2014 The last protest camp has been removed in Hong Kong; activists staged several camps to demand the right to free elections rather than control of candidates and elections by the Chinese government 2014 In the recent Japan elections, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gains victory, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party wins the majority of lower house elections 2013 Chilean voters elect President Michelle Bachelet in the country's presidential election; Bachelet served as the first female Chilean president in 2006 2013 Joan Fontaine, a British and American actress and sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96; Fontaine is famous for roles in Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Suspicion and Rebecca 2012 Egyptian voters go to the polls to vote on a highly protested referendum on a new constitution 2012 Hilary Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, fainted from dehydration and sustained a concussion after falling in her home 2011 According to the U.S. Census, 1 in 2 people are considered low-income or poor 2011 Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris 2010 Ghana begins pumping oil after its discovery of an offshore oil field three years ago 2010 A Japanese salmon subspecies, the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae) is discovered after being declared extinct in 1940 2009 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urged countries to agree on a new U. N. pact aimed at averting climate change and global warming 1997 San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16 1996 Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches 1996 Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches 1996 Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches 1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland 1994 "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances 1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier 1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia 1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed 1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns 1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops 1993 Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense 1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed 1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination 1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year 1992 WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR 1991 "Nick and Nora" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances 1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship 1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter 1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston 1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi 1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure 1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift 1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed 1984 U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet 1983 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage 1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB 1983 Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew 1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in New York City 1982 Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants 1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery 1982 Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved 1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar 1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V 1980 New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M 1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena 1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages 1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James 1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore 1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections 1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) 1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness 1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens 1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disney World 1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year 1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game 1973 U.S. Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill 1971 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 1970 S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) 1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom 1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones 1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again" 1967 Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel 1967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hour, 34 die 1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances 1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus 1966 John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints 1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River 1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000 1965 D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London 1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) 1965 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde 1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball 1964 1st time 4 people in space 1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded 1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag 1962 Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks 1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel 1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time 1961 John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico 1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels 1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" 1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes 1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting 1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons 1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands 1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances 1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation 1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias 1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title 1950 New York City's Port Authority opens 1949 Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris 1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury 1946 Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game 1946 Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt 1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest 1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms 1944 U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star 1944 U.S. troops lands on Mindoro 1942 Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs 1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland 1941 German submarine U-127 sinks 1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship 1939 'Gone With the Wind' premieres in Atlanta 1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware 1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao 1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. 1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) 1935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship 1935 Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin 1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies 1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw) 1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro 1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads 1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy 1925 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1 1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic 1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague 1919 Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in New York City 1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares its Independence 1918 American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting 1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia 1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun 1914 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea 1914 Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary 1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League 1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) 1893 Dvoraks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City 1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) 1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1874 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant 1864 Battle of Nashville, TN 1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA 1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign) 1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun 1854 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia 1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC 1820 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston 1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia 1811 Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri 1810 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published 1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France 1792 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. in Philadelphia 1791 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania 1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval 1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria 1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II 1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal 1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War 1664 English colonizing Connecticut 1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan 1640 Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal 1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope 1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft 1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp 1582 Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine 1582 Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar 1569 Westmoreland flees to Scotland 1488 Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope 1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II) 687 St. Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
