CoM Moderators Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago 1569 - Pope Pius V names Cosimo I de'Medici, Duke of Florence as Grand Duke of Tuscany 1626 - Battle of Lutter: Catholic League defeats Danish King Christian IV 1928 - US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns 1934 - Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, and Yip Harburg's musical "Life Begins at 8:40," starring Ray Bolger and Luella Gear, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre, NYC, and runs for 237 performances 1950 - First transmission of a TV program from continental Europe airs on the BBC 1960 - Anita Lonsbrough swims a 200 m breaststroke world and Olympic record of 2:49.5 1972 - The Grateful Dead holds a benefit concert for the Springfield Creamery (a yogurt company owned by writer Ken Kesey's brother) at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon 1984 - The USSR performs an underground nuclear test More Historical Events »
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