Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 1

Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria
Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria
Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
1097: 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1097: 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200: China, sunglasses are invented
1200: China, sunglasses are invented
1233: Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1233: Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252: King Alfonso X el Sabio of Castili‰/Le¢n crowned
1290: Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
1347: Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390: French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1465: Battle at Montlh‚ry
1513: Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry III beat France
1517: 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1517: Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1535: Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1543: England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569: Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1570: King J nos Sigismund Z polyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1600: Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth
1625: Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1656: 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1674: Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689: Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690: Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman
1690: Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1691: Yorktown Va founded
1717: Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
1745: Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1745: Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]
1748: Geldermalsen sails to East-Indies
1776: 1st vote on Declaration of Independence
1777: Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1780: British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1794: Hungarian revolutionary Ign c Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1795: John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1797: Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1798: Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810: Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1812: Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
1816: Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's Raft of the Medusa
1816: Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's Raft of the Medusa
1816: Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's Raft of the Medusa
1816: Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's Raft of the Medusa
1816: Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's Raft of the Medusa
1819: Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
1820: 1st edition of newspaper Courrier de la Meuse published
1823: 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
1823: United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1829: Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1831: Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1834: Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
1839: Abdl-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1846: Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe P‚lissier in Paris
1847: 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5› Franklin & 10› Washington, NYC
1847: K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe
1850: At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1857: N R Pogson discovers asteroid #46 Hestia
1858: 1st Canadian coins minted (1›, 5›, 10› & 20›)
1858: Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
1861: 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1861: Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861: Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1861: War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862: (Poindexter's Farm) Day 7 of Seven Days US15,249 CS17,583
1862: Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862: Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862: Battle of Malvern Hill, VA (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm)
1862: Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862: Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill
1862: Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862: Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance,
1862: Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
1862: tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1863: -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
1863: Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
1863: Chickamauga campaign GA
1863: Emancipation Proclamation signed
1863: Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3›/« oz
1863: Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles
1864: 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1864: Battle of Front Royal VA (Guard Hill)
1864: Battle of Petersburg, VA [->JUL 31] -front US3695 CS---
1864: Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1867: Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Qu‚bec)
1869: Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869: US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870: Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1870: James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
1871: The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1873: Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
1873: J C Watson discovers asteroid #133 Cyrene
1873: Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874: 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874: 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874: 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1875: Universal Postal Union established
1876: Opera Siegfried premieres in Bayreuth
1877: 1st edition of /'Amsterdammer/' published
1878: Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
1879: Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1881: 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881: US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1882: British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1883: ANWB forms in Utrecht
1884: V Knorre discovers asteroid #238 Hypatia
1885: C H F Peters discovers asteroid #249 Ilse
1889: Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889: US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890: Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1890: Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1894: Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their
1894: people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896: Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1896: Harbor of Ymuiden opens
1896: Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier
1897: Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898: Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1898: Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899: Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899: SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902: Start of Sherlock Holmes Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (BG)
1903: Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
1904: NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1905: Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1906: -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1907: Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
1907: World's 1st air force established (US Army)
1909: J Palisa discovers asteroid #687 Tinette
1910: Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1911: German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911: Proclamation removes Dei Gratia from Canada's coins
1913: Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1914: German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914: Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1915: Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915: Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
1915: KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
1916: Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916: British court martial (Easter uprising)
1916: Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1916: Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1916: Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR
1917: 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
1917: Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1918: US troops overthrows Archangelsk
1919: 1st class postage drops from 3› to 2›
1920: pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
1920: Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays
1922: AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
1923: 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass)
1924: Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1924: Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1924: Light Brigade forms
1924: Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
1925: G Shajn discovers asteroids #1057 Wanda & #1709 Ukraina
1925: SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1925: Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1926: Canada restores gold standard
1927: 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1929: US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates Popeye
1929: US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1930: Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
1931: Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
1931: Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15›
1931: Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1931: Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)
1932: NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago
1932: NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1933: G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja
1933: German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work
1933: Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera Arabella premieres in Dresden
1934: 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1934: US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1934: US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
1935: General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam
1936: 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1936: AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens
1936: G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1692 Subbotina
1936: Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
1937: Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)
1937: Rev Martin Niem”ller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937: Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists
1940: 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1940: Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1941: 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1941: Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1941: Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1941: WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1941: WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1942: German troops conquer Sebastopol
1942: Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1943: 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
1943: Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1943: Pay-as-you-go - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1944: 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs
1944: 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
1944: Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1944: Chartres freed
1944: Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944: Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1944: General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
1944: US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944: US headquarter moves to ColombiŠres Normandy
1944: Von Rundstedt against Keitel: Signs peace, idiots!
1945: 1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers
1945: 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
1945: Allies troop land on Balikpapan
1946: Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1946: Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown
1946: US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947: 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1947: Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1947: Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
1948: Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948: Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1948: NYC subway fare goes to 10›, bus fare to 7› & combo fare at 12›
1949: Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1949: WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949: WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950: 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1950: Lost in the Stars closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 perfs
1950: NYC bus fare rises to 10› equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15›
1950: West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
1950: WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953: KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953: KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953: KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins
1953: Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954: 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1954: Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 HRs for record 3 HRs in his 1st 2 days
1954: Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing
1954: WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955: Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1955: KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956: Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1956: Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1956: Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1956: Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1957: International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
1957: WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
1959: Heinrich Lbke elected pres of West-Germany
1959: Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
1959: USSR introduces installment buying
1959: World Refugee Year begins
1959: WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
1960: Benjamin Britten's cantate Carmen Baseliense, premieres in Basel
1960: Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960: British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960: Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1960: Ghana becomes a republic
1960: Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960: Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
1960: No passports needed inside Benelux
1960: Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
1960: USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961: 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961: Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1961: KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1961: Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
1962: Algeria votes for independence
1962: Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1962: Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1963: Beatles record She Loves You & I'll Get You
1963: Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1963: Pres Kennedy arrives in Rome
1963: US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1964: St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1965: AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1965: FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1965: Kinderstraf trial starts
1965: KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966: Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966: Explorer 33 launched
1966: Medicare goes into effect
1967: 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2
1967: BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967: Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, goes #1 for 15 weeks
1967: Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
1967: Funny Girl closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1348 perfs
1967: WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968: John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968: US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1968: USSR performs underground nuclear test
1969: Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969: John & Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash
1969: Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1969: WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
1969: Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
1970: FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
1970: Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
1971: British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
1971: Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
1971: J Gibson discovers asteroid #1837 Osita & #2309 Mr Spock
1971: State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
1972: Follies closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 524 performances
1972: Hair closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1972: Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
1972: Ms. magazine begins publishing
1972: Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
1973: Jesus Christ Superstar closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 perfs
1974: Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2605 Sahade
1974: General Pinochet becomes president of Chile
1974: Isabel Per¢n succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina
1974: Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1974: Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1975: Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2680
1975: Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1975: Ringo Starr & Maureen, divorce
1975: Rodgers & Hart closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1975: WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976: Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
1976: St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
1977: Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
1978: Act closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances
1978: Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978: Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1979: Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6 of snow
1980: Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980: Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
1980: Jools Holland quits Squeeze
1981: Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981: Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981: Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
1981: NEC soccer team forms in Nijmegen
1981: Nell Dunn's Steaming, premieres in London
1981: Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
1981: Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982: 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982: ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982: Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982: General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982: K Olofsson discovers asteroid #3573
1982: Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
1982: Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG
1983: Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1983: T M Smirnova discovers asteroid #5667 Nakhimovskaya
1983: Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3879 Machar
1984: Andrea Doria's safe opened
1984: Baby closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
1984: LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984: Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
1984: NASA launches Ampte
1985: Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1986: Madonna's True Blue, album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
1986: Papa Don't Preach, goes #1 for 2 weeks
1986: Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1987: Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
1987: Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987: Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987: NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
1987: NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1987: WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1988: Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
1988: IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988: Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988: Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1989: E F Helin discovers asteroid #5182 Bray
1989: Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1989: Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1990: 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
1990: China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990: Elst finds asteroid 5184 Cavaille-Coll, 6604 Ilias & 7015 Schopenhauer
1990: German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990: Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1991: Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
1991: K Watanabe discovers asteroid #5069 Tokeidai
1991: Pres Bush declares recession is near an end
1992: 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
1992: Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992: Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1992: Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
1992: R H McNaught discovers asteroid #5788
1993: 1 second is added to the clock
1993: Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993: Spacewatch discovers asteroid #7025
1993: STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
1994: Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
1994: Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994: Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994: Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
1994: Soyuz TM-19 launches
1994: Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995: Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
1995: Kiss of the Spider Woman,closes at Broadhurst NYC after 906 perfs
1996: C F Durman & B M Ewen-Smith discover asteroid #8225
1996: Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1996: WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
1997: For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1997: Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997: STS 94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit
1997: UK returns Hong Kong to China
2002: Ashraf Qazi Jehangir Qazil is appointed as Pakistan's Ambassador the United States.
2002: Chinese Premier, Zhu Ronji meets the 13-year old 11th Panchen Lama in Beijing.
2002: Jammu, India
2002: Mr. Nedumaran - Leader of Tamil Nationalist Movement was arrested under POTO by Tamil Nadu Police
2002: New Delhi, India
2002: Police arrested one person in connection with the murder of Indian Express correspondent Mr. Shivani Bhatnagar after three years
2002: Pratima Kumari wins two Gold medals in the Commonwealth Games in Women's Weightlifting.
2002: Tamil Nadu Leader Mr. Subaveera Pandyan arrested under POTA.
2002: Two policemen killed in Jammu in an terrorist act.

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