On This Day in History - March 6 Michelangelo Born

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

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Mar 6, 1475: Michelangelo born

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist's apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts. For two years beginning in 1490, he lived in the Medici palace, where he was a student of the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni and studied the Medici art collection, which included ancient Roman statuary.  

With the expulsion of the Medici family from Florence in 1494, Michelangelo traveled to Bologna and Rome, where he was commissioned to do several works. His most important early work was the Pieta (1498), a sculpture based on a traditional type of devotional image that showed the body of Christ in the lap of the Virgin Mary. Demonstrating masterful technical skill, he extracted the two perfectly balanced figures of the Pieta from a single block of marble.  

With the success of the Pieta, the artist was commissioned to sculpt a monumental statue of the biblical character David for the Florence cathedral. The 17-foot statue, produced in the classical style, demonstrates the artist's exhaustive knowledge of human anatomy and form. In the work, David is shown watching the approach of his foe Goliath, with every muscle tensed and a pose suggesting impending movement. Upon the completion of David in 1504, Michelangelo's reputation was firmly established.  

That year, he agreed to paint a mural for the Florence city hall to rest alongside one being painted by Leonardo da Vinci, another leading Renaissance artist and an influence on Michelangelo. These murals, which depicted military scenes, have not survived. In 1505, he began work on a planned group of 12 marble apostles for the Florence cathedral but abandoned the project when he was commissioned to design and sculpt a massive tomb for Pope Julius II in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. There were to have been 40 sculptures made for the tomb, but the pope soon ran out of funds for the project, and Michelangelo left Rome.  

In 1508, he was called back to Rome to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel--the chief consecrated space in the Vatican. Michelangelo's epic ceiling frescoes, which took several years to complete, are among his most memorable works. Central in a complex system of decoration featuring numerous figures are nine panels devoted to biblical world history. The most famous of these is The Creation of Adam, a painting in which the arms of God and Adam are outstretched toward each other.  

In 1512, Michelangelo completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling and returned to his work on Pope Julius II's tomb. He eventually completed a total of just three statues for the tomb, which was eventually placed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli. The most notable of the three is Moses (1513-15), a majestic statue made from a block of marble regarded as unmalleable by other sculptors. In Moses, as in David, Michelangelo infused the stone with a powerful sense of tension and movement.  

Having revolutionized European sculpture and painting, Michelangelo turned to architecture in the latter half of his life. His first major architectural achievement was the Medici chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, built to house the tombs of the two young Medici family heirs who had recently died. The chapel, which he worked on until 1534, featured many innovative architectural forms based on classical models. The Laurentian Library, which he built as an annex to the same church, is notable for its stair-hall, known as the ricetto, which is regarded as the first instance of mannerism as an architectural style. Mannerism, a successor to the Renaissance artistic movement, subverted harmonious classical forms in favor of expressiveness.  

In 1534, Michelangelo left Florence for the last time and traveled to Rome, where he would work and live for the rest of his life. That year saw his painting of the The Last Judgment on a wall above the altar in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Paul III. The massive painting depicts Christ's damnation of sinners and blessing of the virtuous, and is regarded as a masterpiece of early mannerism. During the last three decades of his life, Michelangelo lent his talents to the design of numerous monuments and buildings for Rome, which the pope and city leaders were determined to restore to the grandeur of its ancient past. The Capitoline Square and the dome of St. Peter's, designed by Michelangelo but not completed in his lifetime, remain two of Rome's most famous visual landmarks.  

Michelangelo worked until his death in 1564 at the age of 88. In addition to his major artistic works, he produced numerous other sculptures, frescoes, architectural designs, and drawings, many of which are unfinished and some of which are lost. He was also an accomplished poet, and some 300 of his poems are preserved. In his lifetime, he was celebrated as Europe's greatest living artist, and today he is held up as one of the greatest artists of all time, as exalted in the visual arts as William Shakespeare is in literature or Ludwig van Beethoven is in music.










Mar 6, 1983: Kohl elected West German chancellor

Helmut Kohl, the interim chancellor of West Germany since the fall of Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrat government in 1982, is elected German chancellor as his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is voted back into power.  

Elected as Rhine-Palatinate state premier in 1969, Kohl served the post until 1976, when he became federal chairman of the CDU and led the opposition to Chancellor Schmidt's government. In 1982, with Germany suffering under persistent economic difficulties, he organized a successful no-confidence vote in the West German Parliament against Schmidt and was subsequently named interim chancellor. In March 1983, the West German people confirmed him as chancellor, and in 1987 German economic recovery led to his reelection.  

In the fall of 1989, the communist government of East Germany collapsed, and Kohl led the efforts to reunify the two Germanys. In March 1990, in the first all-German elections in six decades, Kohl was elected the first chancellor of a reunified Germany. During his third term as chancellor, Kohl oversaw the formidable task of absorbing East Germany's crippled economy into the West and was an advocate of the movement for a united Europe. In 1994, Kohl was elected to a fourth term, but increasing unemployment in Germany and his cuts to the country's welfare system led to his defeat by Gerhard Schroder and the Social Democrats in 1998.












Mar 6, 1820: Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise

On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise, also known as the Compromise Bill of 1820, into law. The bill attempted to equalize the number of slave-holding states and free states in the country, allowing Missouri into the Union as a slave state while Maine joined as a free state. Additionally, portions of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36-degrees-30-minutes latitude line were prohibited from engaging in slavery by the bill.  

Monroe, who was born into the Virginia slave-holding planter class, favored strong states' rights, but stood back and let Congress argue over the issue of slavery in the new territories. Monroe then closely scrutinized any proposed legislation for its constitutionality. He realized that slavery conflicted with the values written into the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence but, like his fellow Virginians Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, feared abolition would split apart the nation they had fought so hard to establish.  

Passage of the Missouri Compromise contributed to the Era of Good Feelings over which Monroe presided and facilitated his election to a second term. In his second inaugural address, Monroe optimistically pointed out that although the nation had struggled in its infancy, no serious conflict has arisen that was not solved peacefully between the federal and state governments. By steadily pursuing this course, he predicted, there is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.  

In the end, the Missouri Compromise failed to permanently ease the underlying tensions caused by the slavery issue. The conflict that flared up during the bill's drafting presaged how the nation would eventually divide along territorial, economic and ideological lines 40 years later during the Civil War.









Mar 6, 1857: Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case

On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.  

At the heart of the case was the most important question of the 1850s: Should slavery be allowed in the West? As part of the Compromise of 1850, residents of newly created territories could decide the issue of slavery by vote, a process known as popular sovereignty. When popular sovereignty was applied in Kansas in 1854, however, violence erupted. Americans hoped that the Supreme Court could settle the issue that had eluded a congressional solution.  

Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott's residence. The Supreme Court was stacked in favor of the slave states. Five of the nine justices were from the South while another, Robert Grier of Pennsylvania, was staunchly pro-slavery. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the majority decision, which was issued on March 6, 1857. The court held that Scott was not free based on his residence in either Illinois or Wisconsin because he was not considered a person under the U.S. Constitution--in the opinion of the justices, black people were not considered citizens when the Constitution was drafted in 1787. 

According to Taney, Dred Scott was the property of his owner, and property could not be taken from a person without due process of law.  In fact, there were free black citizens of the United States in 1787, but Taney and the other justices were attempting to halt further debate on the issue of slavery in the territories. The decision inflamed regional tensions, which burned for another four years before exploding into the Civil War.











Mar 6, 1945: Dutch Resistance ambushes SS officer—unwittingly

Members of the Dutch Resistance who were attempting to hijack a truck in Apeldoorn, Holland, ambush Lt. Gen. Hanns Rauter, an SS officer. During the following week, the German SS executed 263 Dutch in retaliation.  

The Dutch Resistance was one of the fiercest of all the underground movements in Nazi-occupied Europe. "The Dutch never accepted the German contention that... the war was over," wrote the Dutch foreign minister in a postwar account of life under Nazi occupation. "[T]heir acts of resistance and sabotage grew more audacious as time passed."  

Those acts of resistance and sabotage included harboring Allied soldiers and pilots who either parachuted or crash-landed within Dutch territory, harboring Dutch Jews, and killing German troops. The Resistance was composed of representatives from all segments of Dutch society, ranging from the most conservative to communists.  

Rauter was head of the SS in Holland and answered directly to Heinrich Himmler, the SS commander. In 1941, during a strike that broke out in Amsterdam among Dutch workers to protest the round-up of almost 400 Dutch Jews, Hauter ordered the SS and German troops to open fire on the strikers, killing 11. The Jews, whom the strikers were trying to protect, were deported to Buchenwald. All were dead by the fall.  

Rauter was riding in an SS truck, filled with food destined for the Luftwaffe (the German air force) based near Apeldoorn on March 6, 1945, when some young members of the Dutch Resistance ambushed the truck. The closing days of the war had left much of occupied Holland close to famine conditions, and the guerrillas were determined to co-opt the food. They did not know Rauter was in the truck when it was attacked; Rauter was shot during the heist attempt but lived. In retaliation, the SS proceeded to round up and execute 263 Dutchmen, some of whom were Resistance fighters who were already being held in prison.  

Rauter was tried for war crimes by the Dutch court Den Haag. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. He appealed the sentence at Nuremberg in 1949, but the sentence was upheld and he was executed that year.











Mar 6, 1902: Real Madrid founded

On this day in 1902, the Madrid Foot Ball Club is founded by a group of fans in Madrid, Spain. Later known as Real Madrid, the club would become the most successful European football (soccer) franchise of the 20th century.  

With its trademark blue-and-white uniforms (originally inspired by those of an English team), Madrid began to make a name for itself in Spain almost right away. From 1905 to 1907, under their first coach, Englishman Arthur Johnson, the team won three titles in a row in the Spanish League, known as La Liga. These were just the first of 29 La Liga championships through 2006 for Real Madrid, including an impressive five consecutive La Liga titles from 1986 to 1990.  

Real Madrid’s legendary status internationally was solidified under the leadership of Santiago Bernabeu Yeste, who played for the team from 1912 to 1927 and served as club president from 1943 to 1978. In 1953, Bernabeu began to stock his roster with the best players he could find from around the world, instead of just the best in Spain, beginning with Madrid’s most famous soccer icon, Italian star Alfredo Di Stefano. The resulting team won the European Cup, Europe’s football championship, an unprecedented five times in a row, from 1956 through 1960. Bernabeu then switched course in the 1960s and built a team entirely of Spanish players. In 1966, Real Madrid won its sixth European cup with a team of Spanish "hippies" who rivaled the Beatles in popularity on the European continent.  

In 2000, soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, selected Real Madrid the best football team of the 20th century. Two years later, the club celebrated its 100-year anniversary with yet another European club championship, behind the imported stars Luis Figo of Portugal, Zinedine Zhidane of France, Roberto Carlos of Brazil and Raul of Spain. Real Madrid has won a record nine European championships, seven Spanish Super Cups and three world championships. It is one of the few teams that is still owned and operated by its members.

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

1079 - Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar

1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King

1323 - Treaty of Paris

1447 - Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V

1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa

1479 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.

1521 - Magellan discovers Guam

1579 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht

1590 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"

1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict

1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent

1664 - King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant

1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing

1714 - Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg

1728 - Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo

1775 - 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston

1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine

The Sun King of France Louis XIVThe Sun King of France Louis XIV 1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard

1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US

1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany

1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy

1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan

1834 - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor

1836 - Battleof the Alamo: 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight during Texas Revolution

1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach King George's Sound, Australia

1838 - Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna

1851 - Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London

1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice

1855 - Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet

1857 - Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens

1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army

1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)

US Slave Dred ScottUS Slave Dred Scott 1865 - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida

1865 - President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball

1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king

1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA

1886 - 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC

1895 - England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2

1895 - J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust

1896 - 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"

1899 - "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer

1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.

1902 - Census Bureau forms

1906 - Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance

1906 - Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands

1906 - Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers

Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart HauptmannAuthor and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 1909 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna

1915 - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos

1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle

1919 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie

1921 - Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee

1922 - Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year NY Yankee contract

1922 - GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC

1923 - Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

1924 - British Labour government cuts military budget

1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith

1926 - China asks for a seat in the Security council

1929 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

1930 - Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food

1933 - FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday

1933 - Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in NYC

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)

1934 - Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in NYC

1935 - Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA

1936 - Belgium ends Locarno-pact

1940 - 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC

1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack

1943 - Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers

1944 - USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin

1945 - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm

1945 - Assassination attempt on Hihere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter

1945 - Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

1945 - Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis

1945 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires

1946 - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation

1947 - XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA

German WWII Field Marshal Erwin RommelGerman WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 1950 - Silly Putty invented

1951 - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months

1953 - Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR

1955 - Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"

1955 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open

1957 - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK

1959 - 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr

1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)

1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament

1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced

1961 - Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year government jubilee

1961 - Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%

1962 - St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals

1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1962 - US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression

1964 - Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece

1964 - Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali

1964 - Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)

1964 - Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)

1965 - "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs

1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford

1965 - Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings

1966 - Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)

1967 - 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards

1967 - Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison

1967 - Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted

1967 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

1967 - WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK

1971 - Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain

Golfer Jack NicklausGolfer Jack Nicklaus 1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner

1972 - Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes

1973 - In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)

1974 - "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances

1974 - An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo

1974 - Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket

1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.

1976 - Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)

1976 - Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)

1976 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB)

1976 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill

1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga

1980 - Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time

1980 - Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC

1980 - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)

Magazine Publisher Larry FlyntMagazine Publisher Larry Flynt 1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth

1981 - Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"

1981 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann

1982 - NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)

1982 - Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)

1983 - "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances

1983 - Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic

1983 - Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections

1983 - New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table

1983 - US Football League begins its 1st season

1984 - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.

1985 - Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1985 - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight

1985 - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1985 - Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale

1986 - Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London

1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km

1987 - 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100

1987 - Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die

1988 - 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000

1988 - 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers

1988 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am

1988 - Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)

1988 - Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament

1989 - Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)

1990 - SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17

1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

1992 - Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine

1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

US President George H. W. BushUS President George H. W. Bush 1992 - Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.

1994 - Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)

1994 - United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy

1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.

1995 - 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield

1995 - American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets

1995 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM

1995 - US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)

1996 - 10th American Comedy Award

1996 - 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

1996 - Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya

1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.

1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

1998 - Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery

2006 - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.

Artist Pablo PicassoArtist Pablo Picasso 2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

2012 - 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow

2012 - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75

2013 - Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city

2013 - Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers

2013 - 9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.   1808 - At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded.   1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.   1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.   1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.   1854 - At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope's Stone from the lapidarium.   1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.   1886 - "The Nightingale" was first published. It was the first magazine for nurses.   1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.   1900 - In West Virginia, an explosion trapped 50 coal miners underground.   1901 - An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.   1907 - British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts.   1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.   1939 - In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."   1941 - Les Hite and his orchestra recorded "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise".   1944 - During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.   1946 - Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.   1947 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis.   1947 - Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.   1947 - The first air-conditioned naval ship, "The Newport News," was launched from Newport News, VA.   1957 - The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.   1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.   1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.   1964 - Tom O’Hara set a new world indoor record when he ran the mile in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.   1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.   1970 - Charles Manson released his album "Lies" to finance his defense against murder charges.   1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.   1975 - Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute.   1980 - Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.   1981 - Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been on the job 19 years.   1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.   1982 - National Basketball Association history was made when San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. The record was beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Pistons and the Nuggets when they played to a final score of 186-184   1983 - The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition.   1985 - Yul Brynner played his his 4,500th performance in the musical "The King and I."   1987 - The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. 189 people died.   1990 - In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.   1990 - The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.   1991 - In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.   1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.   1992 - The computer virus "Michelangelo" went into effect.   1997 - A gunman stole "Tete de Femme," a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later.   1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.   1998 - A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.



1836 The Alamo fell to Mexican forces. 1857 The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens. 1930 Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1957 The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana. 1981 Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather. 1997 Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.

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