917 Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter-attacks Byzantines
1000 The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 Muslim prisoners in Akko
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1534 Turkish admiral Chaireddin “Barbarossa” occupies Tunis
1566 Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp, Belgium
1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East
1604 Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1612 9 Pendle witches hanged at Gallows Hill in Lancaster, England
1619 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.
1641 England & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 Battle of Lens: French Duc d’Enghien defeats Spaniards
1672 Former Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague
1741 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition
1781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers: Major General “Mad Anthony” Wayne defeats a joint British-Native American force at Fallen Timbers, Ohio in the final battle of the Northwest Indian War
1795 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1828 Gioachino Rossini’s opera “Le Comte Ory” premieres in Paris
1828 Hindi reform movement Brahmo Samaj founded by Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore in Calcutta
1856 Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1861 Skirmish at Jonesboro, MO
1864 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3,900 casualties)
1865 President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to “insurrection” in Texas
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
1879 Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” debuts in Moscow
1886 Second Salon exhibition by Society of Independent Artists held in Paris; includes Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”
1888 Longest US men’s single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
1892 The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president
1893 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1896 Dial telephone patented
1900 Great Britain beats France by 158 runs in Paris; cricket’s only appearance at an Olympic Games
1900 Japan’s primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1901 The Fawcett Commission visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1905 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of T’ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus (Qing dynasty)
1908 Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1908 America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia
1910 US-supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 Washington Senators future Baseball HOF pitcher Walter Johnson wins AL-record 15th straight, beating Cleveland Naps, 4-2; in nightcap Carl Cushion no-hits Naps, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians
1914 Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russians beat Germans
1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing thousands
1914 Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny, France
1914 German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1915 Chicago White Sox obtain ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer & $31,500; Jackson involved in ‘Black Sox Scandal’ 1919
1918 WWI: Britain opens offensive on Western front
1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for .505 average)
1920 American Professional Football Association forms; Jim Thorpe installed as president; later to become the National Football League (NFL)
1920 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting
1920 Allen Woodring wins Olympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 Israel publishes its first medical journal “Ha-Refuah”
1921 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory wins her 6th US singles title; beats 3-time champion Mary Browne 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
1922 1st Women’s World Games (first track & field competition for women) is conducted over 1-day at the Pershing Stadium in Paris
1923 London dock strike ends
1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 Uprising against Rezā Shāh Pahlavi in Iran
1926 Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 A week before his 22nd birthday Australian cricket’s batting genius Don Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test win over England at The Oval in London
1930 Dumont’s 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1931 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall of England 6-4, 6-1 for her 7th and final US singles title
1934 Australian cricket opening batsman Bill Ponsford is dismissed for 266 in his final Test match against England at The Oval; out for 22 in 2nd innings
1935 Military coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 NY Yankees future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & final grand slam in 11-3 win over Philadelphia A’s at Shribe Park
1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along allies in the Battle of Britain
1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
1940 Louis Buchalter is indicted on murder charges in Los Angeles for the killing of Harry Greenberg, a mob associate of casino owner Meyer Lansky and mobster Bugsy Siegel
1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco
1944 “Anna Lucasta” opens on Broadway
1944 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Manito G & CC: Bob Hamilton wins his only major title, 1 up in the 36-hole final over heavily favoured Byron Nelson
1944 French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France
1944 Soviet offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1945 17-year-old Dodgers utility Tommy Brown becomes youngest player to hit a MLB home run in Brooklyn’s 11-1 rout of Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
1945 Soviet troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
