2015 Delta Airlines states it will no longer transport wildlife trophies after the recent killing of a lion, Cecil, by an American who was reportedly unaware that the hunt was illegal; Delta formerly shipped such trophies if they were obtained legally 2014 Twenty-First Century Fox, headed by Rupert Murdoch, rescinds its offer to buy Time Warner Inc. after the latter's resistance to the proposal 2014 Medical worker Nancy Writebol, the second of two Americans to contract the Ebola virus in Liberia, joins Dr. Kent Brantly at Emory University Hospital for treatment; both patients are receiving an experimental drug that has not been tested on humans 2013 Actor Peter Capaldi, of Scotland, lands the role of the Doctor in the twelfth incarnation of the 'Doctor Who' British science fiction show 2013 Britain, France and Germany close embassies in Yemen; Canada closes its embassy in Bangladesh; the U.S. closes 22 embassies in the Middle East and North America due to intelligence of an impending Al-Qaeda attack 2012 South Africa's Oscar Pistorius becomes the first amputee to compete at the Olympic Games in the 400 meters 2012 Britain has their greatest success in one day at an Olympics since 1908, winning six gold medals and a silver on Day Eight of the 2012 Summer Olympics 2011 The Southern United States experiences a heat alert for fourteen states; several dozen heat-related deaths occurred since July 2011 The U.S. National Football League ratifies a new collective bargaining agreement which includes provisions for human growth hormone tests 2010 Officials determine that over 28,000 people have died from Mexican drug violence since December 2006 2010 The musician Wyclef Jean confirms his intention to run for the presidency in Haiti 2009 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment 1997 "Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV 1996 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies 1996 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched) 1996 J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, and N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame 1995 Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees 1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered 1994 Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race 1994 Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway 1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo 1993 Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha 1993 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits 1991 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament 1990 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth) 1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq 1989 Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by New York Yankee Roberto Kelly 1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II 1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case 1987 At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker 1987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters 1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20% 1985 "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances 1985 California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit 1985 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic 1985 Phil Rizzuto Day, Yankees retire #10 1985 Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits 1985 White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees 1984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics 1984 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit home run 1984 Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks 1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) 1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy 1983 France performs nuclear test 1983 Revolution in Burkina 1983 While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull 1982 New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game 1981 Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission 1981 Oliver North is assigned to White House duty 1980 Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean 1980 John and Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy" 1980 Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills 1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy 1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1975 Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes 1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic 1972 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace 1971 U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft 1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness 1969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a home run outside of Dodger Stadium 1968 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open 1968 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting 1967 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934) 1967 Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand 1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1964 North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police 1961 108 degrees F, Spokane, WA 1961 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000) 1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH 1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances 1958 Dumont TV Network crumbles 1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) 1956 Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" 1956 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands 1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters 1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning 1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago 1953 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0 1949 NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association 1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax 1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season 1945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) 1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada 1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel 1943 USAF bombs Germans in Troina 1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz 1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo 1942 Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev 1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed 1941 Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) 1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to U.S. 1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece 1934 New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4 1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium 1929 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich 1929 Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yankees 14-6 1929 Jones Beach in New York opens 1927 Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens 1925 1st Dutch Colijn government forms 1925 U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation 1922 Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers 1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million 1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice 1914 German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast 1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army 1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War 1914 U.S. declares neutrality in WW I 1910 A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie 1909 Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment 1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X 1897 Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia 1892 Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine 1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass 1886 Colombia adopts constitution 1881 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Seville, Spain (European record) 1879 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris 1870 British Red Cross Society forms 1864 Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas 1862 U.S. government collects its 1st income tax 1855 John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" 1830 Plans for city of Chicago laid out 1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) 1791 Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova 1790 U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service 1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system 1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus 1760 Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia 1753 George Washington becomes a master mason 1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) 1730 Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England 1704 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III 1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die 1666 Sea battle between Netherlands and England 1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil 1598 London's head office of Hanze closed 1578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed 1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) 1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English 1347 English troops conquer Ft. Calais 1265 Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort 1181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia
