2015 The U.S. Navy announces that it will allow women to undergo its intensive 6-month SEAL training; female candidates who pass the course will be able to serve on SEAL teams 2014 Community Health Systems Inc., a private hospital company, reveals that Social Security numbers and other personal data were stolen for 4.5 million patients in April and June; the company believes the attack is the work of Chinese hackers 2014 Google will be launching a paid subscription-based music service featuring YouTube music video content; the service will be separate from the company's existing subscription music service on Google Play 2013 Southern Japan's Mount Mount Sakurajima erupts for the 500th time, covering the city of Kagoshima in ash 2013 New Zealand's first same-sex marriages take place since the country's parliament passed the Marriage Equality Bill in April 2012 The West coast of Washington state is hit by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake 2012 Japan wins their third title in the 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup 2011 A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, possibly Mars, the head of king Erik XIV's fleet which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1564 2011 A Chinese scientist conducting research on the Tibetan Plateau is reported missing from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's Muztagh Ata glacier 2010 Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment 2010 In Sichuan, China, massive flooding sweeps two passenger train carriages into the river 2009 U.S. Army officer William Calley publicly apologizes for the mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai 1997 New York Yankee 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim 1997 STS-85 (Discovery 23) lands 1995 After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel 1995 Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 1995 Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds 1993 34th Walker Cup: U.S., 19-5 1993 Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin 1993 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13 1993 George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon 1993 Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge 1993 Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74") 1992 Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL vs. Australia) 1992 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia 1991 Hurricane Bob hits U.S. 1991 Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev 1991 Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA 1990 Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic 1990 Dodger Jose Offerman hits home run in his 1st at bat 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat) 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland 1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) 1988 Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma 1988 New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer 1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran 1985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei 1984 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala 1984 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1984 Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president 1984 Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am 1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting 1983 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut 1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of U.S. sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec 1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space 1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 1980 George Brett ends hitting streak at 30 1980 Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die 1980 Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London 1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) 1979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight 1979 Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little 1979 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space 1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran 1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. 1976 President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention 1975 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager 1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge 1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St. Paul Golf Open 1969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1 1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed 1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences 1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched 1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City 1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament 1961 U.S. vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin 1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by U.S.S.R. (U-2 incident) 1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) 1959 Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ 1959 Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League 1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit 1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters 1957 New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958 1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon 1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open 1955 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record) 1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. U.S.) 1955 U.S. raises import duty on bicycles 50% 1955 WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's) 1954 Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN 1953 England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0 1951 Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit 1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch) 1947 J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A 1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds and wins 1944 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed 1944 General Bradley visits Montgomery 1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India 1944 Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance 1944 Paris police strike against nazi occupiers 1944 Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris 1944 U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy 1943 Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle 1943 U.S. air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen 1942 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab 1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is 1942 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France 1942 General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout 1939 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record) 1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow 1934 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64) 1934 Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) 1934 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament 1933 47th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret) 1932 46th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62) 1931 Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game 1922 36th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61) 1921 Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits 1919 Afghanistan declares independence from U.K. 1918 Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in New York City 1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws 1915 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands 1914 Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in New York City 1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad 1914 German fleet bombs English coast 1914 Harris Theater (Candler, Coan and Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St. New York City 1913 Frenchman Pegoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe 1912 Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres 1911 New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times 1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens 1905 Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers 1903 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game 1900 Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris 1897 1st electric taxi's drive in London 1891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum 1888 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins 1864 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia 1849 New York Herald reports gold discovery in California 1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris 1836 HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores 1826 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario) 1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII 1816 Java again in Dutch hands 1812 U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 1796 Spain and France sign anti-English alliance 1791 Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac 1787 W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn 1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720 1702 Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French 1698 Russian czar Peter the Great begins term 1692 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass 1691 Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks 1627 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo 1591 French king Henri IV occupies Rouen 1587 Sigismund III becomes king of Poland 1561 Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France 1524 Emperor Charles V's troops besieges Marseille 1493 Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor 1477 Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of 1477 Burgundy and acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and France 1458 Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II 1399 King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry 1263 King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing 1099 Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon 1071 Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King 440 St. Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
