2015 The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has banned 11 people after an ethics investigation; the banned officials have recently or previously been indicted for corruption by the U.S. Justice Department 2014 Music curator and headphone maker Beats Electronics will become the latest acquisition of Apple, Inc.; Apple will pay $3 billion for the music company, started by music producer Jimmy Iovine and rap artist Dr. Dre 2014 Maya Angelou, American author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' and many other works, dies of natural causes at age 86 2013 The U.S. launches ta $6 billion money laundering prosecution against Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rican currency-transfer and payment-processing company 2013 'Le Monde' reports the Assad regime in Syria continues to use chemical weapons 2012 A South African newspaper removes the controversial painting titled 'The Spear' by Brett Murray from its website 2012 'Time' magazine includes 'Awaara' on its list of All-Time 100 Greatest Films 2011 After days of protests, martial law is declared in Xilinhot, a city located in Inner Mongolia 2011 In Germany, at least 10 people die from cucumbers infected with the deadly bacteria E. coli 1998 Pakistan tests underground nuclear weapons, sparking fears of a nuclear conflict with India 1997 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis 1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight 1997 Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28 1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time 1995 "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 454 performances 1995 Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1995 Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game 1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people 1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941 1995 White Sox (5) and Tigers (7) combine for record 12 home runs at Tiger Stadium 1994 "Cafe American," last airs on NBC-TV 1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054) 1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror 1993 Polish government of Suchocka falls 1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa 1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia 1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV 1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica 1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands) 1989 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) 1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500 1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG) 1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci 1987 Mathias Rust, 19, W. German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in U.S.S.R. 1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot 1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta 1987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados 1986 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-G 1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63 1983 Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens 1982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight 1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain 1980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning 1980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5" 1980 Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid 1979 European Market accepts Greece as member 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times 1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky 1975 Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris 1975 Soyuz 18 launches 1974 "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 1859 performances 1974 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore win 1974 Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation 1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed 1974 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in New York City 1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) 1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" 1971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars 1969 A. C. Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid 1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions 1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise 1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon 1967 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concert 1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip 1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad 1965 Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 1964 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli 1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem 1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit 1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed 1963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) 1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya 1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York 1962 U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day 1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio 1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) 1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years) 1961 Record 27 home runs hit in 7 AL games 1960 "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 95 performances 1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts 1959 Johnson and Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London 1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission 1958 French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle 1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open 1957 NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast 1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting 1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit home runs in 8 straight games 1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus 1955 81st Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6 1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500 1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open 1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" 1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st home run 1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht 1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV 1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run 1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement 1946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yankees 1) 1943 British militia reaches Tito 1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich 1941 1st night game at Washington D.C., Griffith stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5) 1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1941 New York Yankees nip Washington Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium 1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up 1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway 1940 Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in New York City 1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid 1938 Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England 1934 Bradman gets 160 Australia vs. Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 1934 Hobbs scores his 197th and last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days 1932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) 1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand 1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City) 1928 Dodge Brothers Inc. and Chrysler Corp. merged 1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days 1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal 1926 U.S. Customs Court created by congress 1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1923 U.S. unemployment has nearly ended 1919 Armenia declares it's Independence 1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent 1915 John B. Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll 1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs. South Africa 1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held 1906 Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in New York City 1904 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2 1901 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2 1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) 1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) 1900 Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand 1900 Solar eclipse occurs 1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern 1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir for conservation of nature 1880 8th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:40 1875 3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43 1871 Paris communards revolt put down 1866 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms 1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London 1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention 1849 Princess WFLC Marianne and Albrecht of Prussia separate 1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed 1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie 1818 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched 1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia) 1754 George Washington defeats French and indians at Ft. Duquesne near Pittsburgh 1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) 1741 Spain and Bavaria sign treaty 1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated 1674 German Parliament declares war on France 1664 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston) 1635 Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V," premieres in Madrid 1608 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna," premieres in Mantua 1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida 1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage 1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V 1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising 1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia 1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet 1037 German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" 640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
