X** 01 05 99 99 00 Joseph Yablonski, his wife and daughter are found shot in their home. United Mine Workers chief Tony Boyle is later convicted of the killing (1970)
X** 01 05 99 99 00 Ronald Reagan proposes first trillion dollar US budget (1987)
X** 01 05 99 99 00 The emperor of China declares the English to be outlaws (1840)
X** 01 05 99 99 00 Two GM plants in Flint, Michigan, are taken over by the Teamsters Union protesting intolerable work conditions (1936)
X** 01 06 99 99 00 Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Four Freedoms" speech in which he spoke of freedom of speech, worship, from want and from fear (1941)
X** 01 06 99 99 00 Great Plains blizzard (1886)
X** 01 06 99 99 00 New Mexico becomes the 47th state (1912)
X** 01 06 99 99 00 Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph for the first time (1838)
X** 01 10 99 99 00 In San Diego the first aerial photo is taken (1911)
X** 01 10 99 99 00 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close. (1945)
X** 01 10 99 99 00 Pre-paid postage by means of stamped labels comes into use in Britain (1840)
X** 01 10 99 99 00 the Penny Post mail system is started. (1840)
X** 01 11 99 99 00 First English lottery was carried out. This continued as a money maker till 1826 (1569)
X** 01 11 99 99 00 France touches off an international uproar when it releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of being involved with the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. (1977)
X** 01 11 99 99 00 Michigan Territory was created (1805)
X** 01 13 99 99 00 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion. (1854)
X** 01 13 99 99 00 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly. (1920)
X** 01 13 99 99 00 The British War office abolishes the lance as a weapon of battle (1928)
X** 01 14 99 99 00 Castro visits Russia (1964)
X** 01 14 99 99 00 English Labour Party founded (1893)
X** 01 14 99 99 00 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars. (1914)
X** 01 14 99 99 00 Izaak Walton League, anglers group, was formed (1922)
X** 01 14 99 99 00 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America. (1936)
X** 01 14 99 99 00 the Revolutionary War formally ends. (1784)
X** 01 15 99 99 00 21 die when hit with a 30 foot high wall of Molasses (1919)
X** 01 15 99 99 00 Governor Kieft purchased part of Long Island from Indians on behalf of New Netherlands (1639)
X** 01 15 99 99 00 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his (1861)elevator company.
X** 01 15 99 99 00 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed. (1948)
X** 01 16 99 99 00 G. H. Hardy receives the famous Ramanujan letter (1913)
X** 01 16 99 99 00 Ivan the Terrible was crowned czar of Russia (1547)
X** 01 16 99 99 00 Prohibition begins (1920)
X** 01 16 99 99 00 Set uid bit patent issued (1979)
X** 01 16 99 99 00 The Shah of Iran, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, leaves Iran for Egypt (1979)
X** 01 16 99 99 00 The first run of the Orient Express (1872)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie. (1871)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest (1861)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 It was Tin Can Drive Day. (1943)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 Justice Department begins IBM suit (1969)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 The US buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25M (1917)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 US and its allies start air attacks on Iraq in Operation Desert Storm (1991)
X** 01 17 99 99 00 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic. (1893)
X** 01 18 99 99 00 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston. (1644)
X** 01 18 99 99 00 Captain Cook sights Hawaii which he dubs the Sandwich Islands (1778)
X** 01 18 99 99 00 English explorer Robert F. Scott reaches the South Pole only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them. (1912)
X** 01 18 99 99 00 The World War I peace conference opens in Versailles (1919)
X** 01 19 99 99 00 A presidential news conference was filmed for the first time. The president was Eisenhower. (1955)
X** 01 19 99 99 00 Ezra Daggett and his nephew, Thomas Kensett, obtain a patent for storing food in a tin can (1825)
X** 01 19 99 99 00 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's first Republican governor since 1874 (1987)
X** 01 19 99 99 00 In one of Gerald Ford's last acts as president, he pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino aka Tokyo Rose (1977)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester (1265)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 British-Chinese Treaty of Peking is signed (1925)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 Edward VIII ascends the throne of England upon the death of George V (1936)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 Iran releases 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, only minutes after Jimmy Carter left the Presidency (1981)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 London Docks opened (1805)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 Nazi officials hold the infamous Wannsee conference in Berlin at which they decide on their "final solution"; the extermination of all Jews (1942)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy, kidnapped in Lebanon (1987)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 The U.S. Senate approved the leasing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base (1887)
X** 01 20 99 99 00 The first assembly of the Commons as an agreed representational body (according to Sir William Dugdale) (1265)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 Alger Hiss, State Department official, found guilty of perjury by New York federal jury (1950)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 Glen Canyon Dam is dedicated (1963)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 Jefferson Davis and four other Southern Senators resign from the Senate (1861)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 New York City enacted an ordinance that made smoking by women in public punishable by a fine of from $5 to $25 and up to 10 days in jail. (1908)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 President Jimmy Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft dodgers (1977)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 The Wilderness Society is formed (1935)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit (1915)
X** 01 21 99 99 00 USS Nautilus is christened by Mamie Eisenhower and is the first nuclear powered ship (1954)
X** 01 22 99 99 00 Supreme Court overturns all state laws that limited a woman's right to abortion to the first 3 months (1973)
X** 01 23 99 99 00 The Alaskan pipeline is authorized (1973)
X** 01 23 99 99 00 The US Navy bathyscaph, Trieste, descends to a depth of over 35000 feet (1960)
X** 01 23 99 99 00 The USS Pueblo is seized by the North Koreans (1968)
X** 01 24 99 99 00 1st beer in cans is sold. (1935)
X** 01 24 99 99 00 Alann (sic) Steen, communications instructor at Beirut University College, was kidnapped in Lebanon (1987)
X** 02 04 99 99 00 the beginning of the Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin (1945)
X** 02 05 99 99 00 National Wildlife Federation is formed (1936)
X** 02 05 99 99 00 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974)
X** 02 05 99 99 00 US troops enter Manila under General MacArthur (1945)
X** 02 05 99 99 00 insanity of George III leads to the Regency act making the Prince of Wales, Prince Regent (1811)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 A peace treaty is signed between the United States and Spain (1899)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 Abolnassan Bani-Sadr, newly installed president of Iran, denounces militants holding US Embassy as "dictators who have created a government within a government" (1980)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 Britain declares war on France (1778)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 General Lee appointed commander-in-chief of Confederate forces (1865)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 Massachusetts becomes the 6th state (1788)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 The United States wins official recognition from France with the signing of two treaties in Paris (1778)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 The stock market hits 1600 for the first time (1986)
X** 02 06 99 99 00 the 20th amendment, covering terms of office, passed today (1933)
X** 02 07 99 99 00 Austria and Prussia form an alliance against France (1792)
X** 02 07 99 99 00 The British Railroads are taken over by the government (1940)
X** 02 07 99 99 00 The beginning of the German offensive at Anzio (1944)
X** 02 08 99 99 00 Boy Scouts of America founded. (1908)
X** 02 08 99 99 00 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US. (1693)
X** 02 08 99 99 00 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen. (1883)
X** 02 08 99 99 00 Odessa is taken by the Bolsheviks (1920)
X** 02 09 99 99 00 U.S. Weather Service is founded. (1877)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater). (1879)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens on Broadway with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman (1949)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time). (1870)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 St. Paul's Shipwreck (60)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 France cedes Canada to England in the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War (1763)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 Mongols sack Baghdad (1258)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 Philadelphia was first lighted by gas (1835)
X** 02 10 99 99 00 Washington writes from Charleston, "Without men, without arms, without ammunition, there is little to be done." (1776)
X** 02 11 99 99 00 At least 8 workers exposed to radiation at Sequoyah 1, a TVA nuclear power plant (1981)
X** 02 11 99 99 00 Nelson Mandela, South African antiaparteid leader, is released after 28 years of imprisonment (1990)
X** 02 11 99 99 00 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome. (1929)
X** 02 11 99 99 00 an American-led commando squad financed by millionaire industrialist H. Ross Perot, rescues two of his employees from an Iranian prison (1979)
X** 02 12 99 99 00 Export-Import Bank incorporated. (1934)
X** 02 13 99 99 00 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author and dissident, is expelled from Russia (1974)
X** 02 13 99 99 00 The Barbie Doll was introduced. Over half a billion are sold in its first 30 years. (1959)
X** 02 13 99 99 00 William III and Mary II take the throne together (1689)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 "La Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem (1879)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The supreme court will later rule that Bell was the rightful inventor (1876)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, becomes the 48th state (1912)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 Bombing of Dresden (1945)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts a tour of the White House on network television (1962)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 First micro-on-a-chip patented by TI (1978)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 James Polk becomes the first president to be photographed while in office. He posed for Matthew Brady (1848)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 Khomeini orders Solman Rushdi to be killed for writing the book "Satanic Verses" (1989)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 Oregon, the Beaver State, becomes the 33rd state (1859)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 The US ship Ranger takes the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France (1778)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 The battleship Bismarck is first launched (1939)
X** 02 14 99 99 00 seven hoods, rivals of Al Capone's gang, killed in garage in the St. Valentine's day massacre (1929)
X** 02 15 99 99 00 Canada makes the maple leaf flag their official flag (1965)
X** 02 15 99 99 00 Chicago Seven convicted (1970)
X** 02 15 99 99 00 The Roman Feast of Lupercalia to honor Faunus (Gk. Pan) and Juno (Gk. Hera) was celebrated. This later became St. Valentine's day.
X** 02 15 99 99 00 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown. (1898)
X** 02 16 99 99 00 14000 Confederate soldiers surrender at Fort Donelson, Tennessee to General Grant earning him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant" (1862)
X** 02 16 99 99 00 Fidel Castro becomes the Cuban premier after overthrow of Fulgencio Batista (1959)
X** 02 16 99 99 00 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun. (1923)
X** 02 16 99 99 00 Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the US Navy frigate Philadelphia which had fallen into the hands of pirates (1804)
X** 02 16 99 99 00 Nylon patented (1937)
X** 02 16 99 99 00 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City (1868)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 Chinese troops attack Vietnam along most of their 480 mile long border (1979)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 Columbia, South Carolina was burned as Confederates moved out and the Union troops moved in (1865)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine. (1876)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 The Supreme court issues its "one man, one vote" ruling saying congressional districts within each state must be roughly equal in population (1964)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 The US House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson as president (1801)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 The Voice of America started broadcasting to the USSR (1947)
X** 02 17 99 99 00 standard US letter postage goes to $.22 (1985)
X** 02 18 99 99 00 1st regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California" (1849)
X** 02 18 99 99 00 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery (1745)
X** 02 18 99 99 00 F. D. R. signs Executive Order interning Japanese Americans (1942)
X** 02 18 99 99 00 Jefferson Davis is sworn in as the first president of the Confederate States of America (1861)
X** 02 18 99 99 00 Roman Catholicism ceases to be the state religion of Italy (1984)
X** 02 18 99 99 00 The Soviet Union warns China to stop its invasion of Vietnam (1979)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 Albinus is defeated near Lyons (197)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 Beginning of the invasion of Iwo Jima (1945)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 Former Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama, tried for treason and acquitted (1807)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 Independence of Cyprus established through an agreement signed in London by Britain, Turkey and Greece (1959)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 Kansas becomes the first state to ban all alcoholic beverages (1881)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"). (1977)
X** 02 19 99 99 00 Zanzibar severs ties with US and England (1964)
X** 02 20 99 99 00 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is opened (1877)
X** 02 20 99 99 00 President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office (1792)
X** 02 20 99 99 00 The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered all radio and TV stations to go off the air. The mistake was not corrected for 30 minutes (1971)
X** 02 20 99 99 00 The Supreme court rules that the federal government has more power than any individual state. (1809)
X** 02 20 99 99 00 poll released shows that of 1110 American adults asked 72% would prefer all out nuclear war to life under communist rule. Estimated error margin was 3% (1987)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales. (1804)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 Battle of Verdun begins, bloodiest battle of WWI, over a million casualties (1916)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 Edwin Land demonstrates black and white photos that self develop in only 60 seconds (1947)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn. (1878)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 Last Carolina parakeet dies (1918)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 Washington Monument is dedicated (1885)
X** 02 21 99 99 00 first snow in recorded history falls on desert near Persian Gulf, 18 inches falls on Abu Dhabi and melts in four hours (1987)
X** 02 22 99 99 00 Hawaii becomes a US Territory. (1900)
X** 02 22 99 99 00 the Indian Quadequina introduces popcorn to colonists (1630)
X** 02 23 99 99 00 Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first store in Utica, NY, where it was a failure. Moving to Lancaster, PA, improved sales (1879)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 Galerius Valerius Maximianus issues the first edict of persecution against the Christians, in Rome (303)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 Jaun Peron is elected President of Argentina (1946)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized. (1857)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 Pope Gregory XIII issues a Papal Bull in which he outlines the calendar reforms that will be known as the Gregorian Calendar (1582)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 The US Supreme Court declares for the first time an act of Congress to be unconstitutional (1803)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German). (1942)
X** 02 24 99 99 00 a fledgling German political party holds its first important meeting in Munich. The party would later be called the Nazi Party. (1920)
X** 02 25 99 99 00 Ferdinand Marcos leaves the Philippines as civil unrest rises. Corazon Aquino is now President (1986)
X** 02 25 99 99 00 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon). (1919)
X** 02 25 99 99 00 the 16th amendment, allowing income taxes, is proclaimed (1913)
X** 02 26 99 99 00 Grand Canyon National Park established (1919)
X** 02 26 99 99 00 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act. (1863)
X** 02 26 99 99 00 The Soviet Union resumes atomic bomb testing after the US refuses to join them in a moratorium on testing (1987)
X** 02 27 99 99 00 British are defeated by the Boers at the battle of Majuba, South Africa (1881)
X** 03 07 99 99 00 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed. (1848)
X** 03 10 99 99 00 First money minted in Hawaii. (1847)
X** 03 11 99 99 00 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii). (1867)
X** 03 25 99 99 00 a summit eruption on Mauna Loa was spotted at 1:25 AM. The Northeast rift zone was fountaining by 4:30 PM. During the next 21 days lava would flow almost to the city of Hilo. (1984)
X** 03 26 99 99 00 Kuhio Day in Hawaii, honoring beloved Prince Kuhio of Kauai, the last member of Hawaiian royalty to wield political power
X** 04 10 99 99 00 1st hotel in Hawaii opens. (1825)
X** 06 24 99 99 00 1st coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast. (1817)
X** 07 01 99 99 00 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii. (1961)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,then a message around the world in 12 minutes (1903)
X** 07 07 99 99 00 Hawaii annexed to the US. (1898)
X** 07 20 99 99 00 Kilauea begins a long eruption that as of May 1990 had not stopped. In the process over 650M cubic yards of lava will be released. (1986)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed. (1877)
X** 07 26 99 99 00 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii. (1835)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun. (1835)
X** 08 01 99 99 00 Hawaii National Park established. (1916)
X** 08 07 99 99 00 Potatoes first planted in Hawaii. (1820)
X** 06 12 99 99 00 The first documentary film, "Nanook of the North", is first shown (1932)
X** 06 12 99 99 00 the movie Cleopatra, with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, premieres. It is 4h 3m long! (1963)
X** 06 15 99 99 00 1st attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the groundduring a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost) (1878)
X** 06 16 99 99 00 "The Blues Brothers" premieres (Chicago, 1980)
X** 07 01 99 99 00 Porky Pig premieres in the Merrie Melodie "I Haven't Got a Hat" (1935)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 Prof. Harold Hill, The Music Man, arrives in River City, Iowa (1912)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 Premiere of first talking motion picture (New York City, 1928)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released. (1912)
X** 09 23 99 99 00 The flower Audrey II is first placed on display by Seymour in Muschnik's Flower Shop (from the film, "Little Shop of Horrors")
X** 10 06 99 99 00 "The Jazz Singer", 1st movie with a sound track, premieres. (1927)
X** 10 06 99 99 00 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. (1889)
X** 10 13 99 99 00 opening in New York of the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 "Hair" opens at New York City's Public Theater (1967)
X** 10 17 99 99 00 The movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" debuts in Washington D.C. (1939)
X** 10 28 99 99 00 Marty goes back in time in the Movie "Back to the Future" (1985)
X** 11 01 99 99 00 Shakespeare's comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London (1611)
X** 11 01 99 99 00 Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London (1604)
X** 11 06 99 99 00 The day when professor Emmet L Brown strikes his head and he suddenly understands how to do time travel. Marty arrives back in time. All from the movie "Back to the Future" (1955)
X** 11 13 99 99 00 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released. (1921)
X** 11 15 99 99 00 Ethel Barrymore first says the line that will become her trademark "That's all there is; there isn't any more." (1904)
X** 11 16 99 99 00 "The Sound of Music" opens (1959)
X** 11 22 99 99 00 The Humphrey Bogart movie, "Casablanca", premiers (1942)
X** 11 22 99 99 00 The musical "Man of la Mancha" opens (1965)
X** 12 21 99 99 00 1st feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
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