On this day...

1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders
1535 Jacques Cartie‚r discovers Mount Royal (Monte‚al)
1608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader
1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year
1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1920 Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the economic crisis
1932 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
1936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series (World Series #33) grand slam 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers
1938 Tigers' Chester Laabs struck out 5 times in a game
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a world series (World Series #44) homer
1949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play the final game of the season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16
1950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
1950 Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in the 50th World Series
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1957 NY Yankees appear in their 26th World Series (World Series #54)
1958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
1961 "Ben Casey" premieres
1962 SF & LA play a 4h18m 9 inning game
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
1966 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts (World Series #65)
1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
1980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali
1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court
1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors