2015 Pope Francis issues an encyclical, 'Laudato Si' (Praise Be), urging action to protect Earth from pollution and climate change; the document was issued with the intention of influencing the U.N. Climate Summit later this year 2014 Internet retailer Amazon, Inc. releases its own 'Fire' smart phone; the phone will allow users to connect directly to Amazon.com to shop for items they scan or identify in video and audio clips on the device 2014 Last year's World Cup victor Spain is defeated by Chile in the tournament today, eliminating the champion team's chances for a second title 2013 The biggest version of Boeing's Dreamliner plane, the 787-10, debuts at the Paris Air show; over 100 orders, worth over $30 billion, are placed 2013 New data reveals that over 280 previously unknown craters exist on the Moon 2012 Sequoia, IMB's Blue Gene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy becomes the world's fastest supercomputer 2012 Following the death of Crown Prince, Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz becomes Saudi Arabia's heir apparent 2011 Oil prices hit $93 per barrel, a four-month low 2011 The NOAA declares 2011 one of the most extreme weather years on record 2010 Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people 2009 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS is launched by NASA to probe the Moon 2000 100th U.S. Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links California 1995 95th U.S. Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY 1995 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament 1994 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec) 1994 Gay Games open in New York City 1994 U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup 1993 Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games 1993 Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England 1992 Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr 1992 Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft 1992 Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft 1991 Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S. 1991 Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80 1991 San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated 1991 Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays 1990 1st ever loss for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, U.S.S.R. - 4 Cameroon - 0 1990 1st sudden death U.S. Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin 1989 "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater New York City after 60 performances 1989 89th U.S. Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC New York 1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion 1989 John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo 1989 Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1988 Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run 1987 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon 1986 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon 1986 De Havilland Twin Otter and Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25 1986 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games 1986 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) 1986 Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs vs. Gibraltar, ICC Trophy 1985 Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs 1984 84th U.S. Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York 1983 "Pump Boys and Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater New York City after 573 performances 1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st U.S. woman 1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City 1982 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations 1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote 1981 Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss 1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court 1981 Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, vs. England at Trent Bridge 1981 Vaccine to prevent hoof and mouth disease announced 1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi premieres 1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa 1980 Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec 1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon 1979 President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty 1979 Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset 1978 78th U.S. Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic 1978 Victor de la Torre wins Peru election 1977 Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation 1977 Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub 1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 1976 Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000 pounds 1976 St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park home runs 1976 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, and Vida Blue to Yankees 1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers 1975 Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi vs. England 1975 NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio 1974 Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government 1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants 1972 72nd U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach California 1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 1972 West Germany wins soccer world championship 1972 U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws 1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing 1967 67th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey 1967 Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California 1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open 1964 African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar 1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school 1961 CBS radio cancels "Gunsmoke" 1961 KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open 1960 "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 472 performances 1960 60th U.S. Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver 1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) 1960 Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1 1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to U.S. 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada 1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal 1955 "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 85 performances 1954 Pierre Mendes-France forms French government 1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president 1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen 1953 Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits and Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3 1951 De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election 1950 Cleveland Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2 1949 "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 180 performances 1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights 1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time 1948 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates 1948 U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights 1947 Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason 1944 Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris 1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m 1941 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany 1940 General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers 1940 German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs and chickens 1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour" 1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season 1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin 1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power 1934 U.S. Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized 1927 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6 1926 Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover 1924 Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque 1916 Yankees score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3 1915 21st U.S. Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey 1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) 1910 16th U.S. Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Philadelphia Cricket Club PA 1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women 1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York 3-months later 1900 Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners 1900 General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy 1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey 1898 4th U.S. Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass 1894 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate 1892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii 1879 W. H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage 1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President 1872 Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall 1864 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults 1863 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg 1839 Dutch prince Willem Alexander PFL weds niece Princess Sophia 1837 Spain gets new Constitution 1822 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined 1821 Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin) 1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher 1812 War of 1812 begins as U.S. declares war against Britain 1779 French fleet occupies St. Vincent 1778 British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia 1757 Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia 1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1643 Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies 1639 Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war 1629 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape 1583 Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383 pounds 1580 States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship 1574 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland 1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland 1538 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I 1529 Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII and Catharina of Aragon 1316 Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark and Luikse towns 1178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno 1178 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation) 1155 Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor 860 Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
