2015 Swiss criminal investigators charge FIFA President Sepp Blatter with suspected fraud; 14 FIFA officials have already been arrested in the corruption scandal, but Blatter has stated that he has no knowledge of or involvement in wrongdoing 2014 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces his resignation after six years of service in the Obama Administration; Holder's resignation will take effect upon selection and confirmation of a successor 2014 Derek Jeter bats the winning ball in his last home game for the New York Yankees, resulting in a 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles 2013 At least 328 people are killed in a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Balochistan, Pakistan on the 24th of September 2013 Oracle Team USA has a remarkable comeback, winning the America's Cup sailing competition; the team defeated New Zealand 9-8 2012 A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert 2012 The Baja peninsula in California handles a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, with no immediate reports of damage or injuries 2011 In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah announces reforms that give women the right to vote and run in municipal elections 2011 Kenyan runner, Patrick Makau Musyoki, breaks the world record for the marathon at the Berlin Marathon 2010 Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas communicates that Palestinians desire a 'comprehensive and just' peace agreement; he requests Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank 2010 Uganda's Wildlife Authority announces that some animals in the country's national parks and game reserves have doubled in population since 1999 1997 "ER" is performed live on TV 1997 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph) 1997 STS-86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit 1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit and Washington D.C. franchises 1994 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1992 "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount New York City 1992 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1992 Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova 1992 Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) 1992 Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager 1992 U.S. Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle 1992 Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents and live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ 1991 "Good and Evil" premieres on ABC TV 1991 Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia 1990 1st 8 New York Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record 1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title 1990 Saddam Hussein warns that U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience 1990 U.N. Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq 1989 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam 1989 Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London 1989 Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons 1988 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s 1988 Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic 1988 Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) 1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka 1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits San Francisco Giants, 2-0 1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus 1985 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season 1984 "Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater New York City for 24 performances 1984 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented 1984 Egypt and Jordan regain diplomatic relations 1984 New York Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit home runs as a teen and in 40s 1983 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long 1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Illinois 31-6 1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) 1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1981 Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0 1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th U.S. tour at John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia 1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1980 Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres 1979 "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 1568 performances 1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant 1978 PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die 1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament 1976 "Porgy and Bess" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 122 performances 1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park 1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days 1973 Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium 1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium 1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber 1972 KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1972 Norway votes to join common market 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open 1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album 1967 WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 1965 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 220 performances 1965 60 year old Satchel Paige of Kansas City A's pitches 3 scoreless innings 1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in U.S. 1965 Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal 1964 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark 1962 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia 1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title 1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1962 Weatherly (U.S.) beats Gretel (Australia) in 19th running of America's Cup 1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant 1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1 1960 For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant 1960 New York Yankees clinch AL pennant 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses 1959 Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed 1957 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced 1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada) 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 1956 Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used 1955 Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ 1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open 1954 Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election 1954 Indians win AL record 111 games 1954 WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game 1949 4th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs 1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place 1948 "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater New York City after 12 performances 1943 Russian troops liberate Smolensk 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years 1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs 1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I 1937 "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class 1937 Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain 1936 Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double 1935 Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in New York City 1934 John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in New York City 1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game 1934 Rainbow (U.S.) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup 1933 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia 1933 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China 1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in last game of season 1930 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms 1930 Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager 1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City 1929 Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam 1926 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club Westbury, New York 1926 Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms 1926 Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week 1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states 1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings 1926 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament 1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant 1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH 1922 Giants beat St. Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant 1920 34th U.S. Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61) 1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game 1919 President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke 1915 Battle at Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties 1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed 1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park 1911 Italy declares war on Turkey 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in N.Y. 1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout 1907 Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres 1906 John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London 1904 Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football 1897 1st British bus service opens 1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" 1888 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" 1886 Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London 1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester) 1867 Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington D.C. 1862 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee 1861 Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves 1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins 1846 U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico 1844 Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international 1836 HMS Beagle anchors at St. Michael 1829 Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar 1804 12th amendment to U.S. constitution, regulating judicial power 1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) 1781 Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets 1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British 1777 English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st U.S. (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st and last ed 1663 Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army 1654 England and Denmark sign trade agreement 1639 1st printing press in America 1639 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening 1597 Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV 1560 Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht 1555 Freedom of Religion in Augsburg 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is 1st European to see Pacific Ocean 1493 Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America 1492 Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early 1396 Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies 1340 England and France sign disarmament treaty 1212 Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) 1066 Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway 955 Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees 953 Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
