AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

* 1901 A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
* 1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
* 1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
* 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
* 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
* 1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
* 1921 The Fascists incite a riot in Florence, Italy
* 1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna
* 1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in NYC
* 1922 US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent - women's right to vote
* 1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls
* 1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
* 1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
* 1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA leaves 38 dead
* 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
* 1939 Borley Rectory, "the most haunted house in England", destroyed in a fire
* 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
* 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
* 1942 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
* 1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese
* 1942 Radio emissions from the Sun first detected by English physicist and radio astronomer James Stanley Hey, working on WWII radar anti-jamming methods
* 1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
* 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men
* 1943 University of Munich professor Kurt Huber, advisor to student non-violent resistance group "White Rose", arrested by Nazis
* 1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
* 1946 4th "Road" film "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC)
* 1947 French explorer Paul-Emile Victor founds French Polar Expeditions to oversee French scientific missions
* 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms
* 1956 Female suffrage granted in Egypt
* 1957 Mao Zedong's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals
* 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)
* 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
* 1960 Five Nations Rugby Championship is won jointly by England and France with the pivotal game a 3-3 draw between the teams at Stade Colombes, Paris
* 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
* 1960 Veikko Hakulinen of Finland wins his 3rd career Olympic cross country gold medal as part of Finland's 4 x 10k relay team at Squaw Valley, CA; winner: 50k (Oslo, 1952) and 30k (Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1956)
* 1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated
* 1964 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
* 1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
* 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
* 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of great Britain
* 1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of the Soviet Union
* 1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
* 1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
* 1967 Dominica gains independence from England
* 1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty
* 1969 President Nixon visits West Berlin
* 1970 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
* 1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati
* 1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
* 1974 "People" magazine begins sales
* 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
* 1975 US House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
* 1976 Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
* 1978 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
* 1980 Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
* 1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
* 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
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* 1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
* 1982 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
* 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
* 1983 Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland set indoor mile record of 3:49.78
* 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
* 1984 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. changes call letters to WWRC
* 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
* 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
* 1985 US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
* 1987 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS
* 1987 Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
* 1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
* 1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
* 1989 Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo
* 1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
* 1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London
* 1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
* 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
* 1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
* 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
* 1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
* 1998 Apple discontinues development of the Newton computer
* 1998 Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son
* 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
* 1998 NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
* 1999 Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung
* 1999 Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983
* 2002 Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
* 2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
* 2003 Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison
* 2003 Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116
* 2004 Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda
* 2007 The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years
* 2007 The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends
* 2009 Statistics Finland informs that Finland's gross domestic product diminished by 1.3% in the last quarter of 2008 from the previous quarter
* 2010 8.8 magnitude earthquake rattles central Chile; epicenter just off the coast also triggers a tsunami
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* 2013 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
* 2013 20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India
* 2014 Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine
* 2014 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
* 2014 Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government
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* 2014 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a "religious freedom" bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
* 2015 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
* 2019 Doctors announce world's second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia
* 2019 First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives, with new federal background checks
* 2019 Pakistan shoots down an Indian fighter jet and captures the pilot, further escalating tensions in the disputed Kashmir region
* 2019 Smallest baby boy ever born to be later successfully released, goes home, after original birth weight of 268g (9.45oz) from Tokyo hospital
* 2019 Train crashes into a buffer at Cairo's main railway station killing 25 and injuring dozens in Egypt
* 2020 Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus galaxy 390 million lights years away, (size of 15 Miky Ways), published in "Astrophysical Journal"
* 2020 Dow Jones Index suffers its biggest points fall in history closing down 1,190.95 in New York amid concerns about COVID-19
* 2021 US authorizes its third COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, a one-shot vaccine
* 2022 Countries sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine; EU closes its airspace to Russian planes, Russian banks excluded from worldwide Swift payment system, Sweden sends arms to Ukraine
* 2022 EU warns Russian invasion of Ukraine means Europe facing major humanitarian crisis, 18 million Ukrainians displaced with four million refugees fleeing the country

Rose42

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Just a small whine. No one has any concept of how long it takes to copy, paste and format these history day threads.

Rose42

I do and appreciate the time you took doing it. I find these very interesting