2014 A male of the rare northern white rhino species has been found dead at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya; only six animals remain in the world, of which only one is a breeding male Shamil Tarpischev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, has been suspended for a year and fined $25,000 by the Women's Tennis Association Tour for making derogatory gender-based remarks about tennis champion sisters Serena and Venus Williams 2013 NASA discovers Asteroid 2013 TV135, which has a 1 in 63,000 chance of colliding with the earth in 2032 After being elected to the UN Security Council, Saudi Arabia reports it will decline its seat because the UN failed to end the Ghouta chemical attack 2012 The Golden Dagger award for best crime novel of the year is awarded to Irish writer, Gene Kerrigan, for 'The Rage' Anti-austerity protests in Greece attract tens of thousands of workers 2011 After Standard & Poor's and Fitch downgraded Spain's credit rating, Moody's downgrades them further to a rating of A1 Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok, calls for 1.2 million sandbags in an effort to protect Thai's capital from encroaching floods 2010 The U.S. government determines China is helping Iran bypass U.N. sanctions and is helping them improve their missile technology and develop nuclear weapons 2009 A Sri Lankan migrant ship seized off of Canada's Pacific Coast, carried 76 suspected Sri Lankan immigrants 1998 Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix 1993 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit 1992 "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 22 performances 1st non-U.S. team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683 Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, vs. India at Harare 1991 "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater New York City U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1990 "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 469 performances 1989 East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns Hungary revises constitution U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit 1988 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51A mission U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1981 Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections New York Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1980 Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT) 1979 "Beatlemania" opens in London Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1978 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F. Vance New York Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs Los Angeles Kings 1977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record Yankees beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years 1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr 1975 Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town" U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1974 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121 Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise" Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks 1973 "Raisin" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 847 performances Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar and dollar coin Judd Woldon and Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in New York City Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp 1969 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession Rod Stewart joins Small Faces Soyuz 8 returns to Earth 1968 Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29'2 ") in Mexico City Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony 1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released AL votes to allow Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams 1966 "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 463 performances 1964 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics 1962 John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance" U.S. launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 1961 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack 1960 Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News 1955 Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete University of California discovers anti-proton 1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, South Carolina (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City) 1953 WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times 1952 "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 7 performances Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash 1951 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test 1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years 1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army 1946 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres 1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements 1944 Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II 1943 U.S. bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island 1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed 1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo 1940 Kaufman and Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in New York City 1939 R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in New York City 1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March 1932 Belgium government of Renkin falls 1930 Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day 1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament 1925 French General Sarrail bombs Damascus Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th home run of the season 1924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs) Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms 1918 Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) 1915 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo 1913 Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave 1912 Beginning of 1st Balkan War Italo-Turkish war ends 1910 Edward Forster publishes "Howards End" 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m 1908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State 1904 Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne 1901 Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights 1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico 1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) 1891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins 1890 John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1889 1st all New York City World Series New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA) 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" 1878 Edison makes electricity available for household usage 1873 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tigers Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football 1869 Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo) 1867 U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia 1863 Battle of Charlestown, West Virginia 1862 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, Kentucky 1855 Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres 1776 In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx 1767 Boundary between MD and PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon 1752 Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession 1685 French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism 1672 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz 1667 English fleet plunders Suriname plantations 1648 1st U.S. labor organization forms, Boston Shoemakers 1622 French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier 1572 Spanish troops attack Maastricht 1564 John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America 1534 New pursuit of French protestants 1267 Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV 1081 Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine 1016 Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) 707 John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
