TV
2001 27th People’s Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)
1842 Gioachino Rossini‘s cantata “Stabat Mater” premieres in Paris
1903 Vincent d’Indy‘s opera “L’etranger” premieres in Brussels
1950 “Happy as Larry” closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
1955 Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera
1958 Gibson issued US patent for the Flying V Guitar
1966 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by “Woodstock Festival”
1973 “Purlie” closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier’s
1910 Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game in Hinckley, Illinois
1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
1947 Australia v England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
1955 Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera
1955 20 year-old future world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson scores a 5th-round TKO of Willie Troy in a non-title super middleweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden
You’re Invited to Olympus Mall Where the Greek Gods Dwell and Sell
Far away on Mount Olympus lives the… Well, the Olympians — the twelve most important Greek dieties.
In ancient times, the Olympians and the rest of their family were an important part of daily Greek culture. Each god and goddess ruled certain realms and also played their part in mythology; fascinating stories that helped ancient Greeks to grasp the world around them, including the weather, religious beliefs, and their own social system.
That being said, even the Olympian gods must earn a living.
Possessing so many powers and abilities, they all agreed that they would make excellent business owners, and so opened a grand mall and invited all the mortals.
Let’s grab a shopping bag and go explore the Greek god family tree!
Suspect Infidelity? Hera’s Private Eye Business Can Help
Book a Trip at the Atlas Traveling Agency
Find Variety at Apollo’s Flea Market
The Eros Lounge for Lonely Hearts
There’s Even a Wine-Tasting Event
Stay Away From the Security Booth
Rejuvenate With Sleep Therapy to Continue Your Shopping
There’s a Shuttle Service for Tired Shoppers
Ares Runs the Army Surplus Shop
There’s a Creepy Dude on a Boat
This Family’s Failing Business Sells Air Fresheners
There’s Free Counseling for Disturbed Mortals
This Hardware Shop Has All the Mist You Need
This Paramedic Will Fix Your Bones After Kratos Jumps You
The Mall Has a Mini-Jail Called Tartarus
The Cinema Shows Back-To-Back 3D Horror Movies
The Helios Car Dealership Sells Golden Bowls
The Ghost Tour Has Real Ghosts
Poseidon Runs the Black Market
Please Claim Your Kids at the Lost and Found Tent
Learn How to Chop Necks at Athena’s Karate Club
You Can Buy Bottled Air From Aether
Alastor’s Restaurant Serves All the Revenge You Can Eat
There’s an Old Guy That Sells Answers (But You Probably Won’t Get Them)
Pick a Tour Package at the Extreme Adventure Club
There’s a God in the Mini-Jail
There’s a Celebrity Signing Photos of Himself
Enjoy Free Muffins at the Bingo Hall
You’ll Win Every Race With Nike’s Sports Equipment
The Hypno-Therapist Makes Your Problems Worse
The Water-Girl Might Knock You Out
The Mall’s Casino Doubles as a Human Resources Office
The Archery Range Is Fun (But Deadly If You Upset Artemis)
The Art Gallery Is Full of Living Things and Violence
Mania Is Too Mad to Have a Business
Get Your Face Peeled by Persephone
Get Your Napalm at the Fire-Starter’s Shop
Thank You for Shopping at the Mount Olympus Mall!
1912 Geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt
1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his “Four Freedoms” speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address
1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
2021 Supporters of President Donald Trump storm US Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris‘s win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and vice-president Mike Pence
1017 Cnut the Great crowned King of England in London by Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1066 King Harold I of England crowned
1099 Henry V crowned German king
1205 Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans
1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
1322 Stephen Uros III becomes King of Serbia
1352 French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star
1355 Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy
1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1967 “Milton Berle Show” last airs on ABC-TV
1967 KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 The Supremes release single “I’m Livin’ In Shame”
1900 Maurice Ravel‘s “Albaradode Gracioso” premieres in Paris
1906 Maurice Ravel‘s “Miroirs” premieres in Paris
1924 Francis Poulenc’s ballet “Les Biches”, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska, and danced by the Ballets Russe, premieres in Monte Carlo
1950 “Happy As Larry” opens at Coronet Theater, NYC, runs for 3 performances
1951 “Pardon Our French” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
1963 “Oliver!” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
1964 Rolling Stones’ 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1968 Th Beatles’ album “Magical Mystery Tour” goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
1681 First recorded boxing match is engineered by Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle; his butler vs his butcher
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1896 1st US women’s 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
1930 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 452 not out for New South Wales v Queensland in Sydney; then world record individual score in a first-class match; runs scored in 415 minutes
1937 Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1951 Indianapolis Olympians beat Rochester Royals, 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes; also the longest game in NBA history
1477 Battle of Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7,000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia
1919 German Workers’ Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi)
1930 Mao Zedong writes “A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”
1949 US President Harry Truman labels his administration the “Fair Deal”
1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland and Zealand
1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
1463 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
1477 Battle of Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7,000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy
1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza‘s troops reconquer Milan
1527 Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning. (b. 1498)
1554 Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands
1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
1933 “Cavalcade” based on the play by Noël Coward, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1934)
1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon “Odor-able Kitty”
1955 KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
1967 KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins
1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Soap Opera “All My Children” premieres on ABC
1974 Raul Julia appears on “The Bob Newhart Show” in “Oh, Brother”
1649 Francesco Cavalli’s opera “Giasone” premieres in Venice (the most popular opera of the 17th century)
1866 Bedřich Smetana’s first opera “Branibori v Cechach” (“The Brandenburgers in Bohemia”) premieres in Prague
1875 Charles Garnier’s new Opera opens in Paris
1896 Isaac Albéniz’ opera “Pepita Jiminez” premieres in Barcelona
1946 “Show Boat” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances
1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record “It Doesn’t Matter”; he was killed in a plane crash 29 days later
1962 Tony Sheridan & Beatles record “My Bonnie” & “The Saints”, produced by Bert Kaempfert, in Hamburg, Germany
1963 Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “Camelot”, starring Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet, closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 873 performances and winning 4 Tony Awards
1859 1st steamboat the North Star sails up the northern Red River, America
1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
1925 England cricket openers Herbert Sutcliffe (176) and Jack Hobbs (154) display heroics in their 1st innings but the tourists sink to an 81 run defeat in the 2nd Test against Australia in Melbourne; Sutcliffe also adds 127 in the England 2nd innings
1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1934 National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
1937 Australian cricket batsmen Jack Fingleton (136) and Don Bradman (out 270 the following day) make then record stand of 346 for 6th wicket in 3rd Test vs England in Melbourne
1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
1865 New York Stock Exchange opens its 1st permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad St, near Wall Street in New York City
1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth’s gravity
1961 Longest recorded strike ends as the Danish barbers’ assistants end a 33 year strike
2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House
2021 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed [1]
46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina
274 St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
871 Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex defeated by Danish invasion army
1490 Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1519 -6] 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)
1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City’s only physician, Joost Sweiter, “because he is a Jew”
1896 AFL charters Actors’ National Protective Union, NYC
1903 Topsy the Elephant is Electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company [1]
1934 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen’s “Willem of Orange” premieres
1935 Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of “The Intimate Revue”
1953 KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Soap Opera “The Brighter Day” premieres
1957 “Blondie” situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
1881 Johannes Brahms‘ “Academic Festival Overture” premieres in Breslau
1923 1st broadcast of “Barn Dance Show” (WBAP – Fort Worth Texas)
1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
1947 “Park Avenue” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
1947 “Show Boat” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances
1954 Elvis Presley records his 1st demo for Sun Records at a recording studio in Memphis, “It Wouldn’t Be The Same Without You” and “I’ll Never Stand In Your Way”
1969 “Fig Leaves Are Falling” closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 performances
1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco to San Francisco)
1902 Australian cricket spin bowler Hugh Trumble dismisses England batsmen Arthur Jones, John Gunn and Sydney Barnes in successive balls to complete 2nd Test rout by 229 runs in Melbourne; Trumble’s first of 2 Test hat-tricks
1904 Stanley Cup, Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa HC beats Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2-0 for 2-1 challenge series victory
1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1942 4th NFL All Star Game, Polo Grounds, NYC: Chicago Bears beat NFL All-Stars, 35-24
1942 7 x NL batting champion Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1521 Martin Luther is Excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses which started the Protestant Reformation
1777 General George Washington‘s revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey
1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title “Il Duce” (the Leader)
1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc
1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
236 Reign of St Anterus as Catholic Pope ends with his death after only 40 days
269 St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
936 Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1407 Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1431 Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon
1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1521 Martin Luther is Excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses which started the Protestant Reformation
1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president
1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
1949 “Colgate Theater” dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
1952 “Dragnet” with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing “She Loves You”
1967 WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1780 Danish national anthem “Kong Kristian…,” 1st sung
1843 Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Don Pasquale” premieres in Paris
1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s final opera “Iolanta”, is first performed outside of Russia in Hamburg, Germany
1914 Kelman/Cushing/Heath’ musical “Sari,” premieres in NYC
1920 Arthur Honegger‘s “Chant de Nigamon,” premieres
1941 Sergei Rachmaninov’s “Symphonic Dances” premieres in Philadelphia
1969 John Lennon‘s “Two Virgins” album declared pornographic in New Jersey
1970 “Jimmy” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
1920 Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan; start of the 84 year “Curse of the Bambino”
1929 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman follows up a 1st innings of 79 to score 112 in 3rd Test v England in Melbourne; his 1st of 29 Test centuries
1931 Montreal Maroons centre Nels Stewart scores fastest 2 goals in NHL history with a pair 4 seconds apart in a 5-3 win over Boston Bruins at Montreal Arena
1943 Max and Doug Bentley assist on brother Reg’s only NHL goal in Chicago Blackhawks’ 3-3 tie with the Rangers in NYC; only time in NHL history trio of family members score and assist on a scoring play
1948 Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 & 127* [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
1949 West Indian cricket batsman Everton Weekes scores 101 in 3rd Test against India in Calcutta; his world record fifth consecutive Test century
1958 Australian cricket fast bowler Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick (Eddie Fuller, Hugh Tayfield, Neil Adcock) as South Africa dismissed for 99 in follow-on 2nd Test at Cape Town
1971 1st AFC Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders, 27-17
Unless you live under a hunk of fallen meteorite, you’ve probably heard about Mercury retrograde, the quarterly mayhem that occurs when the messenger planet passes the Earth, appearing from our vantage point to go backward. For three weeks, we can blame every Internet outage, petty fight and canceled brunch plan on a spinning rock 48 million miles away.
But did you know? Every single planet goes retrograde at some point. With the exception of Venus and Mars, the planets all have retrograde cycles every year.
Grab your calendar: We took the liberty of mapping out all the 2022 retrogrades for you so you can use these planetary power outages as transformational cycles.
A planet could be retrograde—meaning that from the vantage point of Earth, it appears to be spinning backward. What’s really happening? Well, the Earth is completing its orbit around the Sun faster than other planets outside its orbit. Periodically, it will outpace them—and that’s when retrograde mayhem breaks loose.
Much like a speeding car or train passing a slower one, the planet that’s being passed will appear to stop and move backward—which is the apparent retrograde period.
Then, once the Earth completely passes this planet in its orbit, the motion appears normal again, and the planet is said to be “direct” or “prograde” (to use the snappy scientific term). Chances are, you’ve been in a vehicle that felt like it was moving in reverse when it was passed, so you know the feeling!
It ain’t over ’til it’s over! Each retrograde cycle has a “shadow period”—the awkward adjustment of the retrograde planet from apparent backward to …
366 The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
1492 Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible‘s march to Novgorod begins
1905 American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms
1942 World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengal
69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, Emperor
366 The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
533 John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible‘s march to Novgorod begins
1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1602 Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale
1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins
1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 1st “Bob Cummings Show” premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1962 Nighttime version of “Password” with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1966 National Football League Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay: Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns, 23-12; first NFL title game televised in colour; last one played before Super Bowl era
1968 KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1990 Sting joins pro wrestling’s legendary “4 Horsemen” (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
1843 Richard Wagner‘s opera “The Flying Dutchman” premieres in Dresden
1881 Camille Saint-Saëns’ 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
1952 “Pal Joey” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
1958 Dmitri Shostakovich‘ 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
1960 Roger Sessions’ 4th Symphony, in honor of the Minnesota Centennial, premieres by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Antal Doráti
1968 “Zizi” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
1969 “Fig Leaves Are Falling” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1970 Dutch premiere of musical “Hair” in Amsterdam
1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
1865 Welterweight Con Orem & heavyweight Hugh O’Neill brawl for 185 rounds before darkness ends legendary bare knuckle boxing match in Virginia City, Montana
1879 Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth dismisses 3 English batsmen with consecutive deliveries during the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for Test cricket’s first “hat-trick”
1912 Brookyln Superbas Baseball Club President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of 4.5 acres of land to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 23,000; Ebbets Field opens in 1913
1912 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Christchurch, NZ: Norman Brookes & Alfred Dunlop beat Americans Maurice McLoughlin & Beals Wright 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Australasia unassailable 3-0 lead; win 4-0
1918 After repeated clashes over pay with the Brooklyn Robins owner Charlie Ebbets, star right fielder and future Baseball Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel is traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates
1918 Montreal Arena in Westmount, Quebec, the home rink of 4-time Stanley Cup winners the Montreal Wanderers burns down leading to the club disbanding
1922 8th Rose Bowl: California ties Washington & Jefferson, 0-0
45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time
630 Prophet Muhammad sets out with an army 10,000 strong to conquer Mecca
1758 The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the “starting point” for standardized species names across the animal kingdom, based on the binomial nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus 10th edition of Systema Naturae
1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate states
1892 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station – it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people
1896 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays
1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation
153 BC Roman consuls begin their year in office
45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time
1 Origin of the Christian Era
69 Roman garrison of Mainz uprising
89 Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome
104 Triumphal procession for the Roman General Gaius Marius with the defeated Numidian King Jugurtha led in chains though Rome
177 Commodus, son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius becomes consul for the first time – at 15 then youngest ever in Roman history
313 Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
1944 1st feature-length foreign movie “African Journey”, shown on TV, NYC
1947 WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, D.C. (MET) begins broadcasting
1949 KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting
1953 WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1953 The first TV detector van, used to track down users of unlicensed television sets, begins operation in the UK
1954 KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1770 Date of action in the opera “Madeleine”
1863 Franz Schubert‘s “Missa Solemnis,” premieres in Leipzig
1879 Johannes Brahms‘ Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
1952 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet
1957 Benjamin Britten‘s ballet “Prince & the Pauper,” premieres in London
1960 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin Prison, California; Merle Haggard among the inmate audience
1962 Beatles’ Decca Records audition is unsuccessful – they are told “guitar groups are on the way out…”
1964 Top of the Pops, British pop music television program premieres; acts performing include Dusty Springfield; The Rolling Stones; Dave Clark Five: The Hollies; Swinging Blue; and The Beatles
1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1902 1st Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Michigan beats Stanford, 49-0; MVP: Neil Snow, Michigan, FB
1907 Joe Gans lands a devastating right to the head of Canadian challenger Kid Herman to retain his world lightweight boxing title with an 8th round knockout in Tonopah, Nevada
1908 Jack Hobbs makes his international debut in England’s 2nd Test win over Australia at the MCG, scoring 83 and 28 in his two innings. Goes onto become the leading run scorer and century maker in 1st-class cricket history.
1909 American Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) at Yonkers, NY
1910 England cricket underhand bowler George Simpson-Hayward takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs in 1st Test against South Africa in Johannesburg; SA wins by 19 runs
1913 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Hastings, NZ: Irishman James Cecil Parke beats Alfred Beamish of England 3-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, 7-5
1916 2nd Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Washington State beats Brown, 14-0; MVP: Carl Dietz, Washington State
406 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning invasion of Gallia
1744 English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble)
1775 Battle of Quebec in American Revolutionary War; Americans defeated trying to take British stronghold
1861 22,990mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in India in 1861, a world record
1958 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista tells his Cabinet he is fleeing the country
192 Roman Emperor Commodus survives poisoning attempt by his mistress only to be strangled in the bath in assassination plot
406 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning invasion of Gallia
535 Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year
765 Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
870 Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1229 James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (Palma) consummating Christian conquest of the island of Majorca
1492 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
1502 Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino
1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
1943 NYC’s Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
1953 WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G’ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
1962 “Match Game” debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1963 Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
1971 KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1981 CNN Headline News debuts
1982 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
1680 Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
1879 Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “Pirates of Penzance” premieres in NYC
1923 Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy’s musical “Kid Boots,” premieres in New York City
1955 “Vamp” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
1961 “lrma La Douce” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
1963 Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir play music together for the 1st time
1966 Monkee’s “I’m a Believer” hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
1967 “Henry, Sweet Henry” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances
1906 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Christchurch, NZ: All-NZ final; Antony Wilding beats Francis Fisher 6-0, 6-4, 6-4
1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager; reach World Series but lose in the “Black Sox” betting scandal; Gleason not involved
1920 Victorian all-rounder Roy Park makes Test cricket debut for Australia v England in 2nd Test in Melbourne; bowled by Harry Howell for a first ball ‘golden duck’ in his first and only Test innings
1920 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Auckland, NZ: Bill Johnson & Bill Tilden (US) beat Norman Brookes & Gerald Patterson (Australasia) 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 for an unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
1921 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Perth: Australian Rhys Gemmell beats countryman Alf Hedeman 7-5, 6-1, 6-4
1945 Before the biggest Adelaide Oval crowd of the season, batting maestro Don Bradman scores his first post-WWII century; 112 for South Australia v Australian Services
1950 American thoroughbred jockeys Bill Shoemaker and Joe Culmone end the year tied, leading the nation with record 388 wins
1952 Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Memorial Drive, Adelaide: Vic Seixas beats Ken McGregor in 4 sets but Australia retains title for third straight year; beats US, 4-1 in Adelaide
2021 December 31: JWST on the Road to L2
2021 December 30: The Further Tail of Comet Leonard
2021 December 29: Giant Storms and High Clouds on Jupiter
2021 December 28: Sun Halo over Sweden
2021 December 27: Comet Leonard behind JWST Launch Plume
2021 December 26: James Webb Space Telescope over Earth
2021 December 25: The Tail of a Christmas Comet
2021 December 24: M1: The Crab Nebula
2021 December 23: Three Planets and a Comet
2021 December 22: Launch of the IXPE Observatory
2021 December 21: Solstice Sun and Milky Way
2021 December 20: The Comet and the Fireball
2021 December 19: Planetary Alignment over Italy
2021 December 18: Stephan s Quintet
2021 December 17: Gemind of the North
2021 December 16: Geminds of the South
2021 December 15: Comet Leonard from Space
2021 December 14: HH 666: Carina Dust Pillar with Jet
2021 December 13: Meteors and Auroras over Iceland
2021 December 12: Comet Leonard Before Star Cluster M3
2021 December 11: Postcard from the South Pole
2021 December 10: Eclipse on a Polar Day
2021 December 09: A Total Eclipse of the Sun
2021 December 08: Comet Hale Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
2021 December 07: Ninety Gravitational Wave Spectrograms and Counting
2021 December 06: Space Station Silhouette on the Moon
2021 December 05: Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
2021 December 04: Iridescent by Moonlight
2021 December 03: Comet Leonard and the Whale Galaxy
2021 December 02: NGC 6822: Barnard s Galaxy
2021 December 01: A Blue Banded Blood Moon
2021 November 30: In Motion: Uranus and Moons
2021 November 29: The Extraordinary Spiral in LL Pegasi
2021 November 28: A High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
2021 November 27: Messier 101
2021 November 26: Great Refractor and Lunar Eclipse
2021 November 25: At the Shadow’s Edge
2021 November 24: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
2021 November 23: The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR
2021 November 22: Lunar Eclipse over a Skyscraper
2021 November 21: Introducing Comet Leonard
2021 November 20: An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse
2021 November 19: NGC 281: Starless with Stars
2021 November 18: Full Moonlight
2021 November 17: NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap
2021 November 16: Geminids from Gemini
2021 November 15: Light Pillar over Volcanic Etna
2021 November 14: How to Identify that Light in the Sky
2021 November 13: Rosetta’s Comet in Gemini
2021 November 12: M33: The Triangulum Galaxy
2021 November 11: NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
2021 November 10: Video of a Green Flash
2021 November 09: All of These Space Images are Fake Except One
2021 November 08: A Filament Leaps from the Sun
2021 November 07: The Cat’s Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray
2021 November 06: The Galaxy Between Two Friends
2021 November 05: The Dark Seahorse in Cepheus
2021 November 04: NGC 147 and NGC 185
2021 November 03: The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas
2021 November 02: SN Requiem: A Supernova Seen Three Times So Far
2021 November 01: A Waterfall and the Milky Way
2021 October 31: Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
2021 October 30: A Rorschach Aurora
2021 October 29: Haunting the Cepheus Flare
2021 October 28: Mirach’s Ghost
2021 October 27: NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula
2021 October 26: Jupiter Rotates
2021 October 25: Road to the Galactic Center
2021 October 24: Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
2021 October 23: 3D Bennu
2021 October 22: A Comet and a Crab
2021 October 21: SH2-308: The Dolphin-head Nebula
2021 October 20: Lucy Launches to Eight Asteroids
2021 October 19: Palomar 6: Globular Star Cluster
2021 October 18: Earthshine Moon over Sicily
2021 October 17: The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
2021 October 16: The Moona Lisa
2021 October 15: NGC 289: Swirl in the Southern Sky
2021 October 14: NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
2021 October 13: NGC 7822: Cosmic Question Mark
2021 October 12: Fireball over Lake Louise
2021 October 11: Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
2021 October 10: Full Moon Silhouettes
2021 October 09: 50 Light years to 51 Pegasi
2021 October 08: The Double Cluster in Perseus
2021 October 07: NGC 6559: East of the Lagoon
2021 October 06: M43: Streams of Orion
2021 October 05: Sunrise at the South Pole
2021 October 04: NGC 4676: When Mice Collide
2021 October 03: The Holographic Principle and a Teapot
2021 October 02: A Light and Dusty Night
2021 October 01: The Central Milky Way from Lagoon to Pipe
2021 September 30: The Hydrogen Clouds of M33
2021 September 29: Gigantic Jet Lightning from Puerto Rico
2021 September 28: Night of the Perseids
2021 September 27: Unwrapped: Five Decade Old Lunar Selfie
2021 September 26: The Red Square Nebula
2021 September 25: The Bubble and the Star Cluster
2021 September 24: Perseid Outburst at Westmeath Lookout
2021 September 23: Harvest Moon Trail
2021 September 22: Equinox on a Spinning Earth
2021 September 21: Sun Spot Hill
2021 September 20: Lynds Dark Nebula
2021 September 19: Rings and Seasons of Saturn
2021 September 18: Rubin’s Galaxy
2021 September 17: Video: Flash on Jupiter
2021 September 16: North America and the Pelican
2021 September 15: Cyclone Paths on Planet Earth
2021 September 14: Mars Panorama 360 from Curiosity
2021 September 13: Night Sky Reflected
2021 September 12: A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
2021 September 11: Saturn at Night
2021 September 10: Rosetta’s Comet in View
2021 September 09: M16 Close Up
2021 September 08: The Deep Sky Toward Andromeda
2021 September 07: NGC 520: Colliding Galaxies from Hubble
2021 September 06: Firefly Milky Way over Russia
2021 September 05: Earth and Moon
2021 September 04: A Falcon 9 Nebula
2021 September 03: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
2021 September 02: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
2021 September 01: Dancing Ghosts: Curved Jets from Active Galaxies
2021 August 31: A Blue Moon in Exaggerated Colors
2021 August 30: A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia
2021 August 29: Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
2021 August 28: Mars Rock Rochette
2021 August 27: Elephant’s Trunk and Caravan
2021 August 26: A Blue Hour Full Moon
2021 August 25: Solar System Ball Drop
2021 August 24: PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons
2021 August 23: Abell 3827: Cannibal Cluster Gravitational Lens
2021 August 22: Explosions from White Dwarf Star RS Oph
2021 August 21: Triple Transit and Mutual Events
2021 August 20: Three Perseid Nights
2021 August 19: Bright Meteor, Starry Sky
2021 August 18: Rings Around the Ring Nebula
2021 August 17: M57: The Ring Nebula from Hubble
2021 August 16: Perseid Meteor, Red Sprites, and Nova RS Oph
2021 August 15: Perseid Rain
2021 August 14: Island Universe, Cosmic Sand
2021 August 13: A Perfect Spiral
2021 August 12: A Beautiful Trifid
2021 August 11: Mammatus Clouds over Saskatchewan
2021 August 10: Fire in Space
2021 August 09: Perseus and the Lost Meteors
2021 August 08: A Perseid Below
2021 August 07: Jezero Crater: Raised Ridges in 3D
2021 August 06: Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis
2021 August 05: Tycho and Clavius
2021 August 04: EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black Hole in Cen A
2021 August 03: A Perseid Meteor and the Milky Way
2021 August 02: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound
2021 August 01: Pluto in Enhanced Color
2021 July 31: Remembering NEOWISE
2021 July 30: Mimas in Saturnlight
2021 July 29: The Tulip and Cygnus X 1
2021 July 28: Ring Galaxy AM 0644 741
2021 July 27: Flemings Triangular Wisp
2021 July 26: CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
2021 July 25: Crescent Neptune and Triton
2021 July 24: The Edge of Space
2021 July 23: Elephant, Bat, and Squid
2021 July 22: NGC 7814: Little Sombrero with Supernova
2021 July 21: Colors: Ring Nebula versus Stars
2021 July 20: Thor’s Helmet
2021 July 19: Framed by Trees: A Window to the Galaxy
2021 July 18: The Andromeda Galaxy in Ultraviolet
2021 July 17: Alphonsus and Arzachel
2021 July 16: Love and War by Moonlight
2021 July 15: The Dark Tower in Scorpius
2021 July 14: GW200115: Simulation of a Black Hole Merging with a Neutron Star
2021 July 13: Saturn’s Iapetus: Painted Moon in 3D
2021 July 12: M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
2021 July 11: Find the Moon
2021 July 10: Mercury and the Da Vinci Glow
2021 July 09: M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind
2021 July 08: Perihelion to Aphelion
2021 July 07: Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light
2021 July 06: Saturn and Six Moons
2021 July 05: IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula
2021 July 04: The Face on Mars
2021 July 03: Along the Milky Way
2021 July 02: AR2835: Islands in the Photosphere
2021 July 01: Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity
2021 June 30: Simulation: Formation of the First Stars
2021 June 29: Orion Nebula: The Hubble View
2021 June 28: A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse
2021 June 27: The Dancing Auroras of Saturn
2021 June 26: Pixels in the Sun
2021 June 25: Andromeda in a Single Shot
2021 June 24: Messier 99
2021 June 23: STARFORGE: A Star Formation Simulation
2021 June 22: HD 163296: Jet from a Star in Formation
2021 June 21: The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble
2021 June 20: Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
2021 June 19: Northern Summer Twilight
2021 June 18: Devil Horns from a Ring of Fire
2021 June 17: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
2021 June 16: Scorpius Enhanced
2021 June 15: Zhurong: New Rover on Mars
2021 June 14: Ganymede from Juno
2021 June 13: A Supercell Thunderstorm Over Texas
2021 June 12: Eclipse on the Water
2021 June 11: Eclipse Flyby
2021 June 10: Circular Sun Halo
2021 June 09: A Total Lunar Eclipse Corona
2021 June 08: A Face in the Clouds of Jupiter from Juno
2021 June 07: A Bright Nova in Cassiopeia
2021 June 06: A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse
2021 June 05: The Shining Clouds of Mars
2021 June 04: Blood Monster Moon
2021 June 03: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
2021 June 02: The Galactic Center in Stars, Gas, and Magnetism
2021 June 01: Satellites over Orion
2021 May 31: Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater
2021 May 30: Aurora over Clouds
2021 May 29: Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
2021 May 28: Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney
2021 May 27: Mid-Eclipse and Milky Way
2021 May 26: The Outburst Clouds of Star AG Car
2021 May 25: The Moon During a Total Lunar Eclipse
2021 May 24: Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats
2021 May 23: The Galaxy Tree
2021 May 22: Markarian’s Chain
2021 May 21: Utopia on Mars
2021 May 20: M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
2021 May 19: The Jellyfish and Mars
2021 May 18: Jets from the Necklace Nebula
2021 May 17: NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
2021 May 16: NGC 602 and Beyond
2021 May 15: The Southern Cliff in the Lagoon
2021 May 14: M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
2021 May 13: The Comet, the Whale, and the Hockey Stick
2021 May 12: A Meteor and the Gegenschein
2021 May 11: Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru
2021 May 10: Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
2021 May 09: Horsehead and Orion Nebulas
2021 May 08: Deepscape at Yacoraite
2021 May 07: Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
2021 May 06: Windblown NGC 3199
2021 May 05: STEVE over Copper Harbor
2021 May 04: Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
2021 May 03: Apollo 11: Earth, Moon, Spaceship
2021 May 02: Clouds of the Carina Nebula
2021 May 01: Perseverance from Ingenuity
2021 April 30: Pink and the Perigee Moon
2021 April 29: Apollo 17: The Crescent Earth
2021 April 28: North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust
2021 April 27: Animation: Black Hole Star Shredder
2021 April 26: A Sagittarius Triplet
2021 April 25: Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
2021 April 24: Streak and Plume from SpaceX Crew2 Launch
2021 April 23: Flying Over the Earth at Night II
2021 April 22: Planet Earth at Twilight
2021 April 21: Centaurus As Warped Magnetic Fields
2021 April 20: Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars
2021 April 19: The Galactic Center in Infrared
2021 April 18: Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
2021 April 17: Inside the Flame Nebula
2021 April 16: The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
2021 April 15: The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
2021 April 14: The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave
2021 April 13: Confirmed Muon Wobble Remains Unexplained
2021 April 12: Alnitak and the Flame Nebula
2021 April 11: When Black Holes Collide
2021 April 10: Zodiacal Night
2021 April 09: Messier 106
2021 April 08: 3D Ingenuity
2021 April 07: Threads of NGC 1947
2021 April 06: Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill
2021 April 05: Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Exploded Star
2021 April 04: In, Through, and Beyond Saturn’s Rings
2021 April 03: Ingenuity on Sol 39
2021 April 02: NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
2021 April 01: Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station
2021 March 31: M87’s Central Black Hole in Polarized Light
2021 March 30: Red Sprite Lightning over the Andes
2021 March 29: M64: The Evil Eye Galaxy
2021 March 28: SuitSat 1: A Spacesuit Floats Free
2021 March 27: Exploring the Antennae
2021 March 26: The Medusa Nebula
2021 March 25: Curiosity: Sol 3048
2021 March 24: Aurorae and Lightning on Jupiter
2021 March 23: Mars over Duddo Stone Circle
2021 March 22: From Auriga to Orion
2021 March 21: The Antikythera Mechanism
2021 March 20: The Leo Trio
2021 March 19: Central Lagoon in Infrared
2021 March 18: Stardust in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
2021 March 17: The Surface of Venus from Venera 14
2021 March 16: IC 1318: The Butterfly Nebula in Gas and Dust
2021 March 15: Meteor Fireballs in Light and Sound
2021 March 14: A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden
2021 March 13: SuperCam Target on Maaz
2021 March 12: Messier 81
2021 March 11: Zodiacal Light and Mars
2021 March 10: NGC 1499: The California Nebula
2021 March 09: Perseverance 360: Unusual Rocks and the Search for Life on Mars
2021 March 08: Three Tails of Comet NEOWISE
2021 March 07: Pillars of the Eagle Nebula in Infrared
2021 March 06: Perseverance Takes a Spin
2021 March 05: A Little Like Mars
2021 March 04: Mars in Taurus
2021 March 03: Stars over an Erupting Volcano
2021 March 02: Ingenuity: A Mini Helicopter Now on Mars
2021 March 01: The Pelican Nebula in Red and Blue
2021 February 28: The Aurora Tree
2021 February 27: Perseverance Landing Site from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
2021 February 26: Mars Perseverance Sol 3
2021 February 25: A Venus Flyby
2021 February 24: Spiral Galaxy M66 from Hubble
2021 February 23: Video: Perseverance Landing on Mars
2021 February 22: Moon Rising Between Starships
2021 February 21: NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
2021 February 20: Perseverance: How to Land on Mars
2021 February 19: Mars Perseverance Sol 0
2021 February 18: Swiss Alps, Martian Sky
2021 February 17: Sun Pillar with Upper Tangent Arc
2021 February 16: Perseverance: Seven Minutes to Mars
2021 February 15: Landing on Mars: Seven Minutes of Terror
2021 February 14: Long Stem Rosette Nebula
2021 February 13: Stereo Eros
2021 February 12: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350
2021 February 11: Cygnus Mosaic 2010 2020
2021 February 10: Firing Lasers to Tame the Sky
2021 February 09: Flashes of the Crab Pulsar
2021 February 08: WR32 and Interstellar Clouds in Carina
2021 February 07: Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53
2021 February 06: A Northern Winter Night
2021 February 05: Apollo 14 Heads for Home
2021 February 04: Apollo 14: A View from Antares
2021 February 03: Found on the Moon: Candidate for Oldest Known Earth Rock
2021 February 02: A Colorful Quadrantid Meteor
2021 February 01: Lunar Halo over Snowy Trees
2021 January 31: Asteroids in the Distance
2021 January 30: Southern Sky at 38,000 Feet
2021 January 29: North American Nightscape
2021 January 28: Messier 66 Close Up
2021 January 27: The Vertical Magnetic Field of NGC 5775
2021 January 26: Central NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
2021 January 25: Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano
2021 January 24: Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841
2021 January 23: Recycling Cassiopeia A
2021 January 22: The Milky Ring
2021 January 21: M78 Wide Field
2021 January 20: The Magnetic Field of the Whirlpool Galaxy
2021 January 19: A Lunar Corona with Jupiter and Saturn
2021 January 18: The Medulla Nebula Supernova Remnant
2021 January 17: Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A
2021 January 16: The Mountains of NGC 2174
2021 January 15: A Plutonian Landscape
2021 January 14: Aurora Slathers Up the Sky
2021 January 13: Arches Across an Arctic Sky
2021 January 12: A Historic Brazilian Constellation
2021 January 11: Moon Phases in 2021
2021 January 10: Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out
2021 January 09: Titan: Moon over Saturn
2021 January 08: NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe
2021 January 07: Total Solar Eclipse 2020
2021 January 06: Striped Sand Dunes on Mars
2021 January 05: The Small Cloud of Magellan
2021 January 04: Sprite Lightning at 100000 Frames Per Second
2021 January 03: A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
2021 January 02: 21st Century Wet Collodion Moon
2021 January 01: Galaxies and the South Celestial Pole
This page details dates when the world was, or is, forecast to end.
| Date | Author | Event | Article |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400 | Martin of Tours | Stated that the world would end before 400. | |
| April 6, 793 | Beatus of Liébana | The Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana prophesied the second coming of Christ and the end of the world that day to a crowd of people. The crowd thinking that the world would end, fasted through the night. The following morning, Hordonius, one of the fasters, said, “Let’s eat and drink, so that if we die at least we’ll be fed.” | |
| 1284 | Pope Innocent III | Pope Innocent III predicted that the world would end following 666 years of the rise of Islam. | |
| 1689 | Benjamin Keach | ||
| October 16, 1736 | William Whiston | Comet colliding with the earth. | |
| 1792 | The Shakers | ||
| 1806 | The Prophet Hen of Leeds | In Leeds, England in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase “Christ is coming” written on the eggs. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The hoaxster had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen.[4] | The Prophet Hen of Leeds |
| 1843-1844 | William Miller | Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment. Miller’s theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha’is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears book, Thief in The Night. | |
| 1867-1875 | Rev. Michael Baxter | Forty ‘Wonders’ occurring in the following seven years and seventy-five days including wars, famine, pestilence and earthquakes culminating in the return of Christ in 1875. | |
| 1919 | Albert Porta | Alignment of planets causing the sun to explode. | |
| December 21, 1954 | Dorothy Martin | Martin, a housewife from Chicago claimed to have received messages from aliens via automatic writing which stated that the world would end in a great flood before dawn on December 21, 1954. | When Prophecy Fails |
| Summer of 1969 | Charles Manson | Manson predicted that an apocalyptic race war would occur in 1969 and ordered the Tate-LaBianca murders in an attempt to bring it about. | Helter Skelter (Manson scenario) |
| 1980 | Leland Jensen | In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in God’s Kingdom being established on earth. | |
| 1980s,2000 | Hal Lindsey | Lindsey has been continually predicting the end of the world since his 1970 book The Late, Great Planet Earth. His later books including The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon and Planet Earth 2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive? gave revised dates. | |
| 1982, 2000s | Pat Robertson | In late 1976, Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982. He also predicted various cataclysmic events for the first decade of the current century such as a Pacific Northwest tsunami ” and a Middle East war involving Russia that did not come to pass. | Pat Robertson |
| April 23, 1990 | Elizabeth Clare Prophet | Prophet predicted an impending nuclear holocaust, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet’s prediction did not come to pass and she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, the group’s leadership attempted to draw the focus of its work away from doomsday predictions. | The Summit Lighthouse |
| June 9, 1994 | Pastor John Hinkle | Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted the return of Christ this day. | |
| September 6, 1994 | Harold Camping | Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on this date. | |
| January 1, 2000 | Various | “Y2K” Computers predicted to stop working, leading to failures of the electrical grid, dams, nuclear warheads, and everything else with a computer in it. | Year 2000 problem |
| January 1, 2000 | Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere | An estimated 778 followers of this Ugandan religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about. | Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God |
| May 5, 2000 | Richard Noone | In his book 5/5/2000 – Ice:The Ultimate Disaster, Noone predicts that the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn would align for the first time in 6000 years. This would cause a catastrophic build up of ice at the South pole leading to devastation across the planet. | Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis |
| August 2007 | Thomas Chase | ||
| October 21, 2011 | Harold Camping | Camping predicted that the Rapture will occur on May 21, 2011 with God taking approximately 3% of the world’s populations (200 million people) into Heaven. The actual end of the world is predicted to occur five months later. | 2011 end times prediction |
| December 21, 2012 | Various | Several scenarios for the end of the world including galactic alignment, a geomagnetic reversal, a collision with Planet Nibiru or some other interplanetary object, alien invasion, earth being destroyed by a giant supernova. | 2012 theories |
| 2060 | Sir Isaac Newton | Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060. |
1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI
1703 Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1906 The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan
1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society
1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union
987 French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king
1317 Pontifical decree “Sancta Romania” against spiritualists
1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI
1610 Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth Báthory arrested at Csejte Castle on suspicion of killing and torturing hundreds of young girls and women
1621 English King James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1665 “Messiah” Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
1666 Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
1672 Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth
1936 Beginning of the “feud” between comedians Fred Allen and Jack Benny on Allen’s “Town Hall Tonight” show
1939 “Of Mice and Men”, starring Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released
1953 The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
1963 “Let’s Make A Deal,” debuts on NBC-TV
1968 Frank Sinatra first records “My Way” with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song “Comme d’habitude”
1980 “Wonderful World of Disney” last performance on NBC-TV
1689 Henry Purcell & Tates opera “Dido & Aeneas” premieres in Chesea
1731 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham’s great room in Boston)
1844 Opera “Stradella” after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
1877 Johannes Brahms‘ 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1884 Anton Bruckner‘s 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1929 Cole Porter‘s musical “Wake Up And Dream” opens at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC; runs for 136 performances
1944 Sergei Prokofjev’s 8th Piano sonata, premieres in Moscow
1948 “Kiss Me, Kate” opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1896 Stanley Cup, Granite Rink, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Ernie McLea scores a hat-trick as Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5; first SC Challenge game played outside of Montreal
1907 Abraham Mills’ commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC, 14-9 in 2 game challenge series
1911 English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG
1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
1934 New York Rangers and Boston Bruins battle out a 0-0 tie; first of a 37-game overtime undefeated streak for the Bruins, the longest in NHL history; streak spans over 4 years and includes 27 ties
1939 Bradman scores 267 South Australia v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century
1943 Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
1835 Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States
1845 Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union
1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari
1911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China
1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1170 English Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket assassinated before the high altar of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights
1503 Battle of Garigliano: Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeats French forces in Italy, giving Spain control of the Kingdom of Naples
1539 St Jacob’s Church burns after being hit by lightning
1541 Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
1558 Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, buried in El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
1653 Dutch painter Jan Vermeer becomes a member of the Guild of Saint Luke for painters in Delft
1705 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon’s play “Idoménée” premieres in Paris
1708 Great Alliance occupies Gent
1806 Thomas Dibdin’s pantomime “Harlequin and Mother Goose” starring Joseph Grimaldi, in his most famous clown performance, opens at the Covent Garden Theatre, London
1913 1st movie serial “Adventures of Kathlyn” premieres in Chicago
1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers‘ 1st joint movie “Flying Down to Rio,” directed by Thornton Freeland, premieres in NYC
1933 “Sons of the Desert” film directed by William A. Seiter starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy is released
1937 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win NWA World heavyweight title – youngest ever
1949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis Bridgeport, Connecticut
1955 Barbra Streisand‘s 1st recording “You’ll Never Know” at age 13
1965 “Thunderball”, 4th James Bond film starring Sean Connery and Claudine Auger premieres in Tokyo, Japan
1857 Franz Liszt‘s symphonic poem “Die Hunnenschlacht” premieres in Weimar
1902 “The Entertainer” is one of several piano rag compositions copyrighted for Scott Joplin by the US Copyright Office
1911 San Francisco Symphony forms
1948 “Rape of Lucretia” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1996 “Dreams & Nightmares” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1906 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS), 7-2 for 17-5 aggregate challenge series victory
1933 New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
1934 First collegiate basketball doubleheader is played at Madison Square Garden, NYC; New York University beats Notre Dame, 25-18; Westminster edges St. John’s, 37-33
1937 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win NWA World heavyweight title – youngest ever
1940 3rd NFL All Star Game: Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars, 28-14
1945 Montreal right wing Maurice Richard scores twice in Canadiens’ 5-4 loss to Chicago Black Hawks to record his 100th NHL career goal; reaches mark in 145 games, then fastest in history; since broken by Mike Bossy, 100 goals in 129 games
1955 NHL officials wear new vertically striped black-and-white sweaters for the first time in Montreal Canadiens’ 5-2 win over Toronto Maple Leafs
1957 National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 50-14; Lions score 2 touchdowns in each quarter
1065 Westminster Abbey Consecrated in London
1612 First observation of Neptune – Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet
1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital
1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico
1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad
1908 Earthquake strikes Messina in Italy, killing nearly 80,000
1943 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.
418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
1065 Westminster Abbey Consecrated in London
1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan, begins
1612 First observation of Neptune – Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet
1614 Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
1732 Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of “Poor Richard’s Almanack”
1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital
1895 Filmmakers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
1927 Arthur Honegger‘s opera “Antigone” premieres with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, sets by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
1934 Film “Bright Eyes” premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop”
1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
1957 CBS states it won’t broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
1821 Composer Gioachino Rossini moves to Bologna
1910 Opera “Konigskinder” is produced (NYC)
1925 George and Ira Gershwin‘s musical “Tip-Toes” premieres in New York City
1928 Ma Rainey, “Mother of the Blues” makes her last record “Big Feelin’ Blues”
1944 Leonard Bernstein‘s musical “On the Town” premieres in NYC
1958 Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
1963 “Double Dublin” closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 “Jennie” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
1887 John Layton Jarvis becomes first British race horse trainer to be knighted for services to racing
1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1918 Montreal’s Georges Vezina becomes the first NHL goalie to record an assist during the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas
1934 First ever Women’s cricket international begins England vs Australia in Australia
1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
1940 Cricketer Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
1944 Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1944 Montreal right wing Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard becomes first player in NHL history to score 8 points in one game with 5 goals and 3 assists in the Canadiens’ 9-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings
From a Wiccan viewpoint, it is marvellous how the traditional names of days have survived all through the dark times. It is no secret that all seven days of the week have been named after Gods and Goddesses worshipped by the Old Tradition. Let’s explore the way we could bring a little magic in our everyday use.
According to modern Wicca traditions, all seven days of the week has different attributes and represent a certain element. It is down to you individually, how you use this information but it is believed that an understanding of the wheel of the week can bring a nice change to a hectic lifestyle.
The seven-day week was first introduced by ancient Egyptians, when according to Egyptian astrology they assigned a name to every day by the planet that was regent during the first hour of that particular day. As ancient Egyptian astrology knew only seven celestial bodies, we now have seven days of the week. But all this has also a deeper meaning not only within Wicca.
Sunday was named after Sunna – the Germanic goddess of the Sun. In modern Wicca traditions it…
1512 Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World
1657 “Flushing Remonstrance” petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship
1939 Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 earthquake in Erzincam, Turkey
1945 International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries based on ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes
1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia
1979 After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin
418 [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
537 Hagia Sophia inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian I as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral
795 Leo III begins his reign as Pope after his election the previous day
1437 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia
1512 Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World
1521 The “Zwickau Prophets” appear in Wittenberg
1657 “Flushing Remonstrance” petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship
1679 Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java
1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Show Boat” premieres in New York City
1937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1947 1st “Howdy Doody Show” (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
1964 The Supremes 1st appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” singing “Come See About Me”
1974 Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
1978 CBS Television’s premiere of its version of “Les Miserables”, starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
1979 Soap Opera “Knots Landing” premieres on CBS-TV
1986 2nd Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Lives wins
1903 “Sweet Adeline”, a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung
1932 Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City
1934 “Thumbs Up” a musical revue, including music and lyrics by Vernon Duke & James Hanley premieres in NYC
1941 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 7th Symphony in Siberia
1954 Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera “The Saint of Bleecker Street” opens at Broadway Theater in ,NYC; runs for 92 performances
1961 Styne, Comden and Green’s musical “Subways Are For Sleeping” premieres at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 205 performances
1966 “At the Drop of Another Hat” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 performances
1967 Leonard Cohen releases his debut album “Songs of Leonard Cohen” on Columbia Records
1892 Biddle University beats Livingstone College 5-0 in 1st black college football game, in Salisbury, North Carolina
1897 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2
1919 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
1937 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
1942 5th NFL All Star Game, Shribe Park, Philadelphia: NFL All-Stars beat Washington Redskins, 17-14
1951 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
1953 National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-16 to retain title
1956 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)
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