0325: The early Christian church opened the general council of Nicaea,
which settled on rules for computing the date of Easter.
0936: Coronation of Louis IV as King of France
1097: Capture of Nicea (1st Crusade)
1157: Bertrand de Blanquefort, 6th Master of the Templars, captured by
the Moslems at the Siege of Bayas
1312: Beheading of Piers Galveston, Earl of Cornwall
1341: Death of St Juliana Falconeri
1429: Jeanne d'Arc raises Siege of Orleans
1498: Machiavelli appointed Secretary to the Signoria
1586: English colonists of North Carolina left to return to England
1605: Czar-pretender enters Moscow
1639: Pacification of Berwick; end of the First Bishop's War
1717: Johann Stamitz was Christened in Nemecky Brod, Bohemia. Stamitz
would become one of the most prolific composers of the prolific late Baroque, writing at
least 74 symphonies and a large quantity of other works.
1778: Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
1787: The U.S. Constitutional Convention voted to strike down the
Articles of Confederation and form a new government.
1846: First baseball game - NY Nines 23, NY Knickerbockers 1.
1586: English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina,
after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1862: Slavery is abolished in the US territories.
1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off
Cherbourg, France.
1867: Mexico's deposed emperor Maximilian is executed.
1875: Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at the Presidio.
19??: Amy Grant and Gary Chapman are married
1910: Father's Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane Wash.
1917: After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family
to dispense with German titles and surnames. They took the name Windsor.
1926: "Ballet Mecanique" by George Antheil premiered in
Paris. It was scored for 13 different keyboards, lots of percussion, propellers and a
siren.
1931: First photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, CT.
1934: The Federal Communications Commission was created.
1947: First plane to exceed 600 mph -- Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.
1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison,
Ossining, NY
1961: US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's
constitution requiring state office holders to belief in the existence of God.
1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after
spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.
1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in Senate.
1973: Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000.
1977: Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann first US male
saint.
1981: Boeing Commercial Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified.
1986: Artificial heart recipient Murray P. Haydon died in Louisville,
KY.
1986: Len Bias, first pick of the Boston Celtics, suffers a fatal
cocaine-induced seizure.
1987: The Supreme Court struck down the 1981 Louisiana law that
required schools to teach the creationist theory of human origin espoused by
fundamentalist Christians.
1989: Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose sued baseball, arguing that
Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti should be prevented from hearing allegations that Rose
had gambled on baseball games.
1990: Opening statements were presented in the drug and perjury trial
of Washington D.C., Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. (Barry was later convicted of a single count
of misdemeanor drug possession, and sentenced to six months in prison.)
1991: Newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin lobbied Congress during a Washington visit as he sought closer ties.
1991: Pablo Escobar, head of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities.
1991: Actress Jean Arthur died at age 90.
1994: Former President Jimmy Carter, just returned from North Korea,
said he believed the crisis with Pyongyang was over following talks with North Korean
President Kim Il Sung on how to resolve the nuclear issue.
1995: Chechen rebels and more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of
buses back to Chechnya following the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital.
1995: Chinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu was detained as
he tried to enter China; he was jailed for 66 days before being expelled from the country.
1996: Chief executives from seven states, police, state attorney
generals and members of Congress met with President Clinton at the White House to discuss
ways of stopping the recent torching of black churches.
1996: New York City police announced that a shooting suspect in custody
had been linked to the "Zodiac" shootings that terrorized New Yorkers in the
early 1990's.
1998: Switzerland's three biggest banks offered $600 million to settle
claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims; outraged Jewish leaders called the
offer insultingly low.
1998: Pope John Paul the Second began his third visit to Austria.
1998: A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet said
smoking more than doubles the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
1999: Turin, Italy, was chosen as the site of the 2006 Winter Olympic
Games.
1999: The Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo
Sabres 2-1 in Game 6, which had gone into triple overtime and ended past midnight.
1999: Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie
Rhys-Jones in
Windsor, England.
2000: The Supreme Court reaffirmed, 6-to-3, that praying in public schools had to be private, barring officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
2000: The Los Angeles Lakers won their first championship in 12 years, defeating the Indiana Pacers 116-to-111 in game six of the NBA Finals (the post-game celebration, however, was marred by violent fans).
2000: Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita died in Tokyo at age 76.
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