2015 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. Congress on his concerns with current negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program, portraying the deal as dangerous; U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed the speech content as 'nothing new' 2014 Bill Gates is named the world's richest person in the 'Forbes' annual ranking, with a total net worth of $76 billion; he outranked last year's wealthiest person, Carlos Slim, by $4 billion 2014 The world's largest virus to date is discovered in 30,000-year-old Siberian ice; the ancient virus is still able to infect amoebae, its target hosts 2013 As a precautionary measure, Queen Elizabeth II is admitted to the hospital for observation after experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis 2013 A 2-year old Mississippi girl born with HIV/AIDS is pronounced HIV negative after receiving treatment for the virus within 30 hours after her birth 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the caucus in Washington state 2012 Australia's Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after the Warragamba Dam overflows, causing evacuations in the Sydney suburbs Richmond, Pitt Town and Grono Point 2011 The United Nations releases a report stating world food prices are at the highest in 20 years 2011 U.S. airlines continue increasing fares as a result of the high cost of jet fuel 2010 At least 33 people are killed, more than 50 wounded, by multiple suicide bombers in Baquoba, Iraq 2005 Steve Fossett flies the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world 2005 Garry Kasparov retires professionally from chess 2002 Earthquake kills at least 150 100 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville, North Carolina on WRCQ 103.5 FM 1996 26th Easter Seal Telethon 1996 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce 1994 "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 510 performances 1994 "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels 1994 IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die 1992 Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by New York Islanders 1991 "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 41 performances 1991 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs 1991 Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* vs. WI at Kingston 1991 Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire 1991 Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1991 Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R. 1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) 1991 Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal 1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA 1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra 1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres 1985 "My One and Only" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic 1985 Bill (Willie) Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike 1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6) 1984 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) 1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams D-New Jersey 1981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals 1981 New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie 1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia) 1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland 1977 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS) 1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal 1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms 1977 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) 1977 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia 1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 104 performances 1975 Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana 1974 "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 9 performances 1974 Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton 1974 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) 1973 "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances 1973 White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia 1971 South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles 1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) 1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City 1968 Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague 1968 Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1966 Buffalo Springfield form, Steven Stills, Neil Young 1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in New York City 1966 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee 1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms 1966 Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting 1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1963 Senegal adopts constitution 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms 1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco 1960 9th largest snowfall in New York City history, 14.5" 1959 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis 1959 San Francisco Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq 1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then" 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham and Jones (GRB) 1957 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) 1957 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1957 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (U.S.) 1956 Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) 1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY 1955 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution 1951 Bill Mlkvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts 1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name 1946 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1946 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1945 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarters 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 1945 U.S. and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor 1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall 1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony 1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die 1943 F Ryerson and Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in New York City 1943 U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea 1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane 1941 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Goring in Berlin 1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label 1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down 1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa 1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms 1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol 1933 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated 1933 New York City premiere of "King Kong" 1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem 1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller) 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida) 1924 German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed 1924 Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," premieres in Dublin 1923 U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions 1921 Toronto's Dr. Banting and Dr. Best announce discovery of insulin 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs 1919 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1918 Richard Goring's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations 1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS) 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created 1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C. 1911 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri 1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France 1905 U.S. Forest Service forms 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses 1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce 1900 U.S. Steel Corporation organizes 1899 Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar 1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in U.S. with rank of Admiral of the Navy 1894 1st Greek-language publication in U.S. begins, "NY Atlantis" 1894 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns 1893 Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized 1893 Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture 1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in U.S. made, Villa Nova, Penn 1891 Congress creates U.S. Courts of Appeal 1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created 1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa 1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller 1885 1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission 1885 American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates 1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government) 1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail 1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in U.S. navy 1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings 1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) 1879 U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 1878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president 1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal) 1875 Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years 1875 Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris) 1873 Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps 1873 U.S. Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively 1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent 1871 Congress establishes the civil service system 1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races 1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established 1865 Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks 1863 1st U.S. wartime military conscription bill enacted 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1863 Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada 1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia 1863 Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired 1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress 1863 Idaho Territory forms 1863 Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1862 Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces 1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use 1855 Congress authorizes registered mail 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress 1853 U.S. Assay Office in New York City authorized 1851 Congress authorizes smallest U.S. silver coin (3 cent piece) 1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin 1849 Home Department (Interior Department), forms 1849 Minnesota Territory is organizes 1849 Territory of Minnesota organizes 1849 U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress 1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps 1845 1st time, U.S. Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto 1845 Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery 1845 Florida becomes 27th state 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US 1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass) 1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony 1838 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada 1837 Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 1837 U.S. president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas 1835 Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at New Orleans Louisiana 1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi 1815 U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute 1813 Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms 1812 U.S. passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) 1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms 1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins 1801 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia 1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D 1794 Richard Allen founded AME Church 1791 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages) 1791 Congress establishes U.S. Mint 1776 U.S. commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness 1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden 1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole) 1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV 1409 Austrian civil war ends 493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker 468 St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius 78 Origin of Saka Era (India)
