2015 Parts of the U.S. Patriot Act, including authorization of bulk phone data collection by the National Security Administration, expire due to lack of agreement in the Senate regarding extension 2014 President Barack Obama proposes a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants up to 25% over 15 years in order to address climate change; the legislation would give states the freedom to determine how to implement the emission reductions 2014 Spain will increase spending in an $8.2 billion program aimed to stimulate economic growth; the country has been working to overcome an unemployment rate of 25%, but recent reports have shown an encouraging decline in jobless claims 2013 The 1998 QE2, an asteroid measuring nearly 1.7 miles across, and its moon, pass within 3.6 million miles of the earth 2013 The first case of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome conavirus is announced in Italy 2012 In India, a nationwide strike against rising gas prices closes shops and interrupts public transport across the country 2012 Former Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency, John Edwards, is cleared on one count of corruption, with a mistrial declared on the other five counts 2011 Release dates and titles for two films based on 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkein are announced 2011 After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans 2005 Watergate figure Deep Throat is revealed to be W. Mark Felt a former F.B.I agent 1997 "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 187 perf 1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race 1996 Mark Van Thillo and Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures 1994 Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates 1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees 1992 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa and Crazy For You win 1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000 1992 Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic 1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war 1990 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne 1990 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie 1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles 1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (New York City) 1989 1st International Rock Awards 1989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards 1989 Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns 1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1987 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3 1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast U.S., killing 88 1985 Guatemala adopts constitution 1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 1985 Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000 1984 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge 1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) vs. England, ODI cricket record 1983 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 63 perf 1981 Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship 1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38 1980 Police and youthful rebels battle in Zurich 1979 "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 108 performances 1979 Radio City Music Hall (New York City) reopens 1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence 1977 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 920 performances 1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar 1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed 1976 Loudest Pennsylvania (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London 1975 "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 104 performances 1975 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition 1974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights 1974 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season 1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam 1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) 1970 KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open 1969 "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 132 performances 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" 1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" 1967 Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg 1965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy 1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open 1964 San Francisco Giants beat New York Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hours 32 minutes) 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV 1961 Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern 1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St. Louis, opens 1961 John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris 1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate 1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open 1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) 1956 Mickey Mantle home run just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities 1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike 1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" 1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government 1953 WSUN TV channel 38 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast 1951 Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord 1950 Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins 1950 Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial 1949 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA 1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and stays 117 days) 1948 Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings) 1947 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6 1947 Communists grab power in Hungary 1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft. Deposit and Perryville Md, kills 53 1947 Italian government of Gasperi forms 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy 1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio 1943 Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters 1942 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City, New Jersey 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury 1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale 1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) 1941 British troops vacate Kreta 1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools 1940 General-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken 1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's 1937 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University) 1937 Brooklyn Dodgers snap New York Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak 1937 German battleships bomb Almeria, Spain 1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat 1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan 1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth 1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens 1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 1928 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season 1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A) 1927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia 1923 China and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats 1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) 1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London 1914 Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleveland Indians, 6-1 1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 1913 Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) 1912 U.S. Marines land on Cuba 1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City 1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K. 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) 1907 Taxis 1st began running in New York City 1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII and Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid 1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger 1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs. England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal 1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry 1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074) 1900 U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion 1899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park 1894 John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania 1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 1879 Madison Square Garden opens 1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed 1878 U.S. Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation 1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1870 E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement 1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio 1868 Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris 1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky 1862 Battle of Seven Pines Virginia (Fair Oaks) 1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 1861 Mint at New Orleans closes 1859 Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance 1849 Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye" 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 1837 Astor Hotel opens in New York City, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria 1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope 1821 Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st U.S. Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore 1790 U.S. copyright law enacted 1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk 1727 France, England and Netherlands sign accord of Paris 1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1678 Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes 1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah 1659 Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague 1634 U.S. colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night 1564 Battle on Gotland: Lubeck and Denmark beat Sweden 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League 1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
