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1874/--/-- 0 *** Speck, Almer - Born to Speck, Peggy
1874/--/-- 0 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1874/--/-- 0 - English author Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd.
1874/--/-- 0 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris
1874/--/-- 0 - French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir paints La Loge (The Box).
1874/--/-- 0 - The Comanche, Kiowa and other Indian tribes attack Adobe Walls in Texas.
1874/--/-- 0 - The Greenback party advocates currency reform in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 0 - The first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in Paris.
1875/--/-- 1 - American author Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer.
1875/--/-- 1 - Britain buys Suez Canal shares from the bankrupt Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha.
1875/--/-- 1 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence
1875/--/-- 1 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is performed in Paris.
1875/--/-- 1 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, publishes Science and Health.
1875/--/-- 1 - The Bourbon monarchy is restored in Spain under Alfonso XII.
1876/--/-- 2 *** Speck, Gertrude [Sister] - Born to Speck, Peggy
1876/--/-- 2 - Abd al-Hamid II assumes his rule as the last Ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 2 - Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 2 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 2 - British philosopher Herbert Spencer begins publishing the Principles of Sociology.
1876/--/-- 2 - Colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the Union.
1876/--/-- 2 - General Porfirio Diaz seizes power as the dictator of Mexico.
1876/--/-- 2 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Mycenae.
1876/--/-- 2 - Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley paints Flood at the Port of Marly.
1876/--/-- 2 - Japan forces Korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of China.
1876/--/-- 2 - Johann Strauss Jr. composes his waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube.
1876/--/-- 2 - National League founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 2 - Queen Victoria assumes the title of Empress of India.
1876/--/-- 2 - Sioux Indians defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1876/--/-- 2 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montanna
1876/--/-- 2 - The Bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 2 - The U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 is held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
1877/--/-- 3 - Britain annexes Transvaal in South Africa.
1877/--/-- 3 - Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce tribe against the U.S. Army.
1877/--/-- 3 - Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th U.S. president; Wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- 3 - Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on Mars.
1877/--/-- 3 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada
1877/--/-- 3 - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1877/--/-- 3 - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
1877/--/-- 3 - The All-England lawn tennis championship is played at Wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- 3 - The Japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by Saigo Takamori.
1877/--/-- 3 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- 3 - Turkish suppression of Balkan nationalists leads to a new Russo-Turkish War.
1878/--/-- 4 *** Speck, Lon [Brother] - Born to Speck, Peggy
1878/--/-- 4 - Ismail Pasha presents Cleopatra's Needles to Britain (1878) and the U.S. (1880).
1878/--/-- 4 - Northern Cheyenne escape Indian Territory
1878/--/-- 4 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania are granted independence from Turkey.
1878/--/-- 4 - The Congress of Berlin reverses Russian gains from the San Stefano Treaty.
1878/--/-- 4 - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
1878/--/-- 4 - The Russo-Turkish War ends; The Treaty of San Stefano is imposed on Turkey.
1878/--/-- 4 - The second Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1878/--/-- 4 - Turkey's provinces of Bosnia and Hercegovina are placed under Austrian administration.
1879/--/-- 5 - Belgian king Leopold II sponsors Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to the Congo.
1879/--/-- 5 - Cetewayo's Zulus defeat the British at Isandhlwana, but are beaten at Ulundi.
1879/--/-- 5 - Charles Stewart Parnell leads the Home Rule for Ireland party.
1879/--/-- 5 - General Roca defeats the Patagonian Indians, opening the Pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 5 - Impressionist artist Edgar Degas paints Ballerina Posing for a Photograph.
1879/--/-- 5 - Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes A Doll's House.
1879/--/-- 5 - Tawfiq Pasha succeeds his father Ismail Pasha as khedive (viceroy) of Egypt.
1879/--/-- 5 - Territorial disputes lead to the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru.
1879/--/-- 5 - Thomas Edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 5 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
1880/--/-- 6 *** Speck, Orphia [Brother] - Born to Speck, Peggy
1880/--/-- 6 - American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt exhibits A Woman in Black at the Opera.
1880/--/-- 6 - Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 6 - Boer (Afrikaner) uprisings begin against the British in Transvaal, South Africa.
1880/--/-- 6 - France annexes the Pacific island of Tahiti.
1880/--/-- 6 - French novelist Emile Zola writes Nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 6 - German composer Jacques Offenbach writes the opera Tales of Hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 6 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as British prime minister.
1880/--/-- 6 - Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky writes the 1812 Overture.
1881/--/-- 7 - Alexander II is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in Russia.
1881/--/-- 7 - Chester A. Arthur (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 7 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st U.S. president.
1881/--/-- 7 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the Panama Canal.
1881/--/-- 7 - Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th U.S. president; Arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 7 - James A. Garfield (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 7 - Japanese statesman Itagaki Taisuke founds the Jiyuto (Liberal party).
1881/--/-- 7 - Lillie Langtry, mistress of the Prince of Wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 7 - President Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1881/--/-- 7 - The Sudanese under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad overthrow Egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 7 - The first U.S. tennis championship is held in Newport, R.I.
1882/--/-- 8 - A Triple Alliance is established between Austria, Italy and Germany.
1882/--/-- 8 - Edison's New York plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 8 - Impressionist artist Edouard Manet completes the Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
1882/--/-- 8 - Japanese statesman Okuma Shigenobu founds the Kaishinto, or Progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 8 - The British take control of Egypt, suppressing uprisings against Tawfiq Pasha.
1882/--/-- 8 - The U.S. begins to restrict immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
1883/--/-- 9 - Buffalo Bill Cody organizes his Wild West show.
1883/--/-- 9 - Civil Service established
1883/--/-- 9 - Cyrus H. K. Curtis publishes the Lady's Home Journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 9 - German philosopher Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche begins Thus Spake Zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 9 - Maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 9 - Paul Kruger becomes president of the Boer republic of the Transvaal in South Africa.
1883/--/-- 9 - Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 9 - The Brooklyn Bridge is completed in New York.
1883/--/-- 9 - The Fabian Society is founded in London to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 9 - The Island volcano of Krakatoa explodes in Indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 9 - The first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in Chicago by William LeBaron Jenney.
1884/--/-- 10 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 10 - American author Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884/--/-- 10 - Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 10 - German East Africa is formed from Rwanda, Mozambique,Tanzania and Burundi.
1884/--/-- 10 - Germany occupies South West Africa (Namibia).
1884/--/-- 10 - Lewis E. Waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 11 - Boston Symphony Orchestra organizes its Promenade Concerts (the Boston Pops).
1885/--/-- 11 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 11 - French chemist Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 11 - General Gordon is killed by Mahdist forces at the siege of Khartoum in Sudan.
1885/--/-- 11 - Gottlieb Daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 11 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1885/--/-- 11 - J. K. Stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 11 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 11 - The Congo Free State (Zaire) becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885/--/-- 11 - The Indian National Congress movement is founded in Bombay.
1886/--/-- 12 - Apache Indian chief Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles.
1886/--/-- 12 - Britain makes Burma a province of India after winning the Anglo-Burma War.
1886/--/-- 12 - British prime minister Gladstone introduces an unsuccessful Home Rule bill for Ireland.
1886/--/-- 12 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin completes The Kiss.
1886/--/-- 12 - Gold is discovered in Transvaal, South Africa.
1886/--/-- 12 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 12 - Jose Balmaceda becomes president of Chile.
1886/--/-- 12 - Samuel Gompers organizes the American Federation of Labor.
1886/--/-- 12 - The Anglo-German Agreement recognizes German control over Tanganyika (Tanzania).
1886/--/-- 12 - The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York Harbor.
1887/--/-- 13 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
1887/--/-- 13 - France creates the Union of Indochina (most of modern day Vietnam and Kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 13 - The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 14 - A patent is issued to American inventor John H. Loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 14 - American inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 14 - Britain unites its Caribbean colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.
1888/--/-- 14 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh paints Still Life With Sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 14 - Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 14 - Jack the Ripper murders seven women in London.
1888/--/-- 14 - Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov writes Scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 14 - The National Geographic Magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 14 - William II succeeds Frederick III as emperor of Germany.
1889/--/-- 15 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1889/--/-- 15 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd U.S. president.
1889/--/-- 15 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide at Mayerling.
1889/--/-- 15 - German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is exiled in Switzerland.
1889/--/-- 15 - Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition.
1889/--/-- 15 - Japan's first prime minister Ito Hirobumi introduces the Meiji Constitution.
1889/--/-- 15 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 15 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 15 - North Dakota and South Dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 15 - North Dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 15 - Pedro II emperor of Brazil is overthrown in a coup; Brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 15 - South Dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 15 - Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1890/--/-- 16 - AFL founded by S Gompers
1890/--/-- 16 - American naval officer Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
1890/--/-- 16 - American psychologist William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.
1890/--/-- 16 - Cecil Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1890/--/-- 16 - Claude Debussy begins composing Suite Bergamasque, including Clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 16 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 16 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor William II.
1890/--/-- 16 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 16 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 16 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore publishes Manasi (The Mind's Embodiment).
1890/--/-- 16 - Photographer Jacob Riis documents New York's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
1890/--/-- 16 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890/--/-- 16 - Sioux Indians are massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
1890/--/-- 16 - The British South Africa Company occupies Zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the Ndebele.
1890/--/-- 16 - The Forth Railway Bridge is opened, replacing the Brooklyn Bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 16 - Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 16 - Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.
1891/--/-- 17 - Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde publishes his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1891/--/-- 17 - English novelist Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 17 - Eugene Dubois discovers the first Homo erectus remains on Java in Indonesia.
1891/--/-- 17 - French postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti.
1891/--/-- 17 - James Naismith devises the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass.
1891/--/-- 17 - The American Express Company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1892/--/-- 18 - French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints At the Moulin Rouge.
1892/--/-- 18 - Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne completes the Card Players.
1892/--/-- 18 - James J. Corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan.
1892/--/-- 18 - Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 18 - The San Francisco Examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 18 - Writer and political revolutionary Jose Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary party.
1893/--/-- 19 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 19 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 19 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- 19 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- 19 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- 19 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- 19 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 19 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- 19 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1894/--/-- 20 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 20 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 20 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 20 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 20 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 20 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 20 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 20 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 20 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1895/--/-- 21 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 21 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 21 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 21 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 21 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 21 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 21 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 21 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 21 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 21 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 21 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1895/12/15 21 *** Benson, Richard James & Speck, Hortense (Hortie) [Sister] - Married
1896/--/-- 22 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 22 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 22 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 22 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 22 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 22 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 22 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1897/--/-- 23 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 23 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 23 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 23 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 23 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 23 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 23 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 23 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 23 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 23 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 23 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 23 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1897/02/04 23 *** Benson, Floyd Herman [Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1898/--/-- 24 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 24 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 24 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 24 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 24 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 24 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 24 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 24 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 24 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 24 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 24 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 24 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 24 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 24 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 24 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 24 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1898/10/22 24 *** Benson, Richard Oscar [Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1899/--/-- 25 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 25 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 25 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 25 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 25 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 25 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 25 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 25 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 25 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1900/--/-- 26 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 26 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 26 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 26 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 26 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 26 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 26 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 26 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 26 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 26 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 26 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 26 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 26 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 26 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 26 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 26 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1900/09/06 26 *** Benson, Lena May [Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1901/--/-- 27 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia.
1901/--/-- 27 - A stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi is discovered in Susa, Iran.
1901/--/-- 27 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 27 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the National League.
1901/--/-- 27 - Andrew Carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 27 - Britain incorporates Ashanti territory into the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1901/--/-- 27 - English author Beatrix Potter publishes her children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1901/--/-- 27 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and Newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 27 - King C. Gillette founds the American Safety Razor Company.
1901/--/-- 27 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 27 - President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 27 - Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII.
1901/--/-- 27 - Russia occupies Manchuria in north-east China.
1901/--/-- 27 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1901/--/-- 27 - Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of his five Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
1901/--/-- 27 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's Blue Period begins.
1901/--/-- 27 - Temperance advocate Carry Nation uses a hatchet to attack a Kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 27 - The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 27 - The first U.S. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 27 - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1901/--/-- 27 - Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
1901/--/-- 27 - Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs help found the American Socialist party.
1901/01/02 27 - Edward VII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1902/--/-- 28 - American artist Robert Henri paints the New York street scene West 57th Street.
1902/--/-- 28 - Conan Doyle writes the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 28 - English author Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
1902/--/-- 28 - French filmmaker Georges Melies produces A Trip to the Moon.
1902/--/-- 28 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 28 - Maksim Gorky's The Lower Depths is produced at the Moscow Art Theater.
1902/--/-- 28 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1902/--/-- 28 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 28 - The Photo-Secession group is founded in New York by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 28 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the South African War.
1902/07/07 28 *** Benson, Alcie Jane [Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1902/08/-- 28 - Edward VII crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India at Wes
1903/--/-- 29 - Alexander, King of Serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by Peter I.
1903/--/-- 29 - American author Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
1903/--/-- 29 - American novelist Henry James publishes The Ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 29 - Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman is produced in London.
1903/--/-- 29 - Colonel Francis Younghusband leads a British military expedition into Tibet.
1903/--/-- 29 - Edwin S. Porter directs the pioneering Western film The Great Train Robbery.
1903/--/-- 29 - Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
1903/--/-- 29 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 29 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 29 - Panama declares its independence from Columbia; the U.S. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 29 - The Rolls-Royce automobile company is founded in Britain.
1903/--/-- 29 - The U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal Zone.
1903/--/-- 29 - The first World Series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 29 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 29 - Wright Bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 29 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (3) AL BOSTON (5)
1904/--/-- 30 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 30 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- 30 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- 30 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- 30 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- 30 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- 30 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 30 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- 30 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- 30 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/05/01 30 *** Benson, Roy Lee [Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1905/--/-- 31 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 31 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 31 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 31 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 31 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 31 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 31 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 31 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 31 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 31 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 31 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 31 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 31 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 31 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 31 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 31 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 31 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 31 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 31 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/10/-- 31 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1906/--/-- 32 - British author John Galsworthy publishes the first novel of The Forsythe Saga.
1906/--/-- 32 - H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 32 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traverses the Northwest Passage.
1906/--/-- 32 - The Aga Khan III forms the All-India Moslim League.
1906/--/-- 32 - The Dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 32 - The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 32 - Under the Platt Amendment U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 32 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle leads to the U.S. Pure Foods and Drugs Act.
1906/05/20 32 *** Benson, Bonnie Sue [Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1906/10/-- 32 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1907/--/-- 33 - A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia.
1907/--/-- 33 - Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
1907/--/-- 33 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge writes The Playboy of the Western World.
1907/--/-- 33 - Lee De Forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 33 - Oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the Union.
1907/--/-- 33 - Rasputin gains influence at the court of Russian emperor Nicholas II.
1907/--/-- 33 - The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
1907/--/-- 33 - The first Ziegfeld Follies are staged in New York City.
1907/10/-- 33 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (0)
1907/10/06 33 *** Benson, Glendon Lucile [Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1908/--/-- 34 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 34 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 34 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- 34 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- 34 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- 34 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 34 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 34 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 34 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- 34 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- 34 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- 34 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- 34 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 34 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- 34 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- 34 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- 34 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- 34 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/10/-- 34 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1908/12/22 34 *** Benson, Raymond [Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) New Market, Madison, Alabama
1909/--/-- 35 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 35 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 35 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 35 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 35 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 35 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 35 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 35 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 35 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 35 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/06/01 35 *** Benson, Raymond [Nephew] - Died New Market, Madison, Alabama New Market, Madison, Alabama
1909/10/-- 35 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 36 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 36 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 36 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 36 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 36 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 36 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 36 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 36 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 36 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 36 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 36 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 36 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 36 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 36 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 36 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 36 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/09/10 36 *** Benson, Malda Leona [Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) New Market, Madison, Alabama
1910/10/-- 36 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/--/-- 37 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 37 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 37 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 37 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 37 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 37 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 37 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 37 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 37 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 37 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 37 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 37 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 37 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 37 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 37 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 37 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 37 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 37 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/02/16 37 *** Benson, Floyd Herman [Nephew] - Died Kelso, Tennessee Kelso, Tennessee Kelso, Tennessee
1911/06/02 37 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 37 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1912/--/-- 38 - American Indian Jim Thorpe wins the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 38 - American author Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1912/--/-- 38 - American writer Willa Cather publishes her first novel Alexander's Bridge.
1912/--/-- 38 - Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 38 - Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler publishes The Neurotic Constitution.
1912/--/-- 38 - British explorers under Scott reach the South Pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 38 - French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase.
1912/--/-- 38 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 38 - Morocco is divided between France and Spain after the second Moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 38 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 38 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 38 - Piltdown man is discovered in Britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 38 - Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky choreographs and dances in The Afternoon of the Faun.
1912/--/-- 38 - The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
1912/--/-- 38 - The liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 38 - Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the U.S. presidency under the Bull Moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 38 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL BOSTON (4)
1912/10/27 38 *** Benson, Willis Daniel [Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1913/--/-- 39 - American poet Robert Frost publishes A Boy's Will.
1913/--/-- 39 - Bertrand Russell and A.E. Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica.
1913/--/-- 39 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 39 - English novelist D.H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers.
1913/--/-- 39 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913/--/-- 39 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring causes a scandal at the Paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 39 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 39 - King George I of Greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by Constantine I
1913/--/-- 39 - Marcel Proust writes the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
1913/--/-- 39 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at Lambarene in Africa.
1913/--/-- 39 - Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 39 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille.
1913/--/-- 39 - Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb found the political journal The New Statesman.
1913/--/-- 39 - The constructivism art movement begins in Russia.
1913/--/-- 39 - The island of Crete is united with Greece.
1913/--/-- 39 - The second Balkan War begins with a Bulgarian attack on Serbia.
1913/--/-- 39 - Victoriano Huerta leads a military coup in Mexico; president Francisco Madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 39 - Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president; Marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 39 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1913/10/-- 39 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1914/--/-- 40 - A British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton is marooned in the Antarctic.
1914/--/-- 40 - A German fleet defeats the British at Coronel but is decimated at the Falklands.
1914/--/-- 40 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating World War I.
1914/--/-- 40 - Austrian forces invade Serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 40 - Black composer W.C. Handy writes the St. Louis Blues.
1914/--/-- 40 - Charlie Chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 40 - France, Russia and Britain (the Allies) are at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1914/--/-- 40 - George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 40 - German forces invade Belgium and France but are halted at the Marne.
1914/--/-- 40 - German submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on Allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 40 - Japan joins the Allies and captures the German base of Tsingtao in China.
1914/--/-- 40 - Mack Sennett produces comedy films starring the Keystone Kops.
1914/--/-- 40 - Parisian couturier Coco Chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 40 - President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality in World War I.
1914/--/-- 40 - Russian forces invade East Prussia but are defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 40 - The Panama Canal is completed, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1914/--/-- 40 - Turkey declares war on the Allies; Britain annexes Turkish Cyprus.
1914/--/-- 40 - U.S. Marines land at Veracruz in Mexico; President Huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 40 - World War I begins
1914/10/-- 40 - World Series NL BOSTON (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (0)
1915/--/-- 41 - A German submarine torpedoes the British liner Lusitania; 124 Americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 41 - Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
1915/--/-- 41 - Anglo-French forces land at Gallipoli in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 41 - Austrian writer Franz Kafka publishes The Metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 41 - D. W. Griffith's movie The Birth of a Nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 41 - Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa lead rebellions against Venustiano Carranza in Mexico.
1915/--/-- 41 - English author Somerset Maugham publishes Of Human Bondage.
1915/--/-- 41 - German Zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on Britain.
1915/--/-- 41 - Italy joins the Allies and invades Austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 41 - President Wilson recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza.
1915/--/-- 41 - Serbia is overrun by the combined forces of Austria, Germany and Bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 41 - The Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) fight at Gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 41 - The Dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 41 - The Germans use poison gas for the first time at Ypres on the Western Front.
1915/--/-- 41 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 41 - War poet Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/10/-- 41 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/--/-- 42 - Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
1916/--/-- 42 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli after strong Turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 42 - American poet Carl Sandburg publishes his first book Chicago Poems.
1916/--/-- 42 - British forces assault the German line at the Somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 42 - German assaults at Verdun are repulsed by the French with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 42 - James Joyce publishes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1916/--/-- 42 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
1916/--/-- 42 - Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 42 - Margaret Sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 42 - North Sea storms flood lowlands in the Netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 42 - T. Tzara DADA
1916/--/-- 42 - The British and German fleets clash at the Battle of Jutland.
1916/--/-- 42 - The Easter Rising in Dublin is suppressed within a week by the British.
1916/--/-- 42 - The Russian Brusilov Offensive meets with success on the Eastern Front.
1916/--/-- 42 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 42 - U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 42 - U.S. troops under Pershing invade Mexico in retaliation for raids by Pancho Villa.
1916/10/-- 42 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1917/--/-- 43 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- 43 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- 43 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 43 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 43 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 43 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- 43 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- 43 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- 43 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- 43 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- 43 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 43 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- 43 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- 43 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- 43 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- 43 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- 43 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- 43 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- 43 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- 43 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 43 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- 43 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- 43 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- 43 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 43 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- 43 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- 43 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 43 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/10/-- 43 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1918/--/-- 44 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 44 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 44 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 44 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 44 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 44 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 44 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 44 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 44 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 44 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 44 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 44 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 44 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 44 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 44 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 44 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 44 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 44 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 44 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/10/-- 44 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
1919/--/-- 45 - Boxer Jack Dempsey knocks out Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 45 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1919/--/-- 45 - English aviators Alcock and Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 45 - French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 45 - George Gershwin composes his first hit song Swanee.
1919/--/-- 45 - German communist Rosa Luxemburg is murdered after the Sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 45 - Italian leader Benito Mussolini organizes his Fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 45 - Jan Smuts succeeds Louis Botha as prime minister of South Africa.
1919/--/-- 45 - Lady Astor becomes the first woman member of the British House of Commons.
1919/--/-- 45 - League of Nations
1919/--/-- 45 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 45 - Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to the Soviet Union.
1919/--/-- 45 - The Bauhaus school of design is founded in Germany by Walter Gropius.
1919/--/-- 45 - The Chicago White Sox conspire to fix the baseball World Series.
1919/--/-- 45 - The German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1919/--/-- 45 - The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 45 - The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles.
1919/--/-- 45 - The Polish-Soviet War begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 45 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
1919/--/-- 45 - Versailles Peace Treaty
1919/--/-- 45 - World War I ends
1919/10/-- 45 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (5) AL CHICAGO (3)
1920/--/-- 46 *** Speck, Belle [Sister] - Died
1920/--/-- 46 - 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 46 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 46 - A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
1920/--/-- 46 - Admiral Miklos Horthy is appointed regent of Hungary.
1920/--/-- 46 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 46 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
1920/--/-- 46 - American tennis star Bill Tilden wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 46 - Arturo Alessandri becomes president of Chile.
1920/--/-- 46 - British East Africa becomes a crown colony as Kenya.
1920/--/-- 46 - Chaim Weizmann is named president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920/--/-- 46 - Dutch artist Piet Mondrian paints the Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
1920/--/-- 46 - French Art Deco glassmaker Rene Lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 46 - German East Africa is transferred to British control as Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
1920/--/-- 46 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British rule in India.
1920/--/-- 46 - Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is deposed and killed by Alvaro Obregon.
1920/--/-- 46 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first Hercule Poirot story.
1920/--/-- 46 - Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 46 - The 18th Amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the U.S.
1920/--/-- 46 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 46 - The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 46 - The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920/09/16 46 *** Little, Alice Bessie & Benson, Richard Oscar [Nephew] - Married
1920/10/-- 46 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL CLEVELAND (5)
1921/--/-- 47 - Alexander rules the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1921/--/-- 47 - American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 47 - Berber tribes under Abd el-Krim attack garrisons in Spanish Morocco.
1921/--/-- 47 - French cubist artist Fernand Leger paints Three Women.
1921/--/-- 47 - German surrealist artist Max Ernst paints L'Elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 47 - Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president; Coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 47 - Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 47 - Latin lover Rudolph Valentino stars in the silent film The Sheik.
1921/--/-- 47 - Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced.
1921/--/-- 47 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary Mexican life.
1921/--/-- 47 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created by Royal Charter.
1921/--/-- 47 - The Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Britain.
1921/--/-- 47 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 47 - W. L. MacKenzie King is elected prime minister of Canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 47 - Warren G. Harding (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1921/10/-- 47 - World Series NL NEW YORK (5) AL NEW YORK (3)
1921/10/15 47 *** Benson, Clyde Little [Great Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Truscott, Knox,Texas
1922/--/-- 48 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot writes The Waste Land.
1922/--/-- 48 - Constantine I abdicates as king of Greece; is succeeded by George II.
1922/--/-- 48 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 48 - Egypt achieves independence from Britain and becomes a monarchy under Fuad I.
1922/--/-- 48 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home.
1922/--/-- 48 - English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 48 - English composer William Walton composes Facade.
1922/--/-- 48 - Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 48 - Irish poet and novelist James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
1922/--/-- 48 - Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 48 - Kemal Ataturk's attempts to restore Turkish territory leads to the Chanak Crisis.
1922/--/-- 48 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922/--/-- 48 - Robert Flaherty produces the first major film documentary Nanook of the North.
1922/--/-- 48 - The Fascists march on Rome; King Victor Emmanuel III names Mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 48 - William T. Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1922/10/-- 48 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1923/--/-- 49 - "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 49 - Adolf Hitler's coup d'etat in Munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 49 - Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt opens a factory in Germany.
1923/--/-- 49 - American poet E. E. Cummings writes the novel The Enormous Room.
1923/--/-- 49 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine Time.
1923/--/-- 49 - Calvin Coolidge (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1923/--/-- 49 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 49 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
1923/--/-- 49 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to enforce German war reparations.
1923/--/-- 49 - General Miguel Primo de Rivera rules as dictator of Spain.
1923/--/-- 49 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 49 - Italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 49 - Jewish philosopher Martin Buber publishes Ich und Du (I and Thou).
1923/--/-- 49 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary Space.
1923/--/-- 49 - Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 49 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 49 - The Treaty of Lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern Turkey.
1923/--/-- 49 - Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 49 - Turkey is declared a republic; Ataturk Kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 49 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 49 - Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
1923/08/31 49 *** Benson, Glendon Ora [Great Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Gilliland, Knox, Texas
1923/10/-- 49 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1924/--/-- 50 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My Battle).
1924/--/-- 50 - Arab leader Ibn Saud drives the Hashimites from Mecca.
1924/--/-- 50 - English novelist E.M. Forster publishes A Passage To India.
1924/--/-- 50 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 50 - German novelist Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain.
1924/--/-- 50 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
1924/--/-- 50 - Ramsay MacDonald forms the first Labour government in Britain.
1924/--/-- 50 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 50 - Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 50 - The Boston Bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 50 - The military declare a republic in Greece; King George II is exiled.
1924/--/-- 50 - U.S. Congress investigates suspicious dealings in the Teapot Dome scandal.
1924/10/-- 50 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL WASHINGTON (4)
1925/--/-- 51 - Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925/--/-- 51 - American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1925/--/-- 51 - American writer John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1925/--/-- 51 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 51 - Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation.
1925/--/-- 51 - Black American dancer Josephine Baker stars in La Revue negre in Paris.
1925/--/-- 51 - Clarence Birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 51 - Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
1925/--/-- 51 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 51 - Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as shah of Iran.
1925/--/-- 51 - Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin.
1925/--/-- 51 - Swiss-born artist Paul Klee paints Fish Magic.
1925/--/-- 51 - The Locarno Pact finalizes the treaties between the World War I protagonists.
1925/--/-- 51 - The New Yorker magazine is founded in New York City.
1925/--/-- 51 - The all-black revue Runnin' Wild introduces the Charleston dance craze.
1925/09/15 51 *** Benson, Richard Edgar [Great Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Gomez, Terry, Texas
1925/10/-- 51 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL WASHINGTON (3)
1926/--/-- 52 - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe paints her flower portrait Black Iris.
1926/--/-- 52 - American golfer Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open and the British Open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 52 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 52 - Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona becomes president after a military coup in Portugal.
1926/--/-- 52 - Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926/--/-- 52 - Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926/--/-- 52 - English author A.A. Milne writes the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh.
1926/--/-- 52 - French troops in Morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by Abd el-Krim.
1926/--/-- 52 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926/--/-- 52 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1926/--/-- 52 - Nobile, Amundsen and Ellsworth pilot the airship Norge over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 52 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first airplane flight over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 52 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich premiers his First Symphony.
1926/--/-- 52 - The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 52 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is organized in Chicago.
1926/--/-- 52 - U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/10/-- 52 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1927/--/-- 53 - American dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 53 - American writer Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
1927/--/-- 53 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.
1927/--/-- 53 - Blackface singer Al Jolson appears in the first sound motion picture The Jazz Singer.
1927/--/-- 53 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 53 - Civil war in China
1927/--/-- 53 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting Pants on Philip.
1927/--/-- 53 - Dancer Martha Graham opens her first dance studio in New York City.
1927/--/-- 53 - Duke Ellington's jazz band stars at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York City.
1927/--/-- 53 - English novelist Virginia Woolf writes To The Lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 53 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designs the Turun Sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 53 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 53 - German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927/--/-- 53 - German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse publishes Steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 53 - Helen Newington Wills wins the Wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 53 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 53 - The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927/10/-- 53 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1928/--/-- 54 *** Benson, baby Stillborn [Great Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie
1928/--/-- 54 *** Benson, baby Stillborn [Great Nephew] - Died
1928/--/-- 54 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 54 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 54 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 54 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 54 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 54 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 54 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 54 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 54 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 54 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 54 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 54 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 54 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 54 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 54 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 54 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 54 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 54 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 54 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/10/-- 54 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1929/--/-- 55 - Alexander institutes absolute rule as king of Yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 55 - American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1929/--/-- 55 - American novelist William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury.
1929/--/-- 55 - British poet Robert Graves publishes his war memoir Goodbye To All That.
1929/--/-- 55 - Erich Maria Remarque publishes his war novel All Quiet On the Western Front.
1929/--/-- 55 - Ernest Hemingway writes the war novel A Farewell To Arms.
1929/--/-- 55 - French artist and writer Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles.
1929/--/-- 55 - Heinrich Himmler is appointed head of the SS, Hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 55 - Herbert C. Hoover (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1929/--/-- 55 - Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st U.S. president; Curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 55 - Jews and Arabs clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 55 - Seven Chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
1929/--/-- 55 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
1929/--/-- 55 - Stock Market crashes
1929/--/-- 55 - The Lateran Treaty creates the independent state of the Vatican City.
1929/--/-- 55 - The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is founded in New York City.
1929/--/-- 55 - The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 55 - The Workers Party of America is renamed the Communist Party of the United States.
1929/--/-- 55 - The first Academy Awards are presented; Wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 55 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/--/-- 56 - American artist Edward Hopper paints Early Sunday Morning.
1930/--/-- 56 - American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.
1930/--/-- 56 - American poet Hart Crane publishes The Bridge.
1930/--/-- 56 - Artist Grant Wood paints American Gothic.
1930/--/-- 56 - British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 56 - Carol II is proclaimed king of Romania.
1930/--/-- 56 - Dashiell Hammett publishes the detective novel The Maltese Falcon.
1930/--/-- 56 - English-born American writer W. H. Auden publishes his Poems.
1930/--/-- 56 - Getulio Vargas is appointed president of Brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 56 - Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 56 - Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's film The Blue Angel.
1930/--/-- 56 - Noel Coward's play Private Lives is produced in London.
1930/--/-- 56 - The British airship R101 crashes in France.
1930/--/-- 56 - The city of Constantinople is re-named Istanbul.
1930/--/-- 56 - Vannevar Bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 56 - Worldwide depression begins
1930/10/-- 56 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/10/31 56 *** Benson, Alcie Mae [Great Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1930/11/13 56 *** Benson, Alcie Mae [Great Niece] - Died Brownfield, Terry, Texas Brownfield, Terry, Texas Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1931/--/-- 57 - American cartoonist Chester Gould creates the adventure comic strip Dick Tracy.
1931/--/-- 57 - American journalist and writer Damon Runyon publishes Guys and Dolls.
1931/--/-- 57 - American writer Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth.
1931/--/-- 57 - Auguste Piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 57 - Ben Shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 57 - Chicago gangster Al Capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 57 - Explorer George Hubert Wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the Arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 57 - Japanese forces occupy Manchuria.
1931/--/-- 57 - Lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 57 - Organic chemist W. H. Carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 57 - Radio astronomy begins when Karl Jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 57 - Spain is declared a republic; King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
1931/--/-- 57 - The Empire State Building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 57 - The Star-Spangled Banner becomes the U.S. national anthem.
1931/10/-- 57 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (3)
1932/--/-- 58 - American physicist Carl D. Anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 58 - American sculptor Alexander Calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 58 - American southern author Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road.
1932/--/-- 58 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of Portugal.
1932/--/-- 58 - Arab leader Ibn Saud founds the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1932/--/-- 58 - British author Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World.
1932/--/-- 58 - Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 58 - Eamon de Valera is elected president of the Republic of Ireland.
1932/--/-- 58 - Engelbert Dollfuss is elected chancellor of Austria.
1932/--/-- 58 - English physicist James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 58 - Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt pledges a New Deal.
1932/--/-- 58 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
1932/--/-- 58 - Revolution in Siam (Thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 58 - Sir Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
1932/--/-- 58 - The Bonus Army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in Washington, D.C.
1932/--/-- 58 - The Royal Shakespeare Theater opens at Stratford-on-Avon, England.
1932/--/-- 58 - The first particle accelerator is built at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.
1932/09/22 58 *** Benson, Roy Lee [Great Nephew] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1932/10/-- 58 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1933/--/-- 59 - A fossilized skull of the prehistoric Steinheim man is found in Germany.
1933/--/-- 59 - Actor Charles Laughton stars in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII.
1933/--/-- 59 - Busby Berkeley choreographs the dances for the film Gold Diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 59 - Dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in the film Flying Down to Rio.
1933/--/-- 59 - Edwin Armstrong invents frequency modulation (FM) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 59 - Fiorello La Guardia is elected mayor of New York City for the first time.
1933/--/-- 59 - Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history.
1933/--/-- 59 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1933/--/-- 59 - French novelist and political activist Andre Malraux publishes Man's Fate.
1933/--/-- 59 - Fulgencio Batista leads a military coup against Gerardo Machado y Morales in Cuba.
1933/--/-- 59 - Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 59 - Joseph Goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the Nazi party.
1933/--/-- 59 - Mae West stars in the films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.
1933/--/-- 59 - Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling founds the National Unity party.
1933/--/-- 59 - President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany.
1933/--/-- 59 - Roosevelt begins "New Deal"
1933/--/-- 59 - Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. president; Garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 59 - The 21st Amendment ends the prohibition era in the U.S.
1933/--/-- 59 - The Marx Brothers star in the classic comedy film Duck Soup.
1933/--/-- 59 - The National Recovery Administration (NRA) is launched by President Roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 59 - The Nazis erect the first concentration camps in Germany.
1933/--/-- 59 - The Public Works Administration (PWA) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 59 - The Reichstag fire gives the Nazis a pretext for outlawing the German Communist party.
1933/--/-- 59 - The Stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in France.
1933/10/-- 59 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL WASHINGTON (1)
1934/--/-- 60 - Adolf Hitler becomes "Fueher" of Germany
1934/--/-- 60 - Alexander, king of Yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son Peter II succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 60 - American cartoonist Al Capp begins the comic strip Li'l Abner.
1934/--/-- 60 - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is murdered by Austrian Nazis.
1934/--/-- 60 - Cole Porter writes the score for the Broadway musical Anything Goes.
1934/--/-- 60 - Drought leads to severe dust storms in the Dust Bowl region of the Great Plains.
1934/--/-- 60 - Elijah Muhammad becomes leader of the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims).
1934/--/-- 60 - Fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 60 - George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein found The School of American Ballet.
1934/--/-- 60 - Henry Miller publishes the Tropic of Cancer. (It is banned in the U.S. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 60 - Hitler becomes Fuhrer (leader) of Germany after Hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 60 - John Dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the FBI.
1934/--/-- 60 - Lazaro Cardenas is chosen by Plutarco Calles as president of Mexico.
1934/--/-- 60 - Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 60 - Mao Tse-tung leads the Chinese Communists on the Long March.
1934/--/-- 60 - Naturalist Charles W. Beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 60 - SA leader Ernst Roehm is assassinated on the orders of Hitler.
1934/--/-- 60 - Surrealist artist Rene Magritte paints The Human Condition.
1934/--/-- 60 - The British ocean liner Queen Mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 60 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 60 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is formed to protect U.S. investors.
1934/10/-- 60 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1935/--/-- 61 - American writer Thomas Wolfe publishes Of Time and the River.
1935/--/-- 61 - Arthur Dempster discovers U-235, the isotope of uranium used in atomic bombs.
1935/--/-- 61 - Child film actress Shirley Temple stars in The Little Colonel.
1935/--/-- 61 - Controversial Louisiana senator Huey P. Long is assassinated.
1935/--/-- 61 - Eduard Benes succeeds Tomas Masaryk as president of Czechoslovakia.
1935/--/-- 61 - Errol Flynn stars in the swashbuckling adventure film Captain Blood.
1935/--/-- 61 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs The 39 Steps.
1935/--/-- 61 - George Gershwin composes the modern American opera Porgy and Bess.
1935/--/-- 61 - Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935/--/-- 61 - Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1935/--/-- 61 - King of Swing Benny Goodman forms the Benny Goodman Trio.
1935/--/-- 61 - Leni Riefenstahl directs the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.
1935/--/-- 61 - Physicist Hideki Yukawa predicts the existence of the meson subatomic particle.
1935/--/-- 61 - Robert Sherwood's play The Petrified Forest is produced.
1935/--/-- 61 - Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt patents the first practical radar system.
1935/--/-- 61 - Social Security Act provides retirement insurance
1935/--/-- 61 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina.
1935/--/-- 61 - The Monopoly board game is patented in the U.S.
1935/--/-- 61 - The Moscow subway is opened.
1935/--/-- 61 - The Nuremberg Racial Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
1935/--/-- 61 - The monarchy is restored in Greece under George II.
1935/07/19 61 *** Benson, girl Stillborn [Great Niece] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1935/10/-- 61 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL DETROIT (4)
1936/--/-- 62 - Black athlete Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.
1936/--/-- 62 - Boulder Dam is completed in Arizona (it is renamed Hoover Dam in 1947).
1936/--/-- 62 - Edward VIII abdicates as king of Great Britain; he is succeeded by George VI.
1936/--/-- 62 - HItler and Mussolini announce the Rome-Berlin Axis (alliance).
1936/--/-- 62 - Henry R. Luce begins publishing Life magazine.
1936/--/-- 62 - Ioannis Metaxas establishes a dictatorship in Greece.
1936/--/-- 62 - Italy and Germany send military forces and aid to support Franco in Spain.
1936/--/-- 62 - Italy annexes Abyssinia (Ethiopia); Emperor Haile Selassie is exiled.
1936/--/-- 62 - Japan concludes the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany.
1936/--/-- 62 - John Maynard Keynes writes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
1936/--/-- 62 - Margaret Mitchell publishes her only novel Gone With the Wind.
1936/--/-- 62 - Olympic ice skater Sonja Henie turns professional.
1936/--/-- 62 - Spanish Civil War
1936/--/-- 62 - Stalin begins the Great Purge of Soviet Russia's political and military leadership.
1936/--/-- 62 - The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) begins the first public television service.
1936/--/-- 62 - The Soviet Union and the International Brigades support the Nationalists in Spain.
1936/--/-- 62 - The Spanish Civil War begins when General Franco leads a military revolt.
1936/--/-- 62 - The works of the composer Dmitry Shostakovich are denounced in Russia.
1936/01/-- 62 - Edward VIII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1936/10/-- 62 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1936/12/10 62 - George VI succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the abdication of E
1937/--/-- 63 - American author John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men.
1937/--/-- 63 - Anastasio Somoza Garcia becomes president of Nicaragua.
1937/--/-- 63 - Aviatrix Amelia Earhart is lost during a flight across the Pacific.
1937/--/-- 63 - Ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn debuts in Giselle at Sadler's Wells, London.
1937/--/-- 63 - Danish author Isak Dinesen publishes her autobiography Out of Africa.
1937/--/-- 63 - Dow Chemical develops plastics
1937/--/-- 63 - English writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the fantasy novel The Hobbit.
1937/--/-- 63 - Farouk succeeds Fuad I as king of Egypt.
1937/--/-- 63 - Frank Lloyd Wright begins building the Taliesin West complex in Arizona.
1937/--/-- 63 - French filmmaker Jean Renoir directs Grand Illusion.
1937/--/-- 63 - German aircraft supporting Franco's forces destroy the town of Guernica in Spain.
1937/--/-- 63 - Joe Louis the Brown Bomber wins the heavyweight boxing championship.
1937/--/-- 63 - Nationalist and Communist forces unite to combat the Japanese in China.
1937/--/-- 63 - Neville Chamberlain succeeds Stanley Baldwin as prime minister of Britain.
1937/--/-- 63 - Swing bandleader Artie Shaw records Begin the Beguine.
1937/--/-- 63 - The Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII) marries the divorcee Mrs. Simpson.
1937/--/-- 63 - The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J.
1937/--/-- 63 - The Golden Gate Bridge is opened in San Francisco.
1937/--/-- 63 - The Japanese invasion of China begins the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937/05/02 63 - George VI crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Cosm
1937/10/-- 63 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1938/--/-- 64 - A coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the cost of Africa.
1938/--/-- 64 - American composer Aaron Copland writes the ballet score for Billy the Kid.
1938/--/-- 64 - American singer Ella Fitzgerald records A-tisket, A-tasket.
1938/--/-- 64 - British prime minister Neville Chamberlain declares "peace for our time."
1938/--/-- 64 - Chamberlain and Daladier appease Hitler at the Munich Conference.
1938/--/-- 64 - Chester Carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic dry-copying process.
1938/--/-- 64 - Don Budge becomes the first player to win the Grand Slam (4 tennis championships).
1938/--/-- 64 - General Franco isolates the Republican forces in Spain and attacks Catalonia.
1938/--/-- 64 - German chemist Otto Hahn discovers the principles of nuclear fission.
1938/--/-- 64 - Germany occupies the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
1938/--/-- 64 - Hitler invades Austria; a union (Anschluss) of Austria and Germany is proclaimed.
1938/--/-- 64 - Hungarian Lajos Biro invents the first practical ball-point pen.
1938/--/-- 64 - Ismet Inonu succeeds Kemal Atuturk as president of Turkey.
1938/--/-- 64 - Jewish property is attacked in Germany in the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
1938/--/-- 64 - Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud flees to England to escape Nazi persecution.
1938/--/-- 64 - Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds causes panic in the U.S.
1938/--/-- 64 - Swing musician Glenn Miller organizes his band.
1938/--/-- 64 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates U.S. subversives.
1938/--/-- 64 - The U.S. and Britain send aid to the Chinese in their war against Japan.
1938/--/-- 64 - Thornton Wilder wins the Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town.
1938/--/-- 64 - Walt Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown.
1938/10/-- 64 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1939/--/-- 65 - American author Nathanael West publishes The Day of the Locust.
1939/--/-- 65 - American novelist John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.
1939/--/-- 65 - An Anglo-Saxon burial ship is excavated at Sutton Hoo in England.
1939/--/-- 65 - Britain and France declare war on Germany but are unable to aid Poland.
1939/--/-- 65 - Child film actress Judy Garland stars in the musical The Wizard of Oz.
1939/--/-- 65 - Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in the film Gone With the Wind.
1939/--/-- 65 - English author Christopher Isherwood publishes Goodbye to Berlin.
1939/--/-- 65 - Foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- 65 - General Franco's forces capture Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
1939/--/-- 65 - Germany and Italy form the Pact of Steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- 65 - Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.
1939/--/-- 65 - Igor Sikorsky develops America's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- 65 - Italian forces occupy Albania; King Zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- 65 - Physical chemist Linus Pauling publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
1939/--/-- 65 - President Roosevelt (prompted by Einstein) orders a U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- 65 - President Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality in World War II.
1939/--/-- 65 - Robert Gordon Menzies succeeds Joseph Lyons as prime minister of Australia.
1939/--/-- 65 - Soviet troops invade Poland; Germany and the USSR partition the country.
1939/--/-- 65 - Swiss chemist Paul Muller discovers the chemical insecticide DDT.
1939/--/-- 65 - The He 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in Germany.
1939/--/-- 65 - The Russo-Finnish War begins with the Soviet invasion of Finland.
1939/--/-- 65 - The first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- 65 - World War II begins
1939/01/18 65 *** Benson, Glendon Lucile [Niece] & Stack, Edward Paul - Married
1939/07/04 65 *** Stack, Thomas Edward [Great Nephew] - Born to Stack, Edward Paul and Benson, Glendon Lucile Akron, Summit, Ohio
1939/10/-- 65 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1940/--/-- 66 - American novelist Carson McCullers publishes The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
1940/--/-- 66 - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in the film Road to Singapore.
1940/--/-- 66 - British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevents the German invasion of England.
1940/--/-- 66 - Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in the film The Philadelphia Story.
1940/--/-- 66 - Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls.
1940/--/-- 66 - Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 66 - General Charles de Gaulle rallies Free French resistance in London.
1940/--/-- 66 - German forces reach Paris; Vichy France under Marshal Petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 66 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Allied forces aid Norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 66 - Italian forces invade Egypt but are repulsed; the British invade Libya.
1940/--/-- 66 - Italy declares war on the Allies and invades southern France.
1940/--/-- 66 - Japan joins the Axis alliance and occupies northern French Indochina (Vietnam).
1940/--/-- 66 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates; Romania and Hungary join the Axis forces.
1940/--/-- 66 - Prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at Lascaux in France.
1940/--/-- 66 - Radar wins Battle of Britian
1940/--/-- 66 - Raymond Chandler publishes the detective novel Farewell, My Lovely.
1940/--/-- 66 - The British expeditionary force is evacuated from Dunkerque in France.
1940/--/-- 66 - The German army begins a blitzkrieg attack on Holland, Belgium, and France.
1940/--/-- 66 - The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
1940/--/-- 66 - The Tacoma Narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 66 - Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister after Chamberlain resigns.
1940/10/-- 66 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1941/--/-- 67 - A British task force sinks the German pocket battleship Bismarck.
1941/--/-- 67 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 67 - Benchley Park computers sabotage German Enigma
1941/--/-- 67 - Churchill and Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 67 - German U-boats inflict heavy losses on British shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic.
1941/--/-- 67 - German paratroopers land on Crete and capture the island from the British.
1941/--/-- 67 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes Mother Courage and Her Children.
1941/--/-- 67 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece; British forces are evacuated to Crete.
1941/--/-- 67 - Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1941/--/-- 67 - Gutzon Borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at Mount Rushmore.
1941/--/-- 67 - Ho Chi Minh organizes the Viet Minh to combat the Japanese in Indochina.
1941/--/-- 67 - Japanese forces capture Hong Kong and invade Malaya and the Philippines.
1941/--/-- 67 - Karsh's photographic portrait of Churchill becomes a symbol of British resistance.
1941/--/-- 67 - Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to England on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 67 - Orson Welles directs the film Citizen Kane.
1941/--/-- 67 - President Roosevelt talks of Four Freedoms in his State of the Union speech.
1941/--/-- 67 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 67 - The German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel begins an offensive in North Africa.
1941/--/-- 67 - The German Blitz, the nighttime bombing of London, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 67 - The German advance on Moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 67 - The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; America enters World War II.
1941/--/-- 67 - The Japanese occupy Indochina and move into Cambodia (Kampuchea) and Thailand.
1941/--/-- 67 - The Lend-Lease Act allows the transfer of U.S. war materials to Britain and China.
1941/--/-- 67 - The U.S. freezes Japanese assets in retaliation for Japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 67 - U.S. troops occupy Iceland to forestall its occupation by Germany.
1941/09/11 67 *** Benson, Richard Oscar [Nephew] - Died Seagraves, Terry, Texas Seagraves, Terry, Texas Old Brownfield Cemetery, Terry, Texas
1941/10/-- 67 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1942/--/-- 68 - A Russian counterattack isolates the Sixth Army at Stalingrad; Hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 68 - A U.S. fleet defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Midway.
1942/--/-- 68 - Actor James Cagney wins an Academy Award for the film Yankee Doodle Dandie.
1942/--/-- 68 - American B-25 bombers make the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
1942/--/-- 68 - American and Filipino forces retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1942/--/-- 68 - American crooner Bing Crosby records the hit song White Christmas.
1942/--/-- 68 - American forces in the Philippines surrender; the Bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 68 - American humorist James Thurber publishes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
1942/--/-- 68 - French writer Albert Camus publishes The Stranger.
1942/--/-- 68 - Gandhi is arrested after the Quit India movement demands a British withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 68 - General MacArthur is ordered to the leave the Philippines; he vows I shall return.
1942/--/-- 68 - German forces occupy Vichy France; the French fleet is scuttled in Toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 68 - Hitler proposes the Final Solution of the Jewish Question; the Holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 68 - Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the classic film Casablanca.
1942/--/-- 68 - Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti directs his first film Ossessione.
1942/--/-- 68 - Manhattan Project scientists under Fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 68 - Rommel's Africa Corps capture Tobruk and drive the British back to Egypt.
1942/--/-- 68 - The British Eighth Army under Montgomery begins a new drive into Libya.
1942/--/-- 68 - The German advance in the Caucasus is halted at Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
1942/--/-- 68 - The German advance on Egypt is halted at the Battle of El-Alamein.
1942/--/-- 68 - The Japanese conquer Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Burma.
1942/--/-- 68 - The RAF makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the German city of Cologne.
1942/--/-- 68 - The Soviet southern offensive is halted; the Germans advance on the Caucasus.
1942/--/-- 68 - The U.S. government transfers 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 68 - U.S. Marines invade Guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 68 - U.S. forces under General Eisenhower invade Morocco and Algeria.
1942/--/-- 68 - V-2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) rockets are tested at Peenemunde in Germany.
1942/10/-- 68 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (1)
1943/--/-- 69 - American aircraft join the RAF in round the clock bombing of Germany.
1943/--/-- 69 - American author Carson McCullers publishes The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
1943/--/-- 69 - American writer Ayn Rand publishes The Fountainhead.
1943/--/-- 69 - Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Casablanca to plan their war strategy.
1943/--/-- 69 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference.
1943/--/-- 69 - French existentialist writer Jean Paul Sartre publishes Being and Nothingness.
1943/--/-- 69 - French writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir publishes She Came to Stay.
1943/--/-- 69 - German paratroopers rescue Mussolini.
1943/--/-- 69 - Marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents the Aqualung (scuba).
1943/--/-- 69 - Marshal Badoglio signs an armistice with the Allies; Italy declares war on Germany.
1943/--/-- 69 - Mussolini is deposed; Marshal Badoglio assumes power in Italy.
1943/--/-- 69 - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma! is produced.
1943/--/-- 69 - Robert Oppenheimer establishes the Los Alamos laboratory to build the atomic bomb.
1943/--/-- 69 - Singer Paul Robeson stars in the title role of the Broadway production of Othello.
1943/--/-- 69 - The Allied armies invade Sicily.
1943/--/-- 69 - The Allies invade the southern tip of Italy.
1943/--/-- 69 - The British and American armies link up in Africa; 250,000 Axis prisoners are taken.
1943/--/-- 69 - The German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad; 100,000 are taken prisoner.
1943/--/-- 69 - The Germans suppress a revolt by Polish Jews; the Warsaw ghetto is destroyed.
1943/--/-- 69 - The Russian offensive reaches the Dnepr River; Kiev and Smolensk are recaptured.
1943/--/-- 69 - The Russians defeat the Germans at Kursk in the largest tank battle in history.
1943/01/14 69 *** Stack, Richard Glenn [Great Nephew] - Born to Stack, Edward Paul and Benson, Glendon Lucile Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
1943/10/-- 69 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1944/--/-- 70 - A British airborne landing at Arnhem in the Netherlands is repulsed by the Germans.
1944/--/-- 70 - Aaron Copland composes the ballet Appalachian Spring.
1944/--/-- 70 - Allied D-Day invasion forces land at Normandy in northern France.
1944/--/-- 70 - Allied forces break out from the Normandy enclave and liberate Paris.
1944/--/-- 70 - Allied forces in Italy land behind the German Gustav Line at Anzio.
1944/--/-- 70 - American aircraft from the Marianas begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1944/--/-- 70 - American forces under General Mark Clark occupy Rome.
1944/--/-- 70 - An Allied invasion force lands in southern France.
1944/--/-- 70 - British forces begin the reconquest of Burma from the Japanese.
1944/--/-- 70 - British forces occupy Athens and intervene in a communist inspired civil war.
1944/--/-- 70 - Child film actors Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor star in National Velvet.
1944/--/-- 70 - Communist resistance fighters under Josip Broz-Tito liberate Yugoslavia.
1944/--/-- 70 - English writer Somerset Maugham publishes The Razor's Edge.
1944/--/-- 70 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson dies from an accidental drug overdose.
1944/--/-- 70 - French novelist Colette writes Gigi.
1944/--/-- 70 - German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1944/--/-- 70 - Normandy landings
1944/--/-- 70 - Oswald Avery determines that DNA is the hereditary material of the cell.
1944/--/-- 70 - Polish resistance fighters are defeated by the Germans in the Warsaw Uprising.
1944/--/-- 70 - Romania and Bulgaria sign an armistice with the Allies and declare war on Germany.
1944/--/-- 70 - Roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term; Truman becomes vice-president.
1944/--/-- 70 - Soviet forces cross the Romanian border and reconquer the Crimea.
1944/--/-- 70 - Soviet forces reach the suburbs of Warsaw in Poland.
1944/--/-- 70 - Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie is produced.
1944/--/-- 70 - The G.I. Bill of Rights is established to provide assistance to war veterans.
1944/--/-- 70 - The German army launches the Battle of the Bulge, its last counteroffensive.
1944/--/-- 70 - The Soviet's relieve the city of Leningrad after a German siege lasting 890 days.
1944/--/-- 70 - The U.S. First Army occupies Aachen -- the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1944/--/-- 70 - The World Bank is established to assist European postwar recovery.
1944/--/-- 70 - U.S. Marines invade Guam and Saipan in the Marianas.
1944/--/-- 70 - U.S. forces under Admiral Nimitz defeat a Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1944/--/-- 70 - V-1 (and later the V-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against London.
1944/05/25 70 *** Benson, Nancy Sue [Great Niece] - Born to Benson, Roy Lee and Sumners, Nancy Nurline Akron, Summit, Ohio
1944/10/-- 70 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL ST. LOUIS (2)
1945/--/-- 71 - Advancing Allied armies discover Nazi extermination camps.
1945/--/-- 71 - Allied forces cross the Rhine and begin the final assault on Germany.
1945/--/-- 71 - British actor Laurence Olivier wins critical acclaim for his portrayal of Richard III.
1945/--/-- 71 - British author George Orwell publishes the satirical fable Animal Farm.
1945/--/-- 71 - Charlie "Bird" Parker and Dizzy Gillespie make the first bebop recordings.
1945/--/-- 71 - Churchill is defeated in the British elections by Labour leader Clement Attlee.
1945/--/-- 71 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference.
1945/--/-- 71 - Churchill, Truman and Stalin hold the last wartime conference at Potsdam.
1945/--/-- 71 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen form the Arab League.
1945/--/-- 71 - French dramatist Jean Giraudoux writes the play The Madwoman of Chaillot.
1945/--/-- 71 - General MacArthur heads the U.S. occupation forces in Japan.
1945/--/-- 71 - German jet aircraft are unable to prevent mass Allied air attacks.
1945/--/-- 71 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
1945/--/-- 71 - German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun continues his research in the U.S.
1945/--/-- 71 - Germany and Austria are divided between the Allies into 4 zones of occupation.
1945/--/-- 71 - Harry S. Truman (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1945/--/-- 71 - Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker; Germany surrenders to the Allies.
1945/--/-- 71 - Ho Chi Minh proclaims the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1945/--/-- 71 - Indonesian nationalists led by Sukarno proclaim the nation independent.
1945/--/-- 71 - Japan signs an armistice with the Allies, ending World War II.
1945/--/-- 71 - Korea is divided between U.S. and Soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
1945/--/-- 71 - Marshal Zhukov's Soviet troops launch the final attack on Berlin.
1945/--/-- 71 - Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
1945/--/-- 71 - Nationalists and Communist forces resume their civil war in China.
1945/--/-- 71 - Roberto Rosselini's neorealist "Open City"
1945/--/-- 71 - Romulo Betancourt becomes president of Venezuela for the first time.
1945/--/-- 71 - Roosevelt dies; Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd U.S. president.
1945/--/-- 71 - Singer Frank Sinatra stars in the film musical Anchors Aweigh.
1945/--/-- 71 - Suicide attacks by Japanese kamikaze pilots are unable to stem the U.S. advances.
1945/--/-- 71 - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
1945/--/-- 71 - The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1945/--/-- 71 - The United Nations is formed; Trygve Halvdan Lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
1945/--/-- 71 - The trial of Nazi war criminals begins at Nuremberg in Germany.
1945/--/-- 71 - Tito becomes head of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1945/--/-- 71 - U.S. A-bombs Japan
1945/--/-- 71 - U.S. Marines invade the Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
1945/--/-- 71 - U.S. forces under MacArthur liberate the Philippines.
1945/--/-- 71 - United Nations formed
1945/--/-- 71 - World War II ends
1945/10/-- 71 - World Series NL CHICAGO (3) AL DETROIT (4)
1946/--/-- 72 - American author Robert Penn Warren publishes All the King's Men.
1946/--/-- 72 - Communists abolish the monarchy in Bulgaria; Georgi Dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- 72 - Dr. Spock publishes The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care.
1946/--/-- 72 - ELAS communist forces begin a civil war in Greece.
1946/--/-- 72 - ENIAC, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- 72 - Elections in Italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- 72 - General De Gaulle resigns as president of France; the Fourth Republic is formed.
1946/--/-- 72 - Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis publishes Zorba the Greek.
1946/--/-- 72 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
1946/--/-- 72 - MacArthur promotes Japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- 72 - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- 72 - Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier designs Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles.
1946/--/-- 72 - Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy is produced.
1946/--/-- 72 - The Philippines are granted independence with Manuel Roxas y Acuna as president.
1946/--/-- 72 - The Viet Minh begin a guerrilla war against the French in Indochina (Vietnam).
1946/--/-- 72 - Winston Churchill describes the Iron Curtain created in Europe by the Soviets.
1946/09/14 72 *** Benson, Clyde Little [Great Nephew] & Simpson, Mary Evelyn - Married
1946/10/-- 72 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1947/--/-- 73 - American pilot Kenneth Arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 73 - Artist Jackson Pollock produces Full Fathom Five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 73 - Artist Mark Rothko begins experimenting with Color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 73 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 73 - British & French Empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 73 - British India becomes Pakistan & India
1947/--/-- 73 - British atomic bomb scientist Klaus Fuchs is arrested for giving information to the USSR.
1947/--/-- 73 - Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an X-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 73 - Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham forms the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
1947/--/-- 73 - Dennis Gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 73 - Edwin Land demonstrates the single-step Polaroid Land Camera.
1947/--/-- 73 - English composer Benjamin Britten writes the opera Peter Grimes.
1947/--/-- 73 - French fashion designer Christian Dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 73 - French literary figure Andre Gide wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 73 - Gheorghiu-Dej heads the Romanian Communist party; King Michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 73 - India becomes independent and is divided into the nations of India and Pakistan.
1947/--/-- 73 - Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first prime minister of India.
1947/--/-- 73 - Marshall Plan
1947/--/-- 73 - Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft Kon Tiki from Peru to Polynesia.
1947/--/-- 73 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 73 - The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient Hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 73 - The U.S. Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe is established.
1947/--/-- 73 - The United Nations elect to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
1947/--/-- 73 - The first India-Pakistan War begins when Pakistani tribesmen invade Kashmir.
1947/--/-- 73 - The story of a Jewish victim of the Nazis, The Diary of Anne Frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 73 - Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, captured from Japan, administered by U.S.
1947/--/-- 73 - U.S. contains spread of communism
1947/06/21 73 *** Benson, Glendon Ora [Great Niece] & Overholt, Paul Kenneth - Married
1947/10/-- 73 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1947/11/01 73 *** Benson, Richard Edgar [Great Nephew] & Marion, Phyllis June - Married
1948/--/-- 74 - Alec Guinness stars as Fagin in the film of Dicken's Oliver Twist.
1948/--/-- 74 - Alfred Kinsey publishes his report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
1948/--/-- 74 - American opera singer Beverly Sills debuts in Bizet's Carmen.
1948/--/-- 74 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes the war novel The Naked and the Dead.
1948/--/-- 74 - Arab armies invade Israel in the first Arab-Israeli War.
1948/--/-- 74 - Bell Labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 74 - Britain grants independence to Burma.
1948/--/-- 74 - Communism quashed in US
1948/--/-- 74 - Communist leader Kim Il Sung establishes the People's Republic of Korea (N. Korea).
1948/--/-- 74 - Dutch track star Fanny Blankers-Koen wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games.
1948/--/-- 74 - George Balanchine's Ballet Society is renamed the New York City Ballet.
1948/--/-- 74 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 74 - Israel created
1948/--/-- 74 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs The Bicycle Thieves.
1948/--/-- 74 - NATO formed; Cold War begins
1948/--/-- 74 - Palestinian Jews proclaim the independent state of Israel.
1948/--/-- 74 - Stalin expels Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 74 - The Communist party assumes power in Hungary under Matyas Rakosi.
1948/--/-- 74 - The Malayan Communist party begins an insurrection against British rule.
1948/--/-- 74 - The Republic of Korea (S. Korea) is inaugurated, Syngman Rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 74 - The Soviets blockade West Berlin; Britain and the U.S. begin the Berlin Airlift.
1948/--/-- 74 - The U.S. Air Force begins the Project Blue Book study of the UFO phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 74 - The apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in South Africa.
1948/--/-- 74 - The transistor is invented at Bell Laboratories in the U.S.
1948/10/-- 74 - World Series NL BOSTON (2) AL CLEVELAND (4)
1949/--/-- 75 - Abstract artist Robert Motherwell begins his series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
1949/--/-- 75 - Abstract-Expressionism breaks out in NYC
1949/--/-- 75 - Architect Philip Johnson designs the Glass House in New Caanan, Conn.
1949/--/-- 75 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 75 - British abstract sculptor Henry Moore completes the bronze Family Group.
1949/--/-- 75 - British author George Orwell publishes the futuristic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1949/--/-- 75 - Civil war ends in Greece with the defeat of the Communist forces.
1949/--/-- 75 - Communists under Mao defeat the Nationalists and form the People's Republic of China.
1949/--/-- 75 - Konrad Adenauer becomes the first chancellor of West Germany.
1949/--/-- 75 - Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb
1949/--/-- 75 - Miles Davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 75 - Nationalist Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek flee to the island of Taiwan.
1949/--/-- 75 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 75 - The Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan is renamed as Jordan.
1949/--/-- 75 - The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies).
1949/--/-- 75 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to deter Soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 75 - The Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established by the Western powers.
1949/--/-- 75 - The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 75 - The Soviets establish the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1949/--/-- 75 - The first India-Pakistan War ends with the partition of Kashmir.
1949/10/-- 75 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1950/--/-- 76 - Adnan Menderes replaces Ismet Inonu as prime minister of Turkey.
1950/--/-- 76 - Bette Davis stars in the film All About Eve.
1950/--/-- 76 - Cartoonist Charles Schulz creates the Peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 76 - Chinese forces invade Tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 76 - Communist North Korean forces invade South Korea.
1950/--/-- 76 - George Burns and Gracie Allen star in The Burns and Allen Show television series.
1950/--/-- 76 - Isaac Asimov publishes the science-fiction classic I Robot.
1950/--/-- 76 - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa achieves recognition with Rashomon.
1950/--/-- 76 - Korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 76 - President Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 76 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his inquiry into un-American activities.
1950/--/-- 76 - The UN sanctions military aid for South Korea; MacArthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 76 - U.S. official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a Soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 76 - UN forces cross into North Korea but are repulsed by the Chinese army.
1950/--/-- 76 - UN forces land at Inchon and drive the North Koreans out of South Korea.
1950/10/-- 76 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1951/--/-- 77 - A frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in Korea; peace negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1951/--/-- 77 - American novelist Kurt Vonnegut publishes Player Piano.
1951/--/-- 77 - American poet Marianne Moore publishes her Collected Poems.
1951/--/-- 77 - American writer J.D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye.
1951/--/-- 77 - American writer James Jones publishes the war novel From Here to Eternity.
1951/--/-- 77 - Artist Stuart Davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting Visa.
1951/--/-- 77 - Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. sign the mutual defense Anzus Treaty.
1951/--/-- 77 - Auto racer Juan Fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 77 - Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake La Motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 77 - British Conservatives win a general election with Winston Churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 77 - British spies Burgess and Maclean escape to the Soviet Union.
1951/--/-- 77 - Comedian Lucille Ball stars in the television series I Love Lucy.
1951/--/-- 77 - Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 77 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
1951/--/-- 77 - King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 77 - Leopold III of Belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 77 - President Truman dismisses MacArthur as commander in Korea.
1951/--/-- 77 - Prime minister Muhammad Mosaddeq nationalizes Iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 77 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The King and I is produced.
1951/--/-- 77 - Teller tests H-bomb
1951/--/-- 77 - Ten million television receivers have been installed in U.S. homes.
1951/--/-- 77 - The 22nd Amendment restricts U.S. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 77 - The UN General Assembly brands Communist China an aggressor in the Korean War.
1951/--/-- 77 - The first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 77 - UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
1951/10/-- 77 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1952/--/-- 78 - A bloodless coup returns Fulgencio Batista to power in Cuba.
1952/--/-- 78 - Agatha Christie's record-breaking play The Mouse Trap opens in London.
1952/--/-- 78 - American sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs two bridges for the Peace Park at Hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 78 - American writer E.B. White publishes the children's book Charlotte's Web.
1952/--/-- 78 - British architect Michael Ventris deciphers the ancient Greek Linear B script.
1952/--/-- 78 - Chuck Yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the X-1A research plane.
1952/--/-- 78 - Communist POW riots in South Korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 78 - Czech runner Emil Zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the Helsinki Olympic Games.
1952/--/-- 78 - Dancer Gene Kelly stars in the film Singin' in the Rain.
1952/--/-- 78 - Eva Peron, popularly known as Evita, dies in Argentina.
1952/--/-- 78 - Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly star in the Western film High Noon.
1952/--/-- 78 - Gordon Bunshaft designs the Lever House, an early International Style building.
1952/--/-- 78 - Hostilities continue in Korea with increased UN air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 78 - King Farouk of Egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by Gen. Muhammad Naguib.
1952/--/-- 78 - Kwame Nkrumah is elected prime minister of the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1952/--/-- 78 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1952/--/-- 78 - Opera singer Maria Callas debuts at London's Covent Garden.
1952/--/-- 78 - Queen Elizabeth II ascends to the British throne on the death of her father George VI.
1952/--/-- 78 - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is produced in Paris.
1952/--/-- 78 - The British de Havilland Comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 78 - The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is formed with Luis Munoz Marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 78 - The Mau Mau uprising begins in Kenya; Jomo Kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 78 - The U.S. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific.
1952/--/-- 78 - The first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1952/--/-- 78 - Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1952/--/-- 78 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his Checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 78 - Elizabeth II succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1952/10/-- 78 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1953/--/-- 79 - A Redstone rocket (based on the German V-2) is tested at Cape Canaveral.
1953/--/-- 79 - American physicist Charles H. Townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 79 - American tennis player Maureen Connolly (Little Mo) wins the Grand Slam.
1953/--/-- 79 - American writer Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March.
1953/--/-- 79 - An armistice ends the Korean War; the country remains divided into North and South.
1953/--/-- 79 - Arthur Miller writes The Crucible, a play about the Salem Witch Trials.
1953/--/-- 79 - Black writer James Baldwin publishes his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.
1953/--/-- 79 - Communist statesman Imre Nagy becomes premier of Hungary.
1953/--/-- 79 - Dag Hammarskjold succeeds Trygve Lie as secretary-general of the UN.
1953/--/-- 79 - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1953/--/-- 79 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to climb Mount Everest.
1953/--/-- 79 - Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th U.S. president; Nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 79 - Fidel Castro leads an attack on an army barracks in Cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 79 - Golfer Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open, Masters, and British Open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 79 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 79 - Hussein I succeeds his father as king of Jordan.
1953/--/-- 79 - Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion retires; he is succeeded by Moshe Sharett.
1953/--/-- 79 - Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe the Trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 79 - James Watson and Francis Crick propose the double helix structure of DNA.
1953/--/-- 79 - John Foster Dulles is selected as the U.S. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 79 - Laos, formerly a part of French Indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 79 - Lavrenti Beria, head of the Soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 79 - Marilyn Monroe stars in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
1953/--/-- 79 - Murray Gell-Mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 79 - Physicist Donald Glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 79 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies; Georgy M. Malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 79 - The first heart-lung machine is developed by Dr. John Gibbon.
1953/--/-- 79 - The fossil remains of Piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 79 - Watson & Crick DNA=double helix
1953/06/-- 79 - Elizabeth II crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Westminster
1953/10/-- 79 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1954/--/-- 80 - A Supreme Court decision prohibits racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
1954/--/-- 80 - American novelist Evan Hunter publishes The Blackboard Jungle.
1954/--/-- 80 - British artist Francis Bacon begins his Portrait of Pope Innocent X series.
1954/--/-- 80 - British novelist William Golding publishes Lord of the Flies.
1954/--/-- 80 - Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 80 - English runner Roger Bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 80 - French forces are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam.
1954/--/-- 80 - Gamal Abdel Nasser ousts Gen. Muhammad Naguib as president of Egypt.
1954/--/-- 80 - Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond thriller Casino Royale.
1954/--/-- 80 - Italian film-maker Federico Fellini directs La Strada.
1954/--/-- 80 - Kingsley Amis, one of England's angry young men, publishes Lucky Jim.
1954/--/-- 80 - Marlon Brando stars in Elia Kazan's film On the Waterfront.
1954/--/-- 80 - National Liberation Front (FLN) raids on French property spark the Algerian War.
1954/--/-- 80 - Senator McCarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 80 - Television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 80 - The Geneva Conference establishes the partition of Vietnam into North and South.
1954/--/-- 80 - The U.S. and Canada begin construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1954/--/-- 80 - The U.S. nuclear submarine the Nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 80 - U.S. "Nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 80 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL CLEVELAND (0)
1955/--/-- 81 - A military coup in Argentina deposes president Juan Peron.
1955/--/-- 81 - AFL and CIO merge
1955/--/-- 81 - American artist Jasper Johns begins his paintings of American flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 81 - American artist Larry Rivers paints Double Portrait of Birdie.
1955/--/-- 81 - American rock 'n' roll musician Bill Haley records Rock Around the Clock.
1955/--/-- 81 - Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain.
1955/--/-- 81 - Austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 81 - Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery
1955/--/-- 81 - British writer Graham Greene publishes The Quiet American.
1955/--/-- 81 - British writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien completes The Lord of the Rings.
1955/--/-- 81 - David Ben-Gurion returns as prime minister of Israel.
1955/--/-- 81 - Film star James Dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 81 - Jonas Salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 81 - Marian Anderson becomes the first black to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1955/--/-- 81 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 81 - Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov publishes the novel Lolita.
1955/--/-- 81 - Satyajit Ray directs Pather Panchali, the first film in a trilogy on Bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 81 - Supreme Court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 81 - The Federal Republic of Germany joins NATO.
1955/--/-- 81 - The Warsaw Pact establishes a military alliance of European Communist nations.
1955/--/-- 81 - Theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin publishes The Phenomenon of Man.
1955/10/-- 81 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1956/--/-- 82 - American beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems.
1956/--/-- 82 - American television news show The Huntley-Brinkley Report begins.
1956/--/-- 82 - American writer Grace Metalious publishes Peyton Place.
1956/--/-- 82 - Anglo-French forces invade Egypt but withdraw after protests from the U.S.
1956/--/-- 82 - Archbishop Makarios III is deported from Cyprus by the British.
1956/--/-- 82 - Brendan Behan's play The Quare Fellow opens in London.
1956/--/-- 82 - Britain, France and Israel agree on a secret joint action against Egypt.
1956/--/-- 82 - British artist Richard Hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 82 - David Niven stars in the film Around the World in Eighty Days.
1956/--/-- 82 - Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced.
1956/--/-- 82 - Fidel Castro and Che Guevara land in Cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 82 - Film actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1956/--/-- 82 - Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 82 - Israeli forces under Moshe Dayan seize the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
1956/--/-- 82 - John Osborne's first play Look Back In Anger is produced in London.
1956/--/-- 82 - Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady opens in New York.
1956/--/-- 82 - President Anastasio Somoza Garcia is assassinated in Nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 82 - President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal before the British lease expires.
1956/--/-- 82 - President Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold elections in South Vietnam.
1956/--/-- 82 - Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley records his first hit Heartbreak Hotel.
1956/--/-- 82 - Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the crimes of the Stalin era.
1956/--/-- 82 - Sudan gains independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 82 - The Hungarian Uprising is suppressed by Soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 82 - The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sinks off the U.S. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 82 - Tunisia and Morocco are granted independence by France.
1956/10/-- 82 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1957/--/-- 83 - Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac publishes On The Road.
1957/--/-- 83 - Black tennis player Althea Gibson wins the U.S. Open and Wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 83 - British philosopher A.J. Ayer publishes The Problem of Knowledge.
1957/--/-- 83 - British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns; is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
1957/--/-- 83 - Dr. Seuss publishes the children's book The Cat in the Hat.
1957/--/-- 83 - Francois Duvalier (known as Papa Doc) is elected president of Haiti.
1957/--/-- 83 - Ghana gains independence; Kwame Nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 83 - Jack Kerouac "On the Road"
1957/--/-- 83 - Jerome Robbins is director-choreographer of the musical West Side Story.
1957/--/-- 83 - John G. Diefenbaker succeeds Louis St. Laurent as prime minister of Canada.
1957/--/-- 83 - Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of The Alexandria Quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 83 - Scientists from 67 nations work together during the International Geophysical Year.
1957/--/-- 83 - Soviet leaders Malenkov and Molotov fail in an attempt to oust Khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 83 - Soviets launch "Sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 83 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs The Seventh Seal.
1957/--/-- 83 - The Israeli army withdraws from Egypt; the Gaza Strip is policed by UN forces.
1957/--/-- 83 - The USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 83 - The Viet Cong begin acts of rebellion in South Vietnam.
1957/--/-- 83 - Tunku Abdul Rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya (Malaysia).
1957/06/15 83 *** Booher, Doris Evangeline & Benson, Roy Lee [Great Nephew] - Married
1957/10/-- 83 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1958/--/-- 84 - American economist J.K. Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society.
1958/--/-- 84 - American golfer Arnold Palmer wins the Masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 84 - American playwright Edward Albee writes The Zoo Story.
1958/--/-- 84 - American writer Truman Capote publishes the novella Breakfast At Tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 84 - Bertrand Russell founds the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain.
1958/--/-- 84 - Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; it is ended when U.S. Marines land at Beirut.
1958/--/-- 84 - Egypt and Syria form the United Arab Republic.
1958/--/-- 84 - Gen. Muhammad Ayub Khan seizes control in Pakistan.
1958/--/-- 84 - Leonard Bernstein becomes the conductor of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 84 - Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as Soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 84 - Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd extends South Africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 84 - Russian writer Boris Pasternak publishes the novel Doctor Zhivago.
1958/--/-- 84 - Soccer player Pele leads Brazil to victory in the World Cup.
1958/--/-- 84 - The Algerian crisis prompts the recall of Charles de Gaulle as president of France.
1958/--/-- 84 - The European Economic Community (EEC) is established.
1958/--/-- 84 - The French army and settlers in Algiers revolt over the Algerian War stalemate.
1958/--/-- 84 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is founded.
1958/--/-- 84 - The U.S. launches the Explorer I and Vanguard I scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 84 - The first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched in the U.S.
1958/--/-- 84 - The nuclear submarine Nautilus reaches the North Pole under the Polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 84 - Wilson Greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 84 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1959/--/-- 85 - Alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 85 - American writer Leon Uris publishes Exodus, a novel on the founding of Israel.
1959/--/-- 85 - American writer William Burroughs publishes The Naked Lunch.
1959/--/-- 85 - Anthropologists Richard and Mary Leakey discover an Australopithecus skull in Africa.
1959/--/-- 85 - Artist Robert Rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage Monogram.
1959/--/-- 85 - Cyprus gains independence from Britain; Archbishop Makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 85 - Fidel Castro ousts Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 85 - Film actor Charlton Heston wins the Academy Award for his role in Ben-Hur.
1959/--/-- 85 - French New Wave filmmaker Jean Luc Godard directs Breathless.
1959/--/-- 85 - French filmmaker Alain Resnais directs Hiroshima Mon Amour.
1959/--/-- 85 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs The 400 Blows.
1959/--/-- 85 - German writer Gunter Grass publishes his first novel The Tin Drum.
1959/--/-- 85 - Hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 85 - Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe star in the film Some Like it Hot.
1959/--/-- 85 - Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave "Breathless"
1959/--/-- 85 - Lee Kuan Yew becomes prime minister of Singapore.
1959/--/-- 85 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is the first Broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 85 - NASA selects the first seven U.S. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 85 - Rock 'n roll star Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 85 - Rod Serling hosts the Twilight Zone television series.
1959/--/-- 85 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The Sound of Music is produced.
1959/--/-- 85 - Sir Christopher Cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 85 - The Boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 85 - The Dalai Lama flees to India after China crushes an uprising in Tibet.
1959/--/-- 85 - The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City.
1959/--/-- 85 - The Soviet Union sends a series of Luna space probes to the Moon.
1959/--/-- 85 - The first flight is made by the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/10/-- 85 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL CHICAGO (2)
1960/--/-- 86 - 69 Africans are killed in the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.
1960/--/-- 86 - A military coup takes place in Turkey; prime minister Adnan Menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 86 - A student uprising forces the resignation of Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea.
1960/--/-- 86 - American author John Updike publishes the novel Rabbit Run.
1960/--/-- 86 - American physicist Theodore H. Maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 86 - American track star Wilma Rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the Rome Olympic Games.
1960/--/-- 86 - An earthquake kills 15,000 at Agadir in Morocco.
1960/--/-- 86 - Belgium grants independence to the Congo (Zaire); Patrice Lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 86 - Britain grants independence to Nigeria; Abubakar Balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 86 - Civil Rights movement
1960/--/-- 86 - Congo (Zaire) premier Patrice Lumumba is ousted by Joseph Mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 86 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs the suspense thriller Psycho.
1960/--/-- 86 - Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is abducted to Israel.
1960/--/-- 86 - France grants independence to the Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, and Gabon.
1960/--/-- 86 - Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 86 - Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni directs La Notte (The Night).
1960/--/-- 86 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe Trieste.
1960/--/-- 86 - Maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 86 - NASA launches the first TIROS weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 86 - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson founds the Christian Broadcasting Network.
1960/--/-- 86 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
1960/--/-- 86 - South African civil rights leader Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1960/--/-- 86 - The Congo crisis begins with the secession of Katanga province under Moise Tshombe.
1960/--/-- 86 - The Echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 86 - The Motown record company is founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy.
1960/--/-- 86 - The South African government bans the African National Congress (ANC).
1960/--/-- 86 - The Soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane; U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 86 - The first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 86 - The first submerged firing is made of a Polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 86 - The planned city of Brasilia becomes the new capital of Brazil.
1960/--/-- 86 - The presidential debates of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 86 - Viet Cong groups unite into the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLFSV).
1960/--/-- 86 - Walter Ulbricht becomes head of East Germany.
1960/10/-- 86 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1961/--/-- 87 - Agostinho Neto and Holden Roberto lead insurrections in Portuguese Angola.
1961/--/-- 87 - American writer Joseph Heller publishes the anti-war novel Catch-22.
1961/--/-- 87 - American-aided Cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 87 - Astronaut Alan Shepard makes the first U.S. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 87 - Britain grants independence to Tanganyika (Tanzania) with Julius Nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 87 - British novelist Iris Murdoch publishes A Severed Head.
1961/--/-- 87 - English writer Muriel Spark publishes The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
1961/--/-- 87 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim.
1961/--/-- 87 - India annexes the Portugese territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu.
1961/--/-- 87 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs Sophia Loren in Alberto Moravia's Two Women.
1961/--/-- 87 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti debuts in Puccini's La Boheme.
1961/--/-- 87 - John F. Kennedy (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1961/--/-- 87 - Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 87 - Kennedy launches "Apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 87 - Peace Corps
1961/--/-- 87 - President Kennedy begins to increase the U.S. military presence in Vietnam.
1961/--/-- 87 - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961/--/-- 87 - President Kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the Moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 87 - President Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in the Dominican Republic.
1961/--/-- 87 - Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 87 - Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein publishes Stranger in a Strange Land.
1961/--/-- 87 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West.
1961/--/-- 87 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 87 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs Max Von Sydow in Through a Glass Darkly.
1961/--/-- 87 - The Berlin Wall is constructed, separating East and West Berlin.
1961/--/-- 87 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 87 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 87 - The drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 87 - UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the Congo (Zaire).
1961/--/-- 87 - V.S. Naipaul writes about West Indian life in A House for Mr. Biswas.
1961/04/28 87 *** Stack, Thomas Edward [Great Nephew] - Died Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
1961/06/08 87 *** Benson, Roy Lee [Nephew] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1961/10/-- 87 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1962/--/-- 88 - Actor Laurence Olivier becomes the first director of the National Theatre in London.
1962/--/-- 88 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
1962/--/-- 88 - Algeria gains independence from France; Ahmed ben Bella becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 88 - American artist Jim Dine paints the pop art subject Black Saw.
1962/--/-- 88 - American film actress Marilyn Monroe dies from a drug overdose.
1962/--/-- 88 - American historian Barbara Tuchman publishes The Guns of August.
1962/--/-- 88 - American writer Katherine Anne Porter publishes the novel Ship of Fools.
1962/--/-- 88 - American writer Ken Kesey publishes One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
1962/--/-- 88 - Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1962/--/-- 88 - Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores a record 100 points in one game.
1962/--/-- 88 - Britain grants independence to Trinidad and Tobago with Eric Williams as chief minister.
1962/--/-- 88 - Britain grants independence to Uganda; Milton Obote becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 88 - British filmmaker David Lean directs Lawrence of Arabia.
1962/--/-- 88 - British writer Anthony Burgess publishes the futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange.
1962/--/-- 88 - Burmese diplomat U Thant becomes the first Asian secretary general of the UN.
1962/--/-- 88 - Cuban missile crisis
1962/--/-- 88 - Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is produced on Broadway.
1962/--/-- 88 - Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent opens his Parisian fashion house.
1962/--/-- 88 - Folk-rock singer and composer Bob Dylan writes Blowin' in the Wind.
1962/--/-- 88 - Georges Pompidou becomes premier of France's Fifth Republic.
1962/--/-- 88 - Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski directs his first film Knife in the Water.
1962/--/-- 88 - Pop Art
1962/--/-- 88 - Pop artist Andy Warhol begins making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
1962/--/-- 88 - Rachel Carson criticizes indiscriminate use of pesticides in her book Silent Spring.
1962/--/-- 88 - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in Cleopatra, the most expensive film to date.
1962/--/-- 88 - Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard publishes The Drowned World.
1962/--/-- 88 - Sonny Liston defeats Floyd Patterson to become heavyweight boxing champion.
1962/--/-- 88 - Television journalist Walter Cronkite is made anchorman of CBS Evening News.
1962/--/-- 88 - The British pop group The Beatles make their first recordings.
1962/--/-- 88 - The Cuban Missile Crisis begins; Soviet missiles are withdrawn from Cuba.
1962/--/-- 88 - The Mariner 2 spacecraft passes within 21,598 miles of Venus.
1962/--/-- 88 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that school prayers are a violation of the 1st Amendment.
1962/--/-- 88 - The U.S. launches Telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
1962/--/-- 88 - The University of Mississippi is forced to admit black student James Meredith.
1962/10/-- 88 - World Series NL SAN FRANCISCO (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1963/--/-- 89 - A UN peace keeping force ends the secession attempt of Katanga province (Shaba).
1963/--/-- 89 - A limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is signed by Britain, the U.S., and the USSR.
1963/--/-- 89 - American pop vocal group the Beach Boys release the record Surfin' U.S.A.
1963/--/-- 89 - American writer Mary McCarthy publishes The Group.
1963/--/-- 89 - Arecibo Observatory begins observations with a 1,000-ft wide radio telescope.
1963/--/-- 89 - Black nationalist Joshua Nkomo is imprisoned in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
1963/--/-- 89 - Britain's entry to the European Economic Community is blocked by France.
1963/--/-- 89 - British filmmaker Joseph Losey directs The Servant.
1963/--/-- 89 - British spy Harold (Kim) Philby defects to the USSR.
1963/--/-- 89 - Czech dissident playwright Vaclav Havel writes The Garden Party.
1963/--/-- 89 - English writer John Le Carre publishes The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
1963/--/-- 89 - Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directs the anti-war film Dr. Strangelove.
1963/--/-- 89 - Football running back Jim Brown sets a record for rushes of 1,863 yards.
1963/--/-- 89 - Jack Nicklaus becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
1963/--/-- 89 - John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
1963/--/-- 89 - Kennedy assassinated
1963/--/-- 89 - Kenya gains independence from Britain; Jomo Kenyatta becomes prime minister.
1963/--/-- 89 - Levi Eshkol succeeds David Ben-Gurion as prime minister of Israel.
1963/--/-- 89 - Ludwig Erhard succeeds Konrad Adenauer as chancellor of West Germany.
1963/--/-- 89 - Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1963/--/-- 89 - Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated as the 36th President of the U.S.
1963/--/-- 89 - Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah form the Federation of Malaysia.
1963/--/-- 89 - Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.
1963/--/-- 89 - Peter Sellers stars as Inspector Clouseau in the film The Pink Panther.
1963/--/-- 89 - Pop artist Claes Oldenburg creates the kapok-filled sculpture Soft Typewriter.
1963/--/-- 89 - Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein completes the comic strip painting Whaam.
1963/--/-- 89 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1963/--/-- 89 - President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is assassinated.
1963/--/-- 89 - Race-car driver Jim Clark wins seven Grand Prix events and the world title.
1963/--/-- 89 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as British prime minister.
1963/--/-- 89 - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1963/--/-- 89 - Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar is published in the year of her death.
1963/--/-- 89 - The American X-15 research aircraft establishes an altitude record of 67 miles.
1963/--/-- 89 - The Organization of African Unity (OAU) is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1963/--/-- 89 - The Profumo sex scandal undermines the Conservative government in Britain.
1963/--/-- 89 - The Rolling Stones rock band is formed in Britain.
1963/--/-- 89 - The first James Bond film Dr. No is produced.
1963/10/-- 89 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1964/--/-- 90 - ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa.
1964/--/-- 90 - An earthquake in Alaska causes extensive damage and 114 fatalities.
1964/--/-- 90 - Architect Eero Saarinen's St. Louis Arch memorial is completed.
1964/--/-- 90 - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover the existence of background radiation.
1964/--/-- 90 - Beatlemania develops during the first U.S. tour of the Beatles pop group.
1964/--/-- 90 - Black female group the Supremes record the hit song Where Did Our Love Go.
1964/--/-- 90 - Britain grants independence to Malawi; H. Kamuzu Banda becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 90 - Britain grants independence to Zambia; Kenneth D. Kaunda becomes president.
1964/--/-- 90 - Britain grants independence to Zanzibar.
1964/--/-- 90 - Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti western" A Fistful of Dollars.
1964/--/-- 90 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted for giving an obscene performance.
1964/--/-- 90 - Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle.
1964/--/-- 90 - FRELIMO begins a war of independence against the Portuguese in Mozambique.
1964/--/-- 90 - Faisal succeeds his brother Saud as king of Saudi Arabia.
1964/--/-- 90 - Fighting breaks out on Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
1964/--/-- 90 - General Westmoreland is appointed to command the U.S. forces in South Vietnam.
1964/--/-- 90 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1964/--/-- 90 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz becomes president of Mexico.
1964/--/-- 90 - Ian Smith becomes prime minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
1964/--/-- 90 - Illustrator Maurice Sendak wins a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are.
1964/--/-- 90 - Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
1964/--/-- 90 - Johnson is reeelected as U.S. president; Humphrey becomes vice-president (1965).
1964/--/-- 90 - Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke star in the film Mary Poppins.
1964/--/-- 90 - Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1964/--/-- 90 - North Vietnam allegedly attacks U.S. vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1964/--/-- 90 - Peter Weiss' play Marat/ Sade is produced by British director Peter Brook.
1964/--/-- 90 - Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig propose the quark theory.
1964/--/-- 90 - Soviet leader NikitaKhrushchev is forced from office; Aleksei Kosygin becomes premier.
1964/--/-- 90 - Tanganyika joins with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964/--/-- 90 - The American Ranger 7 spacecraft transmits photos of the surface of the Moon.
1964/--/-- 90 - The Labour party is elected to power in Britain; Harold Wilson becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 90 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed to represent Palestinians.
1964/--/-- 90 - The SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft is flown for the first time.
1964/--/-- 90 - The Soviet Voskhod 1 spacecraft is launched with a three-man crew.
1964/--/-- 90 - The Tonkin Gulf Resolution escalates the use of U.S. personnel in Vietnam.
1964/--/-- 90 - The U.S. Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment.
1964/--/-- 90 - The U.S. Surgeon General reports that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
1964/--/-- 90 - The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens in New York.
1964/--/-- 90 - The Warren Commission decides that Oswald was the sole assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1964/02/28 90 *** Stack, Richard Glenn [Great Nephew] & Schmidt, Ursula Emma - Married
1964/10/-- 90 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1965/--/-- 91 - Actress and singer Barbara Streisand stars in the Broadway musical Funny Girl.
1965/--/-- 91 - American pop artist James Rosenquist paints F-111.
1965/--/-- 91 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes An American Dream.
1965/--/-- 91 - An attempted communist coup leads to military rule in Indonesia under Suharto.
1965/--/-- 91 - An electrical blackout in the northeastern U.S. affects 30 million people.
1965/--/-- 91 - Astronaut Edward H. White becomes the first American to walk in space.
1965/--/-- 91 - Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young orbit the Earth in the first Gemini spacecraft.
1965/--/-- 91 - Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965/--/-- 91 - British fashion designer Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt.
1965/--/-- 91 - Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic; U.S. troops restore order.
1965/--/-- 91 - Demonstrations against Vietnam War
1965/--/-- 91 - Gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft make the first rendezvous in space.
1965/--/-- 91 - Houari Boumedienne deposes President Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria.
1965/--/-- 91 - Irish writer Edna O'Brien publishes August Is a Wicked Month.
1965/--/-- 91 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1965/--/-- 91 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes control in the Congo (Zaire) for the second time.
1965/--/-- 91 - More than 180,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Vietnam by the end of the year.
1965/--/-- 91 - Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple opens on Broadway starring Walter Matthau.
1965/--/-- 91 - Nicolae Ceausescu succeeds Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej as Romanian leader.
1965/--/-- 91 - North Vietnamese army units are in action in South Vietnam for the first time.
1965/--/-- 91 - Race riots begin in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
1965/--/-- 91 - Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) makes a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain.
1965/--/-- 91 - Singapore secedes from Malaysia; Lee Kuan Yew remains as prime minister.
1965/--/-- 91 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov makes the first space walk.
1965/--/-- 91 - The Black Muslim leader Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City.
1965/--/-- 91 - The Houston Astrodome, the first covered stadium, is completed in Texas.
1965/--/-- 91 - The Mariner 4 spacecraft passes within 6,118 miles of the planet Mars.
1965/--/-- 91 - The Second India-Pakistan War begins in Kashmir.
1965/--/-- 91 - The U.S. government establishes Medicare and Medicaid health programs.
1965/--/-- 91 - The Vietnam War escalates as the U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam.
1965/10/-- 91 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL MINNESOTA (3)
1966/--/-- 92 - American writer Bernard Malamud publishes The Fixer.
1966/--/-- 92 - American writer Truman Capote publishes In Cold Blood.
1966/--/-- 92 - Art treasures are ruined during severe floods in Florence, Italy.
1966/--/-- 92 - Gen. Yakubu Gowon heads a military government after a countercoup in Nigeria.
1966/--/-- 92 - Hippie movement
1966/--/-- 92 - Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies; he is succeeded by Indira Gandhi.
1966/--/-- 92 - John Jack Lynch becomes prime minister of Ireland.
1966/--/-- 92 - John V. Lindsay becomes mayor of New York City.
1966/--/-- 92 - Mao Tse-tung begins China's Cultural Revolution.
1966/--/-- 92 - Nigerian prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in a military coup.
1966/--/-- 92 - President De Gaulle withdraws French forces from NATO.
1966/--/-- 92 - President Kwame Nkrumah is ousted in a military coup in Ghana.
1966/--/-- 92 - Realist sculptor George Segal completes the direct-cast plaster group The Diner.
1966/--/-- 92 - South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd is assassinated.
1966/--/-- 92 - The American Surveyor 1 spacecraft achieves the first soft-landing on the Moon.
1966/--/-- 92 - The British Hawker Harrier becomes the first VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft.
1966/--/-- 92 - The Soviet Luna 9 space probe makes the first landing on the Moon.
1966/--/-- 92 - The Soviets mediate to end the India-Pakistan War.
1966/--/-- 92 - The first major rally against the Vietnam War takes place in Washington, D.C.
1966/--/-- 92 - Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is produced.
1966/10/-- 92 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (0) AL BALTIMORE (4)
1967/--/-- 93 - A civil war breaks out in Nigeria after the secession of the state of Biafra.
1967/--/-- 93 - A fire kills U.S. astronauts White, Grissom and Chaffee during a launch test.
1967/--/-- 93 - A military junta seizes control in Greece; King Constantine II is exiled.
1967/--/-- 93 - American writer Joyce Carol Oates publishes A Garden of Earthly Delights.
1967/--/-- 93 - Britain grants Aden independence as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
1967/--/-- 93 - Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude.
1967/--/-- 93 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human heart transplant.
1967/--/-- 93 - Dustin Hoffman stars in Mike Nichols' film The Graduate.
1967/--/-- 93 - Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle is elected president of Nicaragua.
1967/--/-- 93 - Israeli 6-day war
1967/--/-- 93 - Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia.
1967/--/-- 93 - Nguyen Van Thieu becomes president of South Vietnam.
1967/--/-- 93 - Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper star in the motorcycle film Easy Rider.
1967/--/-- 93 - Quarterback Joe Namath sets a one-season record by passing for 4,007 yards.
1967/--/-- 93 - R. Buckminster Fuller designs a geodesic dome for the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67.
1967/--/-- 93 - Radio astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discover the first pulsar.
1967/--/-- 93 - Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in the film In the Heat of the Night.
1967/--/-- 93 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
1967/--/-- 93 - Tennis player Billie Jean King wins the U.S. Open championship for the first time.
1967/--/-- 93 - The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper"
1967/--/-- 93 - The North American Soccer League (NASL) is formed.
1967/--/-- 93 - The Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states ends with Israeli victory.
1967/--/-- 93 - The X-15 research aircraft establishes a speed record of Mach 6.7 (4,520 mph).
1967/--/-- 93 - The hippie musical revue Hair is produced.
1967/--/-- 93 - The residents of Gibraltar vote to remain a British crown colony.
1967/--/-- 93 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1967/--/-- 93 - Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway star in Arthur Penn's film Bonnie and Clyde.
1967/--/-- 93 - Yachtsman Francis Chichester completes the first solo voyage around the world.
1967/10/-- 93 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1968/--/-- 94 - American skater Peggy Fleming wins the singles title at the winter Olympic Games.
1968/--/-- 94 - American track star Bob Beamon beats the Olympic long jump record by almost 2 feet.
1968/--/-- 94 - American writer Tom Wolfe publishes The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
1968/--/-- 94 - Anti-war demonstrators clash with police at the Democratic convention in Chicago.
1968/--/-- 94 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black player to win a major men's tennis title.
1968/--/-- 94 - Carlos Castaneda publishes The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
1968/--/-- 94 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 94 - Dick Fosbury uses the Fosbury flop to win the Olympic gold medal for the high jump.
1968/--/-- 94 - Filmmaker Mel Brooks directs, produces and appears in The Producers.
1968/--/-- 94 - Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directs 2001: A Space Odyssey.
1968/--/-- 94 - French downhill skier Jean Claude Killy wins three Olympic gold medals.
1968/--/-- 94 - French filmmaker Henri Costa-Gavras directs Z.
1968/--/-- 94 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries the Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis.
1968/--/-- 94 - Kubrick "2001"
1968/--/-- 94 - May Days mini-revolution
1968/--/-- 94 - More than 500,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Vietnam.
1968/--/-- 94 - Oceanographic ship Glomar Challenger begins the Deep-Sea Drilling Project.
1968/--/-- 94 - Omar Torrijos Herrera overthrows the government of Arnulfo Arias in Panama.
1968/--/-- 94 - Pierre Trudeau succeeds Lester Pearson as prime minister of Canada.
1968/--/-- 94 - Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski directs Rosemary's Baby.
1968/--/-- 94 - Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is succeeded by Marcello Caetano.
1968/--/-- 94 - President Johnson announces he will not seek a second term of office.
1968/--/-- 94 - Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 94 - Spain grants independence to Equatorial Guinea.
1968/--/-- 94 - Spanish operatic tenor Placido Domingo debuts at the Metropolitan Opera.
1968/--/-- 94 - Student-worker revolts almost topple the goverment of Charles de Gaulle in France.
1968/--/-- 94 - The Apollo 8 spacecraft makes the first manned orbit of the Moon.
1968/--/-- 94 - The Catholic minority in Northern Ireland demonstrate for British rights.
1968/--/-- 94 - The Federal Gun Control Act regulates the interstate commerce in firearms.
1968/--/-- 94 - The Saturn rocket lifts the Apollo 7 spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
1968/--/-- 94 - The U.S. Navy intelligence gathering ship Pueblo is seized by North Korea.
1968/--/-- 94 - The Viet Cong launch the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
1968/--/-- 94 - U.S. troops massacre Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
1968/--/-- 94 - Vietnam War begins
1968/--/-- 94 - Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia to counter increasing liberalization.
1968/05/20 94 *** Speck, Orphia [Brother] - Died Fayetteville,TN, Lincoln County Fayetteville,TN, Lincoln County
1968/05/28 94 *** Benson, Willis Daniel [Nephew] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1968/10/-- 94 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL DETROIT (4)
1969/--/-- 95 - A rock-music festival at Woodstock, N.Y, attracts a crowd of 500,000.
1969/--/-- 95 - American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon.
1969/--/-- 95 - American writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. publishes Slaughterhouse-Five.
1969/--/-- 95 - Australian Rod Laver becomes the only tennis player to win the Grand Slam twice.
1969/--/-- 95 - British filmmaker Ken Russell directs Glenda Jackson in Women in Love.
1969/--/-- 95 - British writer John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman.
1969/--/-- 95 - Catholics and Protestants clash in Northern Ireland; British troops restore order.
1969/--/-- 95 - Charles Manson and his followers kill actress Sharon Tate and six of her friends.
1969/--/-- 95 - Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi seizes control in Libya; King Idris is deposed.
1969/--/-- 95 - Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight star in John Schlesinger's film Midnight Cowboy.
1969/--/-- 95 - Edward Kennedy's female companion dies in a car accident off the Chappaquiddick bridge.
1969/--/-- 95 - Gen. Gaafar al-Nimeiry seizes power in Sudan.
1969/--/-- 95 - General de Gaulle resigns; Georges Pompidou becomes president of France.
1969/--/-- 95 - Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel after the death of Levi Eshkol.
1969/--/-- 95 - IRA provisionals launch a terrorist campaign against British troops in Ireland.
1969/--/-- 95 - Liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is replaced by Gustav Husak.
1969/--/-- 95 - Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th U.S. president; Agnew becomes vice-president.
1969/--/-- 95 - Nudity shocks audiences in Kenneth Tynan's Broadway revue Oh! Calcutta!.
1969/--/-- 95 - Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
1969/--/-- 95 - President Ayub Khan is deposed by Gen. Muhammad Yahya Khan in Pakistan.
1969/--/-- 95 - President Nixon begins to withdraw U.S. forces from Vietnam.
1969/--/-- 95 - Richard M. Nixon (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1969/--/-- 95 - The Anglo-French supersonic transport Concorde makes its first flight.
1969/--/-- 95 - The Children's Television Workshop series Sesame Street is first shown.
1969/--/-- 95 - The Monty Python's Flying Circus television program premiers in Britain.
1969/--/-- 95 - The immigration of Salvadorans into Honduras leads to a brief border war.
1969/--/-- 95 - Willy Brandt succeeds Kurt Kiesinger as chancellor of West Germany.
1969/--/-- 95 - Yasir Arafat becomes chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
1969/03/17 95 *** Speck, Hortense (Hortie) [Sister] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem., Akron, Summit, Ohio
1969/10/-- 95 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL BALTIMORE (1)
1970/--/-- 96 - American writer Maya Angelou publishes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
1970/--/-- 96 - Australian tennis player Margaret Smith Court wins the Grand Slam.
1970/--/-- 96 - Britain grants independence to Fiji.
1970/--/-- 96 - Bruno Kreisky succeeds Josef Klaus as chancellor of Austria.
1970/--/-- 96 - Cartoonist Garry Trudeau begins satirizing public figures and politics in Doonesbury.
1970/--/-- 96 - Civil war begins in Jordan between government forces and Palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 96 - Civil war begins in Jordan between government forces and Palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 96 - Donald Sutherland stars in Robert Altman's anti-war film M*A*S*H.
1970/--/-- 96 - EPA established to enforce Clean Air Act
1970/--/-- 96 - Edward Heath becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1970/--/-- 96 - Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser dies; he is succeeded by Anwar al-Sadat.
1970/--/-- 96 - Former defense minister Hafez al-Assad seizes power in Syria.
1970/--/-- 96 - French filmmaker Eric Rohmer directs Claire's Knee.
1970/--/-- 96 - George C. Scott stars in the Academy Award winning film Patton.
1970/--/-- 96 - Marxist leader Salvadore Allende is elected president of Chile.
1970/--/-- 96 - Norman Borlaug wins the Nobel Peace Prize for breeding miracle wheat strains.
1970/--/-- 96 - Ohio national guardsmen kill four Kent State students during an anti-war protest.
1970/--/-- 96 - President Nixon orders an incursion into Cambodia to combat the Khmer Rouge.
1970/--/-- 96 - Riots in Poland force Wladyslaw Gomulka to resign in favor of Edward Gierek.
1970/--/-- 96 - Rock music guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies from a drug overdose.
1970/--/-- 96 - Sihanouk is deposed in Cambodia; Khmer Rouge seize the western provinces.
1970/--/-- 96 - Sixties energy wins smaller battles: feminism, ecology...
1970/--/-- 96 - Songwriting duo Simon and Garfunkel record Bridge Over Troubled Water.
1970/--/-- 96 - The Amtrak intercity rail passenger service is created by Act of Congress.
1970/--/-- 96 - The Apollo 13 crew return to earth after an explosion aboard their command module.
1970/--/-- 96 - The Beatles pop group is disbanded.
1970/--/-- 96 - The Boeing 747 Jumbo jet airliner enters service.
1970/--/-- 96 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is established in the U.S.
1970/--/-- 96 - The Soviet space probe Venera 7 transmits the first data from the surface of Venus.
1970/--/-- 96 - The building of the Aswan High Dam is completed in Egypt.
1970/--/-- 96 - The civil war ends between Nigeria and the breakaway state of Biafra.
1970/--/-- 96 - U.S. invades Cambodia
1970/--/-- 96 - Writer and feminist Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch.
1970/10/-- 96 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (1) AL BALTIMORE (4)
1971/--/-- 97 - Alistair Cooke begins hosting the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre.
1971/--/-- 97 - American film actor and director Clint Eastwood stars in Dirty Harry.
1971/--/-- 97 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar opens on Broadway.
1971/--/-- 97 - Austrian Kurt Waldheim succeeds U Thant as UN secretary general.
1971/--/-- 97 - British actor Dirk Bogard stars in Luchino Visconti's film Death in Venice.
1971/--/-- 97 - Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1971/--/-- 97 - Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez seizes power in Bolivia in a military coup.
1971/--/-- 97 - Daniel Ellsberg releases copies of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
1971/--/-- 97 - East Pakistan declares its independence from West Pakistan, beginning a civil war.
1971/--/-- 97 - Erich Honecker becomes the head of state for East Germany.
1971/--/-- 97 - Ice hockey player Phil Esposito scores a record 76 goals in 78 games.
1971/--/-- 97 - Jean Claude Duvalier succeeds his father as president of Haiti.
1971/--/-- 97 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight boxing title.
1971/--/-- 97 - Lt. William Calley is found guilty of killing Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
1971/--/-- 97 - Prime minister Brian Faulkner begins the internment of IRA suspects in Northern Ireland.
1971/--/-- 97 - Prime minister Milton Obote is ousted by Idi Amin Dada in Uganda.
1971/--/-- 97 - South Vietnamese troops and U.S. aircraft combat Communist forces in Laos.
1971/--/-- 97 - Soviet "Salyut 1" space station
1971/--/-- 97 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1; three cosmonauts die during the return to earth.
1971/--/-- 97 - The Congo is renamed as the Republic of Zaire.
1971/--/-- 97 - The Lunar Rover explores the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15 mission.
1971/--/-- 97 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) loses its UN seat; Communist China is admitted.
1971/--/-- 97 - The support of India wins independence for East Pakistan (renamed as Bangladesh).
1971/10/-- 97 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL BALTIMORE (3)
1972/--/-- 98 - Alabama governor George Wallace is shot in an assassination attempt.
1972/--/-- 98 - American B-52 aircraft bomb Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam.
1972/--/-- 98 - American Bobby Fischer defeats Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky.
1972/--/-- 98 - American feminist Gloria Steinem founds Ms. magazine.
1972/--/-- 98 - American swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seven Olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 98 - An earthquake kills 10,000 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua.
1972/--/-- 98 - Apollo 17 makes the last manned Moon landing.
1972/--/-- 98 - Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka (meaning beautiful island).
1972/--/-- 98 - DDT insecticide is banned in the U.S.
1972/--/-- 98 - DDT is banned
1972/--/-- 98 - Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando in The Godfather.
1972/--/-- 98 - German writer Heinrich Boll receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1972/--/-- 98 - Japanese novelist Kawabata Yasunari commits suicide.
1972/--/-- 98 - Liza Minnelli stars in Bob Fosse's film Cabaret.
1972/--/-- 98 - Marlon Brando stars in Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris.
1972/--/-- 98 - Mujibur Rahman becomes prime minister of Bangladesh.
1972/--/-- 98 - Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
1972/--/-- 98 - President Ferdinand Marcos imposes martial law in the Philippines.
1972/--/-- 98 - President Nixon authorizes the Space Shuttle program.
1972/--/-- 98 - President Nixon makes his historic trip to Peking to meet Mao Tse-tung.
1972/--/-- 98 - Richard Leakey discovers a hominid skull 2.6 million years old in northern Kenya.
1972/--/-- 98 - Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins three Olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 98 - The British government assumes direct rule of Northern Ireland.
1972/--/-- 98 - The Labor party is elected in Australia with Gough Whitlam as prime minister.
1972/--/-- 98 - The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese renew their offensive in South Vietnam.
1972/--/-- 98 - The Watergate affair begins with the arrest of five burglars at Democratic party headquarters.
1972/10/-- 98 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (3) AL OAKLAND (4)
1973/--/-- 99 - A right-wing military coup in Chile overthrows Allende's Marxist government.
1973/--/-- 99 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes the first volume of the Gulag Archipelago.
1973/--/-- 99 - American novelist Thomas Pynchon publishes Gravity's Rainbow.
1973/--/-- 99 - American playwright Thornton Wilder publishes the novel Theophilus North.
1973/--/-- 99 - Animal behavioralists Lorenz, Tinbergen and von Frisch share the Nobel Prize.
1973/--/-- 99 - Billy Friedkin "The Exorcist"
1973/--/-- 99 - Britain grants independence to the Bahama Islands.
1973/--/-- 99 - Charles XVI Gustav succeeds Gustav VI Adolf as king of Sweden.
1973/--/-- 99 - Congress passes the Endangered Species Act.
1973/--/-- 99 - Egypt and Syria attack Israel on Yom Kippur (a Jewish religious holiday).
1973/--/-- 99 - Endangered Species Act
1973/--/-- 99 - Film actor Al Pacino stars as an undercover policeman in Serpico.
1973/--/-- 99 - Great Britain, Denmark and Ireland become full-fledged members of the EEC.
1973/--/-- 99 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho share the Nobel Peace Prize.
1973/--/-- 99 - Juan D. Peron returns to power as president of Argentina.
1973/--/-- 99 - Nixon resigns over Watergate
1973/--/-- 99 - Novelist, poet, and feminist Erica Jong publishes Fear of Flying.
1973/--/-- 99 - OPEC begins an oil embargo against Europe, the U.S. and Japan.
1973/--/-- 99 - Pop recording artist Billy Joel releases his first album Piano Man.
1973/--/-- 99 - Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. heads a committee to investigate the Watergate break-in.
1973/--/-- 99 - Solzhenitsyn "Gulag Archipelago"
1973/--/-- 99 - Swedish actor Max Von Sydow stars in the supernatural film The Exorcist.
1973/--/-- 99 - The American Indian Movement occupy the site of Wounded Knee in a political protest.
1973/--/-- 99 - The Arab-Israeli War ends after 18 days with a UN negotiated cease-fire.
1973/--/-- 99 - The Paris Peace Accords end the Vietnam War.
1973/--/-- 99 - The Pioneer 10 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Jupiter.
1973/--/-- 99 - The Skylab manned orbiting laboratory is launched.
1973/--/-- 99 - The U.S. begins a total military withdrawal from South Vietnam.
1973/--/-- 99 - The Washington Post receives the Pulitzer Prize for reporting the Watergate scandal.
1973/--/-- 99 - The World Trade Center in New York City becomes the tallest building in the world.
1973/--/-- 99 - Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns after he is charged with accepting bribes.
1973/--/-- 99 - Vietnam War ends
1973/--/-- 99 - War Powers Act
1973/--/-- 99 - Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed for demanding the Nixon tapes.
1973/01/10 99 *** Benson, Glendon Ora [Great Niece] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Greenlawn Cemetery, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1973/01/28 99 *** Benson, Malda Leona [Niece] - Died Orlando, Florida Orlando, Florida Orlando, Florida
1973/10/-- 99 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL OAKLAND (4)
1974/--/-- 100 - A military coup in Portugal leads to democratic reforms.
1974/--/-- 100 - American tennis player Chris Evert wins a record 56 consecutive matches.
1974/--/-- 100 - American tennis player Jimmy Connors wins the U.S. Open tournament for the first time.
1974/--/-- 100 - American writer Stephen King publishes the horror novel Carrie.
1974/--/-- 100 - An army of life-size pottery figures is discovered in a Ch'in dynasty tomb in China.
1974/--/-- 100 - Archbishop Makarios is deposed, prompting a Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
1974/--/-- 100 - Baseball player Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record of 714 home-runs.
1974/--/-- 100 - Emperor Haile Selassie is deposed in a military coup in Ethiopia.
1974/--/-- 100 - Former astronaut John Glenn is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1974/--/-- 100 - General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte becomes president of Chile.
1974/--/-- 100 - Gerald R. Ford (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1974/--/-- 100 - Helmut Schmidt becomes chancellor of West Germany.
1974/--/-- 100 - Isabel Peron becomes president of Argentina after the death of her husband.
1974/--/-- 100 - James Michener publishes Centennial, a historical novel of the American West.
1974/--/-- 100 - Konstantinos G. Karamanlis becomes prime minister of Greece.
1974/--/-- 100 - Patricia Hearst is abducted by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
1974/--/-- 100 - Portugal recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
1974/--/-- 100 - President Ford grants Richard Nixon a pardon for any crimes committed in office.
1974/--/-- 100 - President Giscard d'Estaing appoints Jacques Chirac prime minister of France.
1974/--/-- 100 - President Nixon resigns; Gerald R. Ford is inaugurated as the 38th U.S. president.
1974/--/-- 100 - Reiner Werner Fassbinder "Ali-- Fear Eats the Soul"
1974/--/-- 100 - South African golfer Gary Player achieves the Grand Slam.
1974/--/-- 100 - Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West.
1974/--/-- 100 - The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach President Nixon.
1974/--/-- 100 - The Mariner 10 spacecraft passes within 438 miles of the planet Mercury.
1974/--/-- 100 - The Sears Tower in Chicago surpasses the World Trade Center as the tallest building.
1974/--/-- 100 - The crisis on Cyprus causes the collapse of the military regime in Greece.
1974/--/-- 100 - Willy Brandt is forced to resign after an East German spy is discovered on his staff.
1974/--/-- 100 - Yitzhak Rabin succeeds Golda Meir as prime minister of Israel.
1974/10/-- 100 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (1) AL OAKLAND (4)
1975/--/-- 101 - American novelist Saul Bellow publishes Humboldt's Gift.
1975/--/-- 101 - American writer E.L. Doctorow publishes Ragtime.
1975/--/-- 101 - Bobby Fischer refuses to defend his chess title; Anatoly Karpov is made champion.
1975/--/-- 101 - Brazilian soccer star Pele ends his retirement to play for the New York Cosmos.
1975/--/-- 101 - Civil war breaks out after the Portuguese withdraw from Angola.
1975/--/-- 101 - Civil war breaks out in Lebanon between Muslim and Christian forces.
1975/--/-- 101 - Communist Pathet Lao declare Laos the People's Democratic Republic.
1975/--/-- 101 - Cyprus is partitioned into Greek and Turkish zones.
1975/--/-- 101 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova defects to the U.S.
1975/--/-- 101 - Dutch Guiana gains its independence as the Republic of Suriname.
1975/--/-- 101 - Eritrean rebels begin their fight for independence in Ethiopia.
1975/--/-- 101 - Football player O.J. Simpson scores a record 23 touchdowns in one season.
1975/--/-- 101 - Gen. Yakubu Gowon is deposed in a military coup in Nigeria.
1975/--/-- 101 - Juan Carlos I becomes king of Spain after the death of General Francisco Franco.
1975/--/-- 101 - Michael Bennett directs and choreographs the Broadway musical A Chorus Line.
1975/--/-- 101 - Mozambique wins independence from Portugal; Samora Machel becomes the president.
1975/--/-- 101 - North Vietnamese forces overrun Saigon, which is renamed as Ho Chi Minh City.
1975/--/-- 101 - Papua New Guinea becomes independent from Australian administration.
1975/--/-- 101 - President Mujibur Rahman is killed in a military coup in Bangladesh.
1975/--/-- 101 - President N'Garta Tombalbaye of Chad is killed in a coup d'etat.
1975/--/-- 101 - Prime Minister Pol Pot begins a reign of terror in Kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 101 - Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer begin the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer news analysis program.
1975/--/-- 101 - Saudi King Faisal is assassinated; he is succeeded by his brother Khalid.
1975/--/-- 101 - Singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen releases the rock album Born to Run.
1975/--/-- 101 - South Vietnam capitulates; a mass exodus of Boat People begins.
1975/--/-- 101 - South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam
1975/--/-- 101 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975/--/-- 101 - Steven Spielberg's film Jaws sets new box-office records.
1975/--/-- 101 - Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai-shek dies; he is succeeded by Chiang Ching-kuo.
1975/--/-- 101 - The Helsinki accords pledge the signatory nations to respect human rights.
1975/--/-- 101 - The Khmer Rouge win control of Cambodia and rename the country Kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 101 - The Republic of Comoros declares its independence from France.
1975/--/-- 101 - The Suez Canal reopens after being closed to shipping for eight years.
1975/--/-- 101 - U.S. Marines recapture the U.S. freighter Mayaguez from Kampuchean forces.
1975/--/-- 101 - U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts linkup during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
1975/10/-- 101 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1976/--/-- 102 - A severe earthquake in China kills over 600,000.
1976/--/-- 102 - Actor Jack Nicholson wins the Academy Award for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
1976/--/-- 102 - Artist Christo completes Running Fence, a curtain spanning 24 miles of countryside.
1976/--/-- 102 - Black American writer Alex Haley publishes Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
1976/--/-- 102 - Black student protestors are massacred at Soweto in South Africa.
1976/--/-- 102 - Chinese leaders Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung die; Hua Kuo-feng assumes power.
1976/--/-- 102 - Finnish runner Lasse Viren wins the Olympic 5,000- and 10,000-m races for the second time.
1976/--/-- 102 - Isabel Peron is deposed; Jorge Rafael Videla becomes president of Argentina.
1976/--/-- 102 - Israeli commandos rescue hijacked airplane passengers at Entebbe, Uganda.
1976/--/-- 102 - James Callaghan succeeds Harold Wilson as prime minister of Britain.
1976/--/-- 102 - Jim Henson's Muppet Show debuts on television.
1976/--/-- 102 - Jose Lopez Portillo y Pacheco is elected president of Mexico.
1976/--/-- 102 - Mario Soares is elected prime minister of Portugal for the first time.
1976/--/-- 102 - Robert De Niro stars in Martin Scorcese's film Taxi Driver.
1976/--/-- 102 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci wins three gold medals at the Montreal Olympics.
1976/--/-- 102 - Separatist leader Rene Levesque becomes premier of Quebec.
1976/--/-- 102 - Suarez Gonzalez becomes prime minister of Spain after the first election in 41 years.
1976/--/-- 102 - Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg wins the first of five Wimbledon championships.
1976/--/-- 102 - Sylvester Stallone's film Rocky wins the Academy Award as best picture.
1976/--/-- 102 - The Sex Pistols punk rock group is formed in England.
1976/--/-- 102 - The South African homeland of Transkei becomes independent.
1976/--/-- 102 - The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
1976/--/-- 102 - The first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurs in Philadelphia.
1976/--/-- 102 - The pro-Soviet MPLA government seizes power in Angola aided by Cuban troops.
1976/--/-- 102 - U.S. Viking spacecraft land on Mars.
1976/--/-- 102 - Viking 1 & 2 land on Mars
1976/10/-- 102 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1977/--/-- 103 - American golfer Tom Watson wins the Masters and British Open tournaments.
1977/--/-- 103 - American hurdler Edwin Moses begins a winning streak of 90 consecutive races.
1977/--/-- 103 - American poet and novelist Wendell Berry, publishes The Unsettling of America.
1977/--/-- 103 - Black politician Andrew Young is appointed as U.S. ambassador to the UN.
1977/--/-- 103 - Carter is inaugurated as the 39th U.S. president; Mondale becomes vice-presicent.
1977/--/-- 103 - Comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen directs Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
1977/--/-- 103 - Edward (Ed) Koch becomes mayor of New York City for the first time.
1977/--/-- 103 - General Zia ul-Haq deposes prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Pakistan.
1977/--/-- 103 - George Lucas "Star Wars"
1977/--/-- 103 - George Lucas directs the first Star Wars space fantasy film.
1977/--/-- 103 - James E. Carter, Jr. (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1977/--/-- 103 - Jean Bedel Bokassa is crowned Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
1977/--/-- 103 - John Travolta stars in the disco film Saturday Night Fever.
1977/--/-- 103 - Menachem Begin succeeds Yitzhak Rabin as prime minister of Israel.
1977/--/-- 103 - Morarji Randchhadji Desai succeeds Indira Gandhi as prime minister of India.
1977/--/-- 103 - Rock 'n roll performer Elvis Presley dies.
1977/--/-- 103 - Seveteen-year old American jockey Steve Cauthen rides a record 487 winners.
1977/--/-- 103 - South Africa grants independence to the African homeland of Bophuthatswana.
1977/--/-- 103 - The Fianna Fail party returns to power under John Lynch in the Republic of Ireland.
1977/--/-- 103 - The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas becomes independent as Djibouti.
1977/--/-- 103 - The first Apple II personal computer is marketed in the U.S.
1977/10/-- 103 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1978/--/-- 104 - Afghanistan president Mohammad Daud Khan is killed in a Marxist coup.
1978/--/-- 104 - American auto racer Mario Andretti wins the Formula One Grand Prix championship.
1978/--/-- 104 - American golfer Nancy Lopez wins a record five straight tournaments.
1978/--/-- 104 - American writer John Irving publishes The World According to Garp.
1978/--/-- 104 - Antonio Guzman becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
1978/--/-- 104 - Boxer Larry Holmes defeats Ken Norton for the heavyweight championship.
1978/--/-- 104 - Britain grants independence to Tuvalu, Dominica, and the Solomon Islands.
1978/--/-- 104 - Italian politician Aldo Moro is kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigade terrorists.
1978/--/-- 104 - Jerry Falwell founds the Moral Majority
1978/--/-- 104 - Michael Cimino directs the controversial Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter.
1978/--/-- 104 - More than 900 members of a religious cult commit suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
1978/--/-- 104 - Pieter Willem Botha becomes prime minister of South Africa.
1978/--/-- 104 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian Pope in more than 500 years.
1978/--/-- 104 - President Carter oversees the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel.
1978/--/-- 104 - Punk Rock
1978/--/-- 104 - The Pompidou Center art museum (the Beaubourg) is opened in Paris.
1978/--/-- 104 - The United States and Panama renew the Panama Canal treaties.
1978/--/-- 104 - The balloon Double Eagle II completes the first Atlantic crossing.
1978/--/-- 104 - The first human test-tube baby is born in England.
1978/--/-- 104 - The murder of opposition leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro sparks uprisings in Nicaragua.
1978/--/-- 104 - Yiddish-language writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1978/--/-- 104 - personal computer
1978/10/-- 104 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1979/--/-- 105 - Abel Muzorewa becomes the first black prime minister of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
1979/--/-- 105 - Algerian president Houari Boumedienne dies; he is succeeded by Chadli Benjedid.
1979/--/-- 105 - American novelist William Styron publishes Sophie's Choice.
1979/--/-- 105 - American tennis player John McEnroe wins his first U.S. Open championship.
1979/--/-- 105 - American tennis player Tracy Austin wins the U.S. Open championship at age 16.
1979/--/-- 105 - An accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant causes a near-disaster.
1979/--/-- 105 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita opens on Broadway.
1979/--/-- 105 - British runner Sebastian Coe sets world records at 800 m, 1,500 m, and the mile.
1979/--/-- 105 - Charles Haughey succeeds John Lynch as president of the Republic of Ireland.
1979/--/-- 105 - Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff plays for the L.A. Aztecs.
1979/--/-- 105 - Ex-prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan.
1979/--/-- 105 - Francis Ford Coppola directs the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now.
1979/--/-- 105 - Gen. Saddam Hussein succeeds Gen. al-Bakr as president of Iraq.
1979/--/-- 105 - IRA terrorists assassinate Lord Mountbatten in Ireland.
1979/--/-- 105 - Islamic fundamentalist Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran.
1979/--/-- 105 - Jean Bedel Bokassa is deposed in the Central African Republic.
1979/--/-- 105 - Jose Eduardo dos Santos succeeds Agostinho Neto as president of Angola.
1979/--/-- 105 - Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister.
1979/--/-- 105 - Morocco annexes Western Sahara; the Polisario Front fight for independence.
1979/--/-- 105 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979/--/-- 105 - Pioneer 11 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Saturn.
1979/--/-- 105 - Quarterback Roger Staubach leads NFL passing, completing 267 out of 461 passes.
1979/--/-- 105 - Revolution in Iran; Americans held hostage
1979/--/-- 105 - Shehu Shagari becomes president of Nigeria.
1979/--/-- 105 - Sixty-six U.S. embassy employees are taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran.
1979/--/-- 105 - South Korean president Park Chung Hee is assassinated.
1979/--/-- 105 - Soviet troops occupy Afghanistan in support of Babrak Karmal's Marxist regime.
1979/--/-- 105 - Soviets lose war in Afganistan
1979/--/-- 105 - Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles invade Uganda; dictator Idi Amin Dada flees.
1979/--/-- 105 - The Gossamer Albatross flies across the English Channel under human-power.
1979/--/-- 105 - The Mujaheddin begin a guerrilla war against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
1979/--/-- 105 - The Sandinistas seize control in Nicaragua.
1979/--/-- 105 - The Shah of Iran flees the country; Iran is proclaimed an Islamic republic.
1979/--/-- 105 - The first case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is reported.
1979/--/-- 105 - Vietnamese forces invade Kampuchea and overthrow the Pol Pot government.
1979/--/-- 105 - Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft rendezvous with the planet Jupiter.
1979/10/-- 105 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL BALTIMORE (3)
1980/--/-- 106 - "War on Drugs" jails 1/5 of young black men
1980/--/-- 106 - An earthquake in Algeria kills 20,000.
1980/--/-- 106 - Border disputes erupt into the Gulf war between Iran and Iraq.
1980/--/-- 106 - Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard regains the world welterweight title from Roberto Duran.
1980/--/-- 106 - British writer D.M. Thomas publishes The White Hotel.
1980/--/-- 106 - CD, VCR, & cable become common
1980/--/-- 106 - Chun Doo Hwan becomes president of South Korea.
1980/--/-- 106 - Ex-Beatle John Lennon is fatally shot outside his Manhattan apartment.
1980/--/-- 106 - Ex-Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle is assassinated.
1980/--/-- 106 - Gen. Kenan Evren leads a military coup in Turkey.
1980/--/-- 106 - Hollywood remakes B-movies and comix
1980/--/-- 106 - Jose Napoleon Duarte becomes president of El Salvador; the guerilla war continues.
1980/--/-- 106 - Lech Walesa heads Solidarity, the first union movement in a communist country.
1980/--/-- 106 - Liberian president William R. Tolbert is killed in a military coup led by Samuel Doe.
1980/--/-- 106 - Love Canal, a chemically contaminated area in N.Y., is declared a disaster area.
1980/--/-- 106 - Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman star in the film Kramer v. Kramer.
1980/--/-- 106 - Milton Obote is reelected as president of Uganda.
1980/--/-- 106 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington state killing eight people.
1980/--/-- 106 - Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus is produced.
1980/--/-- 106 - Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe; Robert Mugabe becomes prime minister.
1980/--/-- 106 - Robert Redford directs the Academy Award winning film Ordinary People.
1980/--/-- 106 - Solidarity in Poland
1980/--/-- 106 - Ted Turner begins the Cable News Network, offering round-the-clock news.
1980/--/-- 106 - The American television soap opera Dallas is first broadcast.
1980/--/-- 106 - The Castro regime deports more than 120,000 Cubans to Florida.
1980/--/-- 106 - The FBI's ABSCAM investigation convicts seven members of the U.S. Congress.
1980/--/-- 106 - The New Hebrides become independent from Britain and France as Vanuatu.
1980/--/-- 106 - The U.S. boycotts the Moscow Olympics to protest the invasion of Afghanistan.
1980/--/-- 106 - The U.S. makes an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages.
1980/--/-- 106 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Saturn.
1980/01/20 106 - President Carter announces that U.S. athletes will not attend Summer Olympics in Moscow unless Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan.
1980/02/02 106 - FBI's undercover bribery investigation, code named Abscam, implicates a U.S. senator, seven members of the House, and 31 other public officials.
1980/04/25 106 - U.S. mission to rescue hostages in Iran is aborted after a helicopter and cargo plane collide at the staging site in a remote part of Iran and 8 serviceme
are killed.
1980/10/-- 106 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (4) AL KANSAS CITY (2)
1981/--/-- 107 - Andreas Panpandreou becomes prime minister of Greece.
1981/--/-- 107 - Anwar al-Sadat is killed; Hosni Mubarak becomes president of Egypt.
1981/--/-- 107 - Argentinian president Roberto Viola is ousted from power by General Galtieri.
1981/--/-- 107 - Black American novelist Toni Morrison publishes Tar Baby.
1981/--/-- 107 - Britain grants independence to Belize.
1981/--/-- 107 - Burt Lancaster stars in Louis Malle's film Atlantic City.
1981/--/-- 107 - Dan Rather replaces Walter Cronkite as anchorman for the CBS Evening News.
1981/--/-- 107 - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg directs Raiders of the Lost Ark.
1981/--/-- 107 - Francois Mitterand succeeds Valery Giscard d'Estaing as president of France.
1981/--/-- 107 - Garret FitzGerald becomes prime minister of Ireland.
1981/--/-- 107 - Gen. Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland; Solidarity leaders are arrested.
1981/--/-- 107 - Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda star in the film On Golden Pond.
1981/--/-- 107 - Hu Yao-bang becomes head of the Chinese Communist party.
1981/--/-- 107 - Indian-born author Salman Rushdie publishes Midnight's Children.
1981/--/-- 107 - Jeane Kirkpatrick becomes U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
1981/--/-- 107 - Jerry Rawlings leads a military coup in Ghana.
1981/--/-- 107 - John Hinckley, Jr. shoots and seriously wounds President Reagan.
1981/--/-- 107 - Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded by a Turkish gunman.
1981/--/-- 107 - Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th U.S. president; Bush becomes vice-president.
1981/--/-- 107 - Ronald W. Reagan (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1981/--/-- 107 - Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1981/--/-- 107 - Ten IRA prisoners starve themselves to death as a political protest.
1981/--/-- 107 - The Prince of Wales marries Lady Diana Spencer in Britain.
1981/--/-- 107 - The U.S. hostages in Iran are released.
1981/--/-- 107 - The first 24-hour music video channel MTV (Music Television) is launched in the U.S.
1981/--/-- 107 - The first Space Shuttle is launched, crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen.
1981/01/02 107 - U.S. hostages held in Iran are released after 444 days in captivity.
1981/03/30 107 - President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.
1981/09/25 107 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court justice.
1981/10/-- 107 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL NEW YORK (2)
1982/--/-- 108 - Alvaro Alfredo Magana becomes president of El Salvador.
1982/--/-- 108 - American writer Paul Theroux publishes The Mosquito Coast.
1982/--/-- 108 - Amin Gemayel becomes the president of Lebanon after his brother Bashir is killed.
1982/--/-- 108 - Argentina invades the Falkland Islands; Britain and Argentina are at war.
1982/--/-- 108 - Black American writer Alice Walker publishes The Color Purple.
1982/--/-- 108 - British troops recapture the Falkland Islands from Argentina.
1982/--/-- 108 - Dustin Hoffman stars in Sydney Pollack's film Tootsie.
1982/--/-- 108 - Felipe Gonzalez Marquez becomes prime minister of Spain.
1982/--/-- 108 - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg directs E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
1982/--/-- 108 - Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes control of Bangladesh in a bloodless coup.
1982/--/-- 108 - Javier Perez de Cuellar succeeds Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general of the UN.
1982/--/-- 108 - Pop singer Michael Jackson records the all-time best-selling album Thriller.
1982/--/-- 108 - soul composer Quincy Jones wins 5 Grammy Awards.
1982/--/-- 108 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies in a car accident.
1982/--/-- 108 - Richard Attenborough directs the Academy Award winning film Gandhi.
1982/--/-- 108 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies; he is succeeded by Yuri Andropov.
1982/--/-- 108 - Sylvester Stallone stars in the first Rambo film First Blood.
1982/--/-- 108 - The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) fails to win ratification in the U.S.
1982/--/-- 108 - The Israeli army invades the Lebanon and drives the PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.
1982/--/-- 108 - The UN maintains a peace between Christian and Muslim militia in Lebanon.
1982/--/-- 108 - The Voyager 2 spacecraft transmits pictures to the U.S. of the planet Saturn.
1982/--/-- 108 - Two satellites are deployed during the first operational Space Shuttle mission.
1982/--/-- 108 - USA Today, the first daily newspaper aimed at readers throughout the U.S., is launched.
1982/06/30 108 - Deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution passes without the necessary votes.
1982/10/-- 108 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL MILWAUKEE (3)
1983/--/-- 109 - American runner Joan Benoit sets a world record in the Boston Marathon.
1983/--/-- 109 - American writer William Kennedy publishes Ironweed.
1983/--/-- 109 - American zoologist Dian Fossey publishes her book Gorillas in the Mist.
1983/--/-- 109 - An EPA report projects the irreversible onset of the greenhouse effect.
1983/--/-- 109 - An Infrared Astronomical Satellite is launched to probe deep into the Milky Way.
1983/--/-- 109 - Australia II becomes the first non-American yacht to win the America's Cup.
1983/--/-- 109 - Benedetto Bettino Craxi becomes the socialist prime minister of Italy.
1983/--/-- 109 - Car bombs destroy the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut.
1983/--/-- 109 - Civil war breaks out in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and Tamil separatists.
1983/--/-- 109 - Ex-Nazi Klaus Barbie (the butcher of Lyon) is extradited from Bolivia to France.
1983/--/-- 109 - Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. becomes the first black American astronaut.
1983/--/-- 109 - Libyan forces invade Chad; French troops aid the Chad government.
1983/--/-- 109 - Manuel Antonio Noriega becomes commander of Panama's Defense Forces.
1983/--/-- 109 - Mario Soares becomes the socialist prime minister of Portugal.
1983/--/-- 109 - Nigerian president Shehu Shagari is deposed in a military coup led by Gen. Buhari.
1983/--/-- 109 - Opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated in the Philippines.
1983/--/-- 109 - President Reagan proposes a space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
1983/--/-- 109 - Raul Alfonsin is elected as president of Argentina, ending military rule.
1983/--/-- 109 - Reagan proposes "Star Wars" and increases military funding
1983/--/-- 109 - Sally K. Ride becomes the first U.S. woman astronaut.
1983/--/-- 109 - Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson star in the film Terms of Endearment.
1983/--/-- 109 - The Labor party returns to power in Australia; Robert Hawke becomes prime minister.
1983/--/-- 109 - The Soviets shoot down a South Korean airliner that violated its airspace.
1983/--/-- 109 - The compact disc is introduced for recorded music.
1983/--/-- 109 - U.S. forces invade Grenada to protect U.S. lives after a military coup on the island.
1983/--/-- 109 - Yitzhak Shamir succeeds Menachem Begin as prime minister of Israel.
1983/10/-- 109 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BALTIMORE (4)
1983/10/25 109 - U.S. invades Caribbean island of Grenada after a coup by Marxist faction in the government.
1984/--/-- 110 - A toxic gas leak kills 2,000 and affects an estimated 150,000 in Bhopal, India.
1984/--/-- 110 - American pop singer Madonna releases her album Like a Virgin.
1984/--/-- 110 - American track athlete Carl Lewis wins four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics.
1984/--/-- 110 - Brian Mulroney succeeds John Turner as prime minister of Canada.
1984/--/-- 110 - Britain and China sign a treaty for the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1984/--/-- 110 - Britain grants independence to Brunei.
1984/--/-- 110 - British prime minister Margaret Thatcher escapes injury in an IRA bomb attack.
1984/--/-- 110 - Comedian Eddie Murphy stars in the film Beverly Hills Cop.
1984/--/-- 110 - Congress forbids official U.S. aid for the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 110 - Czech writer Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
1984/--/-- 110 - Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman vice-presidential candidate in the U.S.
1984/--/-- 110 - Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh extremists.
1984/--/-- 110 - Indian troops attack the Golden Temple at Amritsar to remove militant Sikhs.
1984/--/-- 110 - Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
1984/--/-- 110 - Rap music
1984/--/-- 110 - Rev. Desmond Tutu, opponent of apartheid, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984/--/-- 110 - Rock singer Bob Geldof organizes Band Aid to raise funds for African famine victims.
1984/--/-- 110 - Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra is elected president of Nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 110 - Shimon Peres succeeds Yitzhak Shamir as prime minister of Israel.
1984/--/-- 110 - Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; he is succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko.
1984/--/-- 110 - Space Shuttle astronauts test the manned maneuvering unit and move freely in space.
1984/10/-- 110 - World Series NL SAN DIEGO (1) AL DETROIT (4)
1985/--/-- 111 - Albanian premier Enver Hoxha dies; he is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
1985/--/-- 111 - American film actor Rock Hudson dies from AIDS.
1985/--/-- 111 - American humorist and radio personality Garison Keillor publishes Lake Wobegon Days.
1985/--/-- 111 - American rock singer Tina Turner wins three Grammy Awards.
1985/--/-- 111 - Baseball player Pete Rose beats Ty Cobb's 57-year-old record of 4,191 base hits.
1985/--/-- 111 - Boxer Michael Spinks defeats Larry Holmes for the heavyweight championship.
1985/--/-- 111 - Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the Western film Pale Rider.
1985/--/-- 111 - French agents sink the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
1985/--/-- 111 - Gorbachev unravels Soviet system
1985/--/-- 111 - Jose de Sarney becomes the first civilian president of Brazil in 21 years.
1985/--/-- 111 - Julius Nyerere is succeeded as president of Tanzania by Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
1985/--/-- 111 - Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Buhari is ousted in a bloodless coup in Nigeria.
1985/--/-- 111 - Mexico City is heavily damaged by an earthquake.
1985/--/-- 111 - Middleweight champion Marvin Hagler defends his title against Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns.
1985/--/-- 111 - Palestinian terrorists hijack the Italian liner Achille Lauro.
1985/--/-- 111 - Premier Gorbachev initiates glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).
1985/--/-- 111 - President Milton Obote is ousted in a military coup in Uganda.
1985/--/-- 111 - President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting.
1985/--/-- 111 - President Reagan is inaugurated for his second term of office.
1985/--/-- 111 - Robert Redford and Meryl Streep star in the film Out of Africa.
1985/--/-- 111 - Running back Walter Payton sets an all-time NFL record for rushes of 14,860 yards.
1985/--/-- 111 - Shiite Muslim terrorists hijack a TWA Boeing 727 jet to Beirut.
1985/--/-- 111 - Soviet premier Konstantin Chernenko dies; he is succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
1985/--/-- 111 - Sudanese prime minister Gaafar al-Nimeiry is ousted in a military coup.
1985/--/-- 111 - The North American Soccer League (NASL) suspends operations.
1985/--/-- 111 - World chess champion Anatoly Karpov is defeated by 21-year-old Gary Kasparov.
1985/01/21 111 - Reagan's second inauguration.
1985/10/-- 111 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL KANSAS CITY (4)
1986/--/-- 112 - A hole in the ozone layer is detected over Antarctica.
1986/--/-- 112 - A major nuclear-reactor disaster takes place at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
1986/--/-- 112 - Benazir Bhutto, daughter of hanged premier Ali Bhutto, is jailed in Pakistan.
1986/--/-- 112 - Boxer Mike Tyson wins his first world heavyweight title.
1986/--/-- 112 - Civil war breaks out in Yemen (Aden).
1986/--/-- 112 - Comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen directs Hannah and Her Sisters.
1986/--/-- 112 - Corazon Aquino is elected president of the Philippines; Ferdinand Marcos is exiled.
1986/--/-- 112 - Cyclist Greg LeMond becomes the first American to win the Tour de France.
1986/--/-- 112 - Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl wins the French Open and U.S. Open tournaments.
1986/--/-- 112 - Filmmaker Oliver Stone directs the Vietnam War film Platoon.
1986/--/-- 112 - Golfer Jack Nicklaus at age 46 becomes the oldest man ever to win the U.S. Open.
1986/--/-- 112 - Ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky raises the season point record to 215.
1986/--/-- 112 - Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1986/--/-- 112 - President Francois Mitterrand appoints Jacques Chirac prime minister of France.
1986/--/-- 112 - President Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti goes into exile.
1986/--/-- 112 - Sayid Mohammad Najibullah replaces Marxist president Babrak Karmal in Afghanistan.
1986/--/-- 112 - Select committees are established to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair.
1986/--/-- 112 - Singer-actress Bette Midler stars in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
1986/--/-- 112 - Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
1986/--/-- 112 - The European Space Agency's Giotto spacecraft passes within 335 miles of Halley's comet.
1986/--/-- 112 - The Food and Drug Administration approve the commercial use of the drug interferon.
1986/--/-- 112 - The Soviet Union launches the first Mir space station.
1986/--/-- 112 - The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after launch, killing the crew of seven.
1986/--/-- 112 - The ultralight Voyager aircraft flies around the world nonstop in 9 days.
1986/--/-- 112 - U.S. aircraft attack military and terrorist related targets in Libya.
1986/--/-- 112 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Uranus.
1986/--/-- 112 - Yitzak Shamir succeeds Shimon Peres as prime minister of Israel.
1986/01/28 112 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. It is the worst accident in the history of the U.S. space program.
1986/04/14 112 - U.S. bombs military bases in Libya in effort to deter terrorist strikes on American targets.
1986/10/-- 112 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1986/11/-- 112 - Iran-Contra scandal breaks when White House is forced to reveal secret arms-for-hostages deals.
1987/--/-- 113 - A Wall Street stock market crisis spreads to Tokyo and London.
1987/--/-- 113 - American author Tom Wolfe publishes the satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
1987/--/-- 113 - Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Wilt Chamberlain's points record.
1987/--/-- 113 - Bettino Craxi resigns; Giovanni Goria becomes prime minister of Italy.
1987/--/-- 113 - Colonel Oliver North testifies at the Iran-Contra Affair hearings.
1987/--/-- 113 - Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation.
1987/--/-- 113 - East German leader Erich Honecker makes his first visit to West Germany.
1987/--/-- 113 - Filmmaker Brian De Palma directs The Untouchables.
1987/--/-- 113 - Gary Hart ends his Presidential campaign after allegations of sexual impropriety.
1987/--/-- 113 - Libya suffers a military defeat in Chad.
1987/--/-- 113 - More than 400 die in clashes between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi police at Mecca.
1987/--/-- 113 - Ozone "hole" found over Antartica
1987/--/-- 113 - Takeshita Noburu succeeds Nakasone Yasuhiro as the Japanese premier.
1987/--/-- 113 - The U.S. frigate Stark is hit by an Iraqi missile in the Persian Gulf.
1987/--/-- 113 - West Bank Palestinians launch an intifadah (uprising) against the Israeli occupation.
1987/--/-- 113 - Writer Gore Vidal publishes Empire, a novel of 19th-century U.S. politics.
1987/06/12 113 - In a speech in Berlin, President Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and open Eastern Europe to political and
economic reform.
1987/10/-- 113 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL MINNESOTA (4)
1987/12/08 113 - Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty, the first arms-control agreement to reduce the superpowers' nuclear weapons.
1988/--/-- 114 - A cease-fire is declared in the war between Iran and Iraq.
1988/--/-- 114 - Armenia is hit by a severe earthquake, killing tens of thousands.
1988/--/-- 114 - Australia celebrates its Bicentennial.
1988/--/-- 114 - Austrian president Kurt Waldheim is exonerated of involvement in war crimes.
1988/--/-- 114 - Benazir Bhutto is elected prime minister of Pakistan.
1988/--/-- 114 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari is elected president of Mexico.
1988/--/-- 114 - Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez publishes Love in the Time of Cholera.
1988/--/-- 114 - Dennis Connor skippers a U.S. catamaran to beat New Zealand in the America's Cup.
1988/--/-- 114 - Details of the U.S. Stealth bomber are released for the first time.
1988/--/-- 114 - Discovery becomes the first Space Shuttle to be launched after the Challenger disaster.
1988/--/-- 114 - Dustin Hoffman stars in the Academy Award winning film Rain Man.
1988/--/-- 114 - Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1988/--/-- 114 - German tennis player Boris Becker leads West Germany to victory in the Davis Cup.
1988/--/-- 114 - German tennis player Steffi Graf becomes the 3rd woman to win the Grand Slam.
1988/--/-- 114 - Hungarian leader Janos Kadar is removed from power; Karoly Grosz assumes his post.
1988/--/-- 114 - Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie publishes The Satanic Verses.
1988/--/-- 114 - Jesse Jackson fails in a second attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
1988/--/-- 114 - Lee Teng-hui succeeds Chiang Ching-kuo as president of Taiwan.
1988/--/-- 114 - Military leaders seize control in Haiti after elections are held.
1988/--/-- 114 - Military leaders seize power in Burma (Myanmar).
1988/--/-- 114 - Nationalist uprisings breakout in the Soviet republic of Armenia.
1988/--/-- 114 - Pakistani leader Gen. Muhammed Zia ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash.
1988/--/-- 114 - Roh Tae Woo succeeds Chun Doo Hwan as president of South Korea.
1988/--/-- 114 - South African leader Nelson Mandela is removed from prison for hospital treatment.
1988/--/-- 114 - Sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal after a drug test.
1988/--/-- 114 - Steven Spielberg produces the innovative animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
1988/--/-- 114 - Television evangelist Jim Bakker is convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
1988/--/-- 114 - The Geneva Accords set the timetable for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1988/--/-- 114 - The Iraqis are accused of using chemical weapons against the Kurds.
1988/--/-- 114 - The U.S. cruiser Vincennes accidentally shoots downs an Iranian airliner.
1988/--/-- 114 - The U.S. indict Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega for drug offenses.
1988/--/-- 114 - Vietnam announces it will withdraw all its forces from Kampuchea.
1988/10/-- 114 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL OAKLAND (1)
1989/--/-- 115 - Akihito succeeds his father Hirohito as emperor of Japan.
1989/--/-- 115 - Allegations of financial impropriety force Japanese premier Noboru to resign.
1989/--/-- 115 - American Anne Tyler wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Breathing Lessons.
1989/--/-- 115 - Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran; Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani becomes president.
1989/--/-- 115 - British author V.S. Pritchett publishes A Careless Widow and Other Stories.
1989/--/-- 115 - Bulgarian premier Todor Zhivkov resigns; he is succeeded by Petar Mladenov.
1989/--/-- 115 - Bush is inaugurated as the 41st U.S. president; Quayle becomes vice-president.
1989/--/-- 115 - Carlos Saul Menem succeeds Raul Alfonsin as president of Argentina.
1989/--/-- 115 - Demonstrations in East Germany lead to the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
1989/--/-- 115 - F. W. de Klerk succeeds P.W. Botha as president of South Africa.
1989/--/-- 115 - Gen. Alfredo Stroessner is ousted; Andres Rodriguez becomes president of Paraguay.
1989/--/-- 115 - George H. W. Bush (Republican) becomes president of the United States
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1989/--/-- 115 - Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou is succeeded by Tzinnis Tzannetakis.
1989/--/-- 115 - Hu Yao-pang's death in China sparks public rallies demanding social changes.
1989/--/-- 115 - Hundreds of demonstrators are killed by troops in Peking's T'ien-an-Men Square.
1989/--/-- 115 - Hungary elects to become a multiparty democracy.
1989/--/-- 115 - Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton star in the film Batman.
1989/--/-- 115 - Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi signs a peace treaty with Chad.
1989/--/-- 115 - Playwright Vaclav Havel becomes the president of Czechoslovakia.
1989/--/-- 115 - Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu is deposed and killed.
1989/--/-- 115 - San Francisco's Marina district is damaged by a severe earthquake.
1989/--/-- 115 - Solidarity candidates win a majority in the first free elections in Poland since 1946.
1989/--/-- 115 - Soviet forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan; the civil war continues.
1989/--/-- 115 - The Burmese government changes the country's name to Myanmar.
1989/--/-- 115 - The Satanic Verses is condemned by Muslims; Salman Rushdie goes into hiding.
1989/--/-- 115 - The communist government of Milos Jakes resigns in Czechoslovakia.
1989/--/-- 115 - U.S. forces invade Panama; General Noriega surrenders and is held on drug charges.
1989/--/-- 115 - U.S.S.R dissolves into republics; Cold War over
1989/--/-- 115 - V.P. Singh succeeds Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister of India.
1989/--/-- 115 - Voyager 2 spacecraft tramsmits pictures to the U.S. of the planet Neptune.
1989/--/-- 115 - World cable markets deregulated; Hollywood gains world film market
1989/01/20 115 - George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st president.
1989/03/24 115 - Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, spilling more than 10 million gallons of oil (March 24). It is the largest oil spill in U.S.
history.
1989/06/22 115 *** Benson, Lena May [Niece] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1989/08/09 115 - President Bush signs legislation to provide for federal bailout of nearly 800 insolvent savings and loan institutions.
1989/10/-- 115 - World Series NL SAN FRANCISCO (0) AL OAKLAND (4)
1989/12/20 115 - U.S. forces invade Panama in an attempt to capture Gen. Manuel Noriega, who previously had been indicted in the U.S. on drug trafficking charges.
1990/--/-- 116 - A mirror in the Hubble Space Telescope is found to be flawed shortly after deployment.
1990/--/-- 116 - Actress Jessica Tandy wins the Academy Award for her role in Driving Miss Daisy.
1990/--/-- 116 - American novelist Thomas Pynchon publishes Vineland.
1990/--/-- 116 - Basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson wins the MVP award for the third time.
1990/--/-- 116 - Basketball player Michael Jordan leads the NBA in scoring for the fourth consecutive year.
1990/--/-- 116 - Book retail chains abound
1990/--/-- 116 - Boris Yeltsin becomes president of the Russian Republic.
1990/--/-- 116 - British prime minister Margaret Thatcher resigns; she is succeeded by John Major.
1990/--/-- 116 - Chad president Hissene Habre is deposed by rebel forces led by Idris Deby.
1990/--/-- 116 - David Dinkins succeeds Ed Koch as mayor of New York City.
1990/--/-- 116 - East and West Germany are reunited; Helmut Kohl becomes chancellor of a united Germany.
1990/--/-- 116 - Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello succeeds Jose Sarney as president of Brazil.
1990/--/-- 116 - I.M. Pei's 70-story Bank of China headquarters is built in Hong Kong.
1990/--/-- 116 - Indian prime minister V.P. Singh resigns; he is succeeded by Chandra Shekhar.
1990/--/-- 116 - Iraq invades Kuwait, beginning the Persian Gulf War.
1990/--/-- 116 - John Updike publishes Rabbit at Rest, the fourth and last of his Rabbit novels.
1990/--/-- 116 - Lech Walesa wins the first direct presidential elections in Poland's history
1990/--/-- 116 - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia declare their independence from the Soviet Union.
1990/--/-- 116 - Namibia becomes independent from South Africa with Sam Nujoma as president.
1990/--/-- 116 - Pakistani president Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
1990/--/-- 116 - President Patricio Aylwin succeeds Gen. Pinochet , ending 16 years of military rule in Chile.
1990/--/-- 116 - President Samuel Doe is killed during a military rebellion in Liberia.
1990/--/-- 116 - Slovenia and Croatia vote non-Communist governments into power in Yugoslavia.
1990/--/-- 116 - South Africa accepts racial equality
1990/--/-- 116 - South African president F.W. De Klerk releases Nelson Mandela; the ban on the ANC ends.
1990/--/-- 116 - Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns from office.
1990/--/-- 116 - Student riots in Tirane lead to the formation of Albania's first opposition party since 1946.
1990/--/-- 116 - Syrian-backed forces defeat General Aoun's Christian militia in Lebanon.
1990/--/-- 116 - The UN authorizes an economic blockade of Iraq.
1990/--/-- 116 - U.S.-led coalition forces begin Operation Desert Shield to protect Saudi Arabia from Iraq.
1990/--/-- 116 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro succeeds Daniel Ortega as president of Nicaragua.
1990/--/-- 116 - Warren Beatty directs, produces and plays the lead role in the film Dick Tracy.
1990/--/-- 116 - Yemen (Aden) and Yemen (Sana) unite as the Yemen Republic.
1990/08/02 116 - Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, leading to the Persian Gulf War.
1990/10/-- 116 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL OAKLAND (0)
1991/--/-- 117 - Gulf War is first U.S. reduction of a regional power
1991/--/-- 117 - Japan is world's largest automaker
1991/01/16 117 - Persian Gulf War: U.S. leads international coalition in military operation (code named "Desert Storm") to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait (Jan. 16-Feb. 28).
1991/04/06 117 - Iraq accepts terms of UN ceasefire, marking an end of the war.
1991/07/31 117 - U.S. and Soviet Union sign START I treaty, agreeing to further reduce strategic nuclear arms.
1991/10/-- 117 - World Series NL ATLANTA (3) AL MINNESOTA (4)
1991/10/11 117 - Senate Judiciary Committee conducts televised hearings to investigate allegations of past sexual harassment brought against Supreme Court nominee Clar
Thomas by Anita Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma.
1992/--/-- 118 - NAFTA formed
1992/--/-- 118 - Yugoslavia breaks up; Serbia contained
1992/02/01 118 - Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in Dec. 1991, President Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin meet at Camp David and formally declare an end
to the cold war.
1992/04/29 118 - The acquittal of four white police officers charged in the 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles sets off several days of rioting,
leading to more than 50 deaths, thousands of injuries and arrests, and $1 billion in property damage.
1992/10/-- 118 - World Series NL ATLANTA (2) AL TORONTO (4)
1992/12/-- 118 - President Bush authorizes sending U.S. troops to Somalia as part of UN relief effort.
1992/12/24 118 - President Bush grants pardons to six officials convicted or indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal, leading some to suspect a cover-up.
1993/--/-- 119 - Internet expands with World Wide Web
1993/--/-- 119 - Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List"
1993/--/-- 119 - William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1993/01/20 119 - Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd president.
1993/02/26 119 - Bomb explodes in basement garage of World Trade Center, killing 6, injuring 1,000, and causing more than $500 million in damage.
1993/04/19 119 - After 51-day standoff with federal agents, Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex., burns to the ground, killing 80 cult members.
1993/06/26 119 - President Clinton orders missile attack against Iraq in retaliation for alleged plot to assassinate former President Bush.
1993/10/-- 119 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (2) AL TORONTO (4)
1993/10/03 119 - Eighteen U.S. soldiers are killed in ambush by Somali militiamen in Mogadishu.
1993/12/08 119 - President Clinton signs North American Free Trade Agreement into law.
1994/02/01 120 *** Benson, Alcie Jane [Niece] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1994/05/06 120 - Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, files a federal lawsuit against President Clinton for sexual harassment.
1994/10/-- 120 - World Series NL NO WORLD SERIES AL NO WORLD SERIES
In 1874 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1994 Transportation was by:
Balloon
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
Helicopter
Jet
nuclear ship
Space travel
in addition.
By 1994 Transportation by:
Horse
Steamboat
Balloon
had been discontinued.
In 1874 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1994 Communications was by:
Telephone
FAX
E-Mail
in addition.
By 1994 Communications by:
Telegraph
had been discontinued.
In 1874 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
By 1994 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Electric
Refrigeration
Dish washer
Garbage Disposal
in addition.
By 1994 Food Preparation by:
Wood
had been discontinued.
In 1874 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1874 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1874 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
By 1994 War Making was by:
Assault rifle
tank
TNT
Chemical agents
Biological agents
Aeroplane
Helicopter
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
Satellites
Drones
in addition.
By 1994 War Making by:
Calvary
had been discontinued.
In 1874 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
By 1994 Navigation was by:
Radio Signals
Radar
Global Positioning
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:23