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1900 British troops overrun Johannesburg
1900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
1904 24th U.S. Men's National Championship: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (10-8, 6-4, 9-7)
1905 Mbunga rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East Africa
1905 25th U.S. Men's National Championship: Beals Wright beats Holcombe Ward (6-2, 6-1, 11-9)
1907 Britain & Russia sign the treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
1907 Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente
1907 Anglo-Russian Entente
1909 AJ Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
1909 Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
1911 The "Sullivan Act" requiring New Yorkers to possess licenses for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect
1911 Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"
1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
1913 Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police
1914 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
1914 German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914 Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1915 Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1916 Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow" premieres in London
1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923 Italian troops occupy Corfu
1935 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 105 tons of cabbages in 6 hours
1937 Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August
1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939 Staged "Polish" assault on the radio station in Gleiwitz
1940 1st edition of illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940 RAF Fighter Command loses 39 aircraft against Luftwaffe's 41
1940 German occupiers in the Netherlands begin soap rationing
1940 US National Guard assembles
1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1942 Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)
1943 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
1943 Japanese occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Trabajo
1944 Allied offensive at "Gothen-line" Italy
1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux
1944 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1946 Foghorn Leghorn, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster, (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Walky Talky Hawky"
1947 Hungarian communist party wins the election
1947 NY Giants set the season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates the golden jubilee
1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1953 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
1954 Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 dies, Costliest ever hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired.
1954 Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record-tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to the season total 49
1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1955 KTRE TV channel 9 begins broadcasting in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC affiliate)
1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats the USA in New York (3-2)
1959 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
1965 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development
1965 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1966 "The Battle of Algiers", directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, premieres at the Vienna International Film Festival
1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1968 Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with the club
1968 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1968 Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1970 59th Davis Cup: the USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1970 Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with the girl, 14
1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1971 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced
1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins balance beam & floor exercise gold medals at the Munich Olympics; follows gold in the teams all-round
1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70
1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1973 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1974 Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor
1976 Mexican peso devalued
1976 Trinidad & Tobago adopts the constitution
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed the president of Cyprus
1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins the Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 Emily & William Harris plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978 US performs the nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis
1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador
1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1980 "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
1980 Poland's Solidarity trade union federations forms and is officially recognized by the Polish government
1980 The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.
1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser
1982 USSR performs the underground nuclear test
1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1983 40th Venice Film Festival: "First Name: Carmen" directed by Jean-Luc Godard wins Golden Lion
1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized California captured in East Los Angeles
1986 Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)
1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
1987 South Africa's longest mine strike in history ends
1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
1988 Bomb attack on the office of South Africa Council of Churches
1989 Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
1990 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1990 Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on the same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
1991 Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in the 1st inning
1991 William H. Webster ends term as 14th director of CIA
1992 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane win
1992 Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM
1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1993 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland
1997 "Gin Game" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
1997 Last episode of Rolanda airs
1997 Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268
1997 Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 The first of a series of apartment bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2005 62nd Venice Film Festival: "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion
2016 Brazilian Senate votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, removing her from office
2017 International Organization for Migration states 18,500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh
2017 Indications Neanderthals were the first to make glue out of tar strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports"
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