2013 Event Detroit, Michigan files the largest municipal bankruptcy in history; the city of Detroit seeks CHapter 9 bankruptcy protection and is $18.5 billion in debt 2011 Event In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah announces reforms that give women the right to vote and run in municipal elections 1993 Event Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome 1981 Event 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland 1977 Event Communists/socialists win French municipal elections 1963 Event 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland 1961 Event Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets 1960 Event 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC 1958 Event CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium 1958 Event Last Municipal arc light, Mission and 25th removed (installed in 1913) 1954 Event Indians sweep Yankees at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563) 1954 Event 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland 1954 Event Labour Party wins British municipal elections 1953 Event Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections 1948 Event Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1947 Event De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections 1947 Event Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad 1939 Event 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0) 1939 Event Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal 1936 Birthday Michel Decoust, born in Paris, France, composer, conductor, studied with Pierre Boulez, teacher, founder, Pantin Conservatoire Municipal de Musique 1935 Event 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland 1932 Event Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia A's beat Indians 1-0 1931 Event Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed 1927 Event San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated 1921 Event 1st municipal elections for men and women in Belgium 1912 Event SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI) 1898 Event San Francisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities 1894 Event Amsterdam Municipal theater opens 1894 Event Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. 1877 Event 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations 1867 Event Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama 1829 Event 1st U.K. municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool 1748 Event Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
