2015 Kazumi Matsui, mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, calls upon world leaders to free the world of nuclear weapons during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city 2014 Two former Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, have been convicted of war crimes during the period of Cambodian genocide in the 1970s; a U.N.-supported war crimes tribunal sentenced the two men to life in prison; both men are in their 80s U.S. President Barack Obama will allow the Pentagon to perform a limited number of air strikes in Iraq to thwart the advance of the Islamic State 2013 Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, famous for her 11-hour filibuster against restricting abortion rights, announces she will run for either the Texas State Senate seat or for Governor of Texas The IMF tells Germany now to impose austerity measures that are too harsh, and that they must be prepared to miss their deficit reduction target if Greece needs extra stimulus 2012 The Curiosity rover controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars After a century of silence, Mount Tongariro in New Zealand erupts, spreading volcanic ash across the country's central North Island and affecting airports 2011 At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan In London, British rioters set police cars on fire in the suburb of Tottenham 2010 NATO airstrikes on August 5 resulted in the deaths of at least 32 Afghan civilians Russia's worst drought in history prompts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to temporarily ban the export of flour and wheat 2009 A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc NHL Nashville, Tennessee names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach 1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars 1995 "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 510 performances Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb 1994 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities 1993 Japan Hosokawa government begins Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical 1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 1991 Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th home run in 1st 86 at bats President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq 1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 1988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies 1986 Orioles, Dwyer and Sheets, and Rangers, Harrah, hit record 3 grand slams Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM 1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) STS-51-I vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics 1983 Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa 1982 22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3 California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system 1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed Due to strike, Yankees, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed 1980 University administraion declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses 1979 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Michigan Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel 1978 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open 1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington 1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma 1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic 1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam 1965 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) Beatles release "Help" album in U.K. Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights Indian troops invade Pakistan Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks 1964 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam 1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule 1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open 1st case of motion sickness in space reported 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto 1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military 1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria 1949 Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop 1948 Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics 1947 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" 1946 U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court 1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died Anti-German attack at Avranches fails Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes 1943 U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily 1942 Riots by Dutch Jews Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" 1941 Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning 1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire 1939 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio 1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty 1936 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with home runs 1934 U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1926 New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system Don Juan with John Barrymore shown 1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins 1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest 1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia French cavalry enter Belgium German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed Serbia declares war against Germany 1910 New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt 1908 St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn 1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) 1896 France annexes Madagascar 1890 Cy Young pitches and wins 1st game 1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tennessee legislature 1864 Rebels evacuate Ft. Powell, Mobile Bayd 1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack 1861 Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state 1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) 1824 Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish 1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels 1815 U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate 1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 1726 Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty 1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut 1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders 1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen 1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII 1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius 1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors 1497 John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers 939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors 768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 523 St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope 258 St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
