2015 The U.S. Internal Revenue Service reveals that hackers who stole taxpayer data in May had accessed additional databases, adding 220,000 to the previous estimate of 114,000 taxpayers who have had their information compromised 2014 Residents of the West Point shantytown in Monrovia, Nigeria loot an Ebola quarantine center, stealing items that include contaminated bedsheets; patients flee during the raid, raising the risk of spreading the virus among the 50,000 slum inhabitants 2014 Kurdish peshmerga fighters are able to recapture part of the Mosul Dam after U.S. airstrikes push back Islamic State militants 2013 A wildfire near Yosemite National Park burns over 25 square miles, forcing residents of the Pine Lake community to evacuate 2013 The Indian rupee falls to 65.85 rupees to the U.S. dollar- setting a new record low 2012 Trogloraptor marchingtoni, an unusual spider discovered in 2010 is determined to be a new family of spiders previously unknown in the world of science; the new spider family has been named Trogloraptor, meaning 'cave robber' 2012 The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jang Song-thank, meets Hu Jintao, the President of China 2011 In Kabul, a rocket is fired into the compound of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan 2011 The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry 2010 Afghan archeologists discover the remains of a Buddhist site located south of Kabul 2008 Michael Phelps wins 8 Gold Medals in 2008 Olympics 2000 The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president 1999 Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey 1998 President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky 1997 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC 1997 First of America Senior Golf Classic 1997 Macy's Tap-o-mania 1997 Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open 1996 Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit 1995 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1994 Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle 1994 New York Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis 1992 Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0 1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league home run since 1983 1990 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th home run 1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment 1989 32nd Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 12 -11 1989 Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game) 1988 Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) 1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 1988 New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) 1988 Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) 1987 Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame 1986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market 1986 Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am 1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship 1986 Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured 1986 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson 1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant 1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th home run 1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India 1985 Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando 1984 Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) 1983 Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas 1982 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18) 1982 South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin 1980 "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 104 performances 1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic 1980 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401 1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed 1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres 1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) 1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole 1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1977 Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) 1976 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000 1976 Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match 1975 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic 1973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one 1973 Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) 1972 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game 1970 Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus 1969 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club Dayton, Ohio 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open 1969 New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) 1968 Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ 1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit 1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time home run list 1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Australia at the Oval 1963 Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle 1963 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief 1962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr 1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector 1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins 1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress 1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow 1960 Gabon gains independence from France, National Day 1960 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands 1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park 1959 U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor 1958 Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open 1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec 1957 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 Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany 1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage 1952 Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship 1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180) 1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica 1950 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands 1950 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park home runs 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 1948 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game 1948 Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season 1946 Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres 1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands 1945 Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area 1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy 1944 Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy 1944 German Field Marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy 1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border 1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans 1944 U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun 1944 Yankees Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game 1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde 1943 General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies 1943 U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt 1942 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces 1942 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe 1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet 1942 Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France 1941 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission 1940 Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain 1939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY 1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) 1938 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship 1933 Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game 1933 Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game 1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") 1926 Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed 1924 French-German trade agreement signed 1920 In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yankees cancel game with Indians 1918 British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan 1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 1918 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus 1917 Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey 1916 Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia 1915 German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana 1915 Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed) 1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 1914 French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins 1914 Lithuiana surrenders to Germans 1908 B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City 1908 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery 1907 Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union 1905 Dutch government of De Master begins 1904 Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0 1903 Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes 1897 W B Purvis patents electric railway switch 1896 George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon 1894 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 1892 Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance 1891 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath) 1891 Electric self-starter for automobile patented 1879 Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos 1877 Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall) 1876 Opera "Gotterdammerung" premieres in Bayreuth 1870 1st ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington 1869 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) 1866 Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty 1863 Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC 1863 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee 1862 Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky 1859 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind 1858 1st bank in Hawaii opens 1846 U.S. fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California 1836 British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time 1835 Solymon Merrick patents wrench 1834 Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana, Chile 1827 Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord 1808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain 1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River 1796 English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay 1788 Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded 1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups 1743 Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty 1717 France, Russia and Prussia sign agreement 1648 Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish 1585 Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma 1579 Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I 1577 Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots 1563 King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult 1544 Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France 1498 Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess 1180 Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira 682 St. Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
