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2013 Event - The oldest water ever found is discovered in a Canadian mine; the water dates back 2.6 billion years

2013 Event - A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years

2013 Event - In Japan, optimism for economic revival sparked Bank of Japan's stimulus plan, impacts Japan's stock market index; following its release, the Nikkei 225 hits its highest level in nearly five years

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

2013 Event - By a margin of 50-49, the U.S. Senate passes its first budget in four years

2013 Event - JPMorgan reveals it plans to cut 17,000 jobs, mostly from its mortgage department, in the next two years

2013 Event - Seven years after Apple Inc. submitted its request to sell their iPhone under the name "iPhone" in Brazil, regulators denied their request, favoring IBG Electronica, who filed for the trademark in 2000, and was granted permission in 2008

2013 Event - In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills

2013 Event - The 1950's American pop singer Patti Page, known for the songs, '(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window' and "Tennessee Waltz', dies in Encinitas, California at 85 years old

2012 Event - At 115 years old and 266 days, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest living person

2012 Event - Scientists discover the closest known rogue planet to Earth, known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the planet is about 100+ light years away

2012 Event - After being convicted of corruption, Jordan's former spy chief, Mohammad al-Dahabi, is sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment

2012 Event - Light from the first stars in the universe is detected by astronomers studying high-energy radiation data; the data suggests these stars existed as early as 500 million years after the 'big bang'

2012 Event - Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud

2012 Event - Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian leftist protest leader is charged with plotting 'mass disorder', facing a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted

2012 Event - At the 2012 U.S. Open, Andy Murray of the U.K. wins the Men's Singles, defeating Serbia's Novak Djokovic; Murray becomes the first British player to win a Grand Slam singles title since Fred Perry 76 years ago

2012 Event - Jamaican runner Usain Bolt wins his third gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, anchors the sprint relay team to a world record; Bolt is 25 years old and now holds six Olympic gold medals

2012 Event - Illegally excavated Buddhist relics that were recovered by Pakistani police were stolen from a police station in Karachi; the pieces date back to the Gandhara civilization which existed over 2,000 years ago in Pakistan

2012 Event - London's West End closes it's longest-run musical, 'Chicago' which ran for 15 years

2012 Event - The People's Republic of China economic growth rate experiences to its lowest level in three years, 7.6 per cent

2012 Event - After five years of marriage, American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announce their plans to divorce

2012 Event - Scientists successfully sequence the tomato genome, and announce that tastier, more pesticide-resistant tomato varieties can be engineered for use in the next five years

2012 Event - The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing

2012 Event - Less than three years after accepting the position of Chairman of Disney Studios, Rich Ross, resigns

2012 Event - After 70 years, two papers on Alan Turing's theory of code-breaking are released to the U.K.'s National Archives

2012 Event - After three years without an elected head of state, Nicolae Timofti is named President of Moldova

2012 Event - The largest solar flare in five years, occurring March 6, 2012, nears the Earth, threatening to disrupt airline flights, GPS systems and power grids

2012 Event - The U.S. unemployment rate drops to 8.3%, the lowest in three years after employers added 240,000 jobs in January

2012 Event - For the first time in nearly 17 years, Spain's unemployment number passes five million

2012 Event - fter three years in exile, Madagascar's President, Marc Ravalomanana announces he will return to the country

2011 Event - Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of the State of Illinois, is issued a sentence of 14 years in jail for corruption

2011 Event - In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years

2011 Event - Tiger Woods wins the Chevron World Challenge, the first tournament he has won in over two years

2011 Event - The U.S. has its deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in 25 years; the listeriosis outbreak totals 23 dead, with 116 affected

2011 Event - The EU Council votes; the copyright on sound recordings is extended from 50 to 70 years

2011 Event - In South Africa, scientists find Australopithecus sediba skeletons are 2 million years old, suggesting the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans

2011 Event - New England's state of Vermont experiences the worst flooding in 100 years

2011 Event - The world's potentially oldest fossils, thought to be 3.4 billion years old, are found in the Strelley Pool rock formation in Western Australia's outback

2011 Event - In England, two men who created a Facebook site to incite violence during the riots are sentenced to four years imprisonment

2011 Event - Typhoon Muifa approaches Japan's island of Okinawa; the typhoon is expected to be one of the most powerful storms to hit China in recent years

2011 Event - A skull believed to be 20-million years old is discovered in a Uganda; the skull is believed to be from a tree-climbing ape

2011 Event - Venezuelans celebrate 200 years of independence from Spain with a military parade and parties in the streets

2011 Event - The U.N. reports 10 million people are effected by the worst drought in 60 years, forcing Somalians to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia to avoid starvation

2011 Event - The NOAA declares 2011 one of the most extreme weather years on record

2011 Event - In efforts to fund rising social security costs, the Government of Japan plans to double its sales tax over four years

2011 Event - After 23 years running and 1151 fugitives caught, the FOX network cancels America's Most Wanted

2011 Event - Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation

2011 Event - Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years

2011 Event - Peruvians reclaimed 45,000 Inca artefacts taken by Yale University from Machu Picchu over a hundred years ago, finally successful in their campaign to return of 'the dignity and pride of Peru'

2011 Event - After 300 years in Sweden, the oldest copy of Codex Holmiensis, dating from 1280, is returned to Denmark

2011 Event - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) states it could save $5.5 billion in 30 years if dollar bills are replaced with coins

2011 Event - The United Nations releases a report stating world food prices are at the highest in 20 years

2011 Event - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years

2011 Event - Scientists claim 2010 was the warmest year ever recorded, and the last decade the warmest ever recorded, in 200 years

2011 Event - After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader

2011 Event - In Canada, Kathryn Gray becomes the youngest person to ever discover a supernova; she is ten years old

2010 Event - Remains of a human that lived 400,000 years ago are discovered in Israel, challenging the theory that humans originated in Africa

2010 Event - Lawyers for Allen Stanford, a man charged with running a $7 billion ponzi scheme, seek to postpone his trial for two years

2010 Event - The first snowfall in the last 128 years occurs in the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia; 500 flights are affected

2010 Event - The United Kingdom gives prisoners serving less than four years the right to vote

2010 Event - Ghana begins pumping oil after its discovery of an offshore oil field three years ago

2010 Event - For the first time in ten years, Burmese pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son

2010 Event - Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten Somalia�s on trial for attacking a German ship

2010 Event - The oldest type of stone axe in the world is dated at 35,500 years old; it was found in Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people

2010 Event - The People's Republic of China announces it is taking its first census in ten years

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

2010 Event - Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old

2010 Event - Archaeologists at a site on the Egypt-Gaza border unearth parts of a possible hidden city believed to be over 2,000 years old

2010 Event - For the first time in two years, South Korea and North Korea reach an agreement to hold working-level military talks

2010 Event - Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people

2010 Event - The German economy reports 2.2 percent quarterly growth, the fastest quarterly growth in over 20 years

2010 Event - South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

2010 Event - Convicted for transporting soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo is sentenced to 25 years in prison

2010 Event - The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years

2010 Event - German Chancellor Angela Merkel agrees to spread $80 million pounds in savings across four years with her coalition cabinet

2010 Event - After five years of research by the Dresden Historians' Commission, a report stated a reduced figure of 25,000 people died in the 1945 Dresden bombing

2010 Event - According to Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, relations between the U.S. and Israel are the worst in 35 years

2009 Event - For the first time in 17 years, North Korea raises the value of its currency

2009 Event - A new kind of flying reptile fossil, Darwinopterus, lived over 160 million years ago, is found in China

2009 Event - Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces

2009 Event - After two years of trying to maintain order, Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia

2008 Death - Charlton Heston, dies at 84, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, by his side

2006 Event - Bob Barker, from The Price is Right, retires after 35 years as host

2006 Event - Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years

2004 Event - Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa

2004 Death - Alexandra Scott, young philanthropist, raised over $700,000 for cancer research in 4 years by selling lemonade, dies at 8

2004 Death - Hugh Cave, pulp writer, a professional writer for over 70 years, dies at 95

2004 Death - Charlotte Benkner, the world's second oldest person for a few years, dies at 114

2003 Death - Kamato Hongo, old man, world's oldest well-documented man for almost four years, dies at 116

2002 Death - Harold Russell, Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives, dies at 88

2000 Death - David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88

2000 Event - After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea)

1998 Event - Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died

1998 Event - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years

1997 Event - Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting

1997 Death - William J. Brennan, jurist, served on the Supreme Court for 34 years (1956-90), dies at 91

1997 Event - Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

1996 Event - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends

1996 Event - Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 years 238 days

1996 Event - Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war

1996 Event - Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11

1996 Event - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage

1996 Event - For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1996 Event - After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin

1995 Event - Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds

1995 Event - Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000

1995 Event - Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days

1995 Death - Henning Kronstam, ballet dancer, performed over 120 roles with Royal Danish Ballet for over 20 years, dies at 60 of a pulmonary embolism

1995 Event - After 120 years the last 15 A and S department stores close

1995 Event - Houston Post folds after 116 years

1995 Event - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

1995 Event - Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years

1995 Event - 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years

1995 Event - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

1994 Event - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, Live at BBC, is released in Britain

1994 Event - Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan

1994 Event - St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years

1994 Event - PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years

1994 Event - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile

1994 Event - Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years

1994 Event - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime

1993 Event - Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years

1993 Event - Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years

1993 Death - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years, dies at 14

1993 Death - John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington, New Hampshire in 200 years, killed at 45

1993 Event - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands

1993 Event - Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years

1993 Event - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)

1993 Event - Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days

1993 Event - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years

1992 Death - Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83

1992 Event - WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years

1992 Event - Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco

1992 Event - New York Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR

1992 Event - Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years

1992 Event - 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years

1992 Event - Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior

1992 Event - "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV

1992 Event - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue

1992 Event - Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob

1992 Event - NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years

1992 Event - Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion

1992 Death - Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34

1992 Event - Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

1991 Event - Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years

1991 Event - Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1991 Event - Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years)

1991 Event - Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)

1991 Event - U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut

1991 Event - NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations

1991 Event - 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics

1991 Event - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years

1991 Event - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

1991 Death - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81

1991 Event - Chicago Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minnesota North Stars)

1991 Event - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years

1991 Event - Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years

1991 Event - All American Bowl ends after 14 years

1991 Event - Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years

1991 Event - Israel reopens consulate in U.S.S.R. after 23 years

1990 Event - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years

1990 Event - Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1990 Event - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 years held in St. Basil's Cathedral

1990 Event - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years

1990 Event - Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years

1990 Death - Werner Janssen, U.S. composer (New Years Eve in New York), dies at 91

1990 Event - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years

1990 Event - U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

1990 Event - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row

1990 Event - No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years

1990 Event - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa

1989 Event - After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu

1989 Event - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years

1989 Event - Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record

1989 Event - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years

1989 Death - Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88

1989 Event - Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

1989 Event - Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years

1989 Event - Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4

1989 Event - Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland

1989 Event - Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter

1989 Event - Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years

1989 Event - Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra

1989 Event - Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

1989 Event - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

1989 Event - Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak vs. New Zealand age 16 years 189 days

1989 Event - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129

1989 Event - AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988

1988 Event - NBC signs lease to stay in New York City, 33 more years

1988 Event - Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years

1988 Event - 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley

1988 Event - Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war

1988 Event - Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years

1988 Event - Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 home runs in 1st 3 years

1988 Event - Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years

1988 Event - Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years

1988 Event - Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years

1988 Event - Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1988 Event - 1st non-pitcher, Jose Oquendo, in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St. Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn

1988 Event - New York Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)

1988 Event - Andre beats Hulk Hogan in 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years

1987 Event - Ivan F. Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading

1987 Death - Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93

1987 Event - Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series

1987 Event - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law

1987 Event - 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel

1987 Event - Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years

1987 Event - "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years

1987 Event - Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term

1987 Event - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

1987 Event - David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years

1987 Event - 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

1986 Event - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi

1986 Event - U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

1986 Event - Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)

1986 Event - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years

1986 Event - Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa

1986 Event - Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years

1986 Event - U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later

1985 Event - Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC

1985 Event - Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)

1985 Event - Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years

1984 Event - Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old

1984 Event - After 518 goals and 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires

1984 Event - Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%

1984 Death - Margie V Barfield, U.S. murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years

1984 Event - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years

1984 Event - Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 years of trying

1984 Event - South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years

1984 Event - Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network

1984 Event - U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years

1983 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years

1983 Event - Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall)

1983 Event - U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)

1983 Event - LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting

1983 Event - Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault

1983 Event - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1983 Event - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years

1983 Event - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

1982 Event - CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years

1982 Death - Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95

1982 Event - Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service

1982 Death - Tom Drake, actor (Green Years, Warkill), dies of lung cancer at 63

1982 Event - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years

1981 Event - Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine

1981 Event - 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)

1981 Event - Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years

1981 Event - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder

1981 Death - Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73

1981 Event - George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in the United Kingdom

1981 Death - Dixie, a mouse who lived 6 years, dies

1981 Event - Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years

1980 Event - New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M

1980 Event - ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw

1980 Event - 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)

1980 Event - Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)

1980 Event - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years

1980 Event - Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years

1980 Event - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)

1980 Event - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000

1979 Death - Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62

1979 Event - U.S. returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years

1979 Event - Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st

1979 Event - End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG)

1979 Event - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile

1979 Event - Emerson, Lake and Palmer disband after 10 years together

1979 Event - President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years

1978 Event - Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years

1978 Event - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home run in 11 straight years

1978 Event - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

1978 Event - David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life

1978 Event - 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years)

1977 Event - RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years

1977 Event - War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years

1977 Event - Yankees beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years

1977 Event - Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa

1977 Event - Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Allan Trammell debut together and will play together for 19 years

1977 Event - Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)

1977 Event - Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years)

1977 Event - Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany

1977 Event - Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years

1976 Death - George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies

1976 Event - Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship

1976 Event - Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years

1976 Event - Javed Miandad, 206 vs. New Zealand, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six)

1976 Event - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

1976 Event - Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony

1976 Event - Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years

1976 Birthday - Fred Savage, born in Illinois, actor, Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa

1976 Event - After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys

1976 Event - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1976 Birthday - Josh Saviano, actor, Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years

1976 Event - Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years

1975 Event - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years

1975 Event - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule

1975 Event - University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance

1975 Event - One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 years 364 days

1975 Event - Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1975 Event - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years

1975 Birthday - Michael Tricario, actor, Randy-Wonder Years

1975 Birthday - Danica McKellar, born in LaJolla, California, actress, author, mathematician, appeared on 'The Wonder Years' television show, wrote, 'Math Doesn't Suck' and 'Kiss My Math'

1974 Event - New York Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 years for record $3.75 million

1974 Event - Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)

1974 Event - Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years

1974 Event - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail

1974 Event - Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years

1974 Event - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away

1974 Event - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended

1974 Event - U.S. and Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years

1973 Event - Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years

1973 Event - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2 years)

1973 Event - Garvey, Lopes, Cey and Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8 years (Los Angeles Dodgers)

1973 Event - U.S. troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution

1973 Event - Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange

1972 Event - Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago

1972 Event - Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later

1972 Event - Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace

1972 Event - Ryukyu Is and Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 years of U.S. control

1972 Birthday - Jason Hervey, actor, Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years

1972 Event - Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky

1972 Birthday - Dane Cook, born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dane Jeffrey Cook, comedian, stand up comic, released five comedy albums, 'Retaliation' went double platinum, the highest charting comedy album in 28 years, appeared in 15 films since 1997, including 'My Best Friend's Girl'

1972 Event - 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)

1971 Event - Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule

1971 Event - After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal

1970 Event - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1970 Event - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years

1970 Birthday - Adam Keefe, born in Irvine, California, professional basketball player, power forward, played in the National Basketball Association with the Utah Jazz for nine years

1969 Event - 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years

1969 Event - Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years

1968 Event - Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years

1968 Event - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio

1968 Event - Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years

1968 Event - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin

1968 Event - Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs. India in his last Test for ten years

1967 Event - French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia

1967 Event - Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne

1967 Death - Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89

1967 Event - Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years

1967 Event - Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years

1967 Event - Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years

1967 Birthday - Olivia d'Abo, born in London, England, actress, Wonder Years, Single Guy

1966 Event - Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury

1966 Birthday - Olga Bicherova, gymnastics, won title at 15 years 33 days

1966 Event - Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd Los Angeles pennant in 4 years

1966 Event - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church

1966 Event - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)

1965 Event - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball

1965 Event - Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy

1965 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years

1964 Event - Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game

1964 Event - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years

1964 Event - 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"

1964 Event - John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years

1964 Event - Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars

1964 Event - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years

1963 Event - Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)

1963 Event - Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years

1962 Event - Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 years 8 days

1962 Event - Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years

1962 Event - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule

1962 Event - Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule

1962 Event - Ex-president Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years

1962 Event - Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)

1962 Event - Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs. WI age 21 years 77 days

1962 Event - Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees

1962 Event - 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years

1961 Death - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79

1961 Event - Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)

1961 Event - Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 years 82 days

1960 Event - Italy beats U.S. in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years U.S. not in finals)

1960 Event - Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)

1960 Event - John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

1959 Event - Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)

1959 Event - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years

1959 Event - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs. WI age 15 years 124 days

1959 Event - Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years

1958 Event - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years

1958 Event - 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)

1958 Event - Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2 years in Little Rock

1958 Birthday - Ian Woosnam, born in Oswestry, England, nicknamed 'Woosie', 'Wee Welshman', 'Woosers', Welsh, professional golfer, played first European Tour, 1979, won Swiss Open, 1982, number one in Official World Golf Rankings in 1991, awarded O.B.E. 2007 New Years Honors List

1957 Event - U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000

1957 Event - Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City)

1957 Event - Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years

1957 Birthday - Daniel Stern, Stamford, Connecticut, actor, City Slickers, Wonder Years

1956 Birthday - Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1956 Event - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control

1955 Event - Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years

1954 Event - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)

1954 Event - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh

1954 Event - Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 years 352, then world record

1953 Event - Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya

1953 Event - Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years

1953 Event - Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie

1953 Event - Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 years 357 days

1952 Event - Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record)

1951 Birthday - Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer, Howard Stern New Years Party

1951 Event - Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years

1951 Birthday - Alley Mills, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Norma Arnold-Wonder Years

1950 Event - After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau

1950 Event - Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years

1950 Event - King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium

1950 Event - Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)

1949 Event - Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years

1949 Event - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine

1949 Event - Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days

1949 Birthday - Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist, Ten Years After-I'm Going Home

1947 Event - Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced

1947 Birthday - Jack Arnold, character on Wonder Years

1947 Event - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years

1947 Birthday - David Hughes, born in Newton-le-Willows, England, cricketer, right batsman, made 10,419 first-class runs in 20 years for Lancashire

1947 Birthday - Dan Lauria, actor, Jack Arnold-Wonder Years, 1947 approx

1947 Event - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win

1947 Birthday - Derek Shulman, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, singer, rocker, instrumentalist, vocalist for band Gentle Giant, recorded twelve albums with them in ten years

1947 Birthday - Chose Alberts, Krommenhoek, vocalist, Yet Many Years

1947 Birthday - Koos Alberts, Krommenhoek, Dutch vocalist, Many More Years to Come

1946 Event - Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels

1946 Event - Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years

1946 Event - NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail

1946 Event - British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years

1945 Death - Robert Benchley, U.S. humorist (My 10 years in a quandary), dies at 56

1945 Event - 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented

1945 Birthday - Ric Lee, rock drummer, Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs

1944 Birthday - Alvin Lee, Nottingham England, rock vocals/guitarist, 10 Years After

1944 Event - Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers

1944 Birthday - Tom Okker, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, tennis player, nickname, The Flying Dutchman, world's top doubles player, 1969, world's top ten singles player for 17 years

1943 Birthday - Leo Lyons, Standbridge Beds, rock bassist, Ten Years After

1942 Event - 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens

1942 Event - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund

1941 Event - Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years

1941 Birthday - Marina Ripa, Rome, Italy, countess/writer, My First 40 Years

1941 Event - Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years

1941 Event - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to U.S. for 99 years

1940 Event - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series

1939 Event - Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years

1939 Event - Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years

1939 Event - Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

1939 Event - Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late

1939 Birthday - Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years

1938 Event - Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated

1938 Birthday - Kenny Rogers, singer, Through the Years, actor, Coward of the County

1938 Event - Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 vs. Australia) aged 20 years 19 days

1937 Event - 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years there-after)

1936 Birthday - Neville E Alexander, South african, 10 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1935 Death - Frans, MJ Francois, Erens, literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78

1935 Death - Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72

1935 Event - King George II returns to Greece after 12 years

1935 Birthday - Monte Markham, born in Manatee, Florida, actor, Second Hundred Years, Dallas

1935 Event - Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years

1934 Birthday - Henning Kronstam, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, ballet dancer, performed over 120 roles with Royal Danish Ballet for over 20 years

1934 Event - Hobbs scores his 197th and last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days

1934 Event - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days

1934 Event - Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years

1933 Birthday - Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany

1933 Event - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan

1932 Event - Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years

1931 Event - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion

1930 Event - Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced

1930 Event - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years

1930 Event - Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days

1929 Birthday - Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison

1928 Event - Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years

1928 Event - Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail

1928 Birthday - David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago

1926 Birthday - Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1926 Death - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51

1924 Event - Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years

1924 Birthday - Rusi Modi, cricketer, strong Indian batsman in post-War years

1924 Birthday - Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983

1924 Event - After 8 years of occupation, U.S. troops leave Dominican Republic

1924 Event - Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted

1923 Event - Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud

1922 Event - Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)

1922 Event - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

1922 Event - British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience

1922 Event - Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract

1922 Event - Geological survey says U.S. oil supply would be depleted in 20 years

1921 Event - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty

1920 Birthday - Saul Bass, born in New York City, New York, graphic designer, filmmaker, created title sequences for 40 years, famous for The Man with the Golden Arm, kinetic typography in North by Northwest, Vertigo

1920 Event - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years

1919 Birthday - Louis Heren, journalist and writer, China's Three Thousand Years

1918 Birthday - Dwayne Andreas, born in Worthington, Minnesota, called the 'Soybean King', CEO of Archer Daniels Midland - ADM, largest producer of farm commodities in the U.S. for over 30 years

1917 Birthday - Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg-spinner, West Indian of post-WWII years

1917 Birthday - Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament

1917 Event - 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin, banned 41 years

1917 Event - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid

1916 Event - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years

1915 Event - U.S. takes control of customs and finances of Haiti for 10 years

1915 Birthday - John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp

1914 Birthday - Harold Russell, actor, Best Years of Our Life

1913 Event - British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail

1911 Birthday - Ken Farnes, cricket bowler, fast England in pre-WW II years

1910 Event - Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate

1909 Birthday - Willi Boskovsky, born in Austria, conductor, new years concert

1909 Event - Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years

1908 Birthday - Arthur O'Connell, born in New York City, actor, Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years

1907 Death - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna.

1905 Birthday - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher, 50 years in 1 room school in SC

1904 Event - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed

1902 Event - John McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years)

1901 Birthday - Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet

1901 Event - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series

1900 Event - After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens

1899 Event - San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building

1899 Event - W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 years 320 days

1899 Birthday - Werner Janssen, New York City, conductor and composer, New Years Eve in New York

1898 Event - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years

1895 Birthday - Jack Gregory, cricketer, Australian all-rounder of post-WWI years

1895 Event - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite

1895 Event - Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years

1895 Event - Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 years 64 days

1894 Event - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years

1891 Event - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing and lasted 20 years

1889 Birthday - Robert Benchley, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, humorist, My 10 Years in a Quandary

1889 Birthday - Bert Collins, cricketer, Aussie batsman in the post WW I years

1888 Event - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years

1884 Event - Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos)

1880 Event - Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun

1880 Birthday - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman

1879 Event - Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days

1876 Event - Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years

1875 Event - Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years

1874 Event - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall in New York City convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment

1870 Birthday - Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years

1866 Birthday - Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990, 124 years

1866 Event - 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days

1863 Event - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and 7 years..."

1863 Event - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

1862 Event - U.S. Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)

1861 Event - Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years

1859 Event - Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later

1857 Birthday - Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author, 52 Years of Research

1857 Birthday - French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary, Pursue Years

1849 Birthday - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger

1844 Birthday - George W. Cable, American writer, Northampton Years

1837 Event - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901

1836 Event - Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)

1834 Event - William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months

1833 Event - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)

1815 Birthday - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown, New York, suffragist, 80 Years and More

1815 Birthday - Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast

1811 Event - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years

1787 Event - John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton

1787 Event - Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old

1783 Event - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)

1764 Event - John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years

1759 Event - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)

1756 Event - Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War

1756 Event - Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War)

1754 Event - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft. Necessity (7 Years' War)

1743 Birthday - John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton

1714 Event - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1709 Event - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")

1709 Event - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1697 Event - Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)

1694 Death - Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32

1694 Event - English parliamentary election set for every 3 years

1686 Event - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)

1640 Event - Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1629 Event - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later

1618 Event - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War

1589 Birthday - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years

1563 Event - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years

1561 Event - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France

1457 Event - Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)

1450 Event - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War

1419 Event - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War

1340 Event - In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys

1303 Event - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War

1291 Event - Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, and destroyed

837 Event - Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years

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