2015 Russia accuses the U.S. of potentially 'destabilizing' Ukraine by sending paratroopers to train reserve military forces; though a cease fire agreement between Ukrainian pro-government and Russian-backed rebel forces is in place, fighting continues 2014 Scientists announce the successful creation of stem cells from adult human cells; previous stem cell lines have been derived from fetuses and infants 2014 Chelsea Clinton has announced that she and her husband Marc are expecting their first child in the fall; Chelsea is the only child of Bill and Hillary Clinton 2013 An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, causes 15 deaths and major damage to nearby buildings, residences, a nursing home and middle school 2013 In the U.S., a centerpiece proposal on background checks aimed at tightening gun control, fails in a Senate vote 2012 U.S. billionaire Warren Buffet discloses that he has prostate cancer 2012 Jose Garc�a-Margallo y Marfil, Spain's foreign minister, attacks Argentina's decision to nationalize the Argentine oil company YPF 2011 The London Marathon is won by Emmanuel Matai, who set a new course record 2011 The Mid-April 2011 Southern United States tornado outbreak results in over 30 deaths; North Carolina is the state worst affected 2010 Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calls for the US to be expelled from the international nuclear system because religion prohibits the use of nuclear weapons 2009 The 5th Summit of the Americas takes place in Port of Spain, Trinidad, thirty-four heads of government attend 1997 John Bell, 115, recieves new pacemaker 1997 New Jersey Devil Martin Brodeur is 2nd NHL goalie to score in a playoff game 1995 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11 1995 99th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:09:22 1994 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 30 performances 1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 72 performances 1994 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins 1994 Aruba government of Oduber falls 1994 Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark 1994 Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship 1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 STS-56, Discovery, lands 1991 Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46) 1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S. 1990 Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die 1989 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33 1989 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06 1989 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week 1989 Polish labor union granted legal status 1989 Soviet-U.S. agreement allows Soviets to fight U.S. pros 1988 Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50) 1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic 1987 Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points 1987 New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip 1986 Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651) 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage 1984 Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead 1983 1st National Coin Week begins 1983 Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) 1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters 1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket 1983 Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic 1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter 1983 Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in one Stanley Cup playoff game 1982 Canada adopts its constitution 1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 Isle Potvin's 3 playoff power-play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers 1981 Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot 1979 Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?," premieres in London 1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record) 1978 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52 1978 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13 1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" 1977 "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 864 performances 1977 Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election 1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament 1976 NL greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 Phillies win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive home runs 1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day) 1975 Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead 1974 Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt 1973 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59 1973 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oreg in 2:16:03 1972 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26 1972 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39 1972 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed 1972 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats 1971 Egypt, Libya and Syria form federation (FAR) 1971 People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman 1970 Apollo 13 returns back safely to Earth 1970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released 1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons 1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed 1969 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy 1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert 1968 "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 72 performances 1968 A's 1st game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Baltimore Orioles 1967 Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off 1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20 1966 100th International soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1) 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational 1964 "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 3 performances 1964 "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 375 performances 1964 1st game at Shea Stadium, New York Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3 1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base) 1964 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world 1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro 1961 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win 1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government 1960 Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn 1958 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens 1956 Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns 1956 Kominform disbands 1956 Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain 1956 U.S.S.R.'s Cominform (Parliament) dissolves 1956 Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open 1953 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) home run in Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium 1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4 1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit 1946 Syria declares independence from French administration 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands 1945 Mussolono flees from Salo to Molan 1945 U.S. troops lands in Mindanao 1943 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul 1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg 1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis 1941 Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing) 1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy," premieres in New York City 1939 Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact 1937 Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Petunia Pig, debut 1935 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs) 1934 New Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5 1933 Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating New York Giants 23-21 1932 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery 1930 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR 1927 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier 1925 New York Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery 1925 Paul Painleve follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier 1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM 1923 Longest NL opening game, Phillies and Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14 1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL) 1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep") 1907 Ellis Island, New York - 11,745 immigrants arrive 1905 U.S. Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional 1900 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 1892 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1 1875 "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain 1869 1st pro baseball games-Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15 1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination 1864 Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina 1864 Bread revolt in Savannah, Georgia 1864 Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges 1863 R Grierson's: La Grange, Tennessee to Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1861 Indianola Texas - "Star of West" taken by Confederacy 1861 Virginia is 8th state to secede 1853 Thorbecke government resigns 1853 U.S. Marine Hospital at Presidio San Francisco forms 1839 Guatemala forms republic 1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N 1817 1st U.S. school for deaf (Hartford, Conn) 1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships 1793 Battle of Warsaw 1758 Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems 1747 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands 1711 Charles VI Habsburg becomes king of Austria 1704 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell 1629 1st commercial fishery established 1596 Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais 1555 Siena surrenders for Spanish troops 1534 Sir Thomas Moore confined in London Tower 1524 Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay 1492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies 1421 Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown 858 Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
