Today is the 179th day of 2022. There are186 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1892: Sir Clifford Campbell, the first Jamaican national to be appointed governor general of Jamaica, is born at Petersfield, Westmoreland, to the late James Campbell and Blanche, nee Ruddock.

OTHER EVENTS

1389: Serb army is defeated by the Turks at Kosovo Polje. Remainder of Serbia is conquered by Turks, who rule for almost 500 years.

1519: King Carlos I elected Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V.

1797: France occupies Ionian Islands of Greece.

1812: Napoleon Bonaparte’s army crosses Vilna River as Russian forces retreat.

1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London.

1846: Saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph “Adolfe” Sax.

1881: Immigration Act of New Zealand restricts Japanese immigration.

1892: Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories.

1895: Raids are launched from Bulgaria into Macedonia following founding of an external Macedonian revolutionary organisation at Sofia.

1904 : Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Reigning champion Dorothea Chambers beats Charlotte Cooper 6-0, 6-3.

1914: Austria’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated at Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, Serb revolutionary, igniting World War I.

1915 : Victor Trumper, Australian Cricket Batsman (48 Tests, top score 214; key figure foundation of rugby league in Australia), dies of Bright’s disease at 37

1919: Germany and the Allies sign the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I and providing for the creation of the League of Nations.

1924 : Jack Darragh, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (Stanley Cup 1911, 20-21, 23; Ottawa Senators), dies of peritonitis at 33

1928: Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of West End Blues.

1942: British 8th Army in North Africa retreats from Germans to El Alamein; German forces launch counter-attack against Soviets in Kharkov region.

1948: Yugoslavia is expelled from Communist group Cominform for hostility to Soviet Union.

1950: North Korean soldiers capture Seoul as South Koreans retreat south of Han River.

1951 : Amos ‘n’ Andy premieres on CBS TV.

1956: Labour riots are put down in Poznan, Poland, with many casualties.

1973 : Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected.

1976: The Seychelles, an Indian Ocean island group, become independent after 102 years under British rule.

1986: West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa.

1988: US military attache to Greece is killed by powerful car bomb that blows his armor-plated car off road.

1989: In Slobodan Milosevic’s shining moment, one million Serbs gather in Kosovo, Yugoslavia, to mark the 600th anniversary of their defeat by the Turks and to cheer their nationalist leader.

1990: Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation — Susan Lucci loses for 11th time

1993: Thousands of illegal Albanian immigrants in Greece are rounded up and sent home in bus convoys as police crack down following Albania’s expulsion of a Greek Orthodox priest.

1994: Three masked gunmen seize a bus and take about 40 passengers hostage near the southern Russian city of Mineralnye Vody.

1996: Turkey’s President Suleyman Demirel approves the country’s first Islamic-led Government in 73 years. Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA.

1997: Cuban and Argentine forensic experts uncover the remains of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and five of his companions near the Bolivian town of Vallegrande.

1998: Slavko Dokmanovic, Serb former mayor of Vukovar, Croatia, hangs himself in his cell while the International War Crimes Tribunal considers a verdict on his role in a massacre of 200 people.

1999: Computer hackers deface the US Army’s main website after having hacked into the White House, FBI and US Senate websites.

2000: Seven months after floating adrift in the Florida straits, six-year-old Elian Gonzalez returns to his native Cuba, bringing to a close a fierce custody battle.

2001: Yugoslavia hands over former President Slobodan Milosevic to the UN War Crimes Tribunal.

2003: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, premieres at Disneyland.

2004: The United States hands over sovereignty to the Iraqis two days ahead of schedule and seven months before elections are set to take place.

2005: The European Union and five nations pick France over Japan as the site for an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, opening the way for development of a potential source of clean, inexhaustible energy.

2006: UN member states lift a US$950-million (euro 756-million) spending cap on the United Nations budget, averting a financial crisis but dealing a blow to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s reform agenda.

2007: Israeli President Moshe Katsav agrees to resign in a plea bargain that drops rape allegations and the threat of jail time in return for pleading guilty to lesser charges.

2008: Zimbabweans deface ballots and boycott the discredited re-election of President Robert Mugabe after an onslaught of State-sponsored violence pushes his main Opposition from the race.

2009: Soldiers oust the democratically elected president of Honduras and Congress names a successor, but Manuel Zalaya, the leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, denounces what he calls an illegal coup and vows to stay in power.

2010: Ten people are arrested in the US for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian Government with the goal of penetrating US Government policymaking circles.

2011: German and Chinese leaders pledge a big increase in trade between their countries, the biggest economies of Europe and Asia, while China’s premier underlines his support for the Eurozone amid its debt crisis.

2012: Archaeologists say pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old — making them the oldest pottery in the world.

2016: Buddy Ryan, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals), dies from cancer and stroke complications at 85

2020: Joe Bugel, American football coach (offensive line Washington Redskins ‘Hogs’, Super Bowl 1982, 87; Phoenix Cardinals, Oakland Raiders), dies of bone cancer at 80.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

England’s King Henry VIII (1491-1547); Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (1577-1640); Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher-author (1712-1778); Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and Nobel laureate (1867-1936); Richard Rodgers, US composer (1902-1979); Mel Brooks, US actor/director (1926- ); Pat Morita, US actor (1932-2005); Roy Gilchrist, cricketer (1934-2001 ); Kathy Bates, actress (1948- ); John Cusack, actor (1966- ); Elaine Thompson-Herah, two-time double Olympic Games medallist (1992- ).

— AP and Jamaica Observer