2015 Oil spill cleanup continues at Refugio State Beach in California after a pipeline burst two days ago; about 21,000 gallons of oil have been released into the ocean and 105,000 gallons on land 2014 eBay announces that its databases were accessed by hackers in February and March of this year; despite no reports to date of illicit activity arising from the cyberattack, the company is requiring all users to change their passwords 2014 The Chinese and Russian state energy companies, Gazprom and CPNC, respectively, have entered a deal for Russia to supply China with natural gas; the deal provides a market for Russian gas as European countries seek to reduce their dependence due to Russia's actions 2013 In Lagos, a funeral processional greets the body of Nigerian Chinua Achebe, author of the novel, 'Things Fall Apart' 2013 In the House of Commons, MP's approve of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, advancing the right for gay marriage in England and Wales 2012 Dioncounda Traore, Acting President of Mali, requires hospitalization after encountering angry demonstrators who object to the 70-year old to hold the office for a year 2012 People in East Asia, the North Pacific and the Western United States have the opportunity today to view a rare annular solar eclipse 2011 Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicts May 21, 2011 at 6:00pm as the date of the Rapture for all Christians around the world 2011 The most active volcano in Iceland, Grimsvotn, erupts and triggers 50 small earthquakes 2010 A food crisis in Niger causes Nigerians to flee across the border into Nigeria 2003 Earthquake kills at least 2,266 in northern Algeria 1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time 1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York 1996 Ken Griffey, Jr., 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs 1996 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win 1995 Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic 1994 "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 16 performances 1994 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4 1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26) 1994 Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32) 1994 Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning 1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen 1994 Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe 1993 Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe 1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life 1993 Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss vs. Australia 1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired 1992 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6% 1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68 1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez 1988 "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35 1988 "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99 1988 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2 1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka 1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama 1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game 1986 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1983 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63 1983 109th Preakness: Donald Miller, Jr. on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4 1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission 1983 David Bowie's 'Let's "Dance' single goes #1 1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands 1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France 1981 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA 1981 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1 1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premieres 1980 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt 1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad 1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone 1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R. 1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia 1979 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1 1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect 1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances 1977 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4 1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in New York City 1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19 1977 San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings 1975 Borussia Monchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede 1975 Lowell W. Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm 1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart 1972 "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance 1972 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 39 performances 1972 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational 1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens 1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee 1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death 1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel 1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over New York Mets 1968 Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game 1968 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) 1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 14 performances 1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open 1966 "Downtown" by Mrs. Miller hits #82 1966 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 41 performances 1966 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London 1966 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart and hits #97 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay) 1964 Fire in Wegimond Belgium resort, kills 19 1964 U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos 1962 3 more Cleveland home run set AL record for most home runs (26) over 8 games 1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery 1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6 1959 "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 702 performances 1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens 1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) 1957 French government of Mollet resigns 1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms 1956 U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 165 performances 1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset 1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated 1953 French government of Mayer resigns 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning and beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal 1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia 1948 New York Yankees Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, home run) 1945 Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured 1945 Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed 1944 Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots" 1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators 1942 Great Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia 1941 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore) 1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees 1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France 1940 Reynaud forms French government 1938 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs. Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours 1934 Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st U.S. city to fingerprint its citizens 1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph 1932 1st Curtis Cup: U.S., 5 -3 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands 1931 Belgian government of Jaspar falls 1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader 1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers 1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City 1929 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double 1925 Canadians allow to sell beer 1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun 1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize 1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co 1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote 1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I 1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time) 1914 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8 1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota 1908 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago 1908 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th 1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4 1906 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars 1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris 1898 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized 1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time 1892 Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan 1891 Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds 1886 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45 1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton 1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms 1879 Battle of Iquiquw 1878 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37 1866 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days 1864 General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia 1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins 1861 Richmond, Virginia is designated Confederate Capital 1856 Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces 1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii 1840 New Zealand became a British colony 1832 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore) 1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia 1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in New York City 1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins 1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange 1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname 1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland 1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) 1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley 1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St. Helena 1471 King Edwards IV enters London 1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English 1216 French crown prince Louis enters England 1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency 996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor 685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians 143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
