2014 Separatists in Eastern Ukraine hold elections in Donetsk and Luhansk; Russia will recognize the elected leaders, but Ukraine and Western nations declare the elections illegitimate 2014 The U.N. issues a report concluding that immediate global actions are needed to prevent runaway impacts of climate change; the report claims failure to act now will result in extensive future damage which will be prohibitively expensive to control 2013 Current Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, prepares to leave office; Irakli Garibashvili, the current Interior Minister, is appointed as his successor 2013 In Wisconsin, two planes carrying nine skydivers collide in midair; the skydivers used their parachutes to steer themselves clear of the debris, and the two pilots survived with minor injuries 2012 Women-only literary prizes are launched by Canada and Australia; the prize, formerly known as the Orange continues its search for a sponsor 2012 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces the cancellation of the New York City Marathon due to the damage and devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy 2011 China makes its first orbital docking as its unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module 2011 In Chicago, the Chicago Cubs baseball team fires their manager, Mike Quade 2010 According to Fudan University's survey results, 72.6% of Shanghai residents attended the Shanghai Expo; an average of 2.31 visits per resident 2010 U.S. voters go to the polls; Republicans win control of the House of Representatives with the largest number of seats gained since 1894 2004 George W. Bush wins a second term as U.S. president, winning 51% of the popular vote 2000 International Space Station becomes permanently staffed 1997 "Barrymore," closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 240 performances 1997 27th New York City Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland 2:28:43 1997 28th New York City Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12 1997 Ralphs Senior Golf Classic 1997 Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup 1997 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam 1997 USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International 1996 "Hughie," closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City 1995 "Busker Alley," premieres at St. James Theatre, New York 1995 "Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 21 performances 1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M 1994 Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed 1993 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial 1993 Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed 1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey 1993 Dow Jones hits record 3697.64 1993 Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem 1993 Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of New York City 1992 1st test flight of Airbus A330 1991 Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song 1991 Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49 1991 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou 1990 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minnesota Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85 1989 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 253 performances 1988 1st Mrs. America beauty pageant 1988 Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities 1988 Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash 1988 Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's) 1987 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis 1987 Harrison releases "Cloud 9" and McCartney releases "All the Best" 1986 16th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06 1986 17th New York City Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06 1986 Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship 1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge 1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1983 Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L. King day 1982 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die 1982 Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament 1979 Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31 1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1977 Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award 1976 Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford for president 1976 New Jersey voters approve gambling for Atlantic City 1976 San Diego Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young 1975 Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4 1975 Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89 1974 Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs 1974 Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May 1974 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1973 "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV 1973 OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms 1972 Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle 1972 Phillies' Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award 1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1971 "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 7 performances 1971 Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87) 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open 1969 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer and St. L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each 1968 "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 17 performances 1966 KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting 1964 CBS purchases 80% of Yankees for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20% 1964 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia 1963 "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater New York City for 24 performances 1963 Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC vs. E African XI 1962 John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled 1961 "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances 1961 Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Zurich 1960 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad 1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees 1960 Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover" 1960 Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222 1959 "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 16 performances 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed 1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio 1956 Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion 1956 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham 1955 Clarton-Schwerdt and Schaffer discover polio virus 1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government 1954 Charles C. Diggs, Jr. elected Michigan's 1st black congressman 1954 J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) 1954 Taiwan and U.S. sign military pact 1953 Pakistan becomes islamic republic 1950 "Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances 1950 Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP 1949 Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers 1948 WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting 1947 7th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 11-1 at Portland CC Ore 1947 Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time 1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates 1944 Canadian troops occupy Knokke 1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed 1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II) 1941 German troops occupy Rostov 1938 Babe Ruth applies for job of St. Louis Browns' manager 1938 Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP 1937 AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP 1936 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London 1934 Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan 1931 Warren, Dixon and Young's musical "Laugh Parade," premieres in New York City 1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty 1928 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Philadelphia 1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle 1923 Bloody street battles in Aken: pro-French separatists 1923 Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven) 1923 Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down 1922 Allies deliberate over German mark 1922 Australian Qantas airways begins service 1921 Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," premieres in New York City 1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station 1920 Warren G. Harding elected president 1917 1st U.S. soldiers killed in combat in WW I 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; U.S. recognizes Japan's privileges in China 1916 Ft. Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France 1915 1st U.S. election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio 1914 Great Britain annexes Cyprus 1914 Russia declares war on Turkey 1914 V Herbert and H Blossoms "Only Girl," premieres in New York City 1913 St. Louis Browns manager George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League 1907 Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published 1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing 1903 Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St. New York City 1903 New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St. New York City 1899 Boers begin siege of Ladysmith Natal 1898 French government-Dupuy forms 1898 Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem 1895 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11 1892 Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands 1889 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state 1881 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms 1880 James A. Garfield (R) elected president 1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km 1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast 1854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny starts 1852 Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S. 1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France 1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan 1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola 1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams 1813 Treaty of Fulda 1783 General Washington bids farewell to his army 1772 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms 1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post 1722 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia 1642 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III 1532 Zealand/South Holland flooded 1418 Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein 1355 English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais 1327 King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned 676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
