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2013 Event - George Osborne, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, announces that G7 finance ministers and central bankers agree that coordinate action should be taken against tax evaders

2013 Event - Viacom loses its billion-dollar copyright infringement suit against YouTube

2013 Event - At the 2013 Australian Open, tennis pro Victoria Azarenka wins the women's singles event, after winning three sets in the final against Li Na

2013 Event - In Sri Lanka, an impeachment motion against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake is passed by the Parliament

2012 Event - Chinese authorities arrest a Tibetan monk and his nephew in Sichuan province, for inciting 8 self-immolation protests against Chinese rule

2012 Event - In Dublin, an estimated crowd of 10,000 protesters demonstrated against austerity and called for a general strike to shut down the country

2012 Event - Several European countries protest against unemployment and austerity measures; Spain and Portugal hold the largest protests, with Greece, Italy and Belgium holding smaller ones

2012 Event - After a series of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, hundreds of Tibetan monks and students protest against education policies in China's western Qinghai Province

2012 Event - Amidst protests against austerity, the Portuguese government announces details of its draft budget for 2013

2012 Event - The U.S. court ruling banning the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is overturned, winning a round for Google's Android against Apple

2012 Event - Venezuelans go to the polls to vote in the country's presidential election; President Hugo Chavez competes against Henrique Capriles Radonski of the opposing Justice First party

2012 Event - Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency

2012 Event - In Greece, trade unions call a general strike as they continue their protest against austerity measures

2012 Event - In Moscow, tens of thousands protest against Vladimir Putin, chanting, 'We are the power here!' and 'Russia without Putin!'

2012 Event - Yahoo and Facebook agree to settle a patent dispute, dropping lawsuits against each other and now forming an advertising and content-sharing alliance that expands an existing partnership between the two companies

2012 Event - In India, a nationwide strike against rising gas prices closes shops and interrupts public transport across the country

2012 Event - Playing against the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the 21st perfect game in MLB history and the third perfect game in team history

2012 Event - Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt

2012 Event - China allows the yuan to fluctuate up to 1% from 0.5%, in trading against the U.S. dollar

2012 Event - In Montreal, Canada, over 200,000 people march to protest against post-secondary education tuition hikes

2012 Event - In a retaliatory move against E.U. sanctions, Iran stops all exports to France and the United Kingdom

2012 Event - Hundreds of thousands of people protest against austerity measures in Portugal's capital of Lisbon

2012 Event - A U.S. gene sequencing company, Illumina, adopts a poison pill strategy, fighting against a hostile big by Roche Holding

2012 Event - An EU Accession referendum is taken in Croatia; 66% vote to join the EU, and 33% vote against joining

2012 Event - Nearly 2,000 Malawi women protest against attacks on women wearing trousers by unemployed youths and street vendors

2011 Event - Canadian Auto Workers vote in favor of striking against Caterpillar Inc's locomotive manufacturing plant in London, Ontario

2011 Event - Protestors demonstrating against the construction of a power plant in Haimen, southern China, are fired upon with teargas and arrested

2011 Event - In Cairo, thousands of Egyptian women demonstrate against military police for abuse against female demonstrators in Tahir Square

2011 Event - Samsung Electronics files a patent infringement claim against Apple in Germany

2011 Event - In anticipation of Budget Day, students protesting against the Irish financial crisis occupy the office of Fine Gael lawmaker Anthony Lawlor

2011 Event - In Cambodia, the three most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity

2011 Event - More sanctions are imposed against Iran's nuclear program by the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom

2011 Event - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, is captured in Libya; he will be tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court

2011 Event - The Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou receives a no-confidence motion against him after failing to hold a referendum on a eurozone bailout

2011 Event - In Major League Baseball's World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals win Game 1 against the Texas Rangers

2011 Event - Higher than expected consumer price index figures and U.S. default concerns cause the Australian dollar to reach a post-float record against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea

2011 Event - The first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - In Vietnam, hundreds demonstrate against Chinese naval operations in the disputed waters of the South China Sea

2011 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly votes against funding for ground troops in Libya

2011 Event - Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye is placed under house arrest, after vowing to continue protests against the rising cost of living

2011 Event - As the Australian dollar reaches new 29-year highs against the U.S. dollar, rising interest rates are predicted

2011 Event - In Shanghai, Chinese lorry drivers continue their second day of protest against rising inflation

2011 Event - North Korea attests it has detained Jun Young Su, a U.S. citizen; they plan to charge him with 'committing a crime' against their country

2011 Event - Bolstered by strong employment figures for March, the Australian dollar reaches a 28-year high against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling loses his appeal against his conviction for fraud in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

2011 Event - In China, the yuan reaches a record level against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - The Japanese yen hits a postwar hight against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - In China, Jia Qinglin, senior leader of the People's Republic of China, calls for controls over Tibetan Buddhism and a renewed struggle against the Dalai Lama

2011 Event - Protesters stage the largest demonstration ever against the Mubarak regime; two million people gather in Tahir Square, vowing to stay until Mubarak leaves his post

2011 Event - In Egypt, tens of thousands of people participate in a 'day of revolt' to protest against the government

2010 Event - The last death row inmate in Cuba has his death sentence commuted; the nation is against capital punishment and has commuted many death sentences since 2008

2010 Event - Political pressure and cyber-attacks directed against WikiLeaks are condemned by Reporters Without Borders

2010 Event - Students in Britain plan a nationwide protest against a proposal to charge up to $9,000 pounds per year for tuition fees

2010 Event - Spain protests against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI

2010 Event - The Australian dollar reaches the highest level in 27 years against the U.S. dollar

2010 Event - In France, over 200 protests occur in as part of the 2010 strikes to fight against plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62

2010 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives imposes trade sanctions against China, which is believed to be undervaluing the yuan

2010 Event - Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others

2010 Event - Thousands of Venezuelan protesters demonstrate for and against President Hugo Chavez' policies surrounding energy shortages and currency revaluation

2009 Event - An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur

2006 Event - ETA terrorist group declares ceasefire against Spain

2005 Event - IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British

2001 Event - U.S. launches strikes against the Taleban in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US.

1998 Event - Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court

1998 Event - Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba

1997 Event - New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988

1997 Event - Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them

1997 Event - Detroit Tigers bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning

1997 Event - Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs

1996 Event - O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"

1996 Event - Mark Van Thillo and Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures

1996 Event - Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India

1996 Event - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands

1995 Event - Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar

1995 Event - Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins

1995 Event - Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning

1995 Event - West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand

1995 Event - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA

1994 Event - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

1994 Event - Norway votes against joining European Union

1994 Event - European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria

1994 Event - U.N. votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti

1994 Event - Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire

1994 Event - Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson

1994 Event - Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham

1994 Event - Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler

1994 Event - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning

1994 Event - AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona

1994 Event - President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam

1994 Event - Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy

1993 Event - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed

1993 Event - Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st U.S. state

1993 Event - U.N. authorizes arms, miltary and police supply embargo against Haiti

1993 Event - U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa

1993 Event - Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning

1993 Event - LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins

1993 Event - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon

1993 Event - U.N. authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti

1993 Event - Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit

1993 Event - 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror

1993 Event - Brazil votes against a monarchy

1993 Event - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th

1993 Event - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees

1993 Event - 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism

1992 Event - 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin

1992 Event - Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia

1992 Event - Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd

1992 Event - U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting

1992 Event - George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball

1992 Event - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft

1992 Event - UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc

1992 Event - U.N. imposes embargo against Libya takes effect

1991 Event - Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning

1991 Event - Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL New England Patriots for sexual harassment

1991 Event - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa

1991 Event - Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney

1991 Event - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel

1991 Event - U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1991 Event - Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders

1990 Event - Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq

1990 Event - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

1990 Event - U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq

1989 Event - Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia

1989 Event - "Day Without Art" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS

1989 Event - Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

1989 Event - Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning

1989 Event - A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning

1989 Event - New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules

1989 Event - California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs

1989 Event - U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"

1989 Event - Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG

1989 Event - Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet

1988 Event - Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime

1988 Event - Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA

1988 Event - Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents

1988 Event - Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar

1988 Event - Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning

1988 Event - Netherlands soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against U.S.S.R.)

1988 Event - Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon

1988 Event - Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities

1987 Event - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel

1987 Event - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank

1987 Event - Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore

1987 Event - Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

1987 Event - 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime

1987 Event - Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka

1987 Event - Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes and 3 seconds

1987 Event - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland

1987 Event - Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954

1987 Event - 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze

1986 Event - Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab

1986 Event - Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency

1986 Event - SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky

1986 Event - Reverend Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern

1986 Event - General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile

1986 Event - Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)

1986 Event - U.S. informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack

1986 Event - U.S. and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa

1986 Event - San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals against Phoenix

1986 Event - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq

1986 Event - U.S. president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1985 Event - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa

1985 Event - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

1985 Event - U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua

1985 Event - South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites

1985 Event - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster

1985 Event - Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders

1984 Event - Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period

1984 Event - New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton

1984 Event - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG

1984 Event - Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders

1984 Event - Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers

1984 Event - Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders

1984 Event - President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1984 Event - Iran offensive against Iraq fails

1984 Event - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders

1984 Event - TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV

1983 Event - Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps

1983 Event - Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers

1983 Event - 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile

1983 Event - Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)

1983 Event - George Brett's 2 run home run against Yankees on July 24 (pine tar game)

1983 Event - Pine Tar Game: Brett's home run disallowed against Yankees (overturned)

1983 Event - Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning

1983 Event - Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students

1983 Event - Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral U.K. nuclear disarmament

1983 Event - NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver

1983 Event - Reagan ends U.S. arms embargo against Guatemala

1982 Death - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87

1982 Event - President Reagan proclaims war against drugs

1982 Event - U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union

1982 Event - Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning

1982 Event - Iran offensive against Iraq

1982 Event - President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1982 Event - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers

1982 Event - Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM

1982 Event - Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation

1981 Event - 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles

1981 Event - 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missiles

1981 Event - Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism

1981 Event - Belgian Senate accept laws against racism

1981 Event - Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime

1981 Event - Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff

1981 Event - U.S. ends grain embargo against U.S.S.R.

1981 Event - Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs

1981 Event - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders

1981 Event - Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques

1980 Event - Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24

1980 Event - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars

1980 Event - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran

1980 Event - West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)

1980 Event - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs

1980 Event - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning

1980 Event - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders

1979 Event - Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland

1979 Event - Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30

1979 Event - Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders

1979 Event - Marocco offensive against Polisario

1979 Event - 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy

1979 Event - 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, New York

1979 Event - Iran army opens offensive against Kurds

1979 Event - Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0

1979 Event - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds

1979 Event - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers

1979 Event - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto

1979 Event - New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers

1979 Event - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1978 Event - Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period

1978 Event - Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders

1978 Event - Yankees win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City

1978 Event - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1978 Event - Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders

1978 Event - 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb

1978 Event - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders

1978 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb

1978 Event - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders

1977 Event - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders

1977 Event - U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa

1977 Event - Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 home runs, all against Yankees

1977 Event - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1977 Event - Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain

1977 Event - Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders

1976 Event - Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins

1976 Event - Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland

1976 Death - Don Bolles, U.S. journalist (against Arizona), dies

1976 Event - Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia

1976 Event - Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies

1975 Event - U.S. lightens trade embargo against Cuba

1975 Event - Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman

1975 Event - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart

1975 Event - Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs

1975 Event - Kurds end fight against Iraqi army

1975 Event - Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders

1975 Event - Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia

1975 Event - W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2

1974 Event - Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley

1974 Event - Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Caps

1974 Event - A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley

1974 Event - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee

1974 Event - House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon

1974 Event - OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands

1974 Event - Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park home run against New York Yankees

1974 Event - Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US

1974 Event - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia

1973 Event - MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya

1973 Event - San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)

1973 Event - 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against U.S. and Netherlands begins

1973 Event - Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Baltimore Colts

1973 Event - 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution

1972 Event - "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7

1972 Event - Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders

1972 Event - 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer

1972 Event - Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire

1971 Event - India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms

1971 Event - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China

1971 Event - Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by

1971 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes

1970 Event - New York Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG

1970 Event - Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas

1970 Event - Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball

1970 Event - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1969 Event - Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball

1969 Event - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War

1969 Event - New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos

1969 Event - Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th

1969 Event - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days

1969 Event - Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds

1969 Event - Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah

1969 Event - France begins arms embargo against Israel

1968 Event - Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against New York Rangers in New York's MSG

1968 Event - Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta

1968 Event - Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth

1968 Event - 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago

1968 Event - 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou

1968 Event - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks

1968 Event - 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin

1968 Event - 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

1967 Event - Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II

1967 Event - Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7

1967 Event - Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra

1967 Event - A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley

1967 Event - Biafran offensive against Nigerian army

1967 Event - Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1967 Event - 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 Death - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87

1966 Event - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage

1966 Event - U.S. RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays

1966 Birthday - Salma Hayek, born in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, actress, Mexican national, most prominent Mexican figure in Hollywood, fights discrimination against immigrants

1966 Event - U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1966 Event - Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers

1965 Event - British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia

1965 Event - 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C.

1965 Event - General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka

1965 Event - Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets

1965 Event - Viet Cong offensive against U.S. base Da Nang, begins

1965 Event - Lawry and Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies

1965 Event - U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

1965 Event - Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling

1964 Event - British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa

1964 Event - Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV

1964 Event - Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos

1964 Event - Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla

1964 Event - AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving Kansas City A's to Louisville

1963 Event - Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins

1963 Event - Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans

1963 Event - Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies

1963 Event - Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1963 Event - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes

1963 Event - John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression

1962 Event - Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cincinnati for 10 yrs

1962 Death - Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48

1962 Event - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)

1962 Event - Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win

1962 Death - Nazi Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel for crimes against Jews in WW II

1962 Event - U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression

1961 Event - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel

1961 Event - Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans

1961 Event - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball

1961 Event - Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal

1961 Event - President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)

1961 Event - 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin

1961 Event - Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox

1960 Event - Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails

1960 Event - Demonstrations against premier Lumumba

1960 Event - Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies

1960 Event - San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies

1960 Event - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US

1960 Event - Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle

1959 Event - "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 16 performances

1959 Event - "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 16 performances

1959 Event - Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement

1959 Event - Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet

1959 Event - Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers

1959 Event - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

1958 Event - Test Cricket debuts against New Zealand for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row

1958 Event - French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle

1958 Event - President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion

1958 Event - French settlers riot against French army in Algeria

1958 Event - 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)

1957 Event - New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)

1957 Event - U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights

1957 Event - Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights

1957 Event - Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill

1957 Event - British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman

1957 Birthday - Peter Webb, New Zealand cricketer, batsman against West Indies 1980

1957 Event - Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising

1956 Event - Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion

1956 Event - Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary

1956 Event - Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee

1956 Event - South African women demonstrate against pass laws

1956 Event - Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger

1956 Event - 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends

1956 Event - Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white

1955 Event - Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends

1955 Event - Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

1955 Event - EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus

1954 Event - Algeria begins rebellion against French rule

1954 Event - Algerian Revolution against French begins

1954 Event - Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer

1954 Event - Montreal Canadians score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Detroit

1954 Event - Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam

1953 Event - 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations

1953 Event - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime

1953 Birthday - Peter McEvoy, British actor, Against the Innocent

1953 Birthday - Russ Feingold, born in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S Senator from Wisconsin, co-sponsor, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, initially, the only Senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act

1952 Event - Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin

1952 Event - General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium

1952 Event - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss

1952 Event - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa

1952 Event - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia

1951 Event - Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears

1951 Birthday - Azmat Rana, cricketer, one Test for Pakistan against Australia 1980

1951 Event - Swiss males votes against female suffrage

1951 Event - Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java

1951 Event - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"

1951 Event - Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi

1950 Event - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"

1950 Event - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague

1950 Birthday - Gary Green, born in Stroud Green, England, guitarist for Gentle Giant rock band, worked with Billy Sherwood on album, 'Back Against The Wall', 2005

1950 Event - Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam

1950 Event - West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England

1950 Event - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh

1950 Event - U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea

1950 Event - Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins

1950 Birthday - Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System

1950 Event - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

1950 Event - Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China

1949 Birthday - Jeff Bridges, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Stay Hungry, Against All Odds

1949 Event - Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1948 Event - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army

1948 Death - Andrei A Zjdanov, Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52

1948 Birthday - Larry Carlton, rock composer, Against All Odds, Who's the Boss

1948 Event - Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason

1947 Event - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis

1947 Event - Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Vonte begins

1947 Birthday - James Woods, born in Warwick, Rhode Island, actor, Salvador, Against All Odds

1947 Event - Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"

1946 Event - 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg

1946 Event - International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals

1945 Event - Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins

1945 Event - Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India

1945 Event - U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II

1945 Event - Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague

1945 Event - Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks

1945 Event - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany

1945 Event - U.S. offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa

1944 Event - Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers

1944 Event - Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1944 Event - King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu

1944 Event - Paris police strike against nazi occupiers

1944 Event - Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers

1944 Event - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row

1944 Event - Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"

1944 Event - Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen

1944 Event - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan

1944 Event - Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim

1944 Event - Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die

1944 Event - Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers and NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals and most lopsided game 15-0

1943 Event - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers

1943 Event - Dutch artsens protest against nazis

1943 Event - Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam

1943 Event - Trident conference in Washington D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan)

1943 Event - Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan

1943 Event - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed

1943 Event - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1943 Event - British offensive against Mareth-line

1943 Event - Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews

1943 Event - Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews

1943 Event - Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad

1942 Event - Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan

1942 Event - Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front

1942 Event - RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism

1942 Event - Riots against Jews in Amsterdam

1942 Event - U.S. air offensive against nazi-Germany begins

1942 Birthday - Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster, testified against Gotti

1942 Event - Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans

1942 Event - U.S. and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis

1941 Event - Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam

1941 Event - Finland enters WW II against Russia

1941 Event - Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation

1941 Event - Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins

1941 Event - Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason

1941 Event - Utrecht and Zaandam strike against raid on Jews

1941 Event - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam

1940 Event - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis

1940 Event - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants

1940 Event - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms

1940 Event - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain

1940 Event - Russia begins new offensive against Finland

1940 Event - Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia

1939 Event - South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland

1939 Event - Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa

1939 Event - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain

1939 Event - Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia

1938 Event - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China

1937 Event - Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia

1937 Event - Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex

1937 Event - Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire

1937 Event - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive home runs against St. Louis Browns

1937 Event - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism

1937 Event - Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down

1936 Event - Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow

1936 Event - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy

1936 Event - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy

1936 Event - Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on and is scrapped by 1940 season

1935 Event - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid

1935 Event - Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews

1935 Event - Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies

1935 Birthday - Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author, Against Our Wills

1935 Event - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition

1934 Event - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against U.S.S.R.

1934 Event - Babe Ruth hits home run number 700, against Detroit

1934 Event - Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!

1934 Event - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers

1934 Event - France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists

1934 Event - Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism

1933 Event - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China

1933 Event - Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens

1933 Event - German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe

1933 Event - 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war

1933 Event - Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists

1933 Birthday - Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters'

1933 Event - Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1933 Event - Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test

1932 Event - Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

1932 Event - Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile

1932 Birthday - Wes Santee, born in Ashland, Kansas, runner, athlete, competed in 1,500-meter events, competed against Roger Bannister, John Landy

1931 Event - German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism

1931 Birthday - "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner

1931 Event - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin

1930 Event - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages

1930 Birthday - Alan Oakman, cricketer, England batsman against Australia 1956

1930 Death - Alois Jirasek, writer, taught secondary school, wrote plays, historical novels, including, 'Against Everyone', dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia

1930 Event - Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 minutes, 49 fours

1929 Event - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 minutes

1929 Event - Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG

1929 Event - 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling and 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton

1928 Event - Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC

1928 Event - KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet

1928 Event - Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees

1928 Event - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)

1927 Event - Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month

1927 Event - Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437

1927 Birthday - Joe Adcock, born in Coushatta, Louisiana, first baseman, outfielder, played for Cincinnati Reds, homered four times in a single game against Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

1927 Event - Augusto Sandino begins 5 -year war against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua

1927 Birthday - George Thoms, cricketer, 1 Test Australia against WI 1952, scored 16 and 28

1927 Event - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai

1927 Event - Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated

1927 Event - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal

1926 Event - Ponsford scores 352 and Ryder 295 against NSW

1926 Event - Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348

1926 Event - Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos

1926 Event - Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia

1926 Event - Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu

1925 Event - NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701

1925 Event - Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand

1925 Event - Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism

1925 Event - Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism

1925 Event - League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied

1925 Event - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France

1925 Event - Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government

1924 Event - KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi

1924 Birthday - Sheldon Allman, born in Chicago, actor, Norm-Harris Against the World

1924 Event - Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut

1924 Event - Trial against Hitler in Munich begins

1923 Event - Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins

1923 Event - 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)

1923 Event - Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied

1923 Event - 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law

1923 Event - KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany

1923 Event - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied

1923 Event - German Republic day with laws against worker

1923 Event - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied

1923 Event - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

1923 Event - Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent

1923 Event - Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied

1922 Event - NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket

1922 Event - Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)

1922 Event - Italy's general strike against fascist violence

1922 Birthday - Jim McConnon, cricketer, England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954

1921 Event - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox

1921 Event - Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews

1921 Birthday - Cyril Poole, cricketer, England batsman against India 1951-52

1920 Event - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81

1920 Event - General Wrangel opens offensive against red Army

1920 Event - U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1920 Death - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack

1920 Event - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage

1919 Event - Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against New York Yankees

1919 Event - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain

1919 Event - Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann

1919 Event - Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

1919 Event - NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers

1918 Event - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland

1918 Event - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns

1918 Event - White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play

1917 Event - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin and Trotsky

1917 Event - Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves

1917 Event - President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

1916 Event - Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions

1916 Event - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

1916 Event - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins

1916 Event - Germany declares war against Portugal

1916 Event - Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro

1915 Event - Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription

1915 Event - 1st German poison gas attack, against Russians

1914 Event - Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity

1914 Event - British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany

1914 Event - Serbia declares war against Germany

1914 Event - Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I

1914 Event - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster

1914 Event - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

1914 Birthday - Frank Lovejoy, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw

1913 Event - Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)

1913 Event - Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies

1913 Event - Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China

1912 Event - Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions

1911 Birthday - Norman Gordon, South Africa cricket pace bowler, against England 1938-39

1910 Event - Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit

1910 Event - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers

1909 Event - Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs

1909 Event - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary

1908 Event - Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece

1908 Event - Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team

1906 Death - Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies

1906 Event - Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa

1906 Event - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia

1906 Event - Pope encyclical against separation of church and state

1905 Event - Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam

1905 Event - Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation

1905 Event - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania

1905 Event - A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia

1904 Event - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian

1904 Event - Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0)

1904 Event - Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison

1903 Event - In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleveland, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game

1903 Event - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey

1903 Event - British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo

1903 Event - Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers

1903 Event - Dr. Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid in New York City

1903 Event - General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)

1902 Event - 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3

1901 Event - Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)

1901 Event - Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox

1900 Event - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians

1899 Event - Revolt against U.S. occupation of Philippines

1896 Birthday - Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer, against Pasternak,

1896 Birthday - Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer, against Pasternak,

1896 Event - Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire

1896 Birthday - Andrei A. Zjdanov, Russian politician, against kosmopolitism

1895 Event - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians

1895 Event - Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

1894 Event - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers

1894 Birthday - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War!

1893 Birthday - Jack Durston, cricketer, England fast bowler against Australia 1921

1891 Event - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname

1888 Event - Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria

1885 Death - Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41

1884 Birthday - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress, Genius against Violence

1883 Event - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia

1883 Event - New York Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies

1883 Event - Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and and passballs count as errors prior to 1888)

1881 Event - Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad

1879 Event - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1877 Event - U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction

1874 Event - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor

1873 Event - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

1871 Event - Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins

1870 Event - Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch

1869 Event - Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1868 Event - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain

1868 Event - U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson

1863 Birthday - Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain

1861 Event - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South

1861 Event - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union

1861 Event - Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia

1861 Event - Tennessee votes against secession

1858 Event - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"

1856 Event - Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery

1855 Event - U.S. Court of Claims forms for cases against government

1851 Birthday - Alois Jirasek, born in Czechoslovakia, writer, taught secondary school, wrote plays, historical novels, including, 'Against Everyone'

1848 Birthday - Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer, Against the Grain

1848 Birthday - Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet

1847 Event - Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

1847 Event - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

1841 Event - Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan

1834 Death - Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75

1831 Event - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery

1830 Event - Belgium revolts against Netherlands

1826 Birthday - Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views

1825 Event - Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins

1821 Event - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII

1820 Event - Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack

1818 Event - Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling

1817 Event - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia

1814 Event - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris

1812 Event - Failed coup against emperor Napoleon

1812 Event - War of 1812 begins as U.S. declares war against Britain

1811 Event - El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence

1810 Death - Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French and Bavarians, shot dead

1808 Event - Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid

1804 Event - England mobilizes to protect against French invasion

1804 Event - Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

1799 Event - Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered

1798 Event - 1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins

1798 Event - Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg

1798 Event - Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against U.S. government

1794 Event - Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France

1779 Event - Vice-Admiral Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada

1774 Event - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts

1765 Event - Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

1759 Birthday - Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery

1756 Event - Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians

1738 Event - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey

1734 Event - John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted

1731 Event - Dutch people revolt against meat tax

1718 Birthday - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat, plot against Peter III

1713 Event - Pope Clemens XI publishes degree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism"

1690 Event - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French

1685 Event - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II

1683 Death - Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded

1683 Event - Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered

1683 Event - Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey

1679 Event - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England

1676 Death - Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29

1668 Event - England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French

1665 Event - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers

1657 Event - France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk

1656 Event - Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden

1656 Event - U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers

1648 Event - People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin

1648 Event - Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov

1647 Event - French cardinal Mazarin and duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan

1647 Event - People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples

1641 Birthday - Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist, against jansenisme

1640 Event - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV

1630 Event - Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France

1628 Event - Sweden and Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein

1623 Event - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Reverend Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses

1619 Event - Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague

1610 Event - Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki

1601 Death - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth

1601 Event - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1596 Event - England, France and Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain

1593 Event - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno

1586 Event - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

1585 Event - English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I

1581 Event - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism

1574 Event - France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots

1570 Event - Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits

1568 Event - Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada

1568 Event - Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart

1565 Event - Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition

1563 Event - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II

1559 Event - Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary

1554 Event - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary

1545 Event - English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland

1542 Event - Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America

1542 Event - Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)

1542 Event - Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard

1536 Event - France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel

1535 Event - Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa

1532 Event - Henry VIII and Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V

1531 Event - Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V

1525 Event - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague

1525 Event - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague

1519 Event - Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government

1508 Event - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

1503 Event - Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians

1499 Event - France and Venice sign treaty against Milan

1494 Event - Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy

1487 Event - Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer

1450 Death - Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI

1450 Event - Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI

1431 Event - England begins trial against Joan of Arc

1420 Event - Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten

1403 Event - Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV

1390 Event - French and Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates

1382 Event - French Maillotin uprises against taxes

1367 Event - League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV

1317 Event - Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists

1212 Event - French and Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo

1180 Event - Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira

532 Event - Nika-revolt against Justianus and Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople

335 Event - Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews

65 Event - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem

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