2012 Event United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II attends a meeting of the Cabinet for the first time, receiving a gift honoring her Diamond Jubilee; this was first time a Cabinet meeting was attended by a British monarch since the reign of Queen Victoria 2011 Event The English town Wooten Bassett is re-named with the prefix 'Royal', honoring its role in repatriating British military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan 1990 Event Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon 1989 Event At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio 1988 Event Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason 1986 Event 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. 1984 Event Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon 1981 Event Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co 1968 Event AL games at Baltimore and Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy 1961 Event U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith 1960 Event America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled 1959 Event America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled 1956 Event Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field 1948 Event Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir 1944 Event Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion 1916 Event 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians 1904 Event 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
