2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama restores the Native American name of Alaska's Mount McKinley, the tallest North American peak; the mountain will revert to its former name of Denali 2015 Event Google will begin testing self-driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, California this summer; the company has tested modified versions of existing vehicles but will now test cars developed specifically for self-driving 2014 Event Peshmerga fighters have occupied part of Sinjar Mountain, retaking the territory from ISIS militants; around 1,500 Yazidi families, trapped on the mountain, have been liberated 2011 Event New Zealand's highest mountain, the south ridge of Aoraki/Mount Cook, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Mt. Everest 2002 Event Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128 2002 Event Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119 2001 Event Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland 1995 Death Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56 1995 Event Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain 1994 Event B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed 1994 Event Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain 1994 Event Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 1993 Event Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed 1993 Event Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed 1993 Event Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 1992 Event Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141 1992 Event Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies 1992 Event Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die 1991 Event Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei 1991 Event Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic 1990 Event Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic 1989 Event U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die 1988 Event New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) 1987 Death James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63 1985 Event -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record) 1983 Death Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies 1982 Event Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die 1981 Event 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain 1981 Event Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed 1980 Birthday Jake Gyllenhaal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, appeared in films, 'The Day After Tomorrow', 'Jarhead', 'Brokeback Mountain' 1975 Birthday Aron Ralston, born in America, mountain climber, motivational speaker, forced to amputate his right arm to free and save himself, when trapped by a boulder in Utah 1975 Event Space Mountain opens at Disneyland 1973 Event Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon 1972 Birthday Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain' 1972 Event Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) 1972 Event 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche 1972 Event Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 1972 Event Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia 1971 Birthday Laura Moss, Kings Mountain, Ohio, actress, Amanda Cory-Another World 1971 Birthday Shane Conrad, actress, Cody-High Mountain Rangers 1971 Event Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) 1970 Birthday Camille Spitaleri, born in Mountain View, California, female infielder, Silver Bullets 1970 Birthday Heather Simmons-Carrasco, Mountain View California, synchro swimmer, 1996 Olympics 1969 Event Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain 1969 Birthday Renee Zellweger, born in Katy, Texas, actress, producer, Academy-Award winning film, 'Cold Mountain, other films include 'Jerry Maguire', 'Bridget Jones' Diary' 1968 Death Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53 1967 Birthday Diane Madl, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, field hockey forward/midfielder 1996 Olympics 1967 Event Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center 1967 Event 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California 1967 Birthday Juli Furtado, born in New York City, mountain cyclist, world champion 1991, 92 1967 Event 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1966 Birthday Chantal Daucourt, born in Bienne, Switzerland, mountain cyclist, world-bronze-95 1966 Birthday Melissa McNamara, Tulsa, Oklahoma, LPGA golfer, 1991 Stratton Mountain Classic 1965 Event 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia 1964 Birthday Christian Conrad, actor, Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers 1963 Birthday Jeff Brehaut, born in Mountain View, California, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd 1960 Birthday William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician, Shamen-Move Any Mountain 1958 Event Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain 1955 Event Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open 1952 Birthday Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music 1950 Death John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies 1949 Birthday Randy Owen, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music 1949 Birthday Jeff Cook, Fort Payne, Alabama, country guitar/vocalist, Alabama - Mountain Music 1948 Birthday Corky Laing, rocker, Mountain 1945 Birthday Tammi Terrell, Montgomery, singer, Ain't No Mountain High Enough 1945 Event Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York 1944 Death Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78 1944 Birthday Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest 1943 Birthday John Denver, New Mexico, singer, 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Thank God He's a Country Boy' 1943 Birthday Ral Donner, Ralph Stuart, Black Mountain, North Carolina, singer, Starfires 1941 Birthday Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest 1938 Event Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers 1937 Event Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain 1935 Birthday Jakusho Kwong, Santa Rosa California, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center 1934 Birthday John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber, Annapurna I in 1970 1934 Event Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement 1930 Birthday Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems 1929 Birthday Jim Whittacker, mountain climber, 1st American to climb Mount Everest 1926 Event Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner 1925 Event Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran 1922 Event Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless 1922 Event Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball 1921 Event AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 1921 Event Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR 1921 Event Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball 1920 Event Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner 1917 Event -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) 1915 Event Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established 1910 Event Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed 1908 Birthday Gerd Gaiser, German writer, Ship in the Mountain 1907 Event 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins 1907 Event 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4 1906 Event Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time 1904 Birthday Dick Powell, Mountain View, Arkansas, actor, Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater 1903 Event Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta) 1895 Birthday Anita Stewart, New York, actress, South of Hell Mountain 1886 Event Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia 1886 Event Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia 1886 Birthday George Mallory, England, mountain climber, "because it is there" 1866 Birthday Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball 1864 Event Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid) 1864 Event Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia 1864 Event Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha 1863 Event Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee 1863 Event Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia 1862 Event Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Event Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap) 1862 Event Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain) 1861 Event Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 1861 Event Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats 1861 Event Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels 1861 Event Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender 1850 Birthday Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat 1822 Event 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain 1804 Birthday James Bridger, scout, fur trader and mountain man par excellance 1797 Event 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead) 1780 Event British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC 1777 Event Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits 1775 Event Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution 1632 Death Frederick V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain), dies at 36 1620 Event Battle of White Mountain, Prague 1609 Death Johan Willem, duke of Julich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies 1596 Birthday Frederik V, king of Bohemia, White Mountain 1568 Birthday Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg, Battle of White Mountain 1540 Event Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so 1296 Death Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies
