2015 After a credit rating downgrade to 'junk' by Standard & Poor's, Brazil implements a $17 billion austerity package that will eliminate ten government ministries, cut public spending, and halt both hiring and salary increases in the public sector 2014 24-year-old Matthew Miller, one of three Americans currently held in North Korea, has been convicted of unlawful entry into the country for the purpose of spying; he has been sentenced to six years of hard labor 2014 19-year-old golfer Hyo-Joo Kim wins the title round of the Evian Championship, becoming the third-youngest female golfer to win a major 2013 Japan's Hisaki satellite is carried to the Uchinoura Space Center by the new Epsilon rocket, which was launched by two laptop computers 2013 In Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather beats Saul Alvarez, winning over $45 million dollars in a world-record purse 2012 Pope Benedict XVI visits Lebanon 2012 The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the 'two surveillance ship fleets' are in waters around the islands for purposes of 'patrols and law enforcement' 2011 At the Zekiah Swamp in Charles County, Maryland, archeologists believe they found a fort from 1680 built to protect the 'friendly' Piscataway Indians 2011 NASA reveals its Space Launch System plan, intended to replace the Space Shuttle program with its first flight scheduled for 2017 2010 Pfizer sponsors a study of the smoking cessation drug Varenicline, suggest governments would be wise to fund smoking cessation treatments 2010 Ukranian prosecutors claim that in 2000, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze 1998 Week of Fed Cup 1997 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1997 Bank One Senior Golf Classic 1997 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's number, 72 1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic 1997 Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266 1996 A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-home runs in a season 1996 Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent vs. Hampshire 1996 New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 home runs by a catcher 1996 Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997 1994 All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season 1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan) 1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992 1991 Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record 1991 Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly 1991 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1991 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34 1990 Ken Griffey, Sr and, Jr., hit back-to-back home runs in 1st inning 1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in U.S.S.R., win 4-2 1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest 1987 107th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) 1987 Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken 1987 Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win U.S. Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 minutes 1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 home runs vs Baltimore Orioles 1986 Bo Jackson's 1st home run - a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium) 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed 1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1986 Saskatchewan and Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game 1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986 1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host 1983 U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner 1982 36" snow Red Lodge, Montana 1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel 1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7" 1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV 1980 "Charlie and Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 17 performances 1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic 1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks 1978 Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970 1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls 1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open 1975 Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint 1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam 1975 Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen 1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter 1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise 1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s 1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout 1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres 1972 Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in New York City 1972 West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations 1971 Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators, play 20 innings 1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open 1969 Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage 1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV 1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season 1968 Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow 1968 U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight 1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named 1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx 1965 "F-Troop" premieres 1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened 1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House 1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1961 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of CP of U.S.S.R. 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 1960 Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC 1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon 1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open 1958 WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting 1958 Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 1957 U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary 1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C. 1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245) 1954 B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice 1954 Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record 1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage 1954 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test 1953 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry 1953 Yankees clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians 1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats 1950 Western allies rearm West Germany 1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th Dist Representative primary 1948 Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters 1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater 1947 61st U.S. Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61) 1947 67th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63) 1944 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru 1944 Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed 1944 Hurricane hits New England: 389 die 1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid 1944 U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall 1943 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries 1943 Yankees clinch pennant #14 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 1942 Yankees clinch pennant #13 1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time draft law 1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die 1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat 1939 Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow 1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight 1936 Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times 1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire 1933 Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London 1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri 1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6 1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election 1929 49th U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64) 1929 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox 1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens 1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP 1923 Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain 1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play 1919 British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail 1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian republic 1917 Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed 1916 Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game 1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn 1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches 1913 27th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75) 1913 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0) 1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated 1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname 1905 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man 1903 New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game 1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) 1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails 1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo 1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from New York City to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M 1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda 1876 Leopold II closes Congo-conference 1872 Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War 1868 Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole) 1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Battle of Munfordsville, Kentucky 1862 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia 1862 Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap) 1856 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders 1854 Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea 1852 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office 1848 Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store 1847 U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) 1834 Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile 1830 Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia 1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war 1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner" 1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge 1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden 1752 U.S. and England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) 1741 George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days 1716 1st lighthouse in U.S. lit (Boston Harbor) 1666 St. Paul's in London destroyed by fire 1662 Netherlands and England sign peace treaty 1629 Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry 1544 Charles and Francois I sign Peace of Crepy 1515 Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory 1163 Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland 891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
