2015 A memorial to the 40 people aboard Flight 93 opens in Shawshank, Pennsylvania, U.S.; terrorists hijacked the flight on September 11, 2001, but passengers rushed the cockpit, crashing the flight and averting the intended attack on the U.S. Capitol 2014 With help from Qatar officials, 45 U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji have been freed by their Syrian rebel captors; the troops were taken hostage two weeks ago after the rebels overtook the Syrian-controlled part of Golan Heights from government troops 2014 Court documents have been unsealed for rulings in 2008 requiring companies to give customers' online data to the U.S. government with no warrant; the papers show that Yahoo! sued but lost, resulting in compliance by Yahoo!, Google, Apple, and others 2013 The UN Security Council receives alleged proof of chemical weapons use by Syrian militants from Russia 2013 France drafts a resolution for the Syrian government to turn over its stockpiles of chemical weapons in 15 days 2012 The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is attacked by terrorists; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed as well as three others; the Cairo embassy was also attacked 2012 The U.S. commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and for the first time no special security alert is issued on the anniversary of the attacks 2011 Memorial ceremonies are held worldwide to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks 2011 Serena Williams is defeated in Women's Singles at the 2011 U.S. Open by Samantha Stosur of Australia 2010 Pastor Terry Jones announces that the Dove Outreach Center will not burn the Koran, 'not now, not ever' 2010 The Medal of Honor is awarded for the first time since the Vietnam War; U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta received the medal for his actions during the War in Afghanistan 2009 Inmates at Iraq's notoriuous Abu Grraib prison start a fire and clash with guards during two days of unrest 2001 19 Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial jets, killing nearly 3,000 in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania 1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423 1995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day" 1995 Soyuz TM-22, lands 1994 114th U.S. Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75) 1994 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer wins 1994 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle 1994 Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 1993 107th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63) 1993 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46) 1992 Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured 1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale 1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston 1991 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation 1991 New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium 1991 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0 1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud 1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO 1988 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy 1988 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship 1988 Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world 1988 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4 hours 55 minutes - longest men's final in U.S. Open history 1987 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins 1987 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die 1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres 1986 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded 1985 Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner 1985 International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km 1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs vs. India 1985 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 1983 103rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) 1983 Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss 1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards 1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship 1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1982 96th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) 1982 Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983 1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY 1981 2nd government of Agt forms 1980 Chile adopts its constitution 1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) and Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record 1977 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner and Bea Arthur 1977 97th U.S. Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) 1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1976 Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) 1976 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins) 1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each 1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont 1971 "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 343 performances 1971 Egypt adopts its constitution 1971 Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1967 Carol Burnett Show premieres on CBS-TV 1967 A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley 1967 Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England 1967 French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1967 Indian/Chinese border fights 1967 U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material 1967 WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 80th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) 1966 86th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) 1966 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1966 Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a home run on his 1st at bat 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic 1966 Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show 1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks 1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets 1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company 1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums 1962 Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles 1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, California (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st New York performance 1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy 1960 74th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) 1960 80th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) 1959 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements 1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th home run 1956 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) 1956 Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs (236) by a catcher 1955 69th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62) 1955 75th U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63) 1955 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting 1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast 1954 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record) 1954 KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV) 1953 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, California (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting 1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews 1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes 1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts 1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited 1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio 1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence 1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference 1944 U.S. 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany 1943 Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated 1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island 1943 U.S. and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea 1942 Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II 1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office 1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS 1940 Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion England) 1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw 1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley 1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany 1937 51st U.S. Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62) 1937 57th U.S. Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G vs. Cramm (61 79 61 36 61) 1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam 1935 49th U.S. Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64) 1935 U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year 1933 Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at U.S. Tennis championship 1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles 1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system 1928 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger 1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees 1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers 1926 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1) 1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu 1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining 1926 U.S. defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship 1926 Yankees' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies 1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yankees 1923 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run 1923 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins 1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader 1919 U.S. Marines invade Honduras 1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series 1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece 1914 T Handy publishes "St. Louis Blues" 1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms 1912 Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game 1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) 1909 Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet 1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique 1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham 1893 Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave 1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" 1886 Mayflower (U.S.) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup 1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia 1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute 1881 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland 1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen 1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip 1853 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) 1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R 1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st U.S. concert 1847 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) 1839 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) 1831 Charles Darwin meets with Captain Fitzroy at Plymouth 1814 Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British 1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce 1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British 1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" 1741 Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament 1714 French and Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona 1709 Battle at Malplaquet: England/Austria/Dutch Great Alliance beat France 1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power 1649 Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists 1649 Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred 1648 Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir 1645 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol 1557 Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm 1304 Willem III becomes earl of Holland 1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English 813 Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor
