2015 Nobel prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, die after an accident in New Jersey in which their taxi lost control 2014 Reality star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West are married in Florence, Italy, about 7 months after the birth of their daughter, North West; the celebrities have been together since early 2012 2014 South African President Jacob Zuma is sworn into office for his second 5-year term 2013 Rafael Correa wins an unprecedented third term as President of Ecuador 2013 London's Metropolitan police remove belongings and sleeping bags of homeless people as part of 'a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community' 2012 During the first three months of 2012, revised figures show that the U.K. economy shrunk by 0.3% 2012 According to the U.S. Hurricane Center, Hurricane Bud has formed off of the Pacific Ocean's coast of Mexico, and has reached category two strength 2011 The Tokyo Electric Power Company claims three Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors partially melted down during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2011 On his visit to the United Kingdom, U.S. President Barack Obama meets Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh 2010 After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters 1998 Indianapolis 500 race 1997 STS-84 (Atlantis 19), lands 1997 Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful 1996 "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released 1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash 1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war 1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement 1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey 1992 Al Unser, Jr. wins Indy 500 1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1992 Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament 1992 Despite trailing 7-1, New York Yankees tie Milwaukee Brewers and then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game 1990 Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game 1990 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 1989 "Indiana Jones and Last Crusade" premieres 1989 A. 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Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona 1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice 1989 NHL's New York Rangers fire General Manager and coach Phil Esposito 1989 Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack 1989 New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season 1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute 1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe 1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals 1987 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes 1987 Al Unser, Sr., 47, wins his 4th Indy 500 1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy 1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel 1986 Reginald Huffstetler trode water for 985 hours 1986 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1 1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US 1984 "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 13 performances 1984 Detroit Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game 1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria 1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students 1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain 1981 Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1980 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56 1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages 1980 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 2 1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect 1977 U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns 1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.) 1976 Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1975 Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 1974 Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV 1972 Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona 1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 1970 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational 1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult 1969 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks 1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days 1968 Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1967 AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals 1966 "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1508 performances 1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1964 18th Tony Awards: Luther and Hello Dolly win 1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan 1964 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational 1964 Longest home run (471') in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota) 1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely 1962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit 1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi 1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed 1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania 1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England 1958 "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 432 performances 1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion 1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International 1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan 1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia 1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit 1954 German airline Lufthansa forms 1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour 1953 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus 1951 Racial segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants ruled illegal 1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 1951 Willie Mays begins playing for New York Giants 1948 Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge 1946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager 1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists 1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark 1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean 1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje 1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive 1940 1st night game at New York's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1) 1940 1st night game at St. Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2) 1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio 1940 Dutch army demobilizes 1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France 1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel" 1940 New York Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds 1936 Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party 1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yankees beat A's 25-2 1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1) 1935 Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX) 1934 Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia 1933 Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes, premieres in Moscow 1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad 1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) 1930 Bradman scores 252* Australia vs. Surrey, 290 minutes, 29 fours 1930 Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week 1929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings 1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7 1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) 1922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6 degrees C) 1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed 1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected 1921 British Legion forms 1918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning 1916 Conscription begins in Britain 1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured 1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname 1916 U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter 1908 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election 1908 John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London 1905 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08 1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain 1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a home run run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918 1900 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21 1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State 1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) 1895 Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight 1890 Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany 1890 Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma 1890 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London 1887 Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors 1884 Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland 1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die 1879 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40 1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston 1877 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45 1873 Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris 1870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US 1866 Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) 1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time 1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens 1861 Alexandria, Virginia occupied by Federal troops 1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war" 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas 1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston 1854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts 1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War 1844 Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg) 1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written 1830 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) 1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate 1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee 1822 Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secures independence of Quito from Spain 1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida 1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia 1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war 1738 Methodist Church forms 1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax 1697 English king Willem III travels through northern Europe 1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 1667 French troops attack into Southern Netherlands 1660 English king Charles II visits Netherlands 1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought 1653 German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria 1626 Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24 1487 Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin 1370 Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV 1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured 1153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland 1086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
