0399 St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1095 Pope Urban receives an appeal from the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus for aid against the Seljuk Turks He proclaims the crusade November 27 at the Synod of Clermont, and he excommunicates France's Philip I for adultery

1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic

1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston

1843 The opera "The Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)

1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"

1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made

1889 Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park.

1890 Firstsignal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation

1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize

1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die

1901 Army War College established in Washington DC

1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)

1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

1912 Albanian National Flag adopted

1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established

1916 City of Birmingham, an Ellerman Lines ship, of 7,498 grt, and built by Palmers of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1911, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U32, 90 miles south-east of Malta while bound from Liverpool to Karachi. with 315 passengers and crew on board, 4 lost their lives, all crew

1924 57,000 watch a High School football game in LA

1926 110,000 watch Army andNavy play a 21-all tie

1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins

1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins and Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU

1939 Inauguration of Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)

1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat

1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them

1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China

1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote

1951 The First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM

1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration

1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany

1960 Gordie Howe becomes first NHLer to score 1,000 points

1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38

1961 Gordie Howe becomes first to play in 1,000 NHL games

1965 French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space

1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41

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