2015 Over 6,000 Syrian migrants arrive in Austria after being detained in Hungary in an effort to control the recent mass wave of refugees fleeing Syria and other war-torn nations; many of the migrants plan to seek asylum in Austria and Germany 2014 Ukrainian troops and separatist forces have halted fighting in eastern Ukraine in accordance with a cease-fire agreement between Ukraine, Russia and the rebel forces 2014 Apple Inc. is putting new security notifications in place after hackers gained access to celebrity iCloud accounts; the company denies any iCloud security compromises, stating that hackers used other methods to gain entry to the accounts 2013 The Rim Fire at Yosemite National Park, which burned over 371 square miles and is now 80% contained, is being blamed on a hunter's illegal campfire 2013 At the U.S. Open, defending men's singles champion Andy Murray is beaten in straight sets by Swiss player, Stanislas Wawrinka 2012 At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform 2012 For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date, are made available to the public in the 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements' 2011 Former French President Jacques Chirac begins stands trial in Paris for embezzlement charges 2011 Pakistan's government announces the arrest of Younis al-Mauritani, the senior Al-Qaeda chief 2010 In Guatemala, heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people and a state of emergency is declared 2010 A funeral for 65 Shia Muslim suicide attack victims in Quetta, Pakistan attracts thousands 2005 John G. Roberts is nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1999 Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open 1999 WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat New York Libery 2 games to 1 1998 Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open 1997 Athen's Greece selected for 2004 Olympics 1997 Larry King weds Shawn Southwick 1997 Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game 1996 "Summer and Smoke" opens at Criterion Theater New York City 1996 MTV Video Music Awards 1995 Cal Ripken, Jr. ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games 1994 Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1994 Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000 1994 Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) 1994 Kirgizie government resigns 1994 SF 49'er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass 1993 "Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 207 performances 1993 "Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 569 performances 1993 "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 983 performances 1993 F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident 1993 Largest U.S. Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502) 1993 Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39) 1993 Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30) 1992 Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie 1992 Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) 1991 8th MTV Awards: REM 1991 Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston 1991 Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC 1991 U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins 1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West 1990 Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight U.S. Open final 1989 Chris Evert last U.S. Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison 1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1988 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113 1988 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception 1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career home run off Danny Jackson 1987 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at U.S. Tennis Open 1986 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins 1986 Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed 1986 MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins 1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms 1986 NASA launches DOD-1 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB 1983 Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph 1983 Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627 1983 Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1982 82nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel 1982 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph 1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns 1980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens 1979 A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19) 1979 Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale 1979 Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma 1979 Iran army occupies Piranshahr 1979 Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in U.S. Tennis Open quarterfinals 1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" 1977 Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 1977 RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer 1977 Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn 1976 "Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City after 48 performances 1976 "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 307 performances 1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic 1975 Czechoslovakian tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City 1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento 1975 Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns 1975 Wings release "Letting Go" 1973 "Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 15 performances 1973 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket 1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium 1972 Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John and Yoko appear 1971 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win 1971 New York Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) 1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections 1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1968 82nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64) 1968 88th U.S. Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1967 Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas 1967 KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1967 WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 1966 WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II 1962 Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th 1961 John F. Kennedy begins underground nuclear testing 1961 President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1960 Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal 1960 President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo 1960 Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal 1959 Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) 1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US 1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape 1958 WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising 1957 Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" 1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM 1955 Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician 1955 Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th home run of season 1955 WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 1955 WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die 1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC 1953 U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid 1952 General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1951 65th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64) 1951 71st U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61) 1950 64th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63) 1950 70th U.S. Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63) 1950 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record) 1949 63rd U.S. Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61) 1949 69th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (1618 26 61 62 64) 1946 "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 36 performances 1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game 1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany 1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen 1944 Allies liberate Brussels 1944 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign unity treaty 1944 British premier Churchill travels to Scotland 1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard 1943 57th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63) 1943 U.S. airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends 1942 British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen 1939 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2) 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe 1936 Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees 1929 French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe 1927 Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings 1925 112 F (44 degrees C), Centerville, Alabama (state record) 1925 29th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously 1922 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1) 1922 Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years) 1921 Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287 1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders 1918 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early 1916 36th U.S. Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64) 1915 35th U.S. Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) 1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland 1914 Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians 1914 French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine 1914 Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London 1914 Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins 1913 Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th 1910 Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings 1908 Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 1906 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) 1905 Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms 1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad 1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina 1887 Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft. Wayne, Ind) 1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City 1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 1864 British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 1863 Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama 1862 Lee crosses Potomac and enters Maryland 1844 Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains 1838 Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands 1836 Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas 1814 Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russians out of E Prussia 1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 1798 New conscription law goes into effect in France 1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 1795 U.S. - Algiers sign peace treaty 1793 In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins 1786 Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium 1781 Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 1774 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia 1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods 1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski 1698 Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards 1661 French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested 1644 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent 1634 Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 1622 Richelieu becomes cardinal 1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java 1550 William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 1519 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs 1198 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
