2015 Scientists announce discovery of a planet in the Kepler-452 solar system that closely resembles Earth in size and orbit; the planet, Kepler 452-b, has a diameter 60% larger than Earth's but an orbit that is 385 days, close to Earth's 365 days 2014 Obamacare renders confusion as two appeals courts issue conflicting rulings regarding the legality of subsidies offered through federal versus state-run insurance exchanges; the ruling will likely to to the U.S. Supreme Court 2014 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration removes its ban on air travel to Israel after concluding that Israel will be able to prevent risks to aircraft during the conflict with Hamas 2013 Hercules 264, a Gulf of Mexico natural gas drilling rig, partially collapses off the coast of Louisiana; the rig remains standing but sustained extensive damage to the derrick package as a result of a continuing fire 2013 The entire government of South Sudan, including its Vice President, Riek Machar, is fired by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit 2012 America's first female astronaut, Sally Ride, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 61 2012 Patent law disputes between Samsung and Apple deadlock as the dispute addresses valuation of each other's patents 2011 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces the country's plan to launch a manned shuttle into space by 2019 2011 The Nigerian senate reschedules elections by changing the country's constitution 2010 Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Columbia after Columbia states that Venezuela is a 'haven for guerillas' 2000 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham 2000 55th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship 1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them 1995 "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 121 performances 1995 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland 1995 Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France 1995 Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic 1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced 1994 Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss 1994 Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke 1994 Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits 1994 Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg 1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City 1994 Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 minutes 1993 Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley 1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed 1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed 1993 New York Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st 1992 Emperor Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari Makonnen, of Ethiopia's, funeral 1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession 1991 Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5 1990 Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America 1990 South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon 1989 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic 1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for 1st time, America's Most Wanted 1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas 1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton 1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) 1987 Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series 1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) 1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson 1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres 1984 Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save 1984 Suzette Charles, New Jersey, 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984 1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude 1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo 1982 International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) 1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya 1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter 1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6 1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit 1978 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy 1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas 1978 Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 1978 Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight 1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges 1976 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895) 1976 Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game 1976 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island 1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1976 Wings release "Let 'em In" 1975 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London 1975 Los Angeles Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch home runs 1974 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts 1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses 1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die 1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman 1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1973 President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation 1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic 1969 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C. 1969 All star MVP: Willie McCovey for the San Francisco Giants 1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt 1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane 1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed 1967 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) 1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens 1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) 1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" 1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK 1965 Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park 1964 A's Bert Campaneris home runs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd home run on 2nd at bat 1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage 1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open 1961 Bricusse and Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres 1960 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls 1959 Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R. 1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords 1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph 1956 Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame 1955 New York Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch home runs 1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) 1949 Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days 1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President 1947 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island 1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel 1945 Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial 1944 Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader 1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland 1944 U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II 1944 U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy 1943 Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) 1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini 1942 German troops conquer Rostow 1942 Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad 1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins 1938 Bradman scores 103 in 178 minutes on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University) 1934 Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 minutes, 43 fours 2 sixes 1931 Ashmore and Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia 1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics 1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed 1930 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) 1926 Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms 1926 France government of Poincare, forms 1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers 1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet 1921 Edward Gourdin of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4" 1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony 1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes 1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I 1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 1907 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) 1906 Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa 1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo 1903 Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car 1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London 1890 Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67) 1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire 1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge 1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1877 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations 1877 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed 1870 Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France 1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms 1864 Battle of Woodstock, Virginia 1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London 1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 1852 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S. 1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office 1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso 1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter) 1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass) 1812 Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I 1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin 1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt 1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation 1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides 1726 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia 1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston 1645 Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar 1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings 1594 Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis 1572 Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden 1558 Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France 1540 Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary 1532 Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg 1453 Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion 1431 Council of Basel opens 1431 G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence) 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV 1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany 1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated 1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III 1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king 1148 Crusaders attack Damascus 685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope 636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
