Web01/10/2001 · 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates with a team including 5 future Baseball Hall of Famers clinch NL pennant with 9-6 win v Cincinnati Reds; Pirates' last NL pennant until 1960; 1928 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 46:49.6 and 10 miles 50:15.0 in Berlin, Germany; 1928 USSR launches its first 5-year plan; 1931 Philadelphia Athletics …

WebJan 1 48th Rose Bowl: #6 Minnesota beats #16 UCLA, 21-3; Jan 1 Beatles' Decca Records audition is unsuccessful - they are told “guitar groups are on the way out..."; Jan 1 Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium; Jan 1 United States Navy SEALs established.; Jan 1 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa …

Web15/11/2022 · 1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany. 264th Pope John Paul II. 1981 Revival of "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 48 performances; 1982 4th ACE Cable Awards: "Bernstein ... Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd …

WebJan 1 95th Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #6 Penn State, 38-24; Jan 1 Slovakia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the sixteenth Eurozone country.; Jan 1 The government of the Republic of China adopts Hanyu Pinyin as its official Chinese romanization (before this time, the most commonly used was Tongyong Pinyin.; Jan 2 …

Web1901 Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King" premieres in NYC; 1905 Baseball Word Series: NY Giants (NL) beat Philadelphia A's (AL), 2-0 in Game 5 at the Polo Grounds to win first league sanctioned WS, 4-1; Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight WS shutout; 1906 Baseball World Series: In all-Chicago series, White Sox beat Cubs, 8-3 at South Side …

Web25/09/2022 · 1926 Henry Ford announces an 8 hour, 5-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford. 1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states; Election of Interest. ... 1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title; Historic Event. 1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam …

Web1902 Wolfgang Kunkel, German lawyer and law historian, born in Fürth, Germany (d. 1981); 1903 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist, born in Patyali, near Allahabad, United Provinces of British India (d. 1981); 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director (Le salaire de la peur), born in Niort, France (d. 1977); 1909 Alan Bible, …

WebFeb 27 The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years; Feb 27 The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends; Feb 28 Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.; Mar 1 "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots; …

Web1983 US Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. Day as federal holiday, observed on the 3rd Monday in January (on or near his 1/15 birthday) Sports History. 1986 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all test cricket ... 2019 Chilean President Sebastián Piñera declares a 15 day state of emergency after widespread and violent protests over rise in …

Web28/08/2022 · 1949 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: US takes trophy for third straight year with last day singles wins to Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales; beat Australia, 4-1; 1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York; 1950 Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of the Philadelphia A's from Connie Mack Jr; …