2014 Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to develop Ebola in the U.S., dies after 11 days in a Dallas hospital; he was sent home after an initial hospital visit despite stating he had been in West Africa, but he was admitted upon his return two days later 2014 The Buffalo Bills are being sold to businessman Terry Pegula for $1.4 billion, the highest price paid in history for an NFL team; previously owner Ralph Wilson, now deceased, paid $25,000 in 1959 2013 Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics include theoretical physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain 2013 The Privy Council rejects proposals for a Royal Charter for self-regulation of the British Press 2012 In Haiti, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced plans to pay for a new education fund with a new 'sin' tax on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling 2012 The Libyan parliament passes a vote of no confidence for Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Prime Minister of Libya; Abdurrahim El-Keib again takes over the post 2011 With an unbeaten run of 14 wins, Australian mare Black Caviar ties the horse racing record for consecutive victories set by Phar Lap 2011 In western Ethiopia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees opens new refugee camp for refugees from Sudan and South Sudan 2010 Japan's government approves a $60 billion economic stimulus package 2007 Marion Jones gives up 5 Olympic medals after admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs 2005 Earthquake in Kashmir kills approximately 80,000 people 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected the governor of California 2001 SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion 1998 House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry of President Clinton 1995 Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record 1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series 1994 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill 1993 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts" 1993 Qn Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24) 1993 U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa 1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott 1992 Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game 1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus 1990 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters 1990 U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize 1989 Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series 1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage 1988 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove 1986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0 1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs 1985 "Rembrandt and Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam 1985 Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables," premieres in London 1985 Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident 1984 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins 1983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to New York Islanders 8-7 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st victory, beating New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands 1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions 1981 1st broadcast of "Cagney and Lacey" on ABC-TV 1981 President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral 1980 Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital 1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro 1980 U.S.S.R. and Syria sign peace treaty 1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test 1979 "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 1208 performances 1979 J McHugh and A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in New York City 1978 Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) 1978 Yankees win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City 1977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) 1976 Sex Pistols sign with EMI 1973 NLCS game 3 brawl between Cincinnatis' Pete Rose and New York Met Bud Harrelson 1973 Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece 1972 "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 8 performances 1972 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions 1972 In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher 1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended 1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" 1971 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina 1966 Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yards (54, 54, 52) 1965 Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter 1965 London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England 1965 Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms 1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1964 Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st U.S. chief engraver to retire (than die) 1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya 1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of U.N. 1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party 1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament 1961 U.S. Constellation crashes at Richmond, Virginia, 74 die 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1961 Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32 1960 Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer 1959 "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 216 performances 1959 Conservatives win British election 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series 1958 Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time 1958 Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm 1958 KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles 1957 Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes U.S. Minister of Defense 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) 1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire 1956 Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn 1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched 1953 Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group 1953 WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins 1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England) 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea 1951 "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 56 performances 1951 Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League 1950 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit 1950 Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17 1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China 1946 Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die 1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada 1944 "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio 1944 Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres 1943 Great Britain establishes bases on Azores 1942 Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley) 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built 1940 Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series 1940 German troops occupies Romania 1939 Germany annexes Western Poland 1939 New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win 1938 G Kaufman and Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in New York City 1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet) 1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son 1933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters 1933 Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government 1930 Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series 1929 A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs 1929 Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi 1928 Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in New York City 1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in U.S. 1927 New York Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series 1927 Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) 1924 British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists 1922 New York Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series 1918 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more 1918 Sergeant Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans 1917 Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet 1915 Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed 1915 Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally 1912 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey 1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War 1909 Chicago Cubs beat New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant 1908 New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920) 1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London 1904 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, New York) 1903 J. M. Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin 1898 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2 1897 Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks 1895 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms 1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow 1887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory 1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" 1873 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute 1871 Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin 1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains 1862 Battle of Perryville, Kentucky-Confederate invasion halted 1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor 1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1842 Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach 1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed 1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache James Island, Galapagos archipelago 1822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley 1818 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves 1815 Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy 1813 Treaty of Ried between Bayern and Austria 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve 1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army 1740 Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia 1712 French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast 1690 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade 1633 Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government 1625 Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz 1604 Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted 1600 San Marino adopts constitution 1492 Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico 1085 San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated 876 Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare 451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens 314 Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
