2015 Airplane debris is found off the coast of France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean; officials believe the debris is from a Boeing 777 and may be part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared over a year ago without a trace 2014 The NCAA settles a lawsuit regarding concussions, paying $70 million to assess head injuries for current and past players of college sports; The fund does not cover treatment, forcing injured players to sue their colleges for compensation 2014 Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, the key Sierra Leone doctor fighting the Ebola virus, dies after succumbing to the disease 2013 In one of the largest jewelry heists in recent years, nearly 103 million euros in diamonds and other jewels were stolen from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel diamond show in Cannes, France 2013 Signs of deteriorating economic security are suggested by an Associated Press survey stating that four out of five U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives 2012 In China, thousands protest plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong school, labeling it Chines propaganda 2012 Scientists reveal new research identifying a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is pulled deep into the Southern Ocean, and locked away; scientists claim this process may be threatened by global warming 2011 The African Union gains its 54th member, South Sudan 2011 The U.S. House of Representatives votes to increase the debt ceiling; the Senate rejects the measure 2010 Monsoon rains delay salvage of the wreckage of Airblue Flight 202 which crashed in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people onboard 1997 U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields Golf Club Illinois 1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis 1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14 1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin 1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election 1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants 1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba 1993 Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession 1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack 1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances 1992 Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00) 1992 Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession 1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0 1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco 1990 26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4 1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1) 1990 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel 1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game 1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan 1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32 1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa 1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion 1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989 1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit 1988 Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes 1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" 1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling 1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home 1987 Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed 1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire 1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched 1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster 1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles 1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV 1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak 1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson 1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated 1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris 1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer 1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott 1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York 1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings 1978 On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager 1976 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test 1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired 1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee 1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests 1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island 1974 St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base 1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton 1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy 1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island 1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut 1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars 1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1 1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa 1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption 1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited 1968 Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland 1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage 1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York 1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup 1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends 1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10) 1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games 1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory 1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running 1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N. 1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres 1956 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius 1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) 1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting 1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 home runs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5 1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test 1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet 1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run 1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends 1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting 1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London 1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours 1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) home run off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH 1944 U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg 1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam 1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd 1940 Urk soccer team forms 1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears 1938 Olympic National Park forms 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin 1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy) 1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY 1930 115 degrees F (46 degrees C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record) 1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada 1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France 1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released 1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game 1927 1st iron lung installed, Bellevue hospital, New York 1927 Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung 1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants 1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship 1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin 1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany 1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 innings 1921 New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF 1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders 1916 Postal check and Girodienst establishes 1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam home run 1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF 1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade 1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover 1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary 1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied 1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory 1908 St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms 1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York 1899 Southern California Golf Association forms 1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court 1864 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia 1864 Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid) 1858 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed 1858 U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan 1844 New York Yacht Club forms 1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette 1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH 1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England 1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane 1696 French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace 1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army 1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians 1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam 1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao 1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders 1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England 1585 Friese academy opens 1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht 1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli 1565 Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley 1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II 1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden 1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III 1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim) 1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies 626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople 362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
