2015 The Japanese Diet enacts a defense policy allowing the nation's troops to aid allies in conflicts that also threaten Japan; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports the law, but it is opposed by many who wish to maintain the country's pacifist constitution 2014 Scottish citizens reject independence of Scotland from the U.K.; 45 percent voted for and 55 percent voted against independence in a national referendum 2014 Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange; its pre-IPO market valuation of almost $168 billion exceeds that of American e-commerce giant Amazon by over $17 billion 2013 Concerned over weakening growth in the economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve announces plans to continue its stimulus program, which injects $85 billion a month into the the U.S. economy 2013 Apple introduces iOS 7; the seventh version of the company's mobile operating system contains significant user interface changes 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney states the Palestinians are committed to destroying Israel 2012 The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike 2011 The 63rd Emmy Awards for U.S television programs is held in Los Angeles, California: Mad Men wins for the outstanding drama series 2011 In Berlin, Social Democrats do well in a state election; the Pirate Party enters a state parliament for the first time, with the Free Democrats achieving 2% of the vote 2010 In New Zealand, 100,000 people are left without water after a large storm; the storm took the roof off of Stadium Southland in Invercargill 2010 Chileans celebrate the 200th anniversary of their independence 1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations 1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts 1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns 1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands 1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va 1994 Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 1994 Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1994 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS 1994 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election 1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins 1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3 1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations 1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee 1991 Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) lands 1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square 1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics 1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico 1988 Burma suspends its constitution 1988 Coup in Haiti 1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 home runs 1987 U.S. and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 vs. India at Madras 1985 "Song and Dance" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 474 performances 1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) 1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons 1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere 1983 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1983 Lebanese and Syrian army battle 1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31 1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 1980 "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris 1980 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base 1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect 1979 Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge 1979 The Who opens New York City concerts at MSG 1977 All 4 Kiss members release solo albums 1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore 1977 Courageous (U.S.) sweeps Australia (Australia) in 24th America's Cup 1977 Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship 1977 U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together 1976 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player 1976 Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election 1976 Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention 1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 1973 West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN 1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) 1971 19th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 18 -13 at Old Warson CC Mo 1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged 1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0 1967 Intrepid (U.S.) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 1965 "Get Smart" premieres 1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game 1964 Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie 1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 1963 U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia 1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games 1962 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Ft. Worth 1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN 1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open 1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit 1957 "Wagon Train" premieres 1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels 1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon 1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open 1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th home run at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) 1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) 1954 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (ABC) 1st broadcast 1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission 1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit 1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 14 performances 1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) 1948 Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine 1947 National Security Act, passes 1947 USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms 1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed 1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) 1944 U.S. 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne 1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant 1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in New York City 1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani 1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania 1938 Despite losing a double header, Yankees clinch pennant #10 1934 St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 1934 U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations 1931 Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo 1930 Enterprise (U.S.) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup 1930 New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6 1930 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row 1929 Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs 1929 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in New York City 1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight over English Channel 1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is New York City affiliate) 1926 46th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64) 1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 1926 Jean Rene Lacoste wins U.S. Tennis Open 1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight U.S. tennis championship 1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking 1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands 1922 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush 1922 Hungary admitted to League of Nations 1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage 1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast 1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1915 Boston Braves trounce St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent 1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa 1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 1911 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City 1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det 1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam 1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0 1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan 1897 Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of New York City," premieres in New York City 1895 Booker T. Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address 1895 D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor 1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" 1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St 1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps 1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy 1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 1849 De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns 1848 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping 1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published 1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden 1830 Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore) 1812 Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs 1811 English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1809 Royal Opera House in London opens 1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1789 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents and Congress 1769 John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (U.S.) 1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 1755 Ft. Ticonderoga, New York opens 1739 Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks 1679 New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony 1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France 1573 Spanish attack Alkmaar 1544 Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy 1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne 1544 Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage 1437 Farmer uprising in Transsylvania 324 Chrysopolis emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
