2015 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encounters resistance to proposed labor reforms as 150 million workers go on strike for a day in protest; Modi is seeking to make the Indian business environment more attractive to investment by foreign companies 2014 Home Depot may be the source of a new data breach, resulting in theft of thousands of customer credit card numbers; the company was indicated as the source by various banks after the data appeared for sale online 2014 Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautions that the Ebola epidemic will soon be uncontrollable unless more workers are found to aid in treatment of victims and burial of contagious bodies 2013 Swimmer Diana Nyad makes history, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage 2013 The public learns about AT&T's The Hemisphere Project, which gives telephone call data to law enforcement agencies, including the DEA 2012 Ending a 50-year ban on veiled female news presenters, Egypt's state television gives its female presenters a choice of wearing, or not wearing, a veil 2012 The Formula One Belgian Grand Prix held at Spa-Francorchamps, is won by 32 year-old Jenson Button 2011 Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab 2011 The South Korean military has police clear protesters from the building site of its new naval base in Jeju-do 2010 Twenty-five drug cartel gunmen are reported killed by the Mexican Army in a clash in Tamaulipas 2010 BP claims that if the ban on offshore drilling permits continues, it may not be able to pay compensation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2009 A bomb explodes outside of Athens' stock exchange, damaging the building and a female passer-by 1998 SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal, Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto, Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM 1996 Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000 1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands 1995 Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25) 1995 Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562 1994 Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km) 1993 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins 1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed 1993 Day of Peace in South Africa 1992 Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die 1992 U.S. dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) 1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657 1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1991 U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1990 "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 188 performances 1990 Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St. Zen Center, SF 1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst 1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley 1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan 1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season 1987 Philips introduces CD-video 1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1985 Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000 1984 "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 362 performances 1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM 1982 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down 1981 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1980 John Arlott calls his last game, England vs. Australia at Lord's 1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 108 performances 1979 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara 1978 George Harrison marries Olivia 1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine) 1978 Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man 1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston 1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home run in 11 straight years 1974 Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 1974 Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act 1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers 1973 Netherlands wins hockey world's championship 1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic 1972 Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 1-0 1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) 1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) 1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer 1971 Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches 1971 New York's Electric Circus Club goes out of business 1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death) 1969 New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season 1968 Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon 1967 KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run off Curt Simmons 1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends 1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia 1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal 1963 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS 1963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament 1962 Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place 1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1960 Tamara and Irina Press (U.S.S.R.) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold 1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres 1959 U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa 1958 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium 1958 National Defense Education Act was signed 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die 1957 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game 1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) 1956 Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings 1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service 1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, California (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20 1954 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery 1951 Australia, New Zealand and U.S. sign ANZUS-pact 1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China) 1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager 1946 Nehru forms government in India 1945 59th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64) 1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) 1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) 1944 Belgium's Emissie bank closes 1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane 1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz 1944 U.S. leaders meet in Belgium 1942 German troops enter Stalingrad 1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette 1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa 1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated 1937 U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act 1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight 1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to U.S. (37 hours) 1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros 1929 WOR (New York City) ends affiliation with CBS radio network 1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen 1924 44th U.S. Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62) 1924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in New York City 1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem 1920 W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago 1919 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation 1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series 1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz) 1914 General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux 1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas 1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government 1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" 1900 Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins 1898 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain 1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle 1894 Amsterdam Municipal theater opens 1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die 1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies 1867 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem, Netherlands 1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta 1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii 1839 Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam 1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500 1796 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated 1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them 1789 U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress 1752 Last Julian calender day in U.S. and England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) 1752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies 1743 England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms 1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome 1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks 1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 1666 Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8 1644 Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders 1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" 1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico 1192 Sultan Saladin and king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire 911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
