2014 Leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement have been denied permission to travel to the mainland; the men sought to fly to Beijing to present their grievances to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang 2014 The G-20 summit in Australia ends with a commitment by leaders of the 20 nations to take steps to raise their collective GDP by $2 trillion over the next four years; critics say that proposed measures are not specific enough to achieve this goal 2013 As part of an effort to protect human rights, China's CPC Central Committee announces a plan to abolish its 'reeducation through labor system' which began in the 1950s 2013 For reasons of 'strategic national interest', Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announces the nation will cut its diplomatic ties with Taiwan but would remain a friend of Taiwan's people 2012 A Union Pacific train strikes a parade float in Midland, Teas, killing four people and injuring 17 others 2012 Prior to a visit from U.S. President Barack Obama, Myanmar's government pardons 452 prisoners under an amnesty as a goodwill gesture 2011 In Tibet, several acts of self-immolation prompt exiled Tibetans in India to urge the Chinese government to end its repressive policies restricting the Tibetan's religious freedom 2011 New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest 2010 The U.S. announces it will provide an additional $500 million to aid Pakistan to help rebuilding efforts after major floods ravaged the country 2010 In Prague, scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe, in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden death 2009 Kosovo holds its first local election since declaring independence from Serbia 2006 Al Jazeera launches Al Jazeera English 1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America 1997 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards 1997 William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd 1996 "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances 1995 "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater New York City for 601 performances 1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir 1994 "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 57 performances 1994 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45 1994 Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) 1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on WYAV 104.1 FM 1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die 1992 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 vs. SA, Durban) 1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive) 1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game 1990 President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album 1990 U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit 1989 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 497 performances 1989 Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premieres in New York City 1989 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award 1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1989 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis and Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi 1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games 1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses 1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award 1988 PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) 1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver 1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) 1987 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America 1987 New York Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1986 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts) 1983 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy 1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed 1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev 1981 "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 48 performances 1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany, 1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage 1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka 1978 Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London 1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP 1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran 1976 Syrian army conquerors Beirut 1975 Miss Teenage America Pageant 1974 Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK 1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war 1972 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway New York City 1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays 1972 White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP 1971 Intel advertises 4004-processor 1969 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back) 1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) 1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War 1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Fla 1969 Wendy's Hamburgers opens 1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four" 1967 Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP 1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km 1967 WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting 1966 Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth 1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph) 1964 Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV 1964 KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open 1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro 1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns 1962 Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award 1961 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth 1961 Roger Maris is voted AL MVP 1961 U.N. bans nuclear arms 1960 Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs New York Knicks 1960 USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched 1959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Washington 31-17 1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1956 "Li'l Abner" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 693 performances 1956 Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City 1955 Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement 1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins 1953 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI vs. MCC, Lahore 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year 1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1949 KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast 1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada 1947 Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 vs. Indians at the SCG 1947 Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal 1946 Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP 1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of 1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank 1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco 1941 Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier 1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime 1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls 1940 New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic 1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. 1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews 1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check 1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, New York 1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona 1937 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers 1936 Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact 1935 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated 1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) 1932 Walt Disney Art School created 1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC) 1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (New York City) 1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms 1922 British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party 1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions 1920 Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg 1920 Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection 1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva 1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) 1914 Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia 1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins 1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade 1903 Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist 1901 James J. Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed 1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong 1884 Colonization of Africa orgainized at International conference in Berlin 1882 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger 1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) 1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union 1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated 1864 1st U.S. mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York 1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta 1849 1st U.S. poultry show opens in Boston 1845 Opera "Maritana" is produced (London) 1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system 1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Tahiti 1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres 1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US 1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura 1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) 1813 Allied troops occupies Groningen 1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam 1806 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue 1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) 1791 1st Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens 1777 Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress 1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland 1727 New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath 1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands 1688 Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England 1679 English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill 1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam) 1583 Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees 1577 Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington 1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco 1532 Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn 1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco 1492 In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic 1491 6 Jews and 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain 1491 Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle" 1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells 1316 Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later 1315 Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austrian
