Welcome to Today In History for Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
Historical Events on this Day in History ...
0951 - Paris is founded 1497 - Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India 1551 - Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond and Buren 1654 - 1st Jewish colonist arrive in US (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan) 1663 - King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island 1672 - Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general 1693 - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies 1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes 1758 - English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY 1776 - Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila) 1777 - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage 1778 - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army 1792 - France declares war on Prussia 1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport 1797 - 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment 1800 - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox 1805 - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England 1816 - Frost in Waltham, MA 1833 - Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty 1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again) 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena 1838 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed 1849 - St Paul's Place in the Bronx named 1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay 1861 - CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory 1861 - Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked and dispersed 1862 - Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret 1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks 1870 - Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection 1876 - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5 1889 - Wall Street Journal begins publishing 1889 - John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) 1891 - 61øF, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore and Phila 1891 - Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio 1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass 1895 - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa 1896 - William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention 1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens 1898 - Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 1898 - US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila 1900 - 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) 1902 - John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles 1905 - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center 1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof 1909 - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights 1911 - Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse 1912 - Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight 1912 - G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge 1918 - Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple 1919 - Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference 1922 - 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60) 1923 - Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland 1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) 1928 - Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader 1932 - Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs 1933 - Public Works Administration becomes effective 1933 - 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63) 1935 - 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve 1938 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout 1939 - 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62) 1941 - All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star 1941 - 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit 1943 - 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve 1943 - British air raid sinks U-232 1943 - NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler 1943 - US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia 1944 - Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan 1944 - British troops march into Caen 1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances 1946 - Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary 1947 - Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC 1947 - 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago 1948 - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow 1949 - Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants 1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea 1950 - Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea 1950 - 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61) 1950 - 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record) 1951 - Yankee Joe DiMaggio and mgr Casey Stengel feud 1952 - 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila 1953 - US stops aid to Persia 1954 - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala 1954 - KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast 1956 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open 1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1957 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders 1957 - CDC incorporates 1957 - Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick 1958 - 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt 1960 - Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ 1961 - Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies 1961 - Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die 1962 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open 1963 - Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland 1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba 1965 - Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game 1966 - US airline strike (until Aug 19th) 1967 - 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64) 1967 - Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games 1968 - Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal 1969 - Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco 1969 - US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam 1970 - SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) 1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1972 - English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen) 1972 - US sells grain to USSR for $750 million 1973 - Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker 1973 - NY Mets are 12« games back in NL, and go on to win pennant 1974 - Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game 1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1975 - Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany 1975 - Pres Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for pres 1975 - Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated 1976 - Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break 1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs) 1978 - 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bj”rn B”rg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) 1978 - Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy 1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus 1979 - Congo adopts constitution 1979 - Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles 1979 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic 1979 - Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) 1980 - All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds) 1980 - 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA 1981 - France performs nuclear test 1981 - PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) 1982 - Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property 1982 - Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager 1982 - "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 perfs 1983 - Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title 1984 - 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62) 1984 - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic 1985 - Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red 1985 - 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64) 1986 - Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257') 1986 - NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance 1986 - Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy 1987 - Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years 1988 - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 1988 - Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking 1988 - Miami Arena opens 1988 - Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) 1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 - Carlos Sa£l Menum becomes pres of Argentina 1990 - Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels and then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7 1990 - Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic 1990 - Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game 1990 - Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) 1990 - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome 1990 - Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning 1990 - 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890) 1991 - Pitts Pirate Pres Carl Barger becomes 1st pres of Fla Marlins 1991 - Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed 1992 - Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria 1992 - Florida Marlins unveil their uniform 1994 - Whitney Houston suffers a miscarriage 1994 - St Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1« years 1994 - Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches 1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) 1994 - Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson 1995 - 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75) 1995 - 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold 1997 - 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland 1997 - NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join
