2015 Two animal rights activists are placed under house arrest, awaiting trial for acts of terrorism against the fur industry; in 2013, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane released minks from mink farms and vandalized fur businesses across the U.S. 2014 Bose has filed a lawsuit against Beats Electronics for violating various patents related to noise-cancellation technology 2014 Dutch and Australian police are headed to eastern Ukraine in the continuing search for bodies and evidence in the missile strike of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17; separatists have been accused of tampering with evidence and hindering investigations 2013 Scientists in Britain identify the mechanism causing human allergy to cats; they believe a general cure for the condition could be available in the next five years 2013 In the midst of an increasing industrial slowdown, China institutes business tax breaks and export liberalization in an effort to boost its economic growth 2012 The Egan-Jones Ratings Company projects Italy has a one-year default probability of 22%, downgrading the country to CCC+ from B+ 2012 Ivica Dacic is officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia 2011 Former Cuban President Fidel Castro makes his first appearance outside of Havana since leaving office in 2006, visiting a mausoleum in Artemisa 2011 Cyclist Alberto Contador wins the 2010 Tour de France while seven-time winner of the event, Lance Armstrong, makes his final appearance 2010 U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010 2009 Dozens are killed and injured when wildfires spread across France, Spain, Sardinia and Greece 2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers 1999 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship 1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby 1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian 1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas, Texas 1997 Quarterback Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs 1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling 1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City 1996 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs. United States 1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war 1993 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) 1993 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten 1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44) 1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon 1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France 1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain 1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd 1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) 1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' home run in Yankee Stadium 1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver 1990 Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle 1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) 1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game 1990 U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute 1990 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA 1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA 1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France 1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt 1987 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite 1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India 1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS 1985 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1985 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space 1983 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio 1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion 1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) 1982 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson 1982 France performs nuclear Test 1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn 1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die 1980 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) 1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager 1978 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games 1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image 1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) 1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres 1973 George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5 1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad 1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati Reds) 1971 Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open 1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York) 1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival 1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne 1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth 1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) 1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone 1966 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." 1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River 1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" 1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1965 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar 1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament 1964 "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances 1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks 1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford 1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York 1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations 1963 U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty 1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex 1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader 1960 Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels 1960 U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate 1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic 1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley 1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1956 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston 1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm 1956 Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force 1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open 1953 New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth 1949 St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1 1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense 1947 U.S. Department of Army created 1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show 1946 U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion 1944 Japanse banzai-attack on Guam 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 1944 Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines 1944 U.S. troop march into Guam 1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo 1943 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched 1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1942 German troops occupy Rostov 1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) 1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River 1939 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win 1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany 1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) 1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx 1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria 1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington 1930 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland 1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN) 1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th home run leads Yankees to 8-2 win 1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California 1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) 1916 Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks 1914 Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" 1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69 1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game 1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies 1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes 1902 James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title 1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match 1898 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay 1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa 1868 U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho) 1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office 1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy 1866 U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army 1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia 1861 Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery 1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops 1860 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales 1850 Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River 1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian 1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 1832 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies 1822 General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico 1814 Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British 1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive 1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir 1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion" 1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta 1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) 1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony 1689 France declares war on England 1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna 1670 Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Netherlands 1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews 1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church 1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic 1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics 1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army 1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor 1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent 1519 San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba 1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack 1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia 1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople 1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German 1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king 841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
