2015 Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89 after battling health issues related to diabetes and high blood pressure 2014 The 'New York Times' fires its first female executive editor Jill Abramson after three years in the position; Abramson has been replaced by Dean Baquet, the newspaper's first African-American executive editor 2014 Japanese banks are promoting women to upper management levels for the first time in history; four women in the nation's top three banks have been promoted in the last year 2013 American actress Angelina Jolie announces she underwent elective double mastectomy surgery because she carried the BRCA1 gene and had a family history of breast cancer 2013 The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August 2012 Scientists at Stanford University invent a working bionic eye the is powered only by focused light; the eye could eventually restore the sight of millions of people suffering from macular degeneration and retinal pigmentosa 2011 The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami death toll now exceeds 15,000 with 9,000 still missing and 115,000 evacuees still living in shelters 2011 In efforts to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from floods, the Morganza Spillway is opened on the Mississippi River, deliberately flooding 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana 2010 Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda sign an agreement seeking more water from the Nile; Kenya issues support while Egypt and Sudan remain opposed 1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC, commercials are $2 million each 1997 Baseball's Executive Council suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner 1996 New York Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0 1995 "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater New York City after 16 performances 1995 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins 1995 Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th) 1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader 1994 Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617 1994 FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London 1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46) 1992 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll 1991 42 die in a train collision is Japan 1991 Robert M. Gates becomes head of CIA 1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs 1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal 1990 46th time opposing pitchers hit home run, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos) 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53 1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta) 1989 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett) 1989 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic 1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs 1989 Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC 1988 "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 36 performances 1988 1st non-pitcher, Jose Oquendo, in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St. Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany 1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000 1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary 1986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th home run passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place 1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama 1983 "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5 1983 Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead 1983 Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) 1982 Guinea adopts constitution 1981 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2 1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192 1980 "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 15 performances 1980 Department of Health and Human Services begins operation 1980 Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II 1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside park home run, Royals walk 14 Yankees including 5 with bases loaded, Yankees win 16-3 1978 "Working" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 25 performances 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic 1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires 1977 Kansas City Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0 1977 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms 1977 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games 1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter 1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast 1975 Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II 1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia 1975 U.S. forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship 1975 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed 1973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London 1973 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV 1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station 1973 U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military 1972 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner and Jean Stapleton 1972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4 1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) 1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court 1970 New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing 1970 RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin 1969 Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada 1969 Last Chevrolet Corsair built 1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp 1968 Czechoslovakian government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek 1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin 1967 Mickey Mantle's 500th home run off Oriole's Stu Miller 1966 A Lover's Concerto by Mrs. Miller hits #95 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes 1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 Underground America Day is 1st observed 1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations 1962 Ex-president Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years 1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain 1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open 1960 "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden New York City after 216 performances 1960 U.S.S.R. launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule 1960 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam, New York 1957 "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 432 performances 1957 Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in New York City 1955 U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months 1951 "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 40 performances 1951 Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC 1951 Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in New York City 1950 Pittsburgh Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 home runs 1949 "Love Life" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 252 performances 1949 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56 1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral 1948 Israel declares independence from British administration 1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast 1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem 1948 U.S. grants Israel de facto recognition 1948 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting 1946 Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres 1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise 1945 U.S. offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered 1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol 1944 British troops occupy Kohima 1944 General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler 1942 U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms 1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested 1940 Admiral Furstner departs to England 1940 Boston's Jimmie Foxx home run goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof 1940 German breakthrough at Sedan 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany 1938 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8 1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3 1935 Griffith Planetarium opens in Los Angeles, 3rd in US 1935 Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement 1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg 1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie 1927 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06 1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats 1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit 1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season 1919 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53 1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta 1918 Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) 1918 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington D.C. 1914 Chicago Jim Scott no-hits Cleveland, gives up 2 hits in 10th and loses 1-0 1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands 1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings 1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins 1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane 1906 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising 1905 2nd official International soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0 1904 1st Olympics in U.S. are held (St. Louis) 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco 1897 Great Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia 1896 Lowest U.S. temperature in May recorded -10 degrees F - Climax, Colorado 1894 Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings 1892 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem 1890 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45 1888 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38 1886 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36 1885 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37 1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in U.S. 1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly) 1874 Harvard beats McGill University in football, 3 - 0, 1st admission charge at a football game 1864 Battle of Reseca, Georgia -Atlanta- 1863 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi 1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph 1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens 1842 1st edition of London Illustrated News 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile 1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres 1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day) 1804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast 1800 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar 1796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner 1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up U.S. constitution 1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea 1702 England and Netherlands declares war on France and Spain 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw 1664 Turkish great Koprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers 1643 Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France 1638 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon 1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia 1590 Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League 1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten 1509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy 1264 Baron's War fought in England 1264 Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III 1027 Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France 1004 Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy 649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
