2015 Iran will receive an S-300 air defense system from Russia; though the move won't violate U.N. sanctions against Iran, other nations currently in negotiation with Iran over nuclear issues have expressed concern 2014 Bubba Watson, American golfer, wins the Masters Tournament for the second year in a row 2014 Flight recorder signals from the missing Malaysia Air jet are no longer detectable; the flight, which disappeared on March 8th, may be located in a zone of over 57,000 square km of water about 2,200 km to the northwest of Perth, Australia 2013 In Beijing, China, a seven-year old girl is confirmed as the first person in the country to catch the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 bird flu 2013 The People's Republic of China and the U.S. agree to work towards eliminating nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula 2012 Indian actor Shahrukh Khan is detained by the U.S. at a New York airport for 90 minutes, angering S. M. Krishna, India's External Affairs Minister 2012 Owner of the New Orleans Saints, Tom Benson, agrees to purchase the New Orleans Hornets from the National Basketball Association for an estimated $338 million 2011 Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and sons, Alaa and Gamal, are detained for 15 days of questioning regarding charges of corruption and abuse of power 2011 Shortages caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami cause Toyota to close several plants in Europe 2010 President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit 1997 "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 88 performances 1997 48th time opposing pitchers hit home runs, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes 1997 61st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par) 1997 Hartford Whalers last NHL game 1997 NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game 1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY 1996 En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61 1996 Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs New Jersey Devils from playoff 1995 Yankees beat the Mets 2-0 1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death 1994 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India 1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances 1993 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation 1993 Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London 1992 "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 160 performances 1992 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands 1992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50% 1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas 1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood 1992 Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team 1992 Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie 1992 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2 1991 BPAA U.S. Open by Pete Weber 1990 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis 1990 Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS 1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1 1989 "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 12 performances 1988 Italy government of De Mita forms 1987 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason 1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) 1986 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279 1986 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record 1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic 1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue 1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second 1985 "TASS" denounced U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics 1985 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas 1985 Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead 1985 Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) 1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania 1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth 1984 India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah 1984 Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career 1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago 1983 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault 1982 Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2) 1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" 1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1980 "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 3,388 performances 1980 "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 21 performances 1980 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275 1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic 1980 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation 1980 U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow 1979 Christian Turks occupy St. Jansbasiliek 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours 1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda 1978 Jackson slugs a 3-run home run in the 1st inning, and the field is showered 1978 New York Yankees defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day 1976 1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash 1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes 1975 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276 1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar 1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war 1975 Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead 1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days 1970 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279 1970 Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed 1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon 1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation 1969 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281 1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s 1965 Beatles record "Help" 1965 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford, Jr., 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits 1964 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win 1964 Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia 1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day 1963 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit 1963 Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game 1962 Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record 1962 U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases 1961 "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 719 performances 1961 U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid 1960 France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara 1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit 1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit 1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists 1958 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win 1957 "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances 1957 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 1957 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win 1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted 1956 KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting 1955 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record) 1954 Baltimore Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0 1954 Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game 1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist 1953 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0 1949 3rd NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Washington Capitols, 4 games to 2 1948 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus 1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over 1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis 1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) 1945 U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa 1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage 1944 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games 1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 Catholic University Nijegen closes 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial 1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn 1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk 1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect 1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed 1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft 1940 Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2 1939 W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in New York City 1938 Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in New York City 1936 Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece 1934 4.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments 1934 U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act 1933 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale 1933 Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 1932 Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms 1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl) 1927 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games and 2 ties 1926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout 1926 Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam 1925 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St. New York City 1924 Greek plebiscite for a republic 1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships 1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1919 Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital 1914 1st Federal League Game: Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2 1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) 1911 Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames 1908 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's and Phillies) 1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama 1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army 1904 Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin 1902 J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" 1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism 1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) 1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City 1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) 1865 Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina 1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins 1863 Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland) 1863 Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital 1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates 1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California 1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed 1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope 1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia 1829 English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics 1808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance 1796 1st elephant arrives in U.S. from India 1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians 1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen 1742 George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin) 1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread 1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich 1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate 1640 English Short Parliament forms 1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope 1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo 1367 Battle at Najera Spain: Castilie and England beat Aragon and France 1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy 1241 Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV 1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople 1180 Republic day of Gelnhausen 1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II 1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt named Pope Victor II 989 Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas 837 Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
