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2013 Event - In preparation for plans to step down in 2015, the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir gives an order to release all political prisoners

2013 Event - Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan for over 25 years, announces he will step down in 2015

2013 Event - U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry

2013 Event - U.S. President announces the nomination of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, to replace Timothy Geithner, who is stepping down from his post

2012 Event - The Constitutional Council of France strikes down a plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy, calling the 'supertax' unconstitutional and unfair

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 - In Oklahoma, airport workers discover a painted golden object with a hole in the bottom in the luggage of musician Wayne Coyne; they mistake the object for a live grenade and shut down the Will Rogers World Airport

2012 Event - The BBC's George Entwistle steps down as Director-General, with Tim Davie replacing him Acting Director General

2012 Event - After weeks of protests, the Hong Kong government backs down on its plans to introduce Chinese patriotism classes in its schools

2012 Event - A proposal for a statue to George Orwell is flatly turned down by the BBC, who said Orwell resigned from the organization, 'because for some time past I have been conscious that I was wasting my time and the public money on doing work that produces no results.'

2012 Event - After thousands protest Brett Murray's controversial painting 'The Spear', the gallery that exhibited his painting agrees to take the image of the artwork down from its website

2012 Event - The last nuclear reactor in Japan is shut down, leaving the country without nuclear power since 1970

2012 Event - A power blackout in Northern England causes as many as 50,000 homes to have a power blackout after heavy winds, snow and ice bring down electricity cables

2012 Event - New Corporation announces its launch of 'The Sun on Sunday' to replace 'News of the World' which shut down due to a phone hacking controversy

2012 Event - The English Wikipedia protests anti-piracy legislation proposed by the U.S. Congress by shutting down its website

2011 Event - If Western nations impose more sanctions, Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz

2011 Event - Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement

2011 Event - Further sanctions are imposed on Belarus, Iran and Syria by the EU, who reiterates the call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down

2011 Event - Over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested when they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic

2011 Event - China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project

2011 Event - New York City braces for Hurricane Irene, announcing plans to shut down subways buses and commuter trains

2011 Event - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful since 1897, strikes near Mineral, Virginia, causing a shut down of a nearby nuclear reactor

2011 Event - President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

2011 Event - At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan

2011 Event - UK Researchers report a study showing that the use of drugs during vitro fertilization may increase the risk of Down syndrome for their baby

2011 Event - Germany determines it must shut down part of its airspace as volcanic ash from Iceland's Grisvotn eruption spreads through northern Europe

2011 Event - The Tokyo Electric Power Company claims three Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors partially melted down during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

2011 Event - In the People's Republic of China, the call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' spreads online as authorities hunt down political activists

2011 Event - Anti-government protesters in Yemen call for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down from his regime; Ali has ruled the country since 1978

2011 Event - Protesters continue their 12th day of nationwide protests in Cairo's Tahir Square, calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step down

2011 Event - Tunisians take part in a demonstration urging the interim government to step down

2010 Event - Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground

2010 Event - Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh is shut down after a student rampage injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever

2010 Event - The 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots continue as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly flees the country, the government steps down and protesters control the parliament building

2009 Event - A gun battle between U.S. agents and suspected people smugglers shuts down San Ysidro U.S. Mexico border crossing

2007 Death - Paul Gillmor, dies in Arlington, Virginia, of head and neck trauma from falling down stairs, at 68

2005 Event - New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days

2003 Event - After an Ohio FirstEnergy power plants shut down unexpectedly, a power outtage occurs for over ten hours all over northeastern North America

1999 Event - Last upside down date until January 1, 6000

1997 Event - Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes

1997 Event - Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law

1997 Death - Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men, dies at 68

1995 Event - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)

1994 Event - Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down

1994 Event - American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed

1994 Event - Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed

1994 Event - Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed

1994 Event - U.S. F-15 accidentally shoots 2 U.S. helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die

1994 Death - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi

1994 Death - Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67

1994 Event - Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down

1994 Event - 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field

1992 Event - Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff

1992 Death - Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54

1992 Event - Europe breaks down trade barriers

1991 Event - Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him

1991 Event - U.S. Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles

1991 Event - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation

1991 Event - Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)

1990 Event - Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68,

1990 Event - George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner

1990 Event - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

1990 Event - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long

1990 Event - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

1989 Event - George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl"

1989 Event - Dow Jones down 190.58 points

1989 Event - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension

1989 Event - Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die

1989 Event - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam

1989 Event - U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean

1988 Event - U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1988 Event - 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

1988 Event - Dow Jones down 140.58 points

1987 Event - On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56

1987 Event - Dow Jones down 156.83 points

1987 Event - "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record

1987 Event - In Midland, Texas 1 -year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well

1986 Event - U.S. government closes down due to budget problems

1986 Event - Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed

1986 Event - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

1985 Event - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law

1984 Event - U.S. government closes down due to budget problems

1984 Event - Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10

1984 Event - U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time

1984 Event - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)

1984 Event - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down

1983 Event - Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center

1983 Event - Federal government shut down

1983 Event - U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

1983 Event - U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane

1983 Event - U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2

1983 Event - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet

1983 Event - Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion

1983 Event - "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart

1982 Event - SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month

1982 Event - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down

1982 Birthday - Ryan Cabrera, born in Dallas, Texas, musician, pop rock, hit singles include, 'On the Way Down', '40 Kinds of Sadness', 'True', albums include, 'You Stand Watching'

1982 Birthday - Lizzy Caplan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, appeared in films, 'Mean Girls', 'Cloverfield' and television show 'True Blood' and 'Party Down'

1982 Event - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat

1981 Event - 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

1981 Event - 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

1981 Event - New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy

1980 Event - Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)

1979 Event - Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

1979 Event - Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1978 Birthday - Josh Hartnett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, film producer, actor, movies include 'Black Hawk Down', 'Pearl Harbor', People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2002

1978 Event - Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan

1978 Event - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yankees Paul Blair hits a 3 run home run

1978 Event - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood

1977 Event - North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3

1975 Event - Apple records closes down

1973 Event - Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s

1973 Event - 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians

1973 Event - Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108

1972 Event - Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down

1971 Event - Bill Graham closes down Fillmore and Fillmore East

1971 Death - Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64

1970 Death - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27

1970 Event - Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest

1970 Event - Melanie releases "Lay Down"

1970 Event - NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)

1969 Event - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material

1968 Event - Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days

1968 Birthday - Kenny Chesney, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, country music artist, over 30 hits, 13 albums certified gold or higher by RIAA, albums include, 'When the Sun Goes Down'

1967 Birthday - Salli Richardson, born in Chicago, Illinois, television, film, actress, 'Posse', 'A Low Down Dirty Shame', and 'Antwone Fisher', appeared in 2007 film, 'I Am Legend'

1967 Event - Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein

1967 Birthday - Serj Tankian, born in Beirut, Lebanon, singer, songwriter, rhythm guitarist, political activist, Grammy-Award winning band, System of a Down

1967 Event - Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down

1966 Event - 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway

1965 Event - Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission

1965 Death - Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60

1965 Birthday - Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome, Corky-Life Goes On

1965 Event - Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down

1964 Event - U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany

1963 Event - C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down

1962 Death - Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba

1962 Event - Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down

1961 Event - Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days

1961 Event - U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God

1960 Event - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)

1960 Event - Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down

1960 Event - U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea

1960 Event - U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane

1960 Event - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane

1959 Birthday - Richard Drummie, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down

1958 Event - Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line

1956 Event - Hungarian revolt put down

1956 Event - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

1956 Birthday - Chris Foreman, guitarist, Madness-Burning Down the House

1955 Birthday - Peter Cox, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down

1955 Event - Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates

1955 Event - 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel

1955 Death - Carmen Miranda, singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42

1955 Event - Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)

1955 Event - Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die

1955 Event - U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea

1955 Birthday - Mark Herndon, Springfield, Massachusetts, country drummer, Alabama-Take Me Down

1954 Event - U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan

1954 Event - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate

1954 Event - U.S. plane shot down above Siberia

1954 Event - Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning

1954 Birthday - Lesley-Anne Down, born in London, actress, A Little Night Music, Moonraker

1953 Event - U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok

1953 Event - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113

1953 Event - Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea

1952 Event - Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down

1952 Event - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8

1952 Birthday - David Byrne, guitarist and vocalist, Talking Heads-Burning Down the House

1951 Event - Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500

1951 Event - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000

1950 Event - Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight

1950 Event - Monasteries shut down in Hungary

1950 Event - U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia

1949 Event - AL votes down proposal to revive spitball

1949 Event - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff

1949 Birthday - Francis Rossi, born in England, guitarist and vocalist, Status Quo-Down Down

1949 Birthday - Alan Lancaster, bassist, Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level

1945 Birthday - Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down

1944 Event - U.S. Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte

1944 Event - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums

1944 Event - 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees

1944 Event - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore

1944 Event - Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down

1944 Event - 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day

1944 Event - 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day

1944 Birthday - General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club

1944 Event - 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down

1944 Birthday - John Stax, rocker, Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down

1944 Death - Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down

1943 Event - P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland

1943 Event - Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia

1943 Event - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane

1943 Event - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead

1943 Birthday - Eddie McGrady, born in County Down, Northern Ireland, born Eddie Kevin McGrady, Member of Parliament for South Down, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party

1943 Event - Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die

1943 Death - Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50

1943 Event - U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje

1943 Birthday - Fantastic Johnny Corley, U.S. singer, Boogaloo down Broadway

1943 Event - RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea

1943 Event - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down

1943 Event - German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands

1943 Birthday - Janis Joplin, Port Arthur, Texas, bluesy rock singer, Down on Me

1942 Event - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes

1942 Event - New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down

1942 Death - Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down

1942 Birthday - Billy Joe Royal, born in Valdosta, Georgia, country singer, Down in the Boondocks

1942 Event - Lt. E. H. O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers

1941 Event - 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England

1940 Event - 12 German aircraft shot down above England

1940 Event - 17 German aircrafts shot down above England

1940 Event - 47 German aircrafts shot down above England

1940 Event - 55 German aircraft shot down above England

1940 Event - 19 German aircrafts shot down above England

1940 Event - 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings

1940 Event - 28 German aircraft shot down above England

1940 Event - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England

1940 Event - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England

1940 Event - 38 German aircrafts shot down above England

1940 Event - 31 German aircraft shot down over England

1939 Birthday - Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker, Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down

1939 Event - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland

1939 Event - Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down

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

1936 Birthday - Charlie Daniels, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, singer, Devil Went Down to Georgia

1936 Event - Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player

1935 Death - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Senator Huey Long, shot down

1934 Event - U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1933 Event - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down

1932 Event - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)

1932 Birthday - Christy Brown, born in Dublin, novelist, My Left Foot, Down All the Days

1929 Event - "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

1929 Event - WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down

1929 Event - AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down

1928 Birthday - Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer, Letting Down My Hair

1928 Event - John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg

1928 Birthday - Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men

1925 Event - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee

1925 Birthday - John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down

1923 Event - Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down

1923 Event - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City

1921 Birthday - Harry Secombe, Swansea, Wales, actor, Down Among the "Z" Men

1919 Birthday - Robert Lowry, born in Ireland, judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Baron Lowry of Crossgar in the County of Down

1918 Death - "Red Baron", Manfred von Richtofen, shot down in WW I at 25

1918 Event - Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)

1918 Event - S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane

1918 Event - 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson

1918 Event - NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down

1917 Event - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas

1917 Event - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft

1916 Event - U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker

1916 Event - U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft

1916 Event - NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)

1916 Event - NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats

1916 Event - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down

1915 Birthday - Willy Dixon, blues artist, Mellow Down Easy

1914 Event - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice

1914 Birthday - Alastair Down, CEO, Burmah Oil

1914 Birthday - Ruth White, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actress, Up the Down Staircase

1914 Birthday - Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee, blues musician, Down and Out Blues

1913 Birthday - Carmen Miranda, singer and actress, 4 Jills in a Jeep, Down Argentine Way

1911 Birthday - Will Rogers, Jr., New York, actor, Down to Earth

1910 Event - U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua

1907 Event - Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt

1904 Event - Netherlands and Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor

1903 Event - President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1900 Event - U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion

1894 Event - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court

1892 Event - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin

1890 Birthday - Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Moon is Down, 3rd Man

1882 Birthday - Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor, Gorilla Man, Way Down East

1879 Birthday - Edward Rigby, England, actor, Star Look Down, Young and Innocent

1876 Event - Historic Elm at Boston blown down

1872 Birthday - Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Down Ampney, England, composer, Hugh the Drover

1871 Event - Paris communards revolt put down

1869 Event - 1st voyage down Colorado River

1867 Event - Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel

1865 Event - P. T. Barnum's museum burns down

1865 Event - Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War

1861 Event - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg

1861 Event - Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

1861 Event - Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm

1814 Event - British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks

1808 Event - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam

1795 Event - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi

1703 Death - Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies

1696 Event - English / Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Assn

1648 Event - Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples

1643 Event - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies

1613 Event - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1600 Event - Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588

235 Event - Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down

70 Event - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans













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