Untitled Document1997President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
1994Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
1994Former West Australian premier Carmen Lawrence enters federal parliament through Fremantle by-election and records a 1.43 per... 1994Flaming oil burns in the Bosporus Strait that divides Istanbul after a tanker and freighter collide, killing 15 crew members.... 1991World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (France)
1991British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
... 1990Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
19904th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1986European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1984Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1983OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years
1978Statistics Canada reports unemployment passed the 1,000,000 mark in February for the first time not bad for a population of ... 1978Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1973Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1971The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1971Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1962Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
196014 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
1958USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1951Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1948Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
1946Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1941Xavier Cugat and his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
1941Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
194027 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
1939Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1939England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1937Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1936Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue
1918First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
1915In World War I, the German cruiser Dresden is sunk by the Royal Navy in the Pacific
1914Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty
1912King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1896Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1891The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the ... 1864Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.
1863RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
1862Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1843James Douglas lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Vic... 1843Boston conducts its first town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1840José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey", premieres in Madrid
1836HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1800Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1794Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
1743First American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1734Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
1644England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
