2014 Event A partial solar eclipse takes place, only viewable from certain regions of Australia and Antarctica; the annular eclipse was formed as the moon blocked out the center of the sun, leaving a ring of solar rays 2013 Event Experts observing the Comet ISON sweep 730,000 miles over the surface of the sun believe that that part of the comet survived the close encounter; images suggest a small nucleus may have remained intact 2013 Event In California, NASA launches a space probe to observe the Sun; the probe is referred to as the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS 2012 Event Ceremonies commemorating the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il were held outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang; the nation observed three-minutes of silence to honor him 2012 Event New findings from MESSENGER, NASA's space probe, indicate almost definitively, that the north pole of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has water ice buried beneath the surface 2012 Event Astronomers have identified the nearest planet outside of our Solar System, Alpha Centauri B, which circles its star much closer than Mercury orbits our Sun 2012 Event A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun 2012 Event New Corporation announces its launch of 'The Sun on Sunday' to replace 'News of the World' which shut down due to a phone hacking controversy 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 Neptune completes its first orbit of the sun since the planet was discovered in 1846 2011 Event Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska, discover remains of a 3-year old child from the Ice Age and named it Xaasaa Cheege Ts'eniin, 'Upper Sun River Mouth Child' 2011 Event The Arctic sun rises two days earlier than expected over Ilulissat, Greenland 2009 Event European astronomers discover 32 extrasolar planets, or exoplanets - planets that orbit a star other than the Sun 2004 Event WNBA Championships, Seattle Storm beat Connecticut Sun 2 games to 1 2003 Death Sam Phillips, entreprenuer/DJ, started Sun Records, dies at 80 2000 Event Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon 1997 Event Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) 1997 Event Rose Bowl, Ohio State Buckeyes beat Arizona State Sun Devils 20 - 17 1996 Death Evelyn Laye, actress and singer 'Sun Child', dies at 95 1995 Event U.S. space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun 1995 Event Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun 1995 Event Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) 1995 Event Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) 1994 Event Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun 1994 Event Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun 1993 Death Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77 1993 Death Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, U.S. jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79 1993 Death Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 1993 Death Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81 1992 Event David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun 1992 Event "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont New York City after 38 perf 1992 Event "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 38 perf 1991 Death Niven Busch, U.S. writer (Duel in the Sun), dies 1990 Event Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun 1990 Death Capucine, actress (Lion, Red Sun, Fellini Satyricon), dies at 55 1989 Event Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland 1986 Event Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) 1983 Death Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered 1982 Event Biggest mass wedding, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City 1982 Event Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud 1982 Event Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1982 Event Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun 1982 Event Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic 1982 Birthday Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor, Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun 1981 Death Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67 1980 Event Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic 1979 Event Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun 1979 Event 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) 1979 Event Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US 1978 Event Sun Bank Building opens 1978 Event "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US 1977 Death Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76 1976 Event Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention 1975 Death Dimitri D Shostakovich, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68 1974 Death Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76 1974 Death Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70 1974 Event Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun 1974 Birthday Christian Bale, Wales, actor, Empire of the Sun, Little Women 1973 Death Charles G Abbot, U.S. astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 1973 Death Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39 1973 Birthday Ntala Skinner, Sun Valley Idaho, biathelete 1994 Olympics 1973 Event U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) 1972 Death Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86 1971 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1971 Birthday Simbi Khali, actress, Nina-Third Rock From the Sun 1970 Event British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn) 1970 Death Lucien H d'Azambuja, French astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86 1969 Event Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips 1968 Birthday Kenny Chesney, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, country music artist, over 30 hits, 13 albums certified gold or higher by RIAA, albums include, 'When the Sun Goes Down' 1968 Event U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun 1968 Event Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun" 1967 Birthday Kristen Johnston, actress, Sally Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun 1967 Event U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit 1966 Birthday Tatjana Patitz, born in Hamburg, West Germany, model/actress, Rising Sun 1966 Death Herbert Marshall, actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun), dies at 75 1965 Birthday Ruthie Matthes, Sun Valley Idaho, cyclist 1996 Olympics 1965 Death Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood 1965 Event At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die 1964 Birthday French Stewart, New Mexico, actor, Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun 1964 Event Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London 1963 Event Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea 1963 Event Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records 1962 Event Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees 1960 Death Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72 1960 Birthday Richard Roeper, born in Chicago, Illinois, film critic, columnist, 'Chicago Sun Times' newspaper, co-host of 'At the Movies' television series with Roger Ebert 1959 Event Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California 1959 Event "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1958 Event Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 1957 Event 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) 1955 Event RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss 1955 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul 1955 Birthday John Gilmore, born in America, fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, among founders of Cygnus Solutions, Cypherpunks mailing list, Electronic Frontier Foundation 1953 Birthday Jules Shear, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, musician, singer, performed with The Funky Kings, Raisins in the Sun, created, hosted, first 13 episodes of MTV series, Unplugged, song, All Through the Night, recorded by Cyndi Lauper, ranked number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, co-wrote title track for Everything's Different Now album, with Matthew Sweet 1952 Event Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records 1950 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison 1950 Birthday Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist, Genesis-Silent Sun 1947 Birthday Graham Faulkner, London, actor, Brother Sun Sister Moon 1947 Birthday Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author, Don't Bite the Sun 1945 Birthday Raphael, Spain, spanish singer, When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano 1944 Birthday Barry Jenkins, rocker, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1943 Event Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London 1943 Birthday Dave Rowberry, rocker, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1943 Birthday Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1942 Birthday C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy 1942 Birthday Alan Price, Eng, rock keyboardist, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1942 Event J. S. Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun 1941 Birthday Eric Burdon, England, rock vocalist, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1941 Birthday Eric Burdon, born in England, rocker, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1941 Birthday John Steel, rock drummer, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1941 Birthday Richie Havens, Brooklyn, folk singer, Here Comes the Sun 1938 Birthday [Bryan] Chas Chandler, rocker, The Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1934 Birthday Diana Sands, New York City, actress, Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife 1933 Birthday Brett Halsey, born in Santa Ana, California, actress, Paul-Follow the Sun 1930 Birthday Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, Raisin in the Sun 1928 Event French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 1927 Birthday Jacques Bergerac, France, actor, Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun 1925 Death Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 1924 Birthday Sidney Poitier, actor, Porgy and Bess, A Raisin in the Sun, or 1927 1923 Birthday Ruby Dee, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Raisin in the Sun, Cat People, Roots 1923 Event Sun Yat Sen founds military academy 1923 Event Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan 1923 Birthday Sam Phillips, musician/record founder, Sun 1921 Birthday Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer, Sun 1920 Death J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies 1920 Birthday Sun Myung Moon, evangelist, Unification Church-Moonies 1913 Birthday Paul Felix, Flemish architect, Sun Song 1913 Event Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China 1912 Birthday John Toland, U.S., political writer, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971 1912 Event Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China 1912 Event Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic 1911 Event Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China 1911 Event Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) 1906 Birthday Raymond Keane, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Midnight Sun, Love Eagle 1898 Birthday Raymond Glenn, Frankfort, Kentucky, actor, Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones 1898 Birthday Alec Waugh, London, novelist, Island in the Sun, brother of Evelyn 1897 Event New York Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 1890 Birthday Lou Bandy, Lodewijk F Dieben, revue-artist, Look for the Sun 1887 Birthday Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisconsin, sculptor/painter, Cow's Skull 1884 Birthday Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer, chromosome of sun 1883 Birthday Colin Campbell, born in Falkirk, Scotland, actress, High Bright Sun, Leather Boys 1879 Birthday Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer, Sun 1872 Birthday Charles G Abbot, U.S., astronomer, Constant Sun 1866 Birthday Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China, ROC and PRC, traditional 1859 Event GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun 1853 Event Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun 1849 Birthday Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter, New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun 1845 Event H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun 1838 Birthday Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun 1835 Event N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel 1835 Event Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag 1833 Event 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun) 1833 Event NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1821 Event Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun 1801 Birthday Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist, blinded - stared at Sun 25 seconds 1787 Birthday Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum 1638 Birthday Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643 - 1715 1638 Birthday Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643-1715, 1638 Birthday Samuel Apostool, Dutch vicar/theologist, The Sun 1633 Event Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) 1633 Event Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1459 Event Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
