2015 Scientists uncover a 2.8-million-year-old jawbone of a primitive human; the find suggests that humans may have evolved from hominins, or humanlike primates, about 400,000 years earlier than previously thought 2014 President Obama sends his 2015 budget to Congress, announcing that it is a 'roadmap for creating jobs with good wages and expanding opportunity for all Americans' 2014 The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site 2013 With a personal fortune of $73 billion dollars, Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, tops the list of the 'Forbes' list of wealthiest people 2013 More than 100 Catholic cardinals meet in Rome, Italy, to begin the process of selecting the successor to Pope Benedict XVI 2012 In 2012, the People's Republic of China will increase its defense spending by 11.2 per cent 2012 Tornadoes that struck the midwestern and southern United States claimed 39 lives 2011 The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) states it could save $5.5 billion in 30 years if dollar bills are replaced with coins 2011 China reports plans to increase its 2011 defense spending by 12.7% 2010 Taiwan is hit by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, twelve people are injured, communications and rail services are disrupted 2009 Eight people are killed, several injured, after gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketeers in Lahore, Pakistan 2009 An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) 1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) 1995 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years 1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital 1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker 1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) 1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1 1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit 1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances 1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion 1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank 1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW 1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1990 U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) 1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand 1985 STS-51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA 1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" 1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational 1984 Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V 1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe 1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family" 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico 1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain 1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio 1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth 1974 David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London 1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier 1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America 1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom 1972 Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) 1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) 1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) 1967 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die 1966 John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz 1959 U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent 1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 1949 Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player 1949 Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel 1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany 1944 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague 1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler 1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany 1934 Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (SF) dedicated 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament 1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member 1933 Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." 1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman 1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President 1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president 1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office 1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations 1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S. 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 1913 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed 1913 Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments 1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo 1913 New York Yankees are 1st to train outside U.S. (Bermuda) 1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president 1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S. 1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm 1909 U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds 1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die 1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin 1902 American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Cleveland, Ohio 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer) 1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president 1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends 1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US 1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed 1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) 1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi 1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation 1881 Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together 1881 James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president 1881 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire 1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan 1877 Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow 1876 U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap 1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president 1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" 1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president 1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee 1863 Territory of Idaho established 1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag 1861 Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president 1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. Vice President 1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended March 3rd 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution 1845 James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president 1841 Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London 1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 1837 City of Chicago incorporates 1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion 1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice 1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president 1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball 1826 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president 1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes 1801 Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews 1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of the United States 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands 1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii 1791 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 1791 President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) 1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) 1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany 1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania 1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands 1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia 1611 George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students 1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife 1461 Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England 1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
