On this date

0312 - Start of Imperial Indication
0366 - Liberius dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope
0673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
0768 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
0786 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
0787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
0911 - Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies
1143 - Innocent II, [Gregorio de’ Papareschi], Ital Pope (1130-43), dies
1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1228 - Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, king of Serbia (1217-28), dies
1230 - Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castilie, dies
1435 - Isabella of Bayern, Queen of France (Treaty of Troyes), dies
1493 - Columbus’ 2nd expedition to the New World
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1683 - Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
1742 - Faneuil Hall opens to the public
1789 - Congress creates the Post Office
1789 - Congress’ 1st Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
1829 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 - Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
1845 - 1st baseball team is organized
1852 - A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
1853 - First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1895 - First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of The Red Circle” (BG)
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 - Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42
1927 - NHL’s Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
1929 - Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth’s farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1938 - Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1941 - 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington DC
1950 - “Operation Magic Carpet”-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1954 - Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 - Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 - President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 - President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1958 - First welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa
1960 - First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 - Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence
1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss
1963 - Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 - “The Munsters” premiers
1964 - Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1967 - Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1968 - “60 Minutes” premiers
1968 - NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1969 - Trial of “Chicago 8″ (protesters at Democratic National Convention) begins
1970 - First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
1971 - Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 - Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 - Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 - NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 - Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
1973 - St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
1974 - Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit
1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 - Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1979 - CompuServe system started
1982 - Tennis great Bj�rn B�rg retires at 26
1982 - US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1984 - Paul McCartney releases “No More Lonely Nights”
1985 - Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
1985 - Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 - Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1988 - Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 - Canada’s Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman’s record (7,291)
1990 - South African president F.W. de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Washington DC
1990 - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1991 - “Good & Evil” & “Sibs” premiers on ABC TV
1991 - Doogie Howser loses his virginity
1991 - Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1993 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1993 - Norodom Sihanouk again installed as king of Cambodia
1994 - Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1995 - Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts
1997 - 31st Country Music Assn Award
1997 - Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI’s 10 most-wanted
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana
2007 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University