12b...........................Historical Events (12/11/2013) 295 - Origin of Era of Ascension 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Changan, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days. 954 - Lotharius becomes king of France 1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. 1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. 1591 - Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza 1614 - Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends 1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn 1682 - Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy 1727 - France & Bavaria renew secret treaty 1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks 1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. 1813 - Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth 1823 - Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. 1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name 1873 - Bay District Race Track opens 1885 - Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game 1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player 1892 - Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football 1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations. 1899 - British troops reach Durban Natal 1900 - Worlds Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors) 1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic. 1906 - C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps 1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1912 - Robert Scotts diary & dead body found in Antarctica 1914 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war 1915 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago 1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry 1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic 1919 - Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia 1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner 1921 - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments 1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8 1924 - Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron 1925 - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts 1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens 1927 - Notre Dames Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green 1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 1928 - British steamer Vestris capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110 1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1 1931 - Sibelius/Ashtons ballet Lady of Shalott, premieres in London 1932 - 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion 1933 - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) 1933 - 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirates Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0 1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken 1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany 1936 - 1st TV Gardening show 1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene ONeill 1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens 1936 - St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt 1938 - Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland 1939 - Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David 1940 - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) 1941 - Germanys drive to take Moscow halted 1941 - WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters 1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began 1943 - Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands 1944 - RAF sink German battleship Tirpitz at Tromso Fjord Norway 1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1946 - 1st autobank (banking by car) forms (Chicago) 1946 - Walt Disneys Song Of South released 1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. 1947 - KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR) 1947 - Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced 1948 - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1950 - Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards 1951 - Paint Your Wagon opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances 1952 - Phila As pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP 1952 - White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape 1953 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel 1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games 1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed 1955 - 1st West German officers sworn in 1955 - E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame 1956 - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted 1958 - Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award 1959 - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins ALs MVP 1960 - Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails 1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude 1963 - Train crash in Japan, kills 164 1964 - Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1964 - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines 1965 - General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka 1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ 1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus 1966 - Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ 1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record 1966 - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame 1967 - Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic 1967 - Packers Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7 1968 - KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional 1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union 1969 - Minnesotas Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP 1969 - US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 1969 - WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast 1970 - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die 1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 1970 - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell 1973 - Dmitri Shostakovitch 14th String Quartet premieres 1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies 1975 - NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award 1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years 1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest Dutch Morial 1978 - Platinum opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open 1979 - Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil 1979 - Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal 1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets 1980 - Baltimores Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award 1980 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana 1980 - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn 1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V) 1981 - 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2) 1981 - Bill C Davis Mass Appeal, premieres in NYC 1981 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland As) 1981 - Great Britain performs nuclear test 1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1982 - USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader 1982 - Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215 1983 - 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas 1983 - NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 1984 - Paul McCartney releases We All Stand Together 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage 1985 - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane 1985 - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb 1985 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Cozzene, Lifes Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct 1986 - France performs nuclear test 1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously 1987 - Teddy & Alice opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances 1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine 1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World 1988 - Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7) 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 - Grand Hotel opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances 1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years 1989 - George Forests musical Grand Hotel, premieres in NYC 1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch. 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. 1991 - Full House 100th episode-twins are born 1991 - Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award 1991 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die 1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. 1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time 1995 - 25th NYC Womens Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06 1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 1995 - Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe 1995 - Marino breaks Tarkentons NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003 1995 - NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50 1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit 1996 - Torontos Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award 1997 - Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004 1997 - Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award 1998 - NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak 1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. 1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. 2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. 2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground. 2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems. 2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. 2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia. 2011 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis. 2012 - Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
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