2015 Event Pope Francis issues an encyclical, 'Laudato Si' (Praise Be), urging action to protect Earth from pollution and climate change; the document was issued with the intention of influencing the U.N. Climate Summit later this year 2014 Event Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to develop Ebola in the U.S., dies after 11 days in a Dallas hospital; he was sent home after an initial hospital visit despite stating he had been in West Africa, but he was admitted upon his return two days later 2014 Event Pakistani protesters seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif briefly take over the state television station and shut it down; soldiers and paramilitary forces later regained control and restored operation 2014 Event Apple's new iPhone will include a near-field communication chip, making mobile payments easier; the phone will be released for sale later this September 2013 Event After the death of Frank Lautenberg, Governor Chris Christie appoints Jeffrey Chiesa as U.S. Senator for New Jersey until a special election is held later this year 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)
