Nice to know that our Anniversary is among many other significant events! Love you A.
0401 - St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1154 - King Henry II of England crowned
1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1688 - King James II's wife and son flee to France
1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
1828 - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ
1842 - US recognizes independence of Hawaii
1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
1854 - Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
1871 - Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
1887 - Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
1888 - Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
1891 - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan
1910 - 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt)
1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
1919 - American Meteorological Society found
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
1941 - German submarine U-574 sinks
1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
1945 - Austrian Republic re-establishes
1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1948 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1950 - Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
1955 - Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
1958 - 1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere")
1960 - Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
1965 - French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
1969 - Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
1971 - CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
1971 - Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
1972 - Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
1974 - "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
1976 - Pres Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th and youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
1984 - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1985 - "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1985 - Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service and fined $500
1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1987 - Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
1988 - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
1988 - NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1989 - Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
1991 - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
1991 - "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1992 - CR and AE marry. BEST DAY EVER!
1995 - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles and Diana to divorce
1997 - MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
