2015 Water pollution in Rio de Janeiro may pose health hazards to participants in the Summer 2016 Olympics; the World Health Organization has asked the International Olympic Committee to expand its list of tested substances to protect the athletes 2014 China's Yunnan Province is hit by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake; 367 people perished, and over 1,880 were injured 2014 Dr. Kent Brantly, one of two American medical workers who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, arrives in the U.S. for treatment in isolation at Emory University Hospital; the virus has already claimed hundreds of lives in West Africa 2013 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration identified cyclospora in salads made by Taylor Farms; the parasite caused illness in over 223 diners in Nebraska and Iowa 2013 The new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is sworn in by Vice President, Joe Biden 2012 Liliane Bettencourt, French L'Oreal heiress, sells D'Arros Island to pay tax bills for $60 million 2012 The Japanese press reveals that Sharp Corporation, an electronics company, will cut 5,000 jobs worldwide 2011 In the Papuan capital of Jayapura, about 10,000 Papuan people demonstrate in support of independence from India 2011 President Obama signs legislation to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, narrowly averting the debt ceiling crisis 2010 The U.S. Government estimates the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico 2010 The Census of Marline Life 10-year study reports that 230,000 species of animal live in the world's oceans 2009 Two previously unknown works by Mozart - a concerto movement and a prelude, are performed in Salzburg, Austria 2004 Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention 1998 26th du Maurier Golf Classic 1994 Congressional hearings begin on White Water 1994 Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed 1994 New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure 1994 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) 1993 New York City radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes 1993 Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles 1993 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed 1993 Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420 1992 "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances 1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic 1992 Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick 1992 Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame 1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges 1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles 1991 Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 1991 Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) launched 1990 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia 1990 Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats 1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24 1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo 1988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) 1987 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) 1987 Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am 1987 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 home run - 30 steal man 1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yards 1'3") 1987 Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season 1987 Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game 1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S.) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) 1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster, Colorado 1985 Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die 1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209 1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad 1983 U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination 1982 Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season 1982 Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network 1981 Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs 1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic 1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed 1980 U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships 1979 "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 6 performances 1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway 1975 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) 1975 107 degrees F (42 degrees C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) 1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London 1970 Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals 1970 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island 1970 Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California 1969 Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minnesota 10th reunion 1969 President Nixon visits Romania 1968 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917) 1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77 1967 U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting 1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing 1964 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open 1964 North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin 1964 Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey 1963 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000) 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m 1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club 1961 Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo 1961 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto 1959 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC 1959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples 1959 San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 home runs 1958 Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months 1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test 1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia 1953 Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash 1953 KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting 1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill 1944 Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts 1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker 1944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany 1943 Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka 1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg 1943 Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106 1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp 1942 Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo 1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman 1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia 1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death 1940 KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia 1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers 1938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) 1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it 1934 Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany 1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour 1932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs 1931 Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status 1929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a home run 1928 Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia 1924 Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game 1922 China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die 1921 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox 1920 Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City 1914 Belgian government receives German ultimatum 1914 German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg 1914 German troops overthrows Luxembourg 1914 Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty 1914 Great Britain mobilizes 1914 Postdam Conference ended 1914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia 1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place 1912 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY 1911 Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica 1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted 1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers 1907 Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit 1906 Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak 1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey 1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain 1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter 1892 Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator 1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire 1884 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes 1875 World 1st roller skating rink opens in London 1873 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones 1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost 1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets 1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown 1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War 1832 Black Hawk defeated in Iowa 1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin 1831 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium 1819 1st parachute jump in U.S. 1802 Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life" 1798 British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile 1791 Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine 1787 Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc 1786 Utrechtse Vroedschap flees 1782 George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction 1776 Formal signing of Declaration of Independence 1738 France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey 1718 Austrian joins Triple Alliance 1704 Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim 1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers 1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay 1581 Leiden University names Snellius math professor 1578 Battle of Rijmenam 1552 Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion 1542 French troops leave Flanders 1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 257 St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
