2015 Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4 million vehicles after two researchers successfully hack wirelessly into a test car 10 miles away, enabling them to control functions such as steering and braking; the news raises concerns for all automakers 2014 Arseny Yatseniuk, prime minister of Ukraine, submits his resignation in frustration over inaction of the parliament to address energy needs and military funding 2014 Amazon Inc. reports a $126 million loss for the second quarter, its second-highest loss on record; the company has been investing in new services to attract and retain more customers 2013 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden remains in Moscow, Russia; he is stranded at Russia's Sheremetyevo International Airport 2013 The scientific theory of supersymmetry is challenged after experiments with the Large Hadron Collider yield an incredibly rare particle decay event 2012 Vice-President John Dramani Mahama becomes President of Ghana after President John Atta Mills, dies 2012 Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2011 Over half of the country of Peru enters a state of emergency as a result of unusually cold weather 2011 BP announces plans to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Libya 2010 Rallies to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman facing execution for adultery, occur in Paris, New York City, Ottowa and elsewhere 2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tours de France 1994 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) 1994 49th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan 1994 Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms 1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India 1994 Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France 1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown 1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans 1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight 1993 Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32) 1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, eff 3/1/93 1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die 1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign 1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system 1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus 1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait 1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America 1988 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann 1988 U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released 1987 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test 1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai 1984 Seve Ballesteros wins British Open 1983 "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 41 performances 1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1) 1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France 1983 Pine Tar Game: Brett's home run disallowed against Yankees (overturned) 1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill New York City after 63 performances 1982 KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations 1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran 1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th home run 1978 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City 1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe 1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson 1977 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy 1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 1977 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen 1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes 1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth 1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes 1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC 1973 All star MVP: Bobby Bonds for the San Francisco Giants 1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting 1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth 1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal 1968 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances 1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colorado 1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana 1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!' 1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City 1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership 1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland 1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game 1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron 1966 Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open 1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 87 performances 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" 1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets 1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts 1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea 1963 Dutch government of Marijnen forms 1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show 1960 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron 1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered 1959 Vice President Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" 1958 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K. 1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again 1958 Test Cricket debuts against New Zealand for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row 1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting 1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1956 Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London 1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City 1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia 1955 Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament 1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record) 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) 1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike 1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral 1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 home runs to beat Senators, 7-5 1948 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from west 1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash 1946 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island 1945 U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 U.S. troops land on Tinian 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) 1942 Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China 1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game 1940 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands 1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union 1936 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Minden, Nebraska (state record) 1936 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record) 1936 General Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt 1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain 1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York 1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe 1933 #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie and #4589 McDowell 1931 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings 1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) 1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde 1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs 1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne 1921 Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France 1919 Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded) 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die 1911 Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas 1911 Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull 1909 Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates 1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) 1905 Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II 1902 Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket vs. England 1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed 1893 For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago 1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma 1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt 1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers 1870 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union 1864 Battle of Winchester, Virginia US1200 CS600 1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia 1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats 1851 Window tax abolished in Britain 1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah 1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City 1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson 1799 William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York 1793 France passes 1st copyright law 1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia 1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII 1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army 1704 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit 1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) 1683 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord 1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate 1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va 1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange 1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur 1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland 1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem 1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France 1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer
