Tag: Today In History

April 25 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1660 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II

1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier

1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War

1945 “Elbe Day” – US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII

1953 Francis Crick and James Watson‘s discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in “Nature” magazine

1954 Bell labs announces the 1st Solar Battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency.

1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by space shuttle Discovery

Today’s Historical Events

1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family

1362 Muhammad VI ruler of Granada killed with a lance personally by Peter I of Castile, along with 36 followers and his head sent to Muhammad V (or 27 April)

1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns

1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map “Universalis Cosmographia”

1541 -26) Liege flooded after heavy down pour

1604 Count Maurits’ army lands at Cadzand

1607 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish Portuguese fleet

1607 Shortly before making landfall in America, Captain Edward Maria Wingfield is named President of the Jamestown governing council

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title

1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1956 Noël Coward‘s musical “South Sea Bubble” premieres in London

1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1964 “New Phil Silvers Show” last airs on CBS-TV

1964 11th National Film Awards (India): “Shehar Aur Sapna” wins the Golden Lotus

1978 ABC premiere of crime drama “Vega$”

1983 “Nightline” expands from ½ hour to a full hour

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1792 “La Marseillaise”, later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg

1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado

1896 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical “The Geisha” premieres at Daly’s Theatre, London; runs for 760 performances

1926 Giacomo Puccini‘s opera “Turandot” premieres in Milan

1961 “Young Abe Lincoln” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 27 performances

1968 “Half a Sixpence” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances

1970 “Park” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances

1985 Roger Miller‘s musical “Big River” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)

1901 Erve Beck hits American League’s 1st home run

1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)

1905 Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Aust season (NSW v Qld)

1920 Magda Julin of Sweden beats teammate Svea Norén for the gold medal in women’s singles figure skating at the Antwerp Olympics

1933 Philadelphia Phillies’ Dick Bartell is 1st MLB player to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 innings

1933 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0

1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title

Spell – Home Protection Powder: A Simple Spell Recipe

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Home Protection Powder: A Simple Spell Recipe

From spells8.com

Whether you just moved into a new home or you’ve been living in your home for a while, it is always a good idea to cast a protection spell over your space. This process doesn’t have to be elaborate or complicated. In fact, it generally involves about two steps: cleansing the space and then protecting it. Any other steps in the process are entirely optional and can add to the potency of your spell. If you are in search of a simple protection spell for your home, be sure to read this post to the very end!

Why bother about the energy of your home?

Believe it or not, the energy of your home can have an effect on your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. This energy usually accumulates over time, but certain factors can play a role in how quickly unpleasant energy settles into your spaces. For example, if you spend a lot of time in emotionally charged situations during the day, you may end up bringing some unpleasant energy home with you. This energy may accumulate faster than if you spent your days in more pleasant or neutral situations. Surrounding yourself with unpleasant energies could lead you to feeling drained, grouchy, and generally not spiritually well in your own home.

Energy can also accumulate due to other people in your life. This includes people you let into your home such as family, friends, and even employees, and people that don’t come into your home but still send their energy in your direction. Putting up a magical protective barrier around your home can help to protect against physical damage such as break-ins, storms, or similar. It can also help protect your home against magical or psychic attacks from others or keep a wandering spirit from making itself too comfortable.

Clearing your home of unpleasant energies and protecting it from external energetic forces is very simple. Keep reading for some tips to get you started.

Make a Connection

Whether you are an animist or not, spend some time in your space. Light some incense if you want, play some nice music, and meditate in the heart of your home. Close your eyes and focus on your surroundings. Your home knows what it needs. If you listen well enough, it will tell you.

Clearing it Out

Once you’ve made the decision to clear out the energy from your home, it’s time to get to work. But what does clearing a space even mean? Well, you are going to be removing all energy from the space. This process clears out the energy, both good, bad, and otherwise, to leave room to call in what you want. If it makes it easier, you can think of this as an energetic cleaning rather than a physical one, though the two may look similar and utilize similar tools. This is step one of a good home protection spell.

One of the easiest methods of clearing a space is to clear it as you clean it. Charge your cleaning supplies with your magickal intention. You can do this by holding them firmly or holding your hands over them and speaking your words of intention over them. This could sound something like, “As I physically clean my space, so too do my cleaning supplies clear my home of unwanted energies and entities.” Then you use them to physically clean your space. At the same time, the energy you put forward to charge your supplies will also magickally clear the space.

Another method of clearing your space would be through the use of smoke or sound. You can burn special incense or herbs that have cleansing properties. One popular herb to burn for cleansing is rosemary, but any that you find clearing will work just as well. If you can’t use smoke you can cleanse with sound through clapping or bells. You can also use homemade cleansing sprays, too.

Calling it In

Once you’ve cleared your space, you will want to call something in to fill it. This step is optional, but keep in mind that nature doesn’t like a vacuum and nothing is truly empty for long. Use this step to call in the energy you want in your home. This can be done by playing some calming music, burning some relaxing or joyful incense, or decorating your home with pleasant flowers. Again, this can all be customized to suit your needs and desires for your space.

Choose Your Ingredients

Once your space is cleared and you have called in the energy you want, now it’s time to protect that energy. We are going to be making a salt powder to be used at the thresholds of our home. For this step, be sure to have some salt on hand. Salt is a wonderful protective ingredient to use in your powders, and for this recipe, it is the base ingredient. Salt is good for repelling and absorbing negative energy, keeping the energy that crosses your threshold in line with your intentions.

Along with salt, here are some more ideas of protective herbs you can include in your recipe.

Rosemary

Vervain

Bay Leaf

Aloe

Black Salt

Simple Home Protection Spell

Recipe by Francisco Huanaco

This powder is designed to protect your home with good energy and keep it free from problems. Support the magickal maintenance of your home with this protection powder.

INGREDIENTS

  • Salt – absorbs and repels negative energy

  • Rosemary – for protection (can substitute other protective herbs)

  • Jar or Bowl – for mixing the ingredients together

DIRECTIONS

  • Get your Salt

    Salt is protective and also repels negative energy. It is a good foundational ingredient for any witch to have and makes a simple base for our spell.
  • Get your Rosemary

    Rosemary is an herb that is commonly used for protection. In this case, you can use dried rosemary, fresh rosemary, or even substitute with an essential oil or other protective herb.
  • Mix it Together

    In your bowl, mix the salt and your protective herbs together. As you mix them, you can call on your guides, Gods, or other spirit allies to help you if you want. Stir in a clockwise motion to combine the ingredients as you say the following.
  • Sprinkle it Around

    With your mantra or affirmation in mind, sprinkle the salt mixture along every threshold and entry into your home. Include all doors, windows, and walkways. You can even repeat the above incantation if you’d like, drawing on the energy of the salt mixture as you do so.

April 24 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)

1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)

1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire

1898 Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”

Today’s Historical Events

1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)

1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)

858 Nicholas I succeeds Benedict III as pope

1066 Halley’s Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed

1185 Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto’s fleet beats the Taira during Japan’s Genpei War

1288 Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder

1311 General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India

1364 Pope Urban V names John V van Virneburg as Bishop of Utrecht

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1950 Leonard Bernstein‘s musical “Peter Pan”, starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances

1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts

1965 “Comedy in Music-Opus 2” closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances

1968 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten” (The Seasons)

1823 Eugene Scribes opera “Le Menteur Veridique” premieres in Paris

1945 Miles Davis makes recording debut with the Herbie Fields Orchestra, backing singer “Rubberlegs” Wilson, at Savoy Records Studio, Newark, New Jersey

1946 One-act ballet “Symphonic Variations” choreographed by Frederick Ashton with music by César Franck danced by Sandler’s Wells Ballet debuts at Covent Garden, London

1959 Netherland Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)

1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead

1971 Skip Redwine and Larry Frank’s musical “Frank Merriwell” opens and closes at Longacre Theater, NYC (1 performance only)

1979 US State of Georgia designates Ray Charles‘ rendition of “Georgia On My Mind” (written by Hoagy Carmichael) as official state song

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men’s athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England

1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in a world record time of 2:39:18

1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers

1901 The Chicago White Stockings win against the Cleveland Blues in the 1st game played in baseball’s American League

1905 First-class cricket debut of Sir Jack Hobbs, “The Master” for Surrey v the “Gentlemen of England” (18 & 88)

1905 Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3

1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway

1945 Albert B “Happy” Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner

April 23 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

215 BC A temple, built on the Capitoline Hill, is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene

1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control

1597 William Shakespeare‘s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance

1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War)

1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces)

1984 AIDS-virus identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)

Today’s Historical Events

215 BC A temple, built on the Capitoline Hill, is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene

1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control

1154 Damascus surrenders to Sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo

1229 Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres

1343 St. George’s Night Uprising in Estonia

1344 Order of the Garter founded by English King Edward III, the most senior knighthood in the UK with just 24 living members plus the monarch (or 1348)

1348 The Order of Garter founded by English King Edward III, Britain’s highest civic or military honor

1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st shown at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, New York City

1931 US gangster film “The Public Enemy” starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow premieres

1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast

1953 KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting

1953 WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 “Shane”, directed by George Stevens and based on the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur, is released

1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney

1989 CBS’ premiere of fact based “The Littlest Victims”, based on Newark, N.J. physician James Oleske as the first doctor to discover AIDS in children

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1775 Opera “Il Ré Pastore” (The Shepherd King) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is first produced in Salzburg

1881 Gilbert & Sullivan’s opera “Patience” premieres at The Opera Comique, London

1925 1st London performance of Franz Lehár’s operetta “Frasquita” staged

1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 in Natchez, Mississippi

1955 Robert Wright and George Forrest’s musical “Kismet” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances

1958 Robert Kurka’s “The Good Soldier Schweik”, with libretto written by Abe Meeropol, premieres at the New York City Opera

1959 “Destry Rides Again” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 performances

1961 “Tenderloin” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their first game; beat Washington Senators, 7-2 at American League Park

1919 US Major League Baseball opens a reduced 140-game season

1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal

1937 New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell‘s first start of season, a 3-0 win over the Boston Bees, is his 17th straight win; streak continues for league record 24 victories in a row

1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR

1940 NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert

1946 Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0

1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

April 22 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal

1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I

1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda

2006 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C

Today’s Historical Events

296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

536 St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye

1073 Pope Alexander II buried and Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII

1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III

1370 Building begins on the Bastille fortress in Paris

1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1948 WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin

1976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News)

1976 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation

1984 CBS premiere of TV film “Pope John Paul II“, starring Albert Finney in title role

1991 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from “The Tonight Show”

1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens

1998 Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1804 Gioachino Rossini (12) performs in Imola

1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet “Swan Lake”

1927 Roger Sessions’ 1st Symphony in E premieres with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra

1970 “Park” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances

1978 23rd Eurovision Song Contest: Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta for Israel wins singing “A-Ba-Ni-Bi” in Paris

1979 The Rolling Stones play two benefit concerts for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, in Oshawa, Ontario; performance part of guitarist Keith Richards’ sentence for heroin conviction on heroin charges

1989 “Welcome to the Club” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 performances

1990 “Truly Blessed” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1876 1st official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia

1876 Philadelphia native Tim McGinley of the Boston Red Caps scores baseball National League’s 1st run, in Philadelphia

1898 Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0

1898 Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0

1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park

1906 Intercalated Games opens in Athens

1906 New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls

1908 Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba

April 21 Today In Hstory

Today’s Important Historical Events

753 BC Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date)

1526 First Battle of Panipat: Central Asian conqueror Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, establishing the Mughal Empire in India

1792 Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro

1863 Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, enters garden of Rivden near Baghdad. He makes his declaration as a Messenger of God during the 12 days spent there

1918 World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen “The Red Baron“, shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill

1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom

Today’s Historical Events

753 BC Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date)

43 BC Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.

953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights

1420 Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike

1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople

1521 Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards

1526 First Battle of Panipat: Central Asian conqueror Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, establishing the Mughal Empire in India

1536 Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne Boleyn‘s downfall while feigning illness

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1925 Noël Coward‘s “Fallen Angels” premieres in London

1928 “The Passion of Joan of Arc“, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti and Eugène Silvain, is released in Denmark

1930 “All Quiet on the Western Front” based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930)

1940 1st $64 Question, “Take It or Leave It,” on CBS Radio

1962 9th National Film Awards (India): “Bhagini Nivedita” wins the Golden Lotus

1984 “Nightline” reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour

1984 After 37 weeks Michael Jackson‘s album “Thriller” is knocked off as top album by movie soundtrack for “Footloose”

1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone‘s vault on live TV and finds nothing, except great ratings for his spectacle

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1956 Elvis Presley‘s 1st hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel”, becomes #1

1963 Beatles meet The Rolling Stones for the 1st time

1977 C Strouse & M Charnin’s musical “Annie” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances

1979 “Carmelina” closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances

1992 “High Rollers” opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway

1992 Allen Toussaint’s musical revue “High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club” opens at the Helen Hayes Theater, NYC; runs for 13 performances.

1993 “Wilder, Wilder, Wilder” opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 performances

1994 “Picnic” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1898 Phillies’ pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat

1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor in 2:43:12

1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

1910 Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0

1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson in 2:25:14.8

1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder in 2:29:13.4

1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar for the third consecutive year in 2:29:40.2; 4th race victory

1925 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets’ funeral

April 20 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1862 First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard

1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride

1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

1968 British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech

1974 ‘The Troubles’, the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim

1980 Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested

1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado

2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster

Today’s Historical Events

295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne

1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1290 Round Table tournament held near Winchester, England, in imitation of King Arthur, to commemorate betrothal of daughter of Edward I, and attended by the king

1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg

1551 John Dudley becomes Earl Marshal of England

1611 First known performance of Shakespeare‘s tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London, recorded by Simon Forman

1650 Dutch East India Company (VOC) management sets new guidelines

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio

1951 4th Cannes Film Festival: “Miss Julie” directed by Alf Sjoberg and “Miracle in Milan” directed by Vittorio De Sica jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film

1963 10th National Film Awards (India): “Dada Thakur” wins the Golden Lotus

1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting

1971 Barbra Streisand records “We’ve Only Just Begun”

1976 George Harrison sings “The Lumberjack Song” with Monty Python in NYC

1977 “Annie Hall”, directed by Woody Allen and starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1978)

1981 Final performance of TV show “Soap” airs

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1759 George Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey, London

1865 Crosby Opera House opens in Chicago, Illinois; destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871

1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa‘s “El Capitan” premieres in NYC

1954 “Golden Apple” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances

1955 “Saint of Bleecker St” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances

1960 “From A to Z” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances

1963 “Sophie” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances

1972 Virgil Thomson’s final opera, “Lord Byron“, with libretto by Jack Larson, first performance at Lincoln Center, New York City

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1887 Georges Bouton wins the world’s 1st motor race on a steam-powered quadricycle, a ‘test’ organised by French newspaper Le Velocipede

1903 7th Boston Marathon won by Irishman John Lorden in 2:41:29.8

1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey in 2:25:43.2

1908 Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.

1910 Cleveland Naps Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0

1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11

1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5

1914 18th Boston Marathon won by Canadian James Duffy in 2:25:01.2

April 19 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia. Writes in his log book that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand.”

1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The “Shot Heard Round the World” takes place later that day in Concord

1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church

1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 and injuring 500

2011 Fidel Castro resigns his position of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title [1]

Today’s Historical Events

607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth

1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London

1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne

1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly

1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt

1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel

1591 Chartres surrenders to King Henry IV in France

1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1927 Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a New York stage play entitled “Sex”. She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.

1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st feature length film, “Stand Up & Cheer”

1948 American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV network debuts

1953 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1967 “Casino Royale” James Bond comedy film starring David Niven and Peter Sellers premieres. Based on the Ian Fleming novel.

1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sharon Tate

1973 Barbra Streisand records “Between Yesterday & Tomorrow”

1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC’s Prime-Time

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1774 CW Glucks opera “Iphigenia in Aulis” premieres in Paris

1877 Opera “Les Cloches de Cornerville” is produced (Paris)

1894 Jules Massenet‘s opera “Werther” premieres in NYC

1919 Opera “Monsieur Beaucaire” is produced (London)

1924 “National Barn Dance” premieres on WLS Chicago

1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical “Carousel” opens at the Majestic Theatre, NYC; runs for 890 performances

1951 “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances

1963 “Hot Spot” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1897 1st Boston Marathon (B.A.A. Road Race), won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10; the world’s oldest annual marathon inspired by success of the first marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics

1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10

1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud in 2:53:36.8

1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Édouard Fabre in 2:31:41.2

1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31

1926 30th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 2:25:40.4

1928 Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926

1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20

April 18 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1025 Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland

1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid in the Vatican by Pope Julius II

1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning the “regulars are coming!”

1783 American Revolution: George Washington issues General Order announcing the end of hostilities with Britain, giving thanks to the Almighty, and offering congratulations and authorizing an extra ration of alcohol to the troops to celebrate [1]

1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city

1954 Egyptian Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power and appoints himself Prime Minister

Today’s Historical Events

310 St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope

387 Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus

1025 Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland

1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid in the Vatican by Pope Julius II

1518 Bona Sforza is crowned queen consort of Poland

1521 Diet of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther

1552 Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz

1663 Osman declares war on Austria

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1930 BBC news announcer announces “there is no news” at 20:45 news bulletin, plays music instead

1944 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins‘ ballet “Fancy Free” premieres in NYC

1969 Greek actress and activist Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund

1979 “Real People” premieres on NBC TV

1988 Barbra Streisand records “Warm All Over”

1994 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994

1998 51st British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): “The Full Monty” Best Film, Baz Luhrmann Best Director

2004 50th British Academy Television Awards: “Little Britain” Best Comedy, “Buried” Best Drama

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1946 Rome, Auerbach and Horwitt’s musical “Call Me Mister” opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances

1951 “Make a Wish” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances

1953 “Pal Joey” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances

1955 “Ankles Aweigh” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 performances

1964 Albert Hague and Marty Brill’s musical “Cafe Crown”, starring Theodore Bikel, closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances

1964 “Foxy” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances

1972 “Lost in the Stars” based on the novel “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances

1977 Musical revue “Side by Side by Sondheim” opens at Music Box, NYC for 390 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1809 First run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket, England

1869 1st international cricket match, held in San Francisco, won by California

1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Canadian Ron McDonald in race record 2:42:00

1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring in 2:38:04.4

1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Jewey Smith of England in 5th round at Neuilly Bowling Palace, Paris to retain his world heavyweight boxing title

1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Fred Cameron in 2:28:52.4

1918 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play

1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna in race record 2:18:57.6

April 16 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.

1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge

1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart

1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps

1917 Vladimir Lenin issues his radical “April Theses” calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4]

1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris

2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union

Today’s Historical Events

1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.

1178 BC A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War

73 Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt

556 Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1071 Bari falls to Robert Guiscard’s Norman forces, ending Byzantine rule in Italy

1346 The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans

1395 Azzo X d’Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops

1509 French army under Louis XII enters the Alps

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1787 1st American comedy, “The Contrast,” makes its debut in NYC

1932 Short film “The Music Box” released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)

1953 WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting

1958 5th National Film Awards (India): “Do Aankhen Barah Haath” wins the Golden Lotus

1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1978 NBC’s premiere of miniseries “Holocaust”

1990 August Wilson‘s play “The Piano Lesson”, starring Charles S. Dutton, opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera “Le prophète” premieres in Paris

1854 Franz Liszt‘s symphonic poem “Mazeppa” premieres at the Court Theatre in Weimar

1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos’ opera “Izaht” premieres in Rio de Janeiro

1952 “4 Saints in 3 Acts” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances

1959 “Party with Comden & Green” opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances

1967 “Walking Happy” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances

1972 “That’s Entertainment” closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 performances

1974 “Words & Music” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1900 4th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 2:39:44.4

1906 10th Boston Marathon won by 18-year old Tim Ford in 2:45:45; youngest race winner

1912 Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)

1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy in 2:28:37.2

1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:23:37.4 for second straight year; 3rd race victory

1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:37:07.8; back-to-back wins for his 6th race title

1929 New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order

1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8

April 15 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1755 Samuel Johnson‘s “A Dictionary of the English Language” published in London

1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Abraham Lincoln (US Civil War)

1874 First ‘Impressionist’ exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot

1877 Boston-Somerville installs the world’s 1st telephone in Massachusetts

1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

Today’s Historical Events

69 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy

1205 Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople

1250 Pope Innocent IV refuses Jews of Cordova, Spain their request to build a synagogue

1250 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council

1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years’ War

1493 -20/4] Columbus meets with the Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II in Barcelona

1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians

1534 Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII of England

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1948 KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast

1953 WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting

1954 WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1957 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting

1958 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win

1963 Steve Allen‘s musical “Sophie”, based on the life of American singer, and comic actress Sophie Tucker, opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances

1966 KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1729 Johann Sebastian Bach‘s “St Matthew Passion” premieres in Leipzig

1738 Premiere in London of “Serse”, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel

1960 Guy Carawan sings “We Shall Overcome” to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh – popularising the song as a protest anthem

1961 Meredith Willson’s musical “The Music Man”, starring Robert Preston and Barbara Cook, closes at Majestic Theater, NYC. after 1375 performances, 5 Tony Awards, and a Grammy

1966 The Rolling Stones release “Aftermath”, their fourth studio album in UK (6th in US)

1967 “Wait A Minim!” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 performances

1970 “Cry for Us All” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances

1971 “70, Girls, 70” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1896 1st modern Summer Olympic Games close in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count, 11; Greece wins total medal count, 46; IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event

1901 5th Boston Marathon won for second straight year by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 2:29:23.6

1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Tom Longboat in race record 2:24:24

1910 William Howard Taft is first US President to throw out the 1st ball at a baseball game

1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning

1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan in race record 2:21:18.2

1918 22nd Boston Marathon won by Camp Devens relay team; race run as relay for 10-man military teams

1925 NHL’s NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1

April 11 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars

1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War

1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean

1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan

1955 Chartered Air India plane the “Kashmir Princess” is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent

1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya

2015 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution

2019 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power

Today’s Historical Events

491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, as Anastasius I – often called the first Byzantine Emperor

672 Deusdedit II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland

1471 Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI

1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars

1551 English premier John Dudley appointed Duke of Northumberland

1564 England & France sign Peace of Troyes

1564 Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1955 “Marty” directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair premieres in New York (Best Picture 1956)

1966 Frank Sinatra records “Strangers in the Night” single for his album of the same name. Later reaches #1 Billboard charts

1967 Tom Stoppard‘s play “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” debuts in London at the Old Vic

1968 WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1971 WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting

1983 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: “Inchon!” wins

1983 55th Academy Awards: “Gandhi”, Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win

1988 60th Academy Awards: “The Last Emperor”, Michael Douglas & Cher win

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1830 Robert Schumann hears the violinist Paganini play in Frankfurt

1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated

1936 Rodgers & Hart’s musical “On Your Toes” premieres in NYC

1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident

1959 Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Harold Arlen’s musical “Jamaica”, starring Lena Horne, closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances

1961 Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village, New York City

1964 Stephen Sondheim‘s musical “Anyone Can Whistle” closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 9 performances

1967 “Illya Darling” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1750 Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight

1831 The 12th century Lewis chess pieces are exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sand bank on the Scottish Isle of Lewis

1896 Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós beats Otto Herschmann of Austria by 0.6s to win the inaugural Olympic 100m freestyle final in 1:22.2 at the Athens Games; also takes out the 1,200m on the same day

1896 Irish tennis player John Boland, representing Great Britain wins both the men’s singles and doubles finals at the Athens Olympics; Dionysios Kasdaglis of Greece loses both matches

1907 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame backstop Roger Bresnahan becomes first catcher to wear shin guards

1921 KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)

1924 1st men’s college swimming championships begin

1936 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-2 for a 3-1 series win; Red Wings first SC Championship

April 10 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1407 Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma

1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area

1815 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter

1858 “Big Ben”, a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons

1998 The Good Friday Agreement [Belfast Agreement] for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments

Today’s Historical Events

837 Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth

847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

879 Louis III becomes King of West Francia

1407 Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma

1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan

1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area

1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz

1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1953 “House of Wax” 1st color 3-D movie, premieres in New York

1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs

1957 “12 Angry Men”, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb, is released

1967 39th Academy Awards: “A Man For All Seasons,” Best Picture, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor

1968 Musical “George M!”, based on the life of Broadway star George M. Cohan, opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances

1968 40th Academy Awards: “In the Heat of the Night”, Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win

1972 44th Academy Awards: “The French Connection”, Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1868 1st performance of Johannes Brahms‘ “A German Requiem”

1935 Vaughan Williams’ 4th Symphony premieres in London

1970 Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles

1986 “Big Deal” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances

1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, George Strait, and K.T. Oslin win

1994 “Les Miserables” opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka

1995 “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 performances

2006 40th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Kenny Chesney win

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1874 British Open Men’s Golf, Musselburgh Links: Mungo Park wins first title by 2 strokes from Tom Morris Jr

1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen

1896 Spyridon Louis of Greece wins inaugural Olympic marathon (2:58:50) in Athens; runs last lap accompanied by Constantine I

1896 High jumper Ellery Clark leads an American sweep of the placings with a leap of 1.81m at the Athens Olympics; his 2nd victory of the Games after taking out the long jump

1896 American athlete Thomas Burke claims the sprint double at the Athens Olympics winning the 100m final in 12.0s; his 2nd victory of the Games after success in the 400m

1913 President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1

1913 New York Highlanders play first MLB game as the New York Yankees; lose to the Washington Senators, 2-1 at Griffith Stadium

1916 The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is founded in New York City

April 8 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1767 Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders

1886 William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

1913 Opening of China’s 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)

2004 Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups

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217 Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus

1093 The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by bishop Walkelin in Winchester, England

1139 Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated

1149 Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum

1195 Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor

1341 Petrarch crowned a poet on the Capitoline Hill in Rome

1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI

1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III

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1963 35th Academy Awards: “Lawrence of Arabia“, Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win

1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King

1968 WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting

1974 Discovery Island opens at Walt Disney World, Florida

1975 47th Academy Awards: “The Godfather Part II”, Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win

1979 205th & final episode of “All in the Family”; followed by “Archie Bunker’s Place” for 4 seasons

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1781 Premiere of Mozart‘s violin sonata K379

1876 Amiliare Ponchielli’s opera “La Gioconda” premieres in Milan

1931 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s ballet “The Arrow” premieres

1935 Béla Bartók’s 5th String quartet premieres in Washington, D.C.

1938 Walter Piston‘s 1st Symphony in E, premieres in Boston, by the Boston Symphony, conducted by the composer

1942 Arnold Schoenberg & Tudor’s ballet “Pillar of Fire” premieres in NYC

1950 “Miss Liberty” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances

1954 “By the Beautiful Sea” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 performances

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1935 2nd Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Gene Sarazen wins Monday playoff with Craig Wood by 5 strokes

1941 In his 4th title defence in 9 weeks Joe Louis beats Tony Musto by TKO in the 9th round at the Arena, Saint Louis, Missouri to retain NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown

1943 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Detroit Red Wings beat Boston Bruins, 2-0 for a 4-0 series sweep and their 3rd SC Championship

1943 1943 NFL Draft: Frank Sinkwich from University of Georgia first pick by Detroit Lions

1945 1945 NFL Draft: Charley Trippi from University of Georgia first pick by Chicago Cardinals

1956 20th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Burke Jr. wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of amateur Ken Venturi; final Masters played without a 36-hole cut

1963 Detroit Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain on waivers from the Chicago WS; McLain goes on the win Cy Young Award 1968, 69 and AL MVP 1968

1966 American Football League votes in 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner after Joe Foss resigns; appointment lasts 3 months when AFL merges with NFL

October 27 On This Day in History

Important Events

312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross

1795 Pinckney’s Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River

1962 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines

1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people

1986 British government deregulates financial markets in a “Big Bang”, enhancing London’s status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality

Today’s Historical Events

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

Today’s Historical Events in Music

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

October 11 – Today in History

Important Events

  • 1138 Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000
  • 1634 Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany
  • 1737 Earthquake reported to have killed 300,000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India. Now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane which claimed 3,000 of the city’s estimated 20,000 residents. [1]
  • 1797 Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): British navy defeats Dutch fleet
  • 1945 Chinese civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong‘s Communist Party
  • 1962 Second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
  • 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland

History of October 11 from OnThisDay.com

Looking Back At History on October 6

What Happened on October 6

From OnThisDay.com

Important Events:

  • 1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
  • 1939 Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
  • 1948 Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
  • 1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
  • 1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
  • 1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
  • 1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral Polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk‘s vaccine in many parts of the world

On This Day – More Historical Events

On This Day – Film and TV

On This Day – Music

On This Day – Sports

I went back to my birthdate May 1, 1958 to see if I could find anything while there isn’t much on this date there still is somethings I can learn about the day I was born. We can also learn what was deemed important during the year of our birth rather than just the day of. Please leave a comment when you go to visit your birthdate. Maybe an event that you think is exciting or important or both.

Below is one thing I found:

About May 1, 1958

Day of the Week: Thursday
How Long Ago? 63 years, 5 months and 5 days
Leap Year: No

Generation: Baby Boomer
Chinese Zodiac: Dog
Star Sign: Taurus

 

September 30th Today in History

History on September 30th

Important Events

  • 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566)
  • 1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth

Today’s Historical Event

On This Day in Film and Television

Events in Film & TV

  • 1939 In the first televised college football game, Fordham beats Waynesburg, 34-7 at Randalls Island, NY
  • 1947 In first televised World Series Baseball game, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; also largest WS crowd to date, 73,365
  • 1950 Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcast on TV for 1st time
  • 1950 WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1953 WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1953 WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins
  • 1954 Sandy Wilson’s musical “The Boy Friend”, cast includes Julie Andrews, making her Broadway debut, opens at the Royale Theatre, NYC; runs for 485 performances
  • 1955 American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24

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On This Day in Music

Events in Music

  • 1791 Mozart‘s opera “Magic Flute”, with German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, premieres at Schikaneder’s Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria
  • 1935 George Gershwin‘s opera “Porgy and Bess” premieres in Boston
  • 1963 “Student Gypsy” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 16 performances
  • 1964 “Oh What a Lovely War” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 performances
  • 1965 Donovan’s 1st US TV appearance (Shindig)
  • 1992 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins
  • 1997 “Too Close” single released by Next (Billboard Song of the Year, 1998)
  • 2006 Farm Aid 19 held in Tinley Park, Illinois; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Jerry Lee Lewis, Los Lonely Boys, Arlo Guthrie, Gov’t Mule, Steve Earle and Allison Moorer, Steel Pulse, Shelby Lynne, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra

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On This Day in Sports

  • 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
  • 1882 British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
  • 1887 8th America’s Cup: New York Yacht Club’s cutter Volunteer beats Scottish challenger Thistle by 11:48.75 seconds on corrected time to win series, 2-0 off Newport, RI
  • 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
  • 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
  • 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
  • 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
  • 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium

Events in Sports

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Events in Sport

  • 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
  • 1882 British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
  • 1887 8th America’s Cup: New York Yacht Club’s cutter Volunteer beats Scottish challenger Thistle by 11:48.75 seconds on corrected time to win series, 2-0 off Newport, RI
  • 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
  • 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
  • 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
  • 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
  • 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium
  • More Events in Sport

    Events in Sport

    • 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
    • 1882 British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
    • 1887 8th America’s Cup: New York Yacht Club’s cutter Volunteer beats Scottish challenger Thistle by 11:48.75 seconds on corrected time to win series, 2-0 off Newport, RI
    • 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
    • 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
    • 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
    • 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
    • 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium
    • More Events in Sport

      Events in Sport

      • 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
      • 1882 British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
      • 1887 8th America’s Cup: New York Yacht Club’s cutter Volunteer beats Scottish challenger Thistle by 11:48.75 seconds on corrected time to win series, 2-0 off Newport, RI
      • 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
      • 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
      • 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
      • 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
      • 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium
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522 BC Darius I of Persia kills Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire

480 BC Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I

1567 War of Religion breaks out in France – Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX

1829 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital

2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual

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Celtic Tree Month – Coll – Hazel Moon August 5 – September 1

 

About the Celtic Tree Month – Coll (Hazel Moon): August 5 – September 1

“The lunar tree calendar of the Celts has long been a source of controversy among Celtic scholars. Some even claim it was never a part of the old Celtic world, but was an invention of author/researcher Robert Graves. The Druids are generally given credit by other researchers for creating this system. There seems to be no scholarly evidence to prove otherwise, yet many Celtic Pagans feel that the system pre-dates the time of Druidic influence over Celtic religious matters. It is probably reasonable to believe that the truth lies somewhere in between these three extremes. It is most likely that the tree system was in place, with minor regional variations before the time of the Druids who experimented with it, discovered the magical properties of each tree, and codified all the information into the system we have today.”

—-Joelles Sacred Grove

The Hazel Moon was known to the Celts as Coll, which translates to “the life force inside you.” This is the time of year when Hazelnuts are appearing on the trees, and are an early part of the harvest. Hazelnuts are also associated with wisdom and protection. Hazel is often associated in Celtic lore with sacred wells and magical springs containing the salmon of knowledge. This is a good month to do workings related to wisdom and knowledge, dowsing and divination, and dream journeys. If you’re a creative type, such as an artist, writer, or musician, this is a good month to get your muse back, and find inspiration for your talents. Even if you normally don’t do so, write a poem or song this month.

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