On this day in the year 1653 of the common era (CE) the city of New Amsterdam is founded on the Island of Manhattan, later renamed New York.
On this day in the year 1892 CE, the longest boxing match is fought under modern rules, the contestants were Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby; they went seventy-seven rounds in Nameoki, Illinois.
On this day in 1922 CE, James Joyce's novel Ulysses is first published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, France. One thousand copies were put in print.
In 1925 CE the Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism; seven years later the Geneva disarmament conference begins with sixty countries in attendance. One year after that, in 1933 CE Hermann Goering bans communist meetings and demonstrations in Germany; on this day in the following year Dutch Roman Catholic bishops warn against fascism and Nazism.
In 1948 CE, United States president Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program.
In1951 CE the United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site; eleven years later the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
In 1954 CE, snow falls on Gibraltar; thirty-two years later pope John Paul II, the Bishop of Rome meets the Dalai Lama in India.
In 1955 CE the first presidential news conference on network television is given by United States president Eisenhower on ABC; nine years later GI Joe makes his debuts as a popular American boy-toy.
In 1971 CE the United States Congressional Black Caucus organizes with Charles C. Diggs Jr. as its first Chair; two years later The Midnight Special, a late night rock music show debuts on NBC; the opening line-up of performers include Ike and Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, Don Mclean, the Byrds, and George Carlin.
In 1993 CE Frito Lay Co. pays Tom Waits $2,500,000 Tom Waits for using his distinctive voice and singing style in radio advertisement without his contractual consent; on this same day the poet and playwright Václav Havel becomes the first president of an independent Czech Republic, after splitting with Slovakia.
