2014 Israel closes visitation to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, citing security concerns after the shooting of Israeli activist Yehudah Glick; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claims that the action is a 'declaration of war' 2014 Microsoft Corp today begins selling a fitness tracking armband called Microsoft Band that links to a free web-based tracking app; the software will work across iOS and Android platforms in addition to Windows 2013 A cross-party royal charter allowing for the regulation of the British press is granted by the UK Privy Council despite a last-minute court challenge by the newspaper industry 2013 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia, becomes the first head of state to visit with Kim Jong-un in North Korea since he became Supreme Leader 2012 Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis' archive, which inclues manuscripts and a letter from W. H. Auden are donated to Oxford University's Bodelian Library by Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis 2012 George Lucas sells Lucasfilm Ltd. to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion; the sale includes the rights to the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' franchises 2011 Australia's Qantas airlines and its unions are ordered to settle their industrial dispute within 21 days 2011 Columbian voters participate in local gubernatorial and mayoral elections which include Medellin, Cali and Bogota 2010 The U.S. launches a search for the people behind an attempt to mail bombs to synagogues and places of worship in Chicago, Illinois 2010 Eastern Japan braces itself as Typhoon Chaba heads its way, carrying winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour near its center 1997 "Cherry Orchard," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City 1997 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured 1995 Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada 1994 Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election 1994 Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet 1994 U.S. wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International 1993 Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0 1992 Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles 1991 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla 1991 Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates 1991 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain 1991 Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29) 1990 England and France complete Chunnel 1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals 1989 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal) 1988 2 gambling clubs and 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot 1988 Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship 1988 Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi 1988 New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time 1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made 1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched 1984 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award 1982 Portugal revises constitution 1980 Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute 1980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-203 1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham 1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania 1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07 1976 "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances 1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show 1976 Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ 1975 Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year 1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals 1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain 1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" 1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) 1974 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award 1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire 1973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award 1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois 1972 Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago 1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1969 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, New Hampshire (IND) 1st broadcast 1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios 1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) 1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1968 Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam 1967 Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968 1967 Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) 1967 U.S.S.R. Kosmos 186 and 188 make 1st automatic docking and Venmera 13 launch 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open 1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open 1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia 1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam 1963 Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire 1963 Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award 1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N. 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square 1960 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba 1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika 1957 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast 1957 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad 1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961 1955 Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 vs. New Zealand, the record for a no 8 batsman 1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry 1954 U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races 1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize 1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas 1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1950 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres 1949 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 281 performances 1949 Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in New York City 1948 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania 1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee 1947 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva 1947 Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris 1945 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals 1945 U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing 1944 Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Washington D.C. 1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen 1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau 1944 Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk 1944 Sweden announces intention to stay neutral and refuse sanctuary in WW II 1944 Tholen Island freed 1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina 1943 Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN 1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about 1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea 1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war 1940 Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in New York City 1939 U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews 1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard 1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 1931 W2XB TV channel 1 in New York City, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting 1930 Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship 1925 KUT-AM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions 1922 Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the New York Giants pay $65,000 and 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 and is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922) 1922 Mussolini forms government in Italy 1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball 1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state 1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration 1914 Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins 1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators 1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties 1905 G.B. Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in New York City 1905 Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament) 1901 Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lt-colonel Bensons unit vs Boers 1900 1st-ever U.S. auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City 1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army 1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator 1894 Daniel Cooper patents time clock 1893 Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 1888 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen 1888 Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland 100 pounds per month 1886 Great Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa 1883 Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty 1873 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (New York City) 1871 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant 1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress 1866 Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000) 1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded 1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun 1851 Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris 1772 Captain Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown 1768 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City) 1739 England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear 1697 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War 1629 King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath 1611 Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden 1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope 1503 Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica 1489 Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I and Flemings 1485 King Henry VII Tudor crowned "Yeomen of the Guard" 1468 Charles the Stout occupies and plunders Luik 1389 French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII 1270 8th and last crusade is launched 1077 German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren 942 Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III) 701 John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope
