2015 Harriette Thompson, at 92 years and three months, becomes the oldest person to finish a marathon, beating the previous record holder of 92 years and 19 days 2014 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, advises other nations to be cautious in recognizing the new Palestinian government, formed by agreement between Islamist rival groups Fatah and Hamas; Hamas plans to maintain its anti-Zionist stance 2014 India has officially divided the state of Andhra Pradesh to create the nation's 29th state, Telangana; Hyderabad will act as joint capital for both states for the next decade; K. Chandrasekhara Rao will serve as Telangana prime minister 2013 Russia enacts a country-wide smoking ban, effecting most public places 2013 The U.S. asks China for a detailed account of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square 2012 In Tokyo, direct trading begins between the Japanese yuan and the Chinese yuan 2012 Madonna begins her MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, the first of more than 65 cities she will perform at worldwide 2011 According to the UN, 2 million adolescents in the world live with HIV; 86 per cent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa 2011 The U.S. announces it will boycott an anti-racism conference at the United Nations due to concerns over anti-Semetism 2010 The transcript of the flight data recorders from the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash that killed 96 Polish officials and intellectuals is published 2009 En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board 2005 Dutch reject a referendum on the E.U. constitution 2001 The heir to the Nepalese throne killed his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride 1997 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186 1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens 1997 51st Tony Awards: Titanic and Last Night of Ballyhoo win 1997 Ameritech Senior Golf Open 1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic 1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race 1997 Heartland LPGA Classic 1997 Los Angeles Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked 1997 Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par 1996 MTV Movie Awards 1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square 1995 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis 1995 Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39 1994 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts 1994 General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery 1994 Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai 1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News 1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army 1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi 1992 America West Arena opens in Phoenix 1992 Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games 1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves 1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years 1991 Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later 1990 "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 56 performances 1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting 1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974 1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97 1989 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator 1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house 1989 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson granted final divorce in New Jersey 1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles 1988 "Morton Downey, Jr. Show," debuts in TV syndication 1988 Train crash in Zeeland, Netherlands, kills 2 1987 Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530) 1986 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley 1986 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport and Mystery of Edwin Drood win 1985 "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12 1985 Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 vs. Warwicks cricket 1985 Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP 1984 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner 1984 KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD 1984 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles 1984 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of U.S.S.R. snatches a record 211 kg 1982 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year 1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network 1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa 1980 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California 1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship 1980 Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run 1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting 1979 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1 1979 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier 1979 Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City 1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir" 1978 Cricket Test debut of David Gower, vs. Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58 1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten 1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution 1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1977 South Carolina Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen 1975 "Chicago" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 947 performances 1975 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth 1975 California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Baltimore Orioles, 1-0 1975 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts 1975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist 1974 "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12 1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK 1973 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold 1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" 1973 Paul McCartney and Wings release "Live and Let Die" 1972 Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa 1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader 1971 "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden New York City for 31 performances 1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS 1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1 1970 Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four" 1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days 1970 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player and swallows his tongue 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV 1968 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2 1968 Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1 1967 Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.S. and goes gold 1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C. 1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 1966 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic 1966 Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW 1965 A Penzias and R Wilson detect 3 degrees K primordial background radiation 1965 coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 1963 "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17 1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya 1963 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit 1962 Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade 1962 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m 1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard 1960 "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances 1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting 1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) 1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election 1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open 1957 1st U.S. runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) 1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia 1954 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2) 1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, California (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament 1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index 1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) 1951 International Cheese treaty signed 1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast 1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) 1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence 1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting 1949 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz wed for the second time 1949 Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered 1948 Israel and Arabs agree to a cease fire 1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands 1947 Photosensitive glass developed 1946 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8 1946 Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse 1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minnesota changes call letters to KUOM 1944 General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth 1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die 1943 Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game 1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hour record) 1941 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq 1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications 1941 Germany occupies Kreta 1941 New York Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th home run and his 1,500th RBI 1940 Coffee and tea rationed in Holland 1940 General-major Bernard Montgomery returns to London 1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard 1939 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer 1939 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2) 1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard 1939 Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service 1938 Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters 1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1 1937 Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St. Louis Browns, 8-0 1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier 1936 "Lux Radio Theater" moved from New York City to Hollywood 1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in New York 1935 Yankees set solo home run record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 1934 AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar 1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago 1933 Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard 1932 Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren 1931 Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg 1930 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61) 1930 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61) 1930 Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine 1930 Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia vs. Hampshire, 240 minutes, 26 fours 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games) 1923 New York Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning 1921 Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed 1920 RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam 1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden 1918 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis 1918 White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play 1917 Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I 1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun 1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England 1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) 1912 Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden 1911 1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey 1910 South Carolina Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle 1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of U.S., which took 357 days 1907 -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon 1902 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms 1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South Africa 1899 Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper in Grace's last 1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha 1893 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) 1890 U.S. census at 62,622,250 1888 California gets its 1st seismograph 1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange 1880 1st pay telephone installed 1880 U.S. census at 50,155,783 1877 Society of American Artists forms 1877 U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico 1872 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58 1869 Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison 1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin 1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft. Erie, Ontario from U.S. 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) 1864 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English 1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties) 1862 General Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 1862 Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions 1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia 1861 British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War 1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia 1861 U.S. and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange 1855 U.S. adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery 1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days 1843 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester New York and Cleveland Ohio 1843 Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist 1836 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown 1835 6th national black convention in Philadelphia 1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street 1813 Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" 1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home 1808 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from U.S. 1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th U.S. state 1794 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French 1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th U.S. state 1789 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) 1774 Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed 1746 French troops conquer Antwerp 1679 Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish 1670 English king Charles II and French king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (New York) 1649 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow 1641 France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant 1638 1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass 1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt 1568 Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels 1562 Emperor Ferdinand and Sultan Suleiman signs treaty 1533 Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England 1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief 1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller 1459 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua 1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
