2015 Astronauts at the International Space Station complete a tricky cable installation project to prepare for addition of docking ports; the ports will be able to receive manned commercial space capsules such as those launched by SpaceX and Boeing 2014 Penang, Malaysia officially opens the Penang Second Bridge, the longest bridge over water in Southeast Asia; it stretches for 15 miles, with 10.5 miles over the water 2014 A Mt. Gox security breach that enabled hackers to defraud customers of over 700,000 in Bitcoins causes the Bitcoin exchange to file for bankruptcy 2013 According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities 2013 The U.S. Army robot, BigDog from Boston Dynamics, is upgraded to include arm that can manipulate nearby objects with great force; it is able to hurl a cinderblock 15 feet 2012 The Euro zone experiences the highest unemployment level in its history: 10.7 per cent 2012 After losing power three days ago due to an engine room fire, the Costa Allegra cruise ship arrives at the Seychelles 2011 New Zealand honors victims of the 2011 Canterbury earthquake with two minutes of silence; 154 persons died, and the death toll is expected to reach 240 2011 Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan 2010 Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport 2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18 1998 "Art," opens at Royale Theater New York City 1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV 1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory 1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced 1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow 1995 Belgium ends military conscript 1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay 1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261 1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns 1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins 1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland 1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution 1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees 1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances 1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40) 1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 seconds) 1991 U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution 1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay 1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion 1989 Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce 1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA 1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran 1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile 1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter 1984 Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit 1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup 1983 Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people 1982 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees 1982 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation 1982 New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data 1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 767 performances 1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater 1980 Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit 1980 Snow falls in Florida 1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances 1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 243 performances 1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards 1977 U.S. extends territorial waters to 200 miles 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of U.S. in November 1974 Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. New Zealand cricket at Wellington 1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides 1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens 1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" 1972 David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," premieres in New York City 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting 1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM 1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater 1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released 1970 Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain 1969 "Red, White, and Maddox" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 41 performances 1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium 1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return 1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands 1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect 1967 Dominica and St. Lucia gain independence from Britain 1967 House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (307 to 116) 1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London 1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) 1965 Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct 1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95 1962 K-Mart opens 1962 U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament 1958 Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 123 performances 1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor 1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast 1955 Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives 1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die 1954 U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War 1953 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins 1953 WJZ-AM in New York City becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission 1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain 1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa 1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) 1950 U.S.S.R. issues golden rubles 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ 1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals 1947 International Monetary Fund begins operation 1946 British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years 1946 Panama accepts its new constitution 1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference 1945 Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander 1945 U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat 1942 Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough 1942 J. Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews 1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia 1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book 1941 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee 1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1940 12th Academy Awards 'Gone with the Wind', Robert Donat and Vovoem Leigh win 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut) 1937 Governer Wouters inaugurates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles 1937 U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks 1932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey 1928 Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records 1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker 1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England 1921 Rwanda ceded to England 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy 1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1917 1st federal land bank chartered 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND 1913 Federal income tax takes effect, 16th amendment 1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City 1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history 1909 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota 1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs. Australia 1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador 1890 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published 1879 Library of Hawaii founded 1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms in Farmington, Connecticut 1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park 1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia 1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time 1867 Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered 1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later) 1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana 1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) 1864 Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas 1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law 1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel 1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed 1803 Ohio becomes 17th state 1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague 1792 U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed 1790 1st U.S. census authorized 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized 1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation 1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London) 1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts) 1642 Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sa founds Rio de Janeiro 1562 Blood bath at Vassy: General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder 1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen 1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten 1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes 1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus 918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht 743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited 705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope 492 St. Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 492 St. Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
