2015 Stock markets around the world fall drastically due to concerns about an economic slowdown in China; the Dow Jones falls 1,000 points, closing down 588 points, while the Shanghai composite closes down 8.5% 2014 A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near the California Bay Area city of Napa; 87 have been injured, but no fatalities have been reported 2014 U.S. pharmaceutical company InterMune has been bought by Roche, the Swiss drug manufacturer, for $8.6 million; Roche will pay cash, offering a 38% premium on InterMune's current stock price of approximately $54/share 2013 The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech is commemorated in the U.S. 2012 After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles 2012 A California state jury rules that Samsung electronics owes Apple Inc. over $1 billion for patent infringement 2011 Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs resigns over poor health issues; Tim Cook takes over as CEO 2011 With weak economic prospects and significant levels of public debt, Japan is downgraded to Aa3 by Moody's credit rating agency 2010 The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research 2008 2008 Summer Olympics come to a close in Beijing, China 2006 Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet' 1997 97th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel 1997 Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic 1997 Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273 1997 Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265 1997 Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic 1995 Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island 1995 Windows 95 debuts 1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66) 1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00) 1994 Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism 1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars 1993 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs. Cardinals 1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field) 1992 Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings 1992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die 1992 Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint 1991 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1991 Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway 1991 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0 1991 Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R. 1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia 1990 Iraqi troops surround U.S. and other embassies in Kuwait City 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling 1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune 1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes 1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic 1985 STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather 1984 Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver 1983 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745 1982 KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record 1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel 1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder 1980 Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic 1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch 1979 Cars play concert in New York Central Park 1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new 1979 U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps 1978 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth 1975 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing 1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens 1975 San Francisco Giant Ed Halick no-hits New York Giants, 6-0 1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1973 John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium 1972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1 1972 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia 1972 Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame 1971 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms 1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament 1969 Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests 1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa 1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon 1964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4 1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58) 1963 John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17' 1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1961 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms 1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...) 1960 -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) 1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil 1959 England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India 1959 Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii) 1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open 1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR) 1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea 1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C. 1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party 1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China 1954 William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London 1951 Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on 1950 Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N. 1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews 1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect 1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12 1944 General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris 1943 Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands 1942 Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1940 Luftwaffe bombs London 1940 Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits and 1 run 1939 Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact 1938 England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval 1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game 1937 Republican offensive near Belchite Spain 1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart 1931 France and U.S.S.R. sign neutrality/no attack treaty 1929 43rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62) 1929 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem 1929 Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty 1925 39th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62) 1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2) 1922 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams) 1921 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece 1921 British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die 1919 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning 1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) 1918 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players 1914 Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops 1914 German troops occupy Namur Belgium 1914 Jerome Kern and Michael E Rourles musical premieres in New York City 1912 New York City ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious U.S. olympians 1912 Territory of Alaska organizes 1912 U.S. passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government 1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1908 New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG 1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game 1905 Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings 1904 24th U.S. Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97) 1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian 1893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed 1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron 1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning 1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland 1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs New York) 1847 Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre" 1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina 1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle 1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea 1826 Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens 1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch 1704 Sea battle at Malaga 1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India 1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn 1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer 1658 Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish 1654 Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht 1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India 1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants 1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon 1542 Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain 1516 Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria 1511 Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka 1391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred 1349 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz 1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism 1217 Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France 1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
