2015 Australia's Liberal Party votes in Malcolm Turnbull to replace Tony Abbott as prime minister; Abbott had received majority backing from his party in a no-confidence vote just seven months ago 2014 Category 3-strength Hurricane Odile makes landfall near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, destroying property and leaving many residents without electricity or potable water; the storm is expected to weaken to a tropical storm overnight as it continues north 2014 The U.N. will remove peacekeepers from the Syrian side of Golan Heights after the recent capture and release of 45 U.N. troops from Fiji by Syrian rebel forces; the U.N. has worked in the area for 40 years to keep peace between Syria and Israel 2013 Indonesia's Mount Sinabung explodes, causing nearly 6,000 people in the country's North Sumatra province to flee 2013 In New Zealand, David Cunliffe is elected leader of the Labour Party 2012 Mass protests take place in Tamil Nadu, India, as opposition to the Kudankulam nuclear power project grows 2012 In Moscow, tens of thousands protest against Vladimir Putin, chanting, 'We are the power here!' and 'Russia without Putin!' 2011 A previously unknown species of bottlenose dolphin is identified by researchers at Australia's Monash University, who named it Tursiops australis 2011 Together with male and female, 'indeterminate' can now be listed as a gender on Australian passports 2010 Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane in the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season 2010 Despite considerable opposition, Christine O'Donnell is elected as the Republican Party candidate for Delaware 2008 Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy 2004 Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama and Florida killing nearly 30 1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M 1997 Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000 1996 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va 1996 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final 1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34 1995 Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays 1994 "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam 1994 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten 1994 Moslem fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria 1993 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament 1992 Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional New York City seat 1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show 1991 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton 1991 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly 1991 SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yards 1991 U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) 1990 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win 1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves 1990 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000 1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf 1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna 1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics 1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens 1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi 1986 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead 1985 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat U.S., 16 -11 at The Belfry, England 1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1985 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government 1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings 1985 Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert 1985 Yankees trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro 1984 Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985 1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1983 Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway 1983 Israel premier Begin resigns 1982 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc 1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut 1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor 1981 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL and NL (Astros) 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans 1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1978 Yankees beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yankees lead 2 games 1977 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances 1977 Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) 1977 President Carter meets with 15 record company executives 1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1976 Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in New York City 1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days 1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game 1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic 1973 "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV 1973 Dutch Guilder devalued 5% 1973 Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing 1973 Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1 miles 1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1971 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV 1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million 1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan 1970 Rotterdam harbor strikes end 1969 Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game 1968 "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 1968 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry 1968 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) 1967 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting 1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched 1966 Dutch political party (D'66) forms 1966 Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth 1965 "Lost in Space" premieres 1964 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland 1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" 1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham 1963 Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, and Jesus-appear in San Francisco outfield for 1 inn 1963 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria 1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open 1963 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (U.S. wins) 1962 KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk 1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting 1961 61st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph 1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit 1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport, New Jersey 1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, New Jersey 1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres 1957 Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany 1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game 1955 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) 1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee 1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg 1952 U.N. turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia 1951 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum 1950 During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea 1950 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification 1950 For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 home runs in one game 1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phillies beat Reds 8-7 in 19 1950 U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south 1950 U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul 1949 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV 1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting 1948 "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 134 performances 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph 1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM 1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 1947 Yankees clinch pennant #15 1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 1944 Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria 1944 U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall 1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid 1944 U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai 1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe 1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) 1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts) 1937 WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to San Francisco Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 1931 Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland 1930 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England 1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 1928 Stothard, Kalmar and Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in New York City 1923 43rd U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64) 1923 Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open 1922 Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 home runs in a game since 1897 1921 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus 1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions 1918 CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky 1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France 1916 Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme) 1915 Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I 1914 U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico 1913 1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York 1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins 1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania 1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa 1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight 1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals" 1899 5th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD 1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang 1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of U.S. Constitution 1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo 1879 Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club" 1873 Last German troops leave France 1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) 1862 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV 1857 Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine 1853 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal 1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache Galapagos Islands 1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England) 1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ 1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 1795 Cape Colony surrenders to England 1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State 1787 Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution 1774 Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured 1733 King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons 1707 Rakoczi II and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement 1683 Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families 1656 England and France sign peace treaty 1644 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X 1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga 1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims 1619 Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary 1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished 1556 Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain 1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York 608 St. Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
