2015 The tomb of an Egyptian queen, Khentakawess III, is discovered by a team of Czech archaeologists; the queen lived during the Fifth Dynasty and was likely the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre 2014 The cryogenic engine built India's Space Research Organisation engineers powers the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5), which successfully placed a 1,982-kg GSAT-14 communications satellite into orbit in 17 minutes 2014 A day before the U.S. Senate will vote on extending emergency unemployment benefits, Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council publicly promoted the case for extending benefits 2013 Bush fires burn out of control in Tasmania, Australia, leaving thousands stranded 2013 Venezuela's government announces that President Hugo Chavez is suffering from 'respiratory deficiency', a condition he developed after having a severe lung infection 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama announces plans to dramatically cut defense spending 2012 The U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, begins a two day tour of Myanmar 2011 The 112th United States Congress convened; Republican Representative John Boehner of Ohio assumes his new position as Speaker of the House 2011 According to Clarence House, Prince William and his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton, will be married by the Archbishop of Canterbury 2010 The World Food Programme announces it will suspend operations in Somalia due to increased instability in the region 1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario 1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid 1997 "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City 1997 "Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater New York City 1997 "Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City 1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement 1996 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs. WI at the Gabba 1995 AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl 1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed 1994 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71) 1993 Brian Lara completes 277 vs. Australia at cricket SCG 1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident 1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame 1992 "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 496 perf 1992 "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 32 performances 1992 "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 99 performances 1992 "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances 1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt 1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 77 performances 1991 Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title 1991 Kevin Bradshaw of U.S. International scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts 1990 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, New Jersey 1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot 1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS-51-C mission 1984 Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws 1984 Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings 1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation 1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1977 Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament 1976 MacNeil-Lehrer Report premieres on PBS 1976 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" 1976 Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies 1975 "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1672 performances 1975 Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in New York City 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks 1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" 1973 Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel 1973 Netherlands recognizes East Germany 1972 Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178) 1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle 1972 New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents 1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle 1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed 1971 1st one-day international, Australia vs. England at the MCG 1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak 1971 U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike 1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC 1969 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 82 performances 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro 1969 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed 1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) 1968 Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law 1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia 1967 KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, California (IND) begins 1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel 1964 San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship 1963 "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 873 performances 1963 "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 719 performances 1963 San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game 1962 Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" 1961 U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating 1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV 1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" 1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants 1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East 1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" 1955 KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast 1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea 1953 Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris 1952 Flying Enterprise sinks 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open 1950 Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in New York City 1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra 1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" 1946 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 417 performances 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" 1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam 1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II 1943 William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa 1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia 1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal 1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia 1937 Fingleton and Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt 1937 Only unicameral state legislature in U.S. opens 1st session (Nebr) 1934 Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) 1934 National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side 1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League 1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" 1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia 1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone 1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox 1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hour day and $5 daily minimum wage 1925 James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?," premieres in New York City 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings 1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees 1920 New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth 1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party 1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege 1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace 1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro 1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day 1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria) 1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits 1911 SF has it's 1st air meet 1909 Colombia recognizes Panama's independence 1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara 1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates 1904 -34 degrees F (-36.7 degrees C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record) 1904 -42 degrees F (-41.1 degrees C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) 1904 England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 and 8-68 1903 San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use 1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1896 Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona 1895 Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London 1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 years 64 days 1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1892 1st successful auroral photograph made 1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established 1887 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University 1875 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris 1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi 1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft. Sumter 1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay 1859 1st steamboat sails, Red River 1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked - 300 die 1850 California Exchange opens 1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf 1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date 1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo 1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell 1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) 1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France 1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement 1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va 1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution 1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens 1719 Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact 1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles 1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg 1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice 1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues 1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe 1554 Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands 1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry 1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan 1477 Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed 1463 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris 1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara 1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
