2014 Palestine will be officially recognized as a sovereign state by the new government of Sweden; though the U.N. General Assembly supported such recognition two years ago, few nations have officially extended this recognition 2014 General Motors (GM) issues its 71st recall this year, affecting over 500,000 Cadillac SUVs, Saab SUVs and Chevy Spark cars that may have defective or loose parts; GM is also halting sales of GMC Canyons and Chevy Colorados due to air bag concerns 2013 Credit card information, among other data of 2.9 million Adobe consumers was stolen during a cyber attack on the company's website 2013 Ahead of its IPO , Twitter Inc. publicly files disclosure documents posting strong revenue growth 2012 Inquiries into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya increase as the only surviving witness of the attack, Walid Faraj, has yet to be interrogated 2012 Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency 2011 Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for the exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile cell phone 2011 Helle Thorning-Schmidt introduces the new coalition government, officially becoming Denmark's 41st and first female Prime Minister 2010 An audio recording by Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says Muslim nations haven't done enough to support relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan 2010 Archaeologists at a site on the Egypt-Gaza border unearth parts of a possible hidden city believed to be over 2,000 years old 2008 President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law 1997 Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins 1997 Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers 1997 Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph 1997 Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan 1996 Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field 1995 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs. W Prov) 1995 O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman 1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil 1994 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon 1993 "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion New York City after 38 performances 1993 Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed 1993 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow 1993 Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58) 1993 Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen 1993 Indians play their last game at Cleveland Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0 1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers 1993 Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59 1992 Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957) 1992 LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart 1992 Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV 1992 Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL 1992 Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title 1991 25th Country Music Association Award: 1990 East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany 1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades 1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 home runs (& 51st) 1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records 1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails 1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days 1988 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets New York City 1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months) 1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile 1987 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1986 Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched 1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution 1985 Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine 1985 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution 1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in the United Kingdom 1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland) 1982 Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship 1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic 1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm 1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours 1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike 1981 Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1980 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris 1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London 1977 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial New York City for 66 performances 1977 Indira Gandhi arrested 1976 Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run 1976 Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in the United Kingdom 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap 1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager with the Cleveland Indians 1974 Pele retires as soccer player 1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader 1972 Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234 1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown 1972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies 1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test 1972 Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later 1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 1970 "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 333 performances 1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike 1970 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting 1968 Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope," premieres in New York City 1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru 1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, California (IND) begins 1967 King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp) 1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president 1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher 1964 Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, and 29th in club's history 1963 "Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 338 performances 1963 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured 1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances 1962 Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit 1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV 1961 "Mr Ed" premieres 1961 "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 167 performances 1961 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting 1960 "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke 1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil 1960 San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard 1960 Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 home runs 1959 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal 1957 Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin 1956 Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yankees 6-3 in opening game of World Series 1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain! 1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres 1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil 1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea 1955 WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting 1955 WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres 1954 KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 10th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 6 -5 at Wentworth, England 1953 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal 1953 KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting 1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia 1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca 1952 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia 1951 Bobby Thomson home run - Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers 1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah) 1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas 1950 Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army 1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta 1948 Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo 1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week 1947 "Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 27 performances 1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed 1947 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins 1947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game 1946 Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0 1945 Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10 1945 Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time 1945 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member 1944 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland 1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy 1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization 1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) 1942 New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season 1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" and would "never rise again" 1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS 1941 Nazi's blow up 6 synagoges in Paris 1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status 1940 Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak 1940 U.S. forms parachute troops 1939 Lemmer-Urk Dike closes 1936 Yankees set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia 1933 Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant 1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations 1929 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. 1929 Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister 1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia 1928 French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 1926 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna 1926 Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22) 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne 1923 Germany's Stresemann resigns 1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C. 1922 Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate 1920 Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season 1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games 1919 Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series 1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hour work day 1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria 1918 Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne 1918 Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St. New York City 1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%) 1906 SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy 1906 U.S. regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba 1906 William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide," premieres in New York City 1904 France and Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence 1904 Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards 1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School 1900 Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham 1899 J. S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner 1890 Captain Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo 1872 Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens 1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day 1862 Battle of Corinth, Mississippi 1862 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky 1833 Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson 1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day 1778 Captain Cook anchors at Alaska 1735 France and Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord 1691 English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland 1657 French troops occupy Mardyke 1605 Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre 1574 Fleet under Admiral Boisot seize Spanish 1569 Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots 1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia 1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen 1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor 1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
