2014 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been elected to her second term, winning with 51.6% of the vote over Aecio Neves 2014 Kaci Hickox, the first person held under New Jersey's new quarantine provisions for those who have worked with Ebola patients, speaks out to protest the conditions of her confinement at a local hospital; Hickox has tested negative for the virus 2013 In Game 3 of the World Series baseball championships, the St. Louis Cardinals score a 2-1 series lead over the Boston Red Sox 2013 In an effort to repair strained relations after news reports cite the U.S. spied on Chancellor Angela Merke's cell phone, President Barack Obama congratulates the Chancellor on the formation of her new cabinet, and invites her to Washington 2012 Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2012 Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian leftist protest leader is charged with plotting 'mass disorder', facing a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted 2011 An emergency meeting to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis is held by leaders of the European Union 2011 The most expensive Bollywood film to date, Ra.One, is released to coincide with Diwali, the Hindu festival 2010 Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and utilization project, announces its water levels have reached full capacity 2010 As a result of a potential fuel pump failure, BMW recalls 150,000 of its vehicles 2009 U.S. Scientists believe to have discovered an antibody that can miminize internal bleeding in trauma victims 2000 World Series, New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 4 games to 1 1997 Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational 1997 Nichirei LPGA International 1997 Raley's Gold Rush Senior Golf Classic 1997 World Series: Florida Marlins beat Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 3 1996 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine 1994 Jordan and Israel sign peace accord 1993 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte 1993 New Jersey Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993 1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service 1988 U.S. - Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK 1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points 1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads 1986 "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 6 performances 1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series 1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days 1983 Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies," premieres in London 1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1982 Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards 1982 U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series 1980 10th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3 1980 11th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41 1980 St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times 1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize 1977 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise 1977 Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY 1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa 1976 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic 1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S. 1975 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball 1975 Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America 1974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers and MISL's Crunch 1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army 1973 President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal 1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1973 Wings release "Helen Wheels" 1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin 1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam 1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers 1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open 1969 WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast 1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy 1968 KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, California (NBC) begins broadcastng 1968 Soyuz 3 launched 1967 Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate 1967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne 1966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2 1966 U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die 1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace 1965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang 1964 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show 1963 U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada 1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" 1962 John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba 1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to John F. Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if U.S. closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected 1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test 1960 AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington D.C. for 1961 1958 PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1957 U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov 1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting 1956 U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved 1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution 1955 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published 1955 British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president 1954 Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine 1954 Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC 1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia 1952 Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts vs. India 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles 1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister 1950 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea 1950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president 1950 Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India 1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary 1949 President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents 1947 Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India 1942 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal 1942 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes 1941 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia 1941 U.S. savings bonds go on sale 1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1938 Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon" 1934 While Washington player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox 1933 French government of Serraut forms 1931 Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in New York City 1930 Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad 1926 Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi," premieres in New York City 1926 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga") 1923 Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote) 1923 Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns 1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini 1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia 1919 B. C. Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in New York City 1919 Elgars "Cello concerto op 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London 1919 President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden 1918 Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe 1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military 1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) 1913 Huerta elected president of Mexico 1912 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup) 1912 Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens 1911 Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series 1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia 1905 Union of Sweden and Norway ends 1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay 1901 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris 1900 After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens 1896 Abyssinia and Italy sign peace treaty 1894 German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg 1887 Detroit (NL) beats St. Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series 1886 Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia 1881 Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona 1869 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, New York) 1864 Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI 1863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game 1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva 1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer 1861 Pony Express ends 1858 Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine 1830 Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp 1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened 1822 King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language 1810 U.S. annexes western Florida 1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi 1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution 1774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia 1774 Minute Men organized in colonies 1749 Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal 1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York 1674 Prince Willem III occupies Grave 1667 Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa) 1662 Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France 1534 Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht 1529 Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor 1524 Spanish troops give Milan to France 1492 Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas 1492 Lead pencils 1st used 1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow 1387 Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace 1366 Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth
