Important Events 1398 Tamerlane captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud’s armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultans armored elephants 1526

Important Events 1979 68th Davis Cup: the USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0) 1979 Dallas QB Roger Staubach throws 3 TDs and 336 yards in his last NFL regular-season

Important Events 1995 The European Communities Court of Justice’s hands down the “Bosman ruling”, giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with

Important Events 1991 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR) 1996 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB) 1998 64th Heisman Trophy Award: Ricky Williams, Texas (RB) 2009

Important Events 2007 The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players

Important Events 1991 NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81 1991 Tampa Bay Buccaneer Dexter Manley retires after failing a drug test 1992 58th Heisman Trophy

Important Events 1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals 1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC

Important Events 1992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key 1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB) 1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies

Important Events 536 Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire 1212 Frederick II (later also Holy Roman

Important Events 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South 1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II 1941

Important Events 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae 1909 Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry 1941 Imperial Japanese

Important Events 1240 Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive 1865 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing

Important Events 771 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman 1349 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacred during Black Death riots 1456 Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die 1848 US

Important Events 1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad 1563 Council of Trent holds its last session, after 18 years. Last ecumenical council for more than 300 years. 1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish,

Important Events 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia 1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold

Important Events 1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford 1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great

Important Events 1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford 1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great

Important Events 1016 Cnut the Great [Canute], King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’ 1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV,