2015 Animal rights activists lose a case to free two chimpanzees being held for research purposes; the activists argued that the animals are highly intelligent and should be treated as humans with similar legal rights 2014 Bank of America must pay $1.3 billion in a civil lawsuit over fraud committed by lending unit Countrywide Financial, which operated a scheme nicknamed 'Hustle' that resulted in large numbers of unsubstantiated mortgages during 2007-2008 2014 U.S. Congress votes to sue the Obama administration, claiming that the president overstepped his authority by independently delaying a provision of the Obamacare law without seeking required congressional approval 2013 Israel and Palestinian officials agree to resume negotiations for a peace agreement 2013 The Pakistani electorate vote for Mamnoon Hussain as the country's 12th President 2012 Over 300 million people are left without power in Delhi, India, due to a power grid failure 2012 A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship 2011 Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, Zara Phillips marries Mike Tindall, an England rugby union international 2011 NATO announces it destroyed three television distribution facilities in Tripoli, Libya 2010 Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle 1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14 1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager 1995 Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic 1995 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win vs. WI 1995 Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford 1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame 1994 Record 103.8 degrees F (39.9 degrees C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany 1992 Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) 1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993 1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) 1990 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money 1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 vs. India to follow up 1st innings 333 1990 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die 1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees 1989 Chile amends its constitution 1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic 1988 Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month 1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m 1988 James Ogilvy, under English princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson 1988 John Franco saves record 13th game of July 1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO 1988 King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives 1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes) 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-I mission 1985 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss 1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil 1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant 1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV 1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California 1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg 1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats 1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test 1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism 1981 Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London 1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke 1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France 1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 home runs 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic 1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy 1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball 1975 Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London 1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit 1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up 1973 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0 1972 "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances 1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open 1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289) 1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" 1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 1971 U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon 1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut 1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets 1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas 1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) 1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away 1968 Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years 1967 Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ 1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed) 1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks 1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open 1966 U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam 1965 Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains," premieres 1965 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown and the Green Apple," premieres 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants 1964 U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam 1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago 1962 All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels) 1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL 1961 Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open 1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) 1959 In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 1956 U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized 1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France 1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles 1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71 1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid 1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6) 1948 Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont) 1947 Cincinnati Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4 1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico 1945 Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die 1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy 1944 U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy) 1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) 1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands 1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands 1939 Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France 1938 General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece 1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs 1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution 1933 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) 1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles 1930 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio 1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo 1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures 1926 Albanian boundaries deduced 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency 1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting 1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey 1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization 1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border 1914 John French appointed British supreme commander 1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War 1909 John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army 1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris 1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms 1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City) 1898 Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" 1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election 1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties 1874 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles 1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 1866 Race riot in New Orleans 1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname 1864 Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg 1864 Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire 1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot 1844 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club 1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad 1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii 1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed 1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris 1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church 1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren 1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time 1775 Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England 1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey 1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston 1729 City of Baltimore founded 1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida 1678 English troops lands in Flanders 1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram 1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland 1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam 1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions 1626 Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die 1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body 1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht 1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius 1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire 1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows 1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy 657 St. Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I 579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
