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2012 Event - Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December 2011 Event - Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation 2010 Event - Vanuatu experiences a 7.3 magnitude earthquake; a tsunami warning is issued for the region and later cancelled after a minor tsunami occurred 2010 Event - A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves 2000 Death - Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78 1997 Death - Murray Burnett, writer, Everybody Goes to Rick's - later filmed as Casablanca, dies at 86 1996 Event - Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder 1995 Death - Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies 1994 Event - Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later 1992 Event - Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test 1991 Event - Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later 1990 Event - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later 1989 Event - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1988 Event - NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee) 1988 Event - U.S. Lt. Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and later killed 1988 Event - 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) 1987 Event - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark 1987 Event - Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal 1986 Event - U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1984 Event - Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws 1983 Event - Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned) 1982 Event - Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted 1982 Event - 30 Something stars Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry 1981 Event - Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd) 1981 Event - Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1981 Event - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1977 Event - Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 1977 Event - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52" 1977 Event - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez 1976 Event - "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) 1975 Event - Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later 1974 Event - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) 1974 Event - Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun 1974 Event - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later 1974 Event - Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn) 1973 Event - Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president 1973 Event - Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later 1972 Event - Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later 1971 Event - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later 1971 Death - Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies 1971 Event - Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves 1969 Event - New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant 1969 Event - Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later 1968 Birthday - Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain 1968 Event - Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1967 Event - New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game 1967 Event - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II 1967 Event - "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) 1966 Event - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled 1965 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon 1964 Event - CBS purchases 80% of Yankees for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20% 1964 Event - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later 1963 Birthday - Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host, Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later 1962 Event - Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on 1962 Event - Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later 1961 Event - Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered 1960 Event - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) 1960 Event - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed 1958 Event - "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS and NBC) 1957 Event - "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS) 1956 Event - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV 1955 Event - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) 1955 Birthday - Jools Holland, born in Blackheath, England, born Julian Miles Holland, composer, singer, pianist, television presenter, founder of band, Squeeze, hosts show titled, 'Later... with Jools Holland' 1955 Event - 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) 1954 Event - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later) 1954 Event - Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115 1953 Event - "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts 1952 Birthday - Sew Shivnarine, cricketer, 3 Tests for WI 1978, later USA captain 1952 Birthday - Bob Costas, born in Queens, New York, sportscaster/talk show host, Later 1951 Event - New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant 1950 Event - 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers 1950 Event - "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC) 1950 Event - "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV 1949 Event - "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV 1949 Event - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont) 1948 Birthday - Nolan Clarke, cricketer, Barbados bat 1970-77, later Holland stalwart 1948 Event - Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) 1946 Event - Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it 1945 Event - Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 1944 Event - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested 1943 Birthday - John Shepherd, cricketer, WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa 1943 Birthday - Creed Bratton, California, rock guitarist, Grass Roots-Sooner or Later 1943 Event - Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II 1941 Event - Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin 1939 Event - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada 1938 Birthday - Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper, Transvaal, later Test umpire 1936 Birthday - Ian McLachlan, cricketer, Cambridge and S Australia bat, later Liberal MP 1936 Event - Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled 1933 Event - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down 1929 Birthday - Peter Loader, cricketer, England quick in 13 Tests 1954-59, later WA 1928 Event - Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service 1927 Event - Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads 1926 Birthday - Donald Carr, cricketer, England player in 50's, later MCC honcho 1926 Event - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped 1926 Birthday - Clyde Walcott, cricketer, one of the three W's, later ICC chairman 1925 Event - NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies of TB 4 months later 1919 Birthday - Charles Palmer, cricketer, one Test 1955, later MCC president 1919 Birthday - Tom Brooks, cricketer, NSW fast bowler of the 30's, later Test umpire 1919 Event - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later 1916 Birthday - Helmut Eder, born in Linz, Austria, composer, studied and later taught at the Linz Conservatory, conducted the Singakademie, founded electronic music studio in Linz in 1959 1913 Event - Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled 1912 Event - Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) 1909 Event - U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya 1909 Birthday - Arnold Shaw, born in America, composer, songwriter, music business executive for Leeds Music Corporation, later MCA, wrote book on Harry Belafonte, series on 20th century American music 1909 Event - Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens 1904 Birthday - Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper, New Zealand's 1st Test, later Northants 1903 Event - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later 1903 Event - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York 3-months later 1902 Birthday - Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket lefty pace bowler, 1932-33, later knighted 1901 Event - President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1900 Event - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later 1897 Event - Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher) 1896 Event - Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf 1895 Event - French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1894 Event - French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) 1894 Event - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court 1885 Birthday - Arthur Dolphin, cricketer, Yorkshire and England keeper, later Test ump 1877 Event - Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan) 1873 Birthday - Pelham Warner, cricketer, England 1898-1912, later notable official 1873 Birthday - Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer, England captain 1909-10 later official 1872 Event - Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22 1867 Event - Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later) 1866 Event - President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment 1866 Birthday - Henry Forster, cricketer, Oxford blue 1887-89, later Austrian Governor-General 1861 Event - John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ 1859 Event - Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later 1858 Event - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1848 Birthday - F. A. MacKinnon, cricketer, later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon 1837 Event - Astor Hotel opens in New York City, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria 1815 Event - Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St. Helena 1807 Event - Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1801 Event - Giuseppe Piazzi discovers 1st asteroid, which is named Ceres later 1789 Event - Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses 1784 Event - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it 1772 Event - 1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria 1752 Event - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later 1734 Event - John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted 1714 Event - A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street 1714 Event - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1701 Event - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit 1653 Event - New Amsterdam becomes a city, later called New York City 1630 Event - New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island 1629 Event - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1610 Event - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay 1503 Event - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 1316 Event - Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later 1301 Event - Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales 708 Event - Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) |
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