E11011512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are first exhibited to the public.
E11011604 William Shakespeares "Othello" premieres in London.
E11011611 William Shakespeares "The Tempest" premieres in London.
E11011765 the Stamp Act goes into effect prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
E11011870 the US Weather Bureau begins operations.
E11011936 Benito Mussolini describes the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin.
E11011952 the US explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
E11011956 Premier Nagy renounces the Warsaw Pact, beginning the Hungarian Revolution.
E11011968 President Johnson orders a halt on US bombing of North Vietnam.
E11011981 First Class postage goes from 18 to 20 cents.
E11011982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Spain.
E11021783 George Washington issues his farewell speech to his troops.
E11021889 North Dakota becomes the 39th state and South Dakota becomes the 40th state.
E11021920 KDKA-Pittsburgh goes on the air as the first commercial radio station.
E11021930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
E11021947 Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for the first, and last, time.
E11021948 Harry Truman beats Thomas Dewey in the presidential election, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
E11021963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated in a military coup.
E11021986 American David Jacobsen is released after 18 months of captivity in Lebanon.
E11031839 the First Opium War between China and England begins.
E11031868 Ulysses Grant wins his first presidential election.
E11031896 William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election.
E11031900 the first US automobile show is held in New York.
E11031903 Panama proclaims its independence from Columbia.
E11031917 First Class postage now costs 3 cents.
E11031952 Charles Birdseye first markets frozen food (peas).
E11031979 63 Americans are taken hostage at the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran.
E11041880 James and John Ritty patent the cash register.
E11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
E11041924 Nellie Ross becomes the first elected woman governor in the US (Wyoming).
E11041956 Russian troops invade Hungary, ending the Hungarian Revolution.
E11041979 the Iranian hostage crisis begins in Tehran.
E11041985 the "Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer hits #1.
E11051605 the "Gunpowder Plot" is foiled when Guy Fawkes is arrested before he can blow up the British Parliamant building.
E11051781 John Hanson is elected the first `President of the United States in Congress assembled' (8 years before Washington).
E11051805 Admiral Nelson and the English defeat Napoleon at Trafalgar.
E11051872 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election for Ulysses Grant. (She never pays the fine).
E11051895 the first US patent is granted for the automobile, to George B. Selden.
E11051912 Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
E11051964 Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is arrested for breaking and entering. He is never tried for the stranglings.
E11061861 Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy.
E11061869 the first intercollegiate football game is played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
E11061888 Benjamin Harrison is elected president.
E11061939 WGY-TV(Schenectady, NY), the first commercially-licensed television station, goes on the air.
E11061965 Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West in San Francisco.
E11071811 the Battle of Tippecanoe which gives Harrison a presidential slogan.
E11071874 the Republican Party is first symbolized as an elephant in a Harper's Weekly cartoon by Thomas Nast.
E11071875 Verney Cameron is the first European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea.
E11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
E11071916 Jeanette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress.
E11071917 the Bolsheviks stage a coup and take control of Russia.
E11071921 Benito Mussolini declares himself Il Duce (The Leader) of Italy's Fascists.
E11071929 New York's Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) opens to the public.
E11081793 the Louvre Museum in Paris opens to the public.
E11081865 the American University of Beirut first opens.
E11081889 Montana becomes the 41st state.
E11081904 Teddy Roosevelt is elected president.
E11081923 Adolf Hitler tries to take power in Munich in a failed coup named the "Beer-Hall Putsch."
E11081932 Franklin Roosevelt is elected president.
E11081942 Britain and the US invade North Africa in WWII.
E11081960 John Kennedy is elected president.
E11081966 Ed Brooke becomes the first black elected to the US Senate (Massachusetts).
E11081970 Tom Demsey kicks a NFL record 63 yard field goal (Saints 19 Lions 16).
E11081971 Led Zeppelin releases their untitled fourth album.
E11091799 Napoleon comes to power in France (for the first time).
E11091918 Germany's Wilhelm II abdicates.
E11091934 the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) is formed to expand industrial unionism.
E11091938 "Kristallnacht", (Crystal Night), when groups of Nazis loot and burn Jewish owned houses, businesses and synagogues.
E11091965 the power fails in New England & Ontario, Canada. (9 months later a record is set for children being born).
E11091967 "Rolling Stone" magazine is first published.
E11101775 the US Marine Corps is established by Congress.
E11101871 Henry Stanley meets David Livingstone in Central Africa. ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.")
E11101891 the first Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting is held in Boston.
E11101951 the first long distance telephone call is made without operator assistance.
E11101969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS.
E11111620 the Mayflower Compact is signed calling for a "body politic" to enact "just and equal laws."
E11111889 Washington becomes the 42nd state.
E11111918 Armistice Day - World War I ends.
E11111921 resident Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetary.
E11111924 the Palace of Legion of Honor is dedicated.
E11111939 Kate Smith first sings "God Bless America" on radio.
E11111942 Nazi Germany completes their occupation of France.
E11111954 Armistice Day becomes Veteran's Day.
E11111965 the Velvet Underground gives their first concert.
E11111969 Jim Morrison is arrested in Phoenix, AZ., for being drunk and disorderly and interfering with the flight of an aircraft.
E11111981 the space shuttle "Columbia" makes its first commercial flight.
E11121920 baseball gets its first "czar" when Judge Kennesaw (Mountain) Landis is elected commissioner of the American and National Leagues.
E11121927 Josef Stalin becomes undisputed leader of the USSR when Leon Troksky is expelled from the Communist Party.
E11121933 the first known photo of the Loch Ness monster is taken.
E11121944 the German battleship "Tirpitz" is sunk off Norway.
E11121946 the first "autobank" (banking by car) is established, in Chicago.
E11121954 Ellis Island closes after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in 1892.
E11121980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
E11121982 the first time a spacecraft is launched twice, the Space Shuttle "Columbia" lifts off again.
E11131775 US forces capture Montreal during the Revolutionary War.
E11131789 Ben Franklin writes a friend, saying "...nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes".
E11131921 "The Sheik", starring Rudolph Valentino, is released.
E11131927 the Holland Tunnel opens between New York and New Jersey (the first underwater tunnel for vehicular traffic.)
E11131940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" premieres in New York.
E11131956 the Supreme Court strikes down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
E11141666 the invention of the blood transfusion.
E11141832 the first streetcar appears, in New York City.
E11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is first published.
E11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days).
E11141889 the Institute Pasteur is founded by Louis Pasteur.
E11141910 the first airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
E11141922 the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) goes on the air.
E11141935 president Roosevelt proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
E11141940 German planes destroy most of the English town of Coventry.
E11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
E11141969 Apollo 12 blasts off for the second moon landing.
E11151805 Lewis & Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean.
E11151806 Zebulon Pike first sights Pike's Peak.
E11151869 free postal delivery is formally inaugurated.
E11151889 Brazil is proclaimed a republic when its monarchy is overthrown.
E11151920 the League of Nations meets for the first time.
E11151926 the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) goes on the air, with 24 radio stations.
E11151939 the Social Security Administration approves the first un-employment check.
E11161864 Sherman begins his march to the sea thru Georgia.
E11161907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
E11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
E11161957 Ed Gein is arrested for murder in Plainfield, WI.
E11161966 Dr. Sam Sheppard is acquitted in a second trial of killing his wife in 1954.
E11161989 six Jesuit priests and two others are killed by army troops in El Salvador.
E11171800 Congress convenes for its inaugural session.
E11171855 English explorer David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls in Africa.
E11171869 the Suez Canal opens for shipping traffic.
E11171913 the Panama Canal opens for shipping traffic.
E11171968 NBC outrages football fans when they cut away from the Jets-Raiders game to show the TV movie "Heidi". (The Jets come back to win in the last minute).
E11171973 President Nixon tells newspaper editors that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook."
E11181820 Antarctica is discovered by US Navy Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer.
E11181865 Mark Twain publishes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in the New York Saturday Press.
E11181883 the US and Canada adopt a system of Standard Time zones for North America.
E11181903 the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives the US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.
E11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in the cartoon "Steamboat Willie."
E11181966 Sandy Koufax retires from baseball.
E11181970 Joe Frazier retains the heavyweight title when he knocks out Bob Foster in the second round.
E11181973 "Photograph" by Ringo Starr hits #1.
E11181978 Congressman Leo Ryan and four others are killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the People's Temple.
E11181991 hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland are freed by their Lebanese captors.
E11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
E11191620 the Pilgrims reach Cape Cod on the Mayflower.
E11191863 Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address.
E11191895 the pencil is invented.
E11191919 the US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles 55-45.
E11191949 Prince Rainier III is crowned ruler of Monaco.
E11191959 Ford Motor Co. announces they will no longer produce the Edsel.
E11191976 the Sex Pistols release "Anarchy in the U.K."
E11191977 Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
E11191982 Led Zeppelin releases their last album, "Coda".
E11201620 Peregrine White becomes the first person born in New England onboard the "Mayflower" in Massachusetts Bay.
E11201789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
E11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
E11201914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
E11201945 the International War Crimes Tribunal opens the Nuremberg Trials.
E11201967 the US Cencus Clock passes 200 million.
E11201969 the Nixon administration announces a ban on home use of DDT.
E11211789 North Carolina becomes the 12th state.
E11211877 Thomas Edison announces the invention of his "talking machine", or phonograph.
E11211922 Rebecca Felton is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the US Senate.
E11211934 Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" premieres in New York.
E11211959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet.
E11211964 the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens between Brooklyn & Staten Island New York.
E11211976 the first American Smokeout Day is held.
E11211980 an estimated 83 million people watch "Dallas" to find out who shot J.R. (It was Kristen Shepphard, played by Mary Crosby.)
E11211991 after 133 days, Gerard d'Aboville becomes the first to row the Pacific Ocean from west to east and lands in Washington.
E11221906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new call for help.
E11221928 Ravel's "Bolero" premieres in Paris.
E11221930 the BBC broadcasts the first college football game to England. (Harvard beats Yale 13-0.)
E11221964 "Leader of the Pack", by the Shangri-Las hits #1.
E11221971 the "Theme from `Shaft'", by Isaac Hayes hits #1.
E11221976 the "Cathy" comic strip, by Cathy Guisewite, premieres.
E11221986 Mike Tyson, age 20, becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in history when he beats Trevor Berbick for the title.
E11231863 the patent is granted for a process of making color photographs.
E11231889 the jukebox makes its debut, in San Francisco.
E11231903 Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in "Rigoletto" in New York.
E11231936 "Life" magazine is first published.
E11231963 "Dr. Who" premieres on the BBC.
E11231970 Grand Funk Railroad releases "Mean Mistreater".
E11241859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species".
E11241863 the Battle for Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee.
E11241871 the National Rifle Association (NRA) in incorporated.
E11241874 a patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
E11241947 the "Hollywood 10" are cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about communism in the movie business.
E11241971 a man known only as D.B. Cooper hijacks an airplane and parachutes out over Washington with $200,000. He is never found.
E11251783 the British evacuate New York, their last military position in the US during the Revolutionary War.
E11251920 the first play-by-play ofa football game is broadcast by WTAW-College Station, TX. (A&M vs. Texas).
E11251952 Agatha Christie's "The Mouse Trap" premieres in London.
E11251986 President Reagan and Attorney General Ed Meese reveal that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to aid rebels in Nicaragua.
E11261716 the first lion to be seen in America is exhibited in Boston.
E11261778 Captain James Cook discovers Maui.
E11261825 the first college fraternity, Kappa Alpha, is formed at Union College in NY.
E11261832 public streetcar service begins in New York City-fare 12.5 cents.
E11261941 a Japanese fleet of 31 ships and 364 planes sets sail to attack Pearl Harbor.
E11261942 "Casablanca" premieres in Hollywood.
E11261949 India adopts a constitution as a republic in the British Commonwealth.
E11261950 China enters the Korean War.
E11261968 Cream plays its farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
E11261983 gunmen steal $38.7 million in gold bars from Heathrow Airport in England.
E11271901 the Army War College is established in Washington, DC.
E11271910 New York's Pennsylvania Station opens.
E11281520 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
E11281895 America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, the winner averages 7 mph.
E11281925 the Grand Old Opry premieres on radio.
E11281964 the US launches Mariner IV for Mars.
E11291812 Napoleon and the French are driven out of Russia.
E11291890 the first Army-Navy football gameis held. (Navy 24, Army 0).
E11291929 Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.
E11301888 Jack the Ripper kills victim #5, (his last), Mary Kelly in London.
E11291963 Lyndon Johnson names Earl Warren to head a commission to investigate the assassination of John Kennedy.
E11291972 "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" by the Temptations hits #1.
E11301936 London's Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire.
E11301939 the Soviet Union invades Finland over a border dispute.
E11301954 Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, AL., is injured when an 8.5 pound meteorite crashes into her house.
E11301966 England grants independence to Barbados.
E11301971 "Family Affair", by Sly and the Family Stone, hits #1.
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D11011530 more than 400,000 people are killed in a flood in Holland.
D11011623 Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings.
D11011755 20,000 killed in Lisbon, Portugal kneeling at prayer (All Saints Day) by an earthquake which levelled 85 percent of it's buildings.
D11011955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado.
D11011965 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74. (Cairo, Egyp
D11011970 Discotheque in Grenoble, France burns. All exits are padlocked and nailed shut. 142 die.
D11011974 Flash fire in a 25 story office building kills 189 in less than 25 minutes. (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
D11021984 Velma Barfield becomes the first woman since 1962 to be executed in the US.
D11021991 Irwin Allen, film producer, dies at age 75.
D11031927 Flooding caused by a tropical storm kills 84 in the Winooski River Valley in Vermont with $28 million damage.
D11031990 Mary Martin, actress, dies at age 76.
D11031991 Mort Shuman, singer/songwriter, dies at age 52.
D11041847 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer, dies at age 38.
D11041875 Stern-wheeler 'Pacific' collided with steamer 'Orpheus' off Cape Flattery, Washington with loss of 236 lives.
D11041966 Flooding of the Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works and thousands of precious books.
D11041987 Bobby Nunn, singer, die at age 61.
D11051942 George M. Cohan, entertainer, dies at age 64.
D11051991 Fred MacMurray, actor, dies at age 83.
D11051991 Robert Maxwell, newspaper publisher, dies at age 68.
D11061893 Peter Tchaikovsky, composer, dies at age 53.
D11061991 at least 6,000 people are killed in flash floods in the Philippines.
D11071959 Victor McLaglen, actor, dies at age 73.
D11071962 Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady, dies.
D11071980 Steve McQueen, actor, dies at age 50.
D11071991 Gene Tierney, actress, dies at age 70.
D11071991 Prince Gideon Israel, (nee Carter Cornelius), singer, dies at age 43.
D11091872 Boston's business district (about 1000 buildings) destroyed by fire. $75 million damage.
D11091932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba killing 2,500.
D11091963 Coal dust explosion kills 447 at Omuta, Japan.
D11091963 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight killing 150. (Yokohama, Japan)
D11091973 Fire at the Taiyo department store, built without fire escapes, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto, Japan)
D11091991 Yves Montand, actor/singer, dies at age 70.
D11101891 Arthur Rimbaud, poet, dies at age 37.
D11101975 Ore boat 'Edmund Fitzgerald' broke up and sank in Lake Superior.
D11101982 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician, dies at age 75.
D11111880 Edward (Ned) Kelley, Australian outlaw, is hanged at age 25.
D11111940 Blizzard strikes midwestern U.S. killing over 100.
D11111972 Berry Oakley, musician, dies.
D11121928 British steamer 'Vestris' capsized and sank off Virginia Capes with loss of 110, including the Captain.
D11121990 Eve Arden, actress, dies at age 83.
D11131460 Prince Henry (the Navigator), dies at age 66.
D11131854 'New Era' sinks New Jersey coast with the loss of 300.
D11131909 Fire inside the Saint Paul mine at Cherry, Illinois kills 259.
D11131960 Fire in crowded movie theater kills 152 children, burning 355 others. (Amude, Spain)
D11131965 Cruise ship 'Yarmouth Castle' burned and sank off Bahamas, killing 89 of 550 passengers aboard.
D11131970 Cyclone hits Chittagong, East Pakistan. May have killed 1 million.
D11131974 Karen Silkwood, nuclear power activist, dies.
D11141939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela.
D11141960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 and injured 106, 70 miles from Prague, Czechoslovakia.
D11141970 Marshall U. football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova, W. Va.
D11141991 Tony Richardson, film/play director, dies at age 63.
D11151824 Series of fires kills 10 & causes redrafting of rules for preventing & fighting fires. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
D11161960 Clark Gable, actor, dies at age 59.
D11171558 Elizabeth I becomes queen of England when Queen Mary dies.
D11181421 The sea breaks through the Zuider Zee flooding 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in The Netherlands.
D11181755 Worst quake Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston. No deaths report
D11181886 Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president, dies at age 56.
D11181929 One of the largest quakes recorded in the Atlantic breaks the Transatlantic cable in 28 places.
D11191828 Franz Shubert, composer, dies at age 31.
D11191941 645 men are killed when the cruiser Sydney is sunk off of the northern coast of Australia, marking Australia's entry into World War II.
D11191963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 at Montreal.