2014 Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for Eastern New York, is nominated U.S. Attorney General to replace Eric Holder; Lynch must be confirmed before taking the position 2014 A series of hidden online markets are taken down after raids by U.S. and European authorities and the arrest of 17 people; the markets were used to secretly trade illegal goods 2013 Falkland Island voters head to the polls to participate in their general election and elect Legislative Assembly members 2013 Disney and Netflix announce a deal in which ABC Television Studios and Marvel TV will produce four serialized programs run over multiple years; the programs will feature popular Marvel characters Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Johns 2012 The U.S. elections result in three states approving same-sex marriage: Maine, Maryland and Washington 2012 U.S. voters in the state of Massachusetts approve a referendum legalizing the use of medical marijuana; Colorado and Washington approve the legalization of recreational use of the drug 2011 Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson 2010 Queen Elizabeth II launches a page on Facebook; no one is allowed to 'poke' or 'befriend' her 2010 Over 40,000 runners compete in the New York Marathon; Gebre Gebremariam wins the men's marathon and Edna Kiplagat wins the women's marathon 2009 Eight Eastern Europeans are accused of stealing $9 million in a huge computer payroll scam 2000 Al Gore wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote to George W. Bush 2000 Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate 1997 "Bean" opens in US 1996 "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City 1996 NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times 1996 Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai vs. Saurashtra 1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on WXDX 105.9 FM 1995 Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever) 1993 Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament 1992 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105 1991 "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 12 performances 1991 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box New York City 1991 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95 1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Los Angeles Lakers 1990 "Little Night Music" closes at New York State New York City after 11 performances 1990 "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances 1990 Cleveland Indian Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously 1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland 1989 Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year 1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va) 1989 New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman) 1988 MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7) 1988 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde 1987 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba 1985 Colombian troops end 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice 1984 STS-51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds 1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd New York Giant record 56 yard field goal 1983 Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries 1982 "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin New York City after 69 performances 1982 Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner) 1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1982 Turkey adopts constitution 1981 France performs nuclear test 1979 Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award 1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP 1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past 1976 'Gone With the Wind' televised 1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland 1974 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) 1973 New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league 1973 U.S. and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links 1972 President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) 1970 "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 689 performances 1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida 1969 John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1967 Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1967 Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana 1967 St. Louis Cardinals Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP 1967 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon 1966 Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in New York City 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open 1964 NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966 1963 Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World 1963 New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP 1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie 1961 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1960 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting 1959 13th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 8 -3 at Eldorado CC California 1957 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year 1957 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast 1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan 1954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns and win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Washington 62-3 1953 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting 1951 Constitution of Jordan passes 1950 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan 1950 French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta 1949 King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament 1946 "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 54 performances 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) 1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die 1943 Detroit Lions 0, New York Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL 1942 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French 1942 Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) 1941 British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied 1940 Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago 1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash 1936 Battle of Madrid begins 1935 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12 1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill) 1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports 1932 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio 1932 Bradman scores 238 NSW vs. Victoria, 200 minutes, 32 fours 1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung 1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected president 1925 Italians liberal-national party joins fascist 1921 Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in New York City 1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers 1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets 1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed 1918 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd 1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks 1917 October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power 1916 Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising 1916 Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, elected 1st woman Representative 1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president 1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed) 1914 Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai 1909 Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama 1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy 1907 Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico 1907 Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins 1893 State Colorado accept female suffrage 1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie 1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st African-American to receive a PhD in U.S. college, Yale 1876 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College 1876 President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) 1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa 1874 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast 1872 U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month 1865 London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded 1864 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes 1863 Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA 1861 Battle of Belmont, MO 1861 Battle of Port Royal Bay, South Carolina (Ft. Walker, Ft. Beauregard) 1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US 1831 State Gran Colombia disbands 1824 St. Petersburg flood 1820 James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president 1814 1st sitting of States-general in Hague 1805 Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean 1794 French troops conquer Nijmegen 1775 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army 1747 Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap 1733 France and Spain sign Escoriaal Treaty 1722 Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London 1667 Jean Racine's "Andromaque," premieres in Paris 1665 1st edition of "London Gazette" 1659 Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV 1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age 1637 Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic 1631 Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler 1597 Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal 1581 Queen Elizabeth I and Francois of Anjou wed 1558 French king Henri II occupies Calais 1519 University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther 1512 Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence 921 Treaty of Bonn: East France and West France recognize each other 680 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
