2015 Nuclear talks between Iran and Western nations fail to conclude by today's extended deadline, leading both sides to agree to another extension; Iran seeks removal of all U.N. sanctions in exchange for limitations on its nuclear development activities 2014 Germany beats Brazil 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals; the defeat is considered a possible explanation for ensuing incidents of bus burning around Sao Paulo 2014 The U.S. Federal Reserve announces that it will end its current monetary policy of quantitative easing by ceasing bond purchases after October of this year 2013 The mission of the NASA Curiosity Mars rover begins as it makes way to its destination and drives to Mount Sharp 2013 Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe; he honors them in a mass held on Lampedusa, the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea 2012 Academy award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, dies at the age of 95 2012 At the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, tennis pro Roger Federer beats Andy Murray three sets to one at the Men's Singles final 2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off to conduct the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program 2011 U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announces an inquiry into News of the World, allegedly involved in a phone hacking scandal 2010 At least 70 people are killed and 300 wounded in a series of bombings over the three-day Shia pilgrimage to the Musa Kadhim mausoleum in Iraq 2007 Boeing launches it's newest aircraft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116 2001 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Goran Ivanisevic beat Pat Rafter 2001 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer beat Jiri Novak and David Rikl 2001 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs beat Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama 2000 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport 2000 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde beat Paul Haarhuis and Sandon Stolle 1997 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland 1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join 1995 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75) 1995 1st CFL game between 2 U.S. teams, Las Vegas Posse vs. Sacramento Gold 1994 Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O. J. Simpson 1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) 1994 Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches 1994 St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years 1992 Florida Marlins unveil their uniform 1992 Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria 1991 Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins 1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed 1990 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890) 1990 Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning 1990 Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome 1990 Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) 1990 Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game 1990 Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic 1990 Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels and then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7 1989 Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina 1989 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1988 Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) 1988 Miami Arena opens 1988 Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking 1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 1987 Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years 1986 Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257') 1986 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance 1986 Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy 1985 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64) 1985 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red 1984 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62) 1984 Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic 1983 Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title 1982 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 5 performances 1982 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager 1981 France performs nuclear test 1981 Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1981 Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) 1980 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles 1980 All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cincinnati Reds) 1979 Congo adopts constitution 1979 Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles 1979 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic 1979 Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) 1978 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) 1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy 1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus 1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hours) 1976 Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break 1975 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany 1975 President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president 1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated 1974 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1974 Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game 1973 Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker 1973 New York Mets are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant 1972 English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen) 1972 U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million 1971 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1970 San Francisco Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) 1969 Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco 1969 U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam 1968 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal 1967 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64) 1967 Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games 1966 U.S. airline strike, until Aug 19th 1965 Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game 1963 Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move Kansas City A's to Oakland 1963 U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba 1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open 1961 Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies 1961 Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die 1960 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey 1958 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt 1957 Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick 1957 CDC incorporates 1957 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders 1956 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open 1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1954 KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast 1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala 1953 U.S. stops aid to Persia 1952 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia 1951 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and manager Casey Stengel feud 1950 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record) 1950 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61) 1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea 1950 Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea 1949 Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants 1948 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow 1947 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago 1947 Demolition begins for United Nations HQ in New York City 1946 "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 8 performances 1946 Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary 1944 British troops march into Caen 1944 Japanese kamakize attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan 1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve 1943 British air raid sinks U-232 1943 U.S. invasion fleet passes Bizerta, Tunisia 1941 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit 1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star 1939 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62) 1938 Would be start of Eng/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout 1935 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland 1933 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63) 1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective 1932 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 1932 Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire vs. Gloucs 1928 Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader 1923 Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) 1923 Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland 1922 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60) 1919 President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference 1918 Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleveland, prevailing rules reduce Babe's Hhome runR to a triple 1912 G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge 1912 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight 1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse 1909 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st 'Follies' on New York Theater roof 1905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center 1902 John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles 1900 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) 1898 Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 1898 U.S. battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila 1897 Harbor Hospital formally opens 1896 William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention 1895 Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South Africa 1892 American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts 1891 61 degrees F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore and Philadelphia 1891 Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio 1889 John L. Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) 1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing 1876 White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5 1870 Congress authorizes registration of trademarks 1870 Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection 1862 Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret 1861 CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay 1849 St. Paul's Place in the Bronx named 1838 Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Saint-Helena 1835 Liberty Bell cracks, again 1833 Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty 1816 Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts 1805 American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England 1800 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox 1797 1st U.S. senator, William Blount of Tennessee, expelled by impeachment 1796 U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport 1792 France declares war on Prussia 1778 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army 1777 Vermont becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage 1776 John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia 1758 English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York 1709 Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes 1693 New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies 1672 Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general 1663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island 1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan) 1551 Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond and Buren 1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India 951 Paris is founded
