2015 Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigns after a warrant is issued for his arrest on bribery charges; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado will take Perez Molina's place 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have agreed to a peace plan that would retain rebel control of parts of eastern Ukraine; the two presidents hope to continue negotiations on Friday 2014 Iran is strengthening gender segregation policies, forbidding women to work in public areas of restaurants and seeking separation from men in office settings; the move will increase the 18.9% female jobless rate 2013 The mobile division of Nokia is purchased by Microsoft for $7.2 billion 2013 The legality of the United States' plans to strike Syria without UN backing are called into question by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon 2012 Lebanon passes a ban prohibiting smoking in closed public places 2012 Moody's credit rating agency lowers its outlook on the European Union's AAA long-term bond rating from stable to negative 2011 The Libyan National Transitional Council will move to Tripoli from Benghazi next week 2011 In Texas, wildfires continue burning, destroying tens of thousands of acres of land 2010 The U.S. unemployment rate for August 2010 rises to 9.6% 2010 At least 40 people are killed by a bomb blast at a solidarity rally with the Palestinian people in Quetta, Pakistan 2006 Andre Agassi retires after winning 60 career titles 2004 After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia 1995 Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT) 1995 Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3) 1995 New York Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle 1995 Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit 1994 Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 1992 Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368 1990 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleveland 3-0 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1990 Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) 1990 Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186 1990 White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 1989 "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 764 performances 1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die 1989 Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last U.S. Tennis Open singles victory 1988 Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 1987 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution 1986 Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London 1986 Astros and Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth 1985 England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval 1985 New York Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive home runs in a game 1984 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery 1984 Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th 1984 Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1984 Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 1984 South Africa adopts constitution 1982 Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns 1981 Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game 1981 Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad 1979 Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 1979 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 1978 Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) 1978 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff 1977 Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th home run to surpass Hank Aaron's total 1977 Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV 1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos 1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die 1975 Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak 1974 Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut 1974 NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires 1974 U.S. and East Germany establish diplomatic relations 1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 1971 John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return 1971 Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO 1971 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain 1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office 1970 After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out 1970 Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia 1970 Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands 1968 Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run 1967 Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 1967 Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution 1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road 1967 WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry 1966 Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" 1965 Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins 1965 Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic 1965 Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit 3 home runs in a game 1965 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei 1965 Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to California 1964 U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns 1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open 1957 KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out 1956 Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee 1955 KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy and Amoy 1954 Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed 1954 Pope Pius X canonized a saint 1953 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 1951 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS 1949 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives 1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 1947 Philadelphia A's Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0 1947 Yankees get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 1945 65th U.S. Mens Tennis: Sergeant Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62) 1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies 1944 58th U.S. Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86) 1944 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 1944 Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France 1944 Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for U.S. Tennis title 1944 French troops liberate Lyon 1944 Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz 1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force 1944 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels 1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily 1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) 1941 KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting 1940 1st showing of color TV 1940 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record) 1940 Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seelowe) 1940 Netherlands government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London 1940 Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross 1940 U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease 1939 German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland 1939 Yankees beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win 1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada 1938 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland 1936 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000) 1935 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) 1935 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games 1934 Tunisia began its move for independence 1932 Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for U.S. Tennis title 1932 Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th and 51st home runs to become 3rd to hit 50 1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) 1929 Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 1928 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th and final career hit 1925 1st international handball match held 1925 Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die 1924 Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai 1924 L Stallings and M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in New York City 1923 Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in New York City 1921 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) 1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms 1918 38th U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75) 1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line 1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes 1917 German troops over run Riga Latvia 1917 Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader 1917 Utrecht soccer team Holland forms 1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun 1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV 1914 French troops vacate Reims 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania 1912 Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke," premieres 1912 World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy 1911 31st U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62) 1908 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London 1906 Yankees win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win 1904 St. Louis Olympics closes 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client" 1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 1900 British annex Natal (South Africa) 1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) 1891 11th U.S. Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62) 1891 Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas 1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti 1890 Oliver S. Campbell wins U.S. Tennis Open 1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British 1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die 1881 1st U.S. Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62) 1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony 1878 England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die 1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 1864 U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki 1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality 1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm 1849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey 1838 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor 1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname 1826 USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly 1783 Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War) 1779 Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest 1752 This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives 1752 U.S. adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14) 1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland 1725 England, France, Hannover and Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover 1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick 1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna 1658 Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector 1651 Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists 1650 Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland 1632 Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden 1543 Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland 1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army 1260 Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 1189 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation 1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster 590 St. Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
