2015 Event A powerful blizzard covers Boston and nearby New England areas with over two feet of snow under winds that reach over 70 miles per hour; New York City had expected the same weather effects but was spared 2014 Event The Vatican will install showers for the homeless in public restrooms on the grounds of St. Peter's Square; Archbishop Konrad Krajewski has also requested several local parishes around Rome to do the same 2014 Event One World Trade Center opens today, 13 years after terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the original World Trade Center; the tower is one of 5 to be built on the same site and, at 1,773 feet high, is now the tallest building in the United States 2014 Event Pope Francis canonizes John XXIII and John Paul II; this is the first time that the Catholic Church has elected two former popes to sainthood in the same ceremony 2013 Event The upper house of the U.K. approves of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill; starting in 2014, gay marriage will be allowed in England and Wales 2013 Event In the House of Commons, MP's approve of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, advancing the right for gay marriage in England and Wales 2012 Event Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and the MEP for Belgium voice concerns that the Flemish N-VA party and the far right are 'the same'; N-VA responds by saying their criticism is 'gratuitous' 2012 Event In the state of Washington, the State Senate passes legislation allowing same sex marriage 2011 Event Astronomers identify a Trojan asteroid orbiting on the same path as the Earth around the Sun; it poses to danger to Earth because it sits in a gravitational 'sweet spot' 2011 Event In Brazil, the Supreme Federal Court rules that same-sex couples receive the same rights of existing civil unions 1997 Event Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY 1995 Event Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria 1995 Event Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) 1993 Event Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game 1993 Event Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit home runs in same inn (vs Yankees) 1992 Event 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak 1990 Event Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend 1990 Event Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners 1990 Event Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning 1990 Event Guns and Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year) 1989 Event Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women 1985 Event Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game 1984 Event Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole 1984 Event 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom) 1982 Event Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun 1981 Event Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game 1977 Event Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 1976 Event Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand 1975 Event Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City 1974 Event 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall 1974 Event Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day 1972 Event Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings 1967 Event White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1965 Event Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team 1962 Event Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning 1959 Event During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time 1958 Event Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yankees threat to do same in Philadelphia 1958 Event U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same 1957 Event Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher 1956 Death ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day 1952 Event Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid 1950 Event 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year 1947 Event Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F 1947 Event Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket 1944 Birthday Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist, Same Ole Love 1942 Event WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" 1938 Event Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent 1933 Event 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox 1931 Event George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings 1926 Birthday Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing 1925 Event NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began 1916 Event Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 and 1918) 1912 Event Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs. South Africa 1902 Event Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive home runs in same inning 1900 Event Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match 1892 Event 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs. South Africa (Cape Town) 1697 Event Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
