2014 North Korea releases Americans Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae; Bae was imprisoned for two years after arrest for missionary actions, while Miller was detained in April for 'hostile acts' after tearing up his visa and requesting asylum 2014 Actor Matt Damon announces that he will return to the 'Bourne' movie franchise, starring in the next film to be released in 2016; interim star Jeremy Renner will also continue his role as Aaron Cross 2013 Palestinian investigators claim their former leader, Yasser Arafat, did not die of old age or ill health; they believe Israel killed him because his exhumed body contained high levels of the radioactive element polonium-210 2012 2011 Tucson shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is given 7 consecutive life sentences 2012 European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, confirms the design overhaul of euro banknotes, beginning with the 5 euro note 2011 The IAEA releases a report stating Iran has performed activities relating to the development of a nuclear device, and that the project is likely still under way 2011 A new census measure claims that a record number of Americans, 49.1 million, are living below the poverty line 2010 U.S. talk show host Conan O'Brien returns to television on TBS after a ten-month absence 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao releases pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang e-2 lunar mission 2006 Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense 2004 U.S. troops launch offensive on Falluja 1998 Japan Golf Classic 1997 Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild 1997 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away 1994 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98 1994 Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms 1992 "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 25 performances 1992 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin 1992 Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1991 Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal 1990 "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 496 performances 1990 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to Persian gulf 1990 Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with Los Angeles Dodgers 1990 Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World 1990 Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1989 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year 1989 David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City 1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia) 1988 900 die as earthquake hits China 1988 Arco Arena in Sacramento, California opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75 1988 George Bush beats Mike Dukakis for presidency 1988 Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico 1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes 1987 Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup 1987 IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed 1987 Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1986 "Song and Dance" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 474 performances 1985 Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-61-B mission 1984 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test 1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit 1984 STS-51-A mission; launch 1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky 1983 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad 1983 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia 1981 Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election 1981 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1980 Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn 1979 Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in New York City 1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") 1978 Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day," premieres in London 1975 Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ 1974 British Lord Lucan disappears 1973 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai 1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal 1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John 1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) 1967 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1966 Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American elected to Senate 1966 Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California 1966 President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger 1965 "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV 1965 British Indian Ocean Territory formed 1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion 1964 KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open 1964 Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP 1962 Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape 1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn 1960 John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president 1959 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, California (NBC) 1st broadcast 1959 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair 1958 "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 5 performances 1957 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1956 U.N. demands U.S.S.R. leave Hungary 1954 AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City 1953 Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal 1951 New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards 1950 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War 1950 Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year 1950 In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place 1950 Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year 1947 Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA vs. Victoria 1946 Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris 1945 "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 12 performances 1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor 1944 Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders 1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca) 1942 Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall 1942 Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr 1942 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US 1940 RAF bombs Munich 1939 Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich 1939 H Lindsay and R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in New York City 1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia 1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration 1932 "Make Mine Music," debuts 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time 1930 Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin 1929 Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris 1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building 1928 George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in New York City 1926 George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in New York City 1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt 1924 Fortune Theatre opens in London 1923 Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen (Munich) 1920 Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn 1920 Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th 1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1917 People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1910 1st Washington State election in which women could vote 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) 1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays 1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected president 1889 Montana admitted as 41st state 1884 German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1883 English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) 1880 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made U.S. debut at New York's Booth Theater 1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee 1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president 1861 Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky 1861 U.S. removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent 1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) 1838 Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris 1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women 1833 Train derails at Hightstown, New Jersey; 2 die 1793 Louvre in Paris, opens 1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Kentucky 1734 Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Free Masons Lodge 1731 In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st U.S. library 1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges 1658 Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch 1638 Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts 1627 English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rhe 1620 Battle of White Mountain, Prague 1598 Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem 1576 Pacificatie of Gent: 17 Dutch provinces signs anti-Spanish covenant 1575 French Roman Catholics and Huguenots signs treaty 1519 1st meeting of Montezuma and Hernando Cortes in Mexico 1494 Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy 1322 Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht 911 Duke Koenraad I chosen German king 618 St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 392 Emperor Theodosius declares christian religion, state religion
