2015 Scientists discover a cache of skeletons of a new species of human ancestor, named Homo naledi, in a South African cave; the hominids are thought to have possibly lived up to three million years ago 2014 President Barack Obama announces that the U.S. will increase its support for forces fighting the advances of the Islamic State militant group; air power, military training and other aid will be provided, but U.S. troops will not be sent to battle 2014 Microsoft Corp. is planning to buy Mojang, the company that created the video game Minecraft; the purchase price would likely exceed $2 billion 2013 Apple releases two new iPhones - the iPhone 5c and 5s 2013 The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach of Germany as their new President 2012 The U.S. Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary, release a new U.S. national strategy to prevent suicides; the strategy uses Facebook as a tactic 2012 At the 2012 U.S. Open, Andy Murray of the U.K. wins the Men's Singles, defeating Serbia's Novak Djokovic; Murray becomes the first British player to win a Grand Slam singles title since Fred Perry 76 years ago 2011 In Cairo, protesters storm the Israeli embassy and force the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee 2011 Following the turmoil of the Arab Spring G8 nations pledge $40 billion to help Arab countries reconstruct and implement democracy 2010 In San Bruno, California, a fire begins with a massive explosion in a natural gas line, kills 4 people, destroys many homes, and continues burning 2010 Five Palestinians are wounded when Israel conducts four air raids in the Gaza Strip, a response to a fourth rocket attack in southern Israel from Gaza 1997 Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million 1997 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation 1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs 1995 115th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) 1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland beats U.S., 14 - 10 1995 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser and Candice Bergen wins 1995 Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 1995 Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles 1994 108th U.S. Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64) 1994 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke 1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced 1993 Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85 1993 Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements 1992 Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball 1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents 1991 Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination 1991 Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 seconds) 1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open 1990 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different 1990 Ellis Island reopens as a museum 1990 George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki 1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada 1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq 1990 Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning 1990 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 1989 109th U.S. Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) 1989 5 days after hitting a home run for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record 1989 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia) 1989 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship 1989 Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown 1988 Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan 1988 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61) 1988 Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel 1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla 1983 97th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) 1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1982 Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album 1981 "Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain 1980 Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 1980 Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1978 "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 243 performances 1978 98th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) 1978 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30") 1978 Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win U.S. Open on 3 different surfaces 1978 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1978 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yankees out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 1977 91st U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) 1977 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1977 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation 1977 Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard 1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York 1974 Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark 1974 New York Dolls disband 1974 Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau 1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hours 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton 1973 New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis 1972 20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany 1972 92nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe 1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship 1972 Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 1972 U.S. Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to U.S.S.R. (disputed) 1972 WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1971 KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1969 New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time 1969 U.S. performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado 1967 81st U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) 1967 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) 1967 Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Detroit Tigers, 6-0 1967 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic 1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish 1967 Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win 1967 KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting 1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1966 Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) 1965 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards 1965 WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms 1964 Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" 1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 1963 Stan Musial hits a home run in his 1st at bat as a grandfather 1962 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) 1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) 1962 WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 75th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) 1961 81st U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit home run # 400 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1960 Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) 1960 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' home run over right field roof in Detroit 1958 WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 "Mask and Gown" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances 1956 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 1956 Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates 1956 WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast 1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV 1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria 1954 WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls 1953 Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open 1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran 1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 home run in a game at Griffith Stadium 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway New York City after 76 performances 1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life 1948 Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis 1944 Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente 1943 German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta 1943 Lieutenant-general Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London 1942 British troops lands on Madagascar 1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf 1939 Canada declares war on Germany 1939 In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) 1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0 1933 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61) 1932 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64) 1932 Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit home run of the season 1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City 1931 Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable 1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia 1927 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) 1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn 1926 Germany joins League of Nations 1924 Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out 1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder 1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations 1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive home runs 1919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 1919 New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers 1919 Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany 1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers 1913 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens 1913 Cleveland Call and Post forms 1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia 1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway 1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber 1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes 1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms 1900 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) 1899 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska 1898 Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda 1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 1884 Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention 1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 1880 Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo 1872 Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam 1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms 1869 Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 1863 George Bizets opera "Les Pacheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris 1861 Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities 1858 John Holden hits 1st recorded home run (Brooklyn vs New York) 1849 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) 1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii 1846 Elias Howe patents sewing machine 1846 Japan invents the rickshaw 1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange 1838 Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris 1823 Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie 1798 British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George 1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US 1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1547 Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots 1547 English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 1510 Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal 1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 918 Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders 422 St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
