1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, oldest existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world
1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific
1910 First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White in England
1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am
1977 Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
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Today in Film & TV
1928 RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York, allowing trials of inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson’s first home television receiver; a poor and unsteady 1.5 square inch picture was received from radio transmitter
1965 “My Name is Barbra”, Barbra Streisand’s first television special, premieres on CBS
Today in Music
1940 Glenn Miller records “Pennsylvania 6-5000”
Today in Sport
Georges Bouton and Jules-Albert de Dion causing a stir and setting a record in 1887.
1887 “Europe’s first motoring competition” is ‘won’ by The Marquis de Dion on a steam-powered quadricycle built by French toymaker and engineer Georges Bouton; French newspaper Le Velocipede organized the ‘test’, and Bouton was the only participant
2003 Andre Agassi recaptures the world no. 1 ranking to become the oldest top-ranked male in the history of the ATP rankings (33 years, 13 days)
1902 Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1 Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date
2004 Shrek the sheep from Tarras, Central Otago, New Zealand, is finally shorn live on TV after 6 years avoidance; the fleece weighed 27 kg (60 lb)
Famous Weddings
1774 Chief Justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)
1886 Painter Paul Cézanne (47) weds Marie-Hortense Fiquet (36)
1903 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (40) weds Millicent Veronica Willson (21) in New York City
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