On this day...

On this day...
422 St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1798 British Hondurus beats Spain in battle of St George
1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
1823 Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
1846 Elias Howe patents the sewing machine
1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1858 John Holden hits the 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)
1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1899 2nd quake in 7 days hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 Cleveland Call & Post established
1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
1924 Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1927 France wins its 1st Davis Cup
1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
1939 Canada declares war on Germany
1945 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium
1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"
1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1955 "Gunsmoke" premiers on CBS TV
1956 Louisville Ky public schools integrate
1960 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
1960 Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon
1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
1962 Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1967 Chic White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British
1969 NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
1973 NY Jets trade pro football's leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
1974 Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
1978 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
1978 4th game of the Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1980 Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
1982 Decca releases Beatle audition "The Complete Silver Beatles" album
1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
1988 Steffi Graf wins US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)
1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship
1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary & Czech)
1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open
1990 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
1990 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1990 Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
1990 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept in a season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0