2015 Jeffrey Webb pleads not guilty to bribery charges in the FIFA corruption case brought against 14 former officials; Webb is the first to be extradited to the U.S. to face the charges 2014 Tobacco company R. J. Reynolds must pay over $23 billion in resolution of a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died from lung cancer at age 36; the suit accused the company of hiding the health risks and habit-forming nature of cigarettes 2014 Russia retaliates against U.S. sanctions against certain individuals by denying visas to 13 Americans 2013 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces a plan to help settle Papua New Guinea asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat 2013 A Pontifical Commission is established by Pope Francise to investigate current accounting practices and implement new strategies for greater fiscal transparency and fiscal responsibility among all Vatican offices 2012 David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, suggests government spending cuts will be required until the end of the decade 2012 The United Kingdom freezes 100 million pounds of assets of Syrian leaders 2011 Iran announces it has installed faster nuclear centrifuges to enrich uranium 2011 In a speech outside of Potala Palace, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping declares he will crush attempts for an Independent Tibet 2010 A Tel Aviv judge orders safe deposit boxes at a Zurich bank opened; the boxes may contain drawings and manuscripts by writer Franz Kafka 2005 John G. Roberts, Jr. is nominated to the United States Supreme Court 1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale 1998 JAL Big Apple Golf Classic 1996 Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final 1996 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 minutes for Lancashire vs. Derbyshire 1996 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta, Georgia 1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles) 1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed 1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president 1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes 1993 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham 1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions 1992 "Price" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 47 performances 1992 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) 1992 Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife 1992 Ebony P. Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America 1992 Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic 1992 New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife 1991 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game 1991 With New York Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better 1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies 1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California 1990 Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a New York Yankee 1989 Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 home run game 1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane 1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic 1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41) 1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with 1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle 1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die 1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) 1984 Geraldine Ferraro, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, wins Democratic Vice Presidential nomination 1982 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Washington D.C. 1982 Bolivian government resigns 1982 David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon 1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2 1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George 1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic 1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1980 David Bowie appears in role of 'Elephant Man' in Denver 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill 1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe 1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza 1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island 1978 Yankees start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win 1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York 1977 All star MVP: Don Sutton (Los Angeles Dodgers) 1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands 1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony 1975 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate 1975 New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single and RBI are 1974 Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 1974 David Bowie's 'Diamond Dog' tour ends in New York City 1974 Soyuz 14 lands 1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) 1971 Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open 1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit 1967 1st air conditioned New York City subway car (R-38 on the F line) 1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina 1967 U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) 1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas 1966 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island 1966 Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" 1964 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio 1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open 1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 1963 Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits home run # 300 1962 Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero 1961 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA 1960 Italian Government Tambroni, resigns 1960 San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance 1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 192 performances 1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France 1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada 1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) 1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1956 U.S. refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum 1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel 1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 289 performances 1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland 1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford 1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day 1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 276 performances 1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh 1950 New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1948 French government of Schuman, resigns 1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy 1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany 1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen 1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen 1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago 1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem 1944 General Bradley flies to England 1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas 1944 New York archbishop Spellman flies to Europe 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II 1942 Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in US 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague 1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated 1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven 1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders 1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald 1940 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films 1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri 1939 Dr. Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures 1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich 1937 Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood 1936 Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief 1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral 1933 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox 1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms 1923 WRC-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions 1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) 1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced 1915 Washington Nationals steal record 8 bases vs. Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning 1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL 1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1 1910 Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings 1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play 1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam 1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber 1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw 1900 Michel Theato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k) 1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms 1880 SF Public Library starts lending books 1877 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) 1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City 1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins 1867 Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1867 Dutch Red Cross forms 1867 Reconstruction enacted 1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights 1863 Battle of Buffington's Island (St. George Creek), Ohio 1862 Forrest's 1st raid 1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas 1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) 1848 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York) 1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg 1836 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache Ascension 1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow 1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo 1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer 1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan 1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java 1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail 1575 Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater 1572 Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries 1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days 1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania 1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die 1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau 1524 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest 1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia 1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good 1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais 1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia 532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle 64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
