2015 California Governor Jerry Brown mandates a 25% cut in water usage, the first required water restriction in the state's history, as severe drought continues; earlier calls for a voluntary 20% reduction were not met 2014 An earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale strikes 58 miles northwest of Iquique, Chile; though larger than the 6.7 quake on March 16th, scientists expect an even stronger quake in this region in the future 2014 Tiger Woods will miss the Masters Tournament for the first time in 20 years as he recovers from surgery for a pinched nerve 2013 Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., publishes a letter to Chinese customers, addressing issues regarding the company's warranty policies in China 2013 In preparation for plans to step down in 2015, the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir gives an order to release all political prisoners 2012 Eli Young Band wins song of the year for 'Crazy Girl' and Taylor Swift wins 'Entertainer of the Year' at the 2012 Academy of Country Music awards 2012 In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood nominates chairman Khairat El-Shater as a candidate for the May 2012 presidential elections 2011 The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 32,788 traffic deaths; the lowest number of deaths since 1949 2011 In Greece, Crete withstands a 6.2 magnitude earthquake 2010 Northern Ireland's electricity is knocked out; nearly 25,000 homes remain powerless 2002 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta 2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis 1998 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota 1998 Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court 1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU) 1996 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67 1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee 1995 New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23 1994 Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated 1993 Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London 1993 Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais 1992 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome) 1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned 1992 Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob 1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games 1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history 1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman 1992 WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final 1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R. 1991 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets 1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race 1991 U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour 1990 "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting 1990 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King 1990 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins 1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger 1990 Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames 1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers 1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour 1990 Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan 1989 1st New York Mets - New York Yankee game in New York City since 1983, Yankees win 4-3 1989 A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball 1986 Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 to win Ranji Trophy 1986 U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea 1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel 1985 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75 1984 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 1984 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61 1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours 1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England 1983 New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons 1982 Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution 1982 U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama 1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax) 1980 Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games 1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz 1980 France performs nuclear test 1980 Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist 1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1977 Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails 1977 NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games 1976 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer 1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer 1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran 1974 Pioneer Hall opens 1973 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic 1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold 1973 John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence 1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike 1971 U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere 1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership 1970 Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers 1970 John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations 1970 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank 1970 President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on January 1, 1971 1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp 1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals 1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast 1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work 1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) 1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" 1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years 1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control 1964 10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April 1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years 1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in New York City 1963 New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 1963 New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike 1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV 1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye 1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria 1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee 1960 RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched 1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma 1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank 1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 World's biggest glass oven used 1956 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win 1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting 1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380 1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam 1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus 1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (CBS) 1st broadcast 1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens 1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC 1954 Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed 1954 U.S. Air Force Academy forms 1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting 1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea 1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 Walcott Worrell and Weekes all make centuries in innings vs. India 1952 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1948 H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut 1948 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow 1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat 1946 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike 1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii 1946 Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) 1946 Weight Watchers forms 1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes 1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen 1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army 1945 Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg 1945 U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II 1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed 1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India 1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor 1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2 1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in New York City 1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay 1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes 1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq 1939 U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain 1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York 1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1937 Aden becomes British crown colony 1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India 1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York 1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers 1933 Hammond scores 336* vs. New Zealand at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes 1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses 1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000 1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball 1930 "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America 1929 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls 1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven, Netherlands opens 1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo 1929 Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film 1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate 1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse 1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice 1926 Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren 1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio 1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated 1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain 1920 Church disforms in Wales 1920 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2 1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force 1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St. New York City 1916 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held 1914 UVS Soccer team forms in Lead 1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk 1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" 1899 North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business 1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens 1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti 1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago 1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam 1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem 1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens 1876 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Philadelphia-5) 1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die 1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople 1872 1st edition of The Standard 1868 Hampton Institute opens 1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama 1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris 1867 Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies 1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army 1863 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA 1853 Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary 1850 San Francisco County Government established 1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands 1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine 1803 French law rules the use of intention 1793 Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce 1789 House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York City, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker 1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol 1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig 1748 Ruins of Pompeii found 1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War 1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters 1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty) 1581 Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II 1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation 1572 Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle 1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control 1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik 705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI 527 Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium 374 Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
