2015 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi gains parliamentary approval for his proposed reforms to fight corruption and reduce government spending; the measures include eliminating certain government positions and reexamining closed corruption cases 2014 Sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to Microsoft ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has gone through, despite attempts by former owner Donald Sterling to stop the transaction; Sterling was forced to sell after being banned from the NBA for his racist remarks 2014 Drug manufacturer Mapp Biopharmaceutical states that it has run out of its experimental Ebola treatment drug; the company has been shipping all available stock without charge to West Africa in an attempt to treat victims of the current epidemic 2013 At the Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, American golfer Jason Dufner wins the 2013 PGA Championship 2013 A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet; no injuries were reported 2012 Jamaican runner Usain Bolt wins his third gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, anchors the sprint relay team to a world record; Bolt is 25 years old and now holds six Olympic gold medals 2012 The Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney names Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Congressman, as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the November 2012 presidential election 2011 New Zealand's City Council in Christchurch announce plans to rebuild their central business district after an earthquake devastated the area 2011 The Israeli interior ministry grants its final approval for building 1,600 settler homes in the disputed East Jerusalem 2010 Two days after Rwanda's presidential election, Kigali, Rwanda reports that a grenade attack occurred during rush hour 2010 Muslims across the world begin the holy month of Ramadan where they must fast between sunrise and sunset 2009 A new species of a giant carnivorous plant, Nepethes attenboroughii, is discovered in the central Phillipines highlands 1999 Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) 1997 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday 1996 "Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 32 performs 1996 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla Golf Club Kentucky 1996 Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship 1994 Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau 1993 Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth 1993 New York Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke 1993 Pope John Paul II visits Mexico 1993 Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul - New York 1992 Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game 1991 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed 1991 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind 1991 Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic 1991 Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy 1991 Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) lands 1991 Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start 1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats) 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres 1989 Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England 1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune 1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th home run 1988 Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens 1988 Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament 1987 France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf 1986 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo 1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 home run 1985 "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 669 performances 1985 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver 1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic 1985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) 1984 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France 1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds 1984 Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform 1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" 1984 Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms 1984 U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test 1982 Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16) 1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 Angola revises its constitution 1980 Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran 1980 Yankees Reggie Jackson hits his 400th home run off Chicago's Britt Burns 1979 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota 1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year 1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI 1978 Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta 1977 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Australia at Headingley 1976 Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami 1976 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die 1975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game 1975 U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N. 1974 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC 1974 Coup in East-Timor under UDT 1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) 1972 "Cheech and Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas 1971 Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome 1971 Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501 1970 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues 1970 Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a home run in red seats at Riverfront 1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder 1969 Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) 1968 Beatles launch "Apple Records" label 1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves 1967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches 1966 Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins 1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles 1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City 1965 Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days 1964 Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in New York City 1963 Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?" 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational 1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari" 1962 Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) 1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down 1961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 1960 Chad declares Independence from France 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open 1957 Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich 1956 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" 1955 Indonesia government of Harahap forms 1954 BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0 1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh 1952 Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan 1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois 1951 1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC 1951 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa 1951 New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant 1950 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) 1950 Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0 1950 Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time 1950 King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium 1949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) 1949 Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovt 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London 1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito 1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy 1944 French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees 1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz 1944 U.S. air raid on Palembang 1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov 1943 Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres 1943 U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily 1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium 1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks 1942 Lieutenant-general Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth 1939 Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe 1936 Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton 1935 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews 1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay 1933 Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record) 1929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland 1929 Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty 1929 Russian-Chinese border fights 1928 Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils 1928 Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists 1926 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double 1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken 1923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns 1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia 1919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany 1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans 1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary 1914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland 1914 John Wray patents animation 1909 Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call 1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC 1909 Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test 1907 St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn 1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa 1896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain 1885 $100,000 raised in U.S. for pedestal for Statue of Liberty 1884 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Australia 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos 1874 Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head 1863 Cambodia becomes French protectorate 1860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada 1835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal 1780 Barbados hurricane begins 1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1695 English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk 1674 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) 1611 Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia 1597 Germany throws out English sales people 1522 Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails 1492 Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI 1304 Sea battle of Zierikzee 1253 Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen 117 Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch
