2015 Police have killed two of the three men who attacked the offices of French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' yesterday to avenge the Prophet Muhammad; the third attacker turned himself in after the incident, which killed 12 and wounded 11 people 2014 New Baseball Hall of Fame inductees determined by Baseball Writers' Association of America voters include: Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, and managers Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox 2014 After a federal judge ruled that Utah's same-sex ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court had to place the lower-court ruling on hold pending an appeal by the state 2013 For the first time since 1996, no candidates were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame 2013 Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice determines they can defer the latest inauguration of President Hugo Chavez while his cancer operation recovery continues 2012 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour 2012 A referendum on Scottish independence causes a clash between the United Kingdom's Westminster and Scottish governments 2011 In an effort to suppress riots, the Algerian government cuts food prices and commits to punishing those responsible for the riots 2011 A Border Collie has reportedly learned 1022 words and can act in accordance with the citation of those words 2010 Over 700 former Tamil Tigers are released by the Sri Lankan army after completing a rehabilitation program 2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone 2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title 1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned 1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever 1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital 1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport 1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts) 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) 1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33) 1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame 1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games 1990 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit 1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78 1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston 1988 English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli 1988 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano 1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect 1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass 1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh 1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me" 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855 1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws 1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established 1977 "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances 1977 Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR 1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot 1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts 1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes 1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon 1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake 1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire 1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted 1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England 1968 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond 1967 NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints" 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism 1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks 1964 Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone 1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" 1962 Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die 1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR 1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan 1954 -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record) 1954 Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title 1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds 1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances 1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances 1945 U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars 1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1942 U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania 1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium 1940 J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City 1936 Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army 1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction 1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game 1929 BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City 1927 Dmitri Shostakovich' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died 1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption 1923 1st flight of autogiro by Juan de la Cierva, Madrid, Spain 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF 1912 U.S. Marines invade Honduras 1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY 1903 Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City (Yankees) 1901 NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas 1866 Fisk University establishes 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 die 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City 1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established 1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily 1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star) 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) 1834 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Port San Julian, Patagonia 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon 1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held 1799 Income Tax introduced in UK 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America 1792 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat 1718 France declares war on Spain 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) 1493 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
