2015 The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has taken back Floyd Mayweather's welterweight title belt, won after his recent victory over Manny Pacquiao; WBO stripped the title after Mayweather failed to pay a $200,000 fee and vacate his existing titles 2014 Fossils of prehistoric bird species Pelagornis sandersi have been uncovered at the Charleston, S.C. airport; the species is the largest-known bird discovered to date, with a wingspan of approximately 24 feet 2014 The Obama administration requests $3.7 billion to address a flood of children crossing the U.S. border unaccompanied by adults; the children are to be returned to their home countries 2013 At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Andy Murray wins the Men's Singles after beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets; he becomes the first British man to win since Fred Perry's Wimbleton 1936 win 2013 A call for demonstrations is held by opponents of deposed President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt 2012 The brother of Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient, announces he suffers from Dementia and can no longer write 2012 Tennis pro Serena Williams beats Agnieszka Radwanska in the Women's Singles final at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships 2011 In China, a fire in a coal mine in Shandong Province leaves at least 36 people trapped underground 2011 In efforts to avoid food shortages and political oppression, South Korea begins work on a new facility to house North Korean refugees 2010 A heat wave in the U.S. and Canada kills 9 people 2005 London's transit system is bombed by terrorists, 56 deaths, 700 injured 2002 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Lleyton Hewitt beat David Nalbandian 2002 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams Paola Suarez and Virginia Ruano 2002 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor, 2002 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva beat Kevin Ullyett and Daniela Hantuchova 2001 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Justine Henin 1998 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver 1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open 1997 Tower Minnesota temps dip to 24 degrees F 1996 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63) 1996 17th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton 1996 Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic 1996 Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, lands 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game vs, BC Lions 1995 Space shuttle STS-71, Atlantis 14, lands 1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo 1994 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert 1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia 1993 New York Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game, goes to 27 1993 Philadelphia Phillies beat San Francisco Giants 7-6 in 20 innings 1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers 1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500 1991 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64) 1991 Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic 1991 Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning 1990 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Zina Garrison (64 61) 1990 New Jersey Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 Alan and Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex vs. Kent 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women 1987 Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing 1987 Yankees trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 and 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released 1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction 1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law 1986 U.S. actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo 1985 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62) 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont 1984 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62) 1984 Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R. 1982 David Moorcroft of U.K. sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41 1982 Steve Scott of U.S. runs mile in a record 3:47.69 1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court 1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title 1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe 1980 Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Universe) as 29th Miss USA 1979 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64) 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1978 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75) 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from U.K. 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City 1976 E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA 1976 Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars 1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres 1974 Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd, 78 1974 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic 1974 West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich 1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India 1973 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert, 60 75 1973 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli, 61 98 63 1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels 1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play, 5-4-3 vs Oakland 1973 Glenda Reiser, Canada, sets record women's mile, 4:34.9 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named 1973 1st all - U.S. women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce) 1972 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63) 1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage 1969 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang 1969 Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal 1968 23rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning 1968 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband 1967 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61) 1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released 1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1 1965 Otis Redding records "Respect" 1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York 1964 All star MVP: John Callison, Philadelphia Phillies 1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open 1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64) 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64) 1961 James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters 1960 Netherlands - U.S. cemetery Margraten official opens 1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea 1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh 1958 C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England vs. New Zealand Headingley 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows New York 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast 1956 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61) 1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres 1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings 1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson 1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania 1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Michigan 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60) 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held 1950 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63) 1950 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway New York City for 76 performances 1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 and 1967 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy 1948 Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige at 42 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan 1943 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj 1942 military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0 1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania 1941 U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion 1939 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60) 1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II 1936 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston 1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship 1932 Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal 1930 Construction begins on Boulder Dam 1929 Romania and Vatican sign concord 1928 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63) 1928 Edward Hamm of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 11" 1924 Robert LeGendre of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 5 " 1923 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61) 1923 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) 1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game 1914 Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law 1911 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60) 1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record 1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay 1905 127 degrees F (53 degrees C), Parker Ariz (state record) 1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory 1898 U.S. annexes Hawaii 1891 Travelers checks patents 1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam 1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri 1874 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office 1868 Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey vs. Sussex 1864 S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid- 1863 1st military draft by U.S., exemptions cost $100 1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked 1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land 1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia 1846 U.S. annexs California 1838 Central American federation is dissolved 1829 Royal Military Chapel forms 1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published 1807 France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit 1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published 1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence 1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel 1754 Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College) 1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship 1713 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" and "Jubilate" 1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge 1647 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples 1607 "God Save the King" is 1st sung 1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms 1550 Chocolate introduced 1543 French troops invade Luxembourg 1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel 1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples 1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted 1438 French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
