2015 Event Aid response to the Nepal earthquake has been hindered due to runway damage at the country's main airport in Kathmandu, requiring airport closure to large jets; the death toll from the disaster has risen to over 7,000 2014 Event As part of a political transition, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and representatives from the country's main political parties agree to transform Yemen into a six-region federation 2013 Event In Greece, Nicos Anastasiades, leader of Cyprus's main opposition Disy party, wins the Presidential race 2012 Event Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones 2012 Event The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest 2011 Event At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency 2011 Event The peak of Brazil's main carnival processions take place in Rio de Janeiro 2010 Event Kyrgyzstan unrest continues as over 1,000 people in Jala-Abad gather in the towns main square denouncing Otunbayeva's interim government and chanting pro-Bakiev slogans 1997 Death Dennis Main Wilson, TV and radio producer, dies at 72 1996 Event After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends 1996 Death Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob), dies at 62 1993 Death Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 1987 Event Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully 1985 Event Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds 1985 Event STS-51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown 1984 Event Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines 1983 Event 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds 1982 Event Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds 1981 Event Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds 1980 Death Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies 1977 Event Main Street Electrical Parade premieres at Disney 1975 Event 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss 1975 Death Marjorie Main, actress (Ma and Pa Kettle), dies at 85 1965 Birthday Martin Lawrence, born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, comedian, actor, producer, director, appeared in his own hit series, Martin on FOX 1952 Event Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base 1947 Birthday Dilip Doshi, cricketer, India's main slow lefty post-Bedi 1942 Birthday Luther Simmons, rocker, Main Ingredient 1941 Birthday Tony Sylvester, rocker, Main Ingredient 1936 Event Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined 1933 Birthday Roger Bowen, actor, M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob, Petulia 1925 Death Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86 1922 Birthday Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress, Window on Main Street 1920 Event French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau 1917 Event SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated 1915 Event KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0 1904 Event 1st main line electric train in U.K. (Liverpool to Southport) 1890 Birthday Marjorie Main, Tomlinson, Action, Indiana, actress, Another Thin Man 1885 Birthday Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930 1873 Birthday Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936 1839 Birthday Hubert Platt Main, composer
