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Search for "Home Financing" 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci 1487 Bell chimes invented 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland 1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland 1595 Shakespere's "Romeo and Juilet" was first performed 1646 Father de Nouë, a Jesuit priest, freezes to death in a blizzard on the way to Fort Richelieu 1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400, 1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Mnster signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. 1649 UK hist King Charles I executed (see 1660 for Regicides) 1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years. 1774 Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1790 Lifeboat first tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor 1790 The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. 1797 Congress refuses to accept first petitions from American blacks 1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1806 The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. 1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes 1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" 1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica 1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge. 1826 UK hist Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened – considered the world's first modern suspension bridge 1835 In the first assassination attempt against an USA President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane. 1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC 1841 A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagez, Puerto Rico. 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco 1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman 1854 The first election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast 1858 Charles Hallé founds Hallé Orchestra in Manchester 1858 William Wells Brown published first Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" 1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. 1862 US Navy's first ironclad warship (Monitor) launched 1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces 1879 French President MacMahon resigns 1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria 1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling . 1889 Austria's Archduke Rudolph, 31, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetser, 17, at Rudolph's hunting lodge Mayerling outside Vienna 1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76) 1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test 1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit 1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham 1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) first Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria) 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed 1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for first F-C victory in 41 years 1900 United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements. 1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. 1911 The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. 1911 The first rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba 1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre 1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania 1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death 1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over New South Wales 1922 World Law Day, first celebrated 1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Victoria win over New South Wales 1925 Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople 1927 Left wins national election in Thüringen 1930 Police arrest 9 members of the Standard Exchange for fraud; including members of the 5 biggest mining companies 1930 the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR 1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa first innings at Adelaide Oval 1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen 1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match 1933 The first episode of the Lone Ranger radio show is broadcast on Detroit station WXYZ. Hi yo, Silver, away! 1933 UK hist Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany 1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days 1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states 1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" 1936 Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death 1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews 1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya 1942 Hitler speaks at the Sports Palace in Berlin, "The war will end with the complete annihilation of the Jews." 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal 1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com 1943 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo commence mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv. 1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean 1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands 1945 The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people. 1945 World War II: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. 1946 The first issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland 1948 Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader, is assassinated by a Hindu extremist. 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR 1954 In Liverpool, Nova Scotia a freak winter tornado touches down near Liverpool. 1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns 1957 Born in Brazil Dr. Henrique Cesar Dicencia, engineer that brought large contribution to the fluid power industry 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine" 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in 1958 The first 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX 1959 Australia 1-200 first day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval 1960 CIA allows Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) lookout Mr. Powers 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1960 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC 1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit 1962 Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. 1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 1964 In Montreal Quebec terrorists raid armoury in Montreal for weapons and ammunition; group calling itself Comité révolutionnaire du Québe 1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 1964 NASA launches the unmanned probe Ranger Six, designed to crash-land on the lunar surface. Makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Searchers - Needles & Pins 1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill 1966 -19F (-28C), Corinth MS (state record) 1966 -27F (-33C), New Market AL (state record) 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" 1968 Communist forces launch a series of surprise attacks against South Vietnamese targets on the first day of the Tet Offensive. 1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere 1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his first Test bowl, vs England 1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - George Harrison - My Sweet Lord 1972 British soldiers shoot and kill 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland. This inspired the U2 song Sunday, Bloody Sunday. 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts 1973 KISS plays their first show (Coventry Club in Queens NY) 1973 Winnipeg-based Investors Growth Fund of Canada first foreign mutual fund to sell units in Japan 1975 First faroese stamp issued. 1975 Ontario starts Wintario lottery to raise money for sports, recreation and cultural activities and facilities 1976 George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of the CIA until 1977. 1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever 1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (New South Wales vs Queesland) 1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio 1979 Iran announces that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is returning, ending his exile in France. 1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution 1979 Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander of Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. 1981 8th American Music Award Kenny Rogers wins 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Shakin' Stevens - Oh Julie 1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner." 1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ 1985 In Ottawa Federal government states that metric measurement will continue to be mandatory, but retailers can use the imperial system at the same time(typically Canadian) 1987 Personal posting - January 30 1987 Jocelyn Ortiz is born :D 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl) 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 1989 16th American Music Award Randy Travis & George Michael win 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor 1989 Former defense attorney Joel Steinberg is convicted in New York of first-degree manslaughter in the death of his daughter, Lisa, aged 6. 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of first degree manslaughter of daughter 1989 Last day of first class cricket for Dav Whatmore 1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident 1989 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. 1990 Canada's Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets the 7% Goods and Services Tax bill through first reading in the Commons, and we still hate it 1990 In Ottawa the CBC President Gerard Veilleux announces 500 jobs to be cut at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the next year 1991 The Hudson's Bay Company announces it is selling its fur business due to declining sales 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands 1992 Personal posting - January 30th, 1992. Juliette Noella Diane Cloutier of Maine was born. 1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism 1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets 1994 Pter Lk becomes the youngest grand master in chess. 1994 The Buffalo Bills suffer their fourth straight Super Bowl loss, as they are defeated by the The Dallas Cowboys, 30-13, in Super Bowl 28. 1995 22nd American Music Award Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win 1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured 1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show" 1995 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. 1996 Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. 1996 Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit. 1997 Damage from recent floods in California is pushing the billion dollar mark and could climb higher once final figures are in. 1997 Minuteman III launches 1997 The Maine Yankee nuclear station has been placed on a U.S. government watch list of plants needing increased regulatory attention. The plant has experienced more than a year ofsafety and maintenance problems. 1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres 1998 The U.S. and Japan sign a pact allowing Americans to fly to Japan and other Asian destinations from more U.S. cities. 2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. 2003 Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. 2007 Microsoft releases its next Operating system, Windows Vista, and 2007 Microsoft Office System. More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at:infoATdatesinhistory.com change the AT to @ "This site contains links to other Internet sites. These links are not endorsements of any products or services in such sites, and no information in such site has been endorsed or approved by this site. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. 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