2015 Puerto Rico fails to make a $58 billion debt payment on bonds issued by the Public Finance Corporation; Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla warned creditors in June that debt restructuring will be needed to keep the government afloat 2014 Days after imposing additional sanctions against Russia, U.S. President Barack Obama contacts Russian President Vladimir Putin to express concern about Russia's continuing support of Ukrainian separatists 2014 Apple Inc. will be required to pay $450 million in settlements if found guilty of antitrust violations concerning e-book price fixing; the outcome of an appeal by Apple is pending 2013 Russia grants NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden one year of temporary political asylum; Snowden leaves Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport 2013 Republican Representative Ted Cruz urged grass-roots activists join him in the fight to defund The Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare 2012 A poll by the British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound' magazine lists Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller 'Vertigo' as the greatest film of all time 2012 In India, an earlier blackout that left over 600 million people without power ends when power is restored 2011 HSBC bank announces it will cut 5,000 jobs now and 25,000 jobs by 2013 2011 Tropical storm warnings are issued as Tropical Storm Emily forms in the Atlantic Ocean 2010 Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and Sri Lanka's central highlands are added to the World Heritage List 2010 The U.S. pledges $10 million in foreign aid money to help victims of the Pakistan floods 2009 Buddhist Treasures buried during the 1930's Mongolian Communist Purge, were discovered in the Gobi desert 2005 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies and is succeeded by Prince Abdullah 2004 Paraguay supermarket fire kills at least 300 1998 Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam 1996 M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched 1995 Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network 1994 99.9 degrees F (37.7 degrees C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record 1994 The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour 1994 Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed 1993 "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 25 performances 1993 "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances 1993 Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship 1993 Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York 1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack 1992 "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances 1992 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres 1992 USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica 1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida 1991 Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances 1990 Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game 1990 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait 1990 Soyuz TM-10 launches 1990 Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs 1989 Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes 1988 Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon 1987 Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart 1987 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yards 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada 1987 Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1987 Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America 1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 1986 Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934 1986 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma 1986 Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal 1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) 1985 Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time 1985 Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74 1983 New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic 1982 Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives 1982 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut 1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) 1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM 1981 Poland premier Jagielski resigns 1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record 1980 Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon 2:11:03 1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal 1978 Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games 1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead 1978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL) 1977 San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer 1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada 1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139 1976 Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) 1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) 1975 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord 1975 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103) 1975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees 1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations 1974 Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets 1973 H. 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Witteveen appointed as director of IMF 1973 Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park 1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) 1972 Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header 1971 CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII 1971 George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City 1971 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational 1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi 1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game 1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival 1969 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208) 1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars 1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins 1968 Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo 1968 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting 1967 Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam 1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead 1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas 1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open 1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation 1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks 1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale 1963 Germany FR annexes Elten village 1963 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting 1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 1962 Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana 1961 Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford 1961 East Germany limits traffic to West Berlin 1961 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens 1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League 1960 Aretha Franklins 1st recording session 1960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France 1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" 1959 New Continental baseball league formed 1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia 1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) 1958 U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) 1957 Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) 1957 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10") 1957 U.S. and Canada create NORAD 1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 1st microgravity research begins 1955 Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government 1955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France 1954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 California introduces sales tax, for education 1953 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba 1953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953 Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief 1951 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election 1950 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) 1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule 1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) 1950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King 1947 "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances 1947 Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel 1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's 1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th home run (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx) 1945 SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld 1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East 1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army 1944 U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt 1944 U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir 1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw 1943 Race riot in Harlem New York City 1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 1942 Deurne soccer team forms 1942 German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers 1942 Race riots in Harlem, New York 1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division 1941 New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yankees 9, St. L 0) 1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin 1936 Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College 1933 Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) 1933 Death penality for anti fascists in Germany 1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno 1928 Babe Ruth hits home run number 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace 1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards 1926 Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus 1926 Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona 1925 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies 1922 Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard 1920 Papendrecht soccer team forms 1920 Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia 1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam 1919 Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek 1918 British troops enter Vladivostok 1918 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings 1916 Hawaii National Park forms 1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow 1914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I) 1914 France and Germany mobilize 1914 Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I 1911 Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point 1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed 1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF 1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1906 Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th 1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed 1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing 1902 Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die 1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited 1896 George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) 1893 Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi 1886 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand 1883 A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery 1883 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights 1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain 1881 U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay 1876 Colorado becomes 38th state 1873 San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service 1869 1st voyage down Colorado River 1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South 1864 Battle of Petersburg, Virginia 1863 Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign 1863 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign 1861 Brazil recognizes Confederacy 1855 Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants 1852 San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist 1842 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens 1838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin return to Bahia, Brazil 1834 Slavery abolished through out the British Empire 1831 London Bridge opens to traffic 1814 Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat 1812 Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York 1798 Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet 1794 Whiskey Rebellion begins 1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system 1790 1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214 1789 U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act 1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia 1780 Sweden declares neutrality 1774 Priestly discovers oxygen 1759 Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France 1732 Foundation laid for Bank of England 1716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) 1716 Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed 1714 Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England 1711 Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov 1690 Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye 1664 Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism 1626 Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal 1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia 1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III 1588 English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada 1498 Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" near Venezuela 1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England 1404 Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland 1291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence) 1203 Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium 1177 Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III 1086 English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier 1021 Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest 902 Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily 860 Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II
