TODAY’S HISTORY
1862
Romney expedition, West Virginia starts (US Civil War)
1863
1st underground railway opens in London
1900
Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1910
1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1914
Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1920
Inauguration of the League of Nations held in Paris
1928
Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1932
"Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony"
comics syndicated
1942
Japan invades North Celebes, Dutch East Indies
1943
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st US president to visit a foreign
country in wartime
1944
British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1953
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1957
Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom
1966
India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord
1967
PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station
network
1969
USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1972
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
1981
John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
1983
NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY
Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
1984
Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1990
NCAA approves random drug testing for college football
players
1996
Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1997
1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997
Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
2001
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated
as a national monument, the White House announces; a move environmentalist groups
had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling
2004
9th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King wins Best Film
2011
Lionel Messi wins the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or, for being
the best football player in 2010
2013
81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing
in Quetta, Pakistan
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1738
Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the
Green Mountain Boys), born in Litchfield, Connecticut (d. 1789)
1815
Thomas Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d.
1862)
1850
John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
1873
Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
1873
George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1887
Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other
Poems, Medea)
1908
Bernard Lee, English actor (M in James Bond movies), born in
London, England
1909
Grace Mitchell, educator
1914
Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
1918
Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
1933
Len Coldwell, cricket bowler (England medium-fast in 7 Tests
1962-64)
1934
Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
1937
Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
1938
Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
1945
Rod Stewart, British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm
Sexy), born in London, England
1949
George Foreman, Marshall Texas, American World Heavyweight
boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
1953
Bobby Rahal, Indy-car racer (over 15 wins)
1960
Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
1970
Cameron MacKenzie, Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96)
1978
Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
1986
Saleisha Stowers, American model
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