2015 The U.S. state of Hawaii raises the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, the highest smoking age among all the states 2014 The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has canceled trademarks of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name and trademarks are 'offensive to Native Americans'; the team has been under pressure for years to change its name 2014 Prince Felipe of Spain is coronated as King Felipe VI, following his father's abdication over two weeks ago; the simple ceremony sought to avoid displays of extravagance in a nation suffering high unemployment and growing disinterest in the monarchy 2013 Microsoft takes negative feedback into account, and announces plans to change many features of its Xbox One 2012 While Greece struggles to overcome its economic crisis, Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's New Democratic party, negotiates with political rivals to form a coalition government 2012 In the Najran Province of Saudi Arabia, a man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft 2011 The 2011 Paris Air Show features the international debut of the new Boeing 747-8 2011 For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea 2010 Rival clashes between nomadic groups in the Darfur region of Sudan kills at least 48 people 2000 NBA Finals, Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, Dallas Stars beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 1997 "Forever Tango!," opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City 1995 New York Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry 1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 50 performances 1994 "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City after 294 performances 1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort New York City after 72 performances 1994 94th U.S. Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa 1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia 1994 Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament 1994 Tigers tie record of hitting home runs in 25th consecutive games 1993 Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* vs. England at Lord's 1993 Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe 1992 "Batman Returns" opens 1992 Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavywgt boxing title 1992 Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in New York City 1992 Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South Africa 1992 New York Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards 1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie 1991 Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police 1991 New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987 1990 Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark 1989 Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37) 1988 88th U.S. Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass 1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie 1988 Namphy takes control of Haitian government 1988 Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1988 World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long 1988 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hours 20 minutes 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed 1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer 1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation 1987 Ben and Jerry Ice Cream and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia 1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup 1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th home run to move into 10th place 1984 "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair 1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Nightline 1983 "Octopussy" premieres in US 1983 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified 1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit 1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa 1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched 1980 Battle between police and demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed 1979 In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank manager 1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect 1978 "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St. New York City for 1577 performances 1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip 1978 Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling 1977 77th U.S. Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa 1977 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic 1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st U.S. male saint 1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 home runs, all against Yankees 1976 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath 1976 U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth 1974 Kansas City Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0 1974 Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen, suspends constitution 1973 "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London 1973 Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 1972 Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in New York and Florida 1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer 1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance 1970 A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election 1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published 1970 Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days 1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign 1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army 1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open 1965 Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired 1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia 1964 Bob Dylan completes U.K. tour 1964 Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth 1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen 1963 Greek government of Pipinolis forms 1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth 1961 "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23 1961 Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer 1961 Kuwait declares independence from U.K. 1961 New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 home runs 1961 U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God 1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open 1960 Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl" 1960 Juan Marichal debuts as San Francisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter 1956 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films 1955 55th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF 1955 Mickey Mantle hits career home run # 100 1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history 1954 54th U.S. Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey 1954 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open 1954 Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros 1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council 1953 WCSouth Carolina TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 WTPennsylvania (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast 1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host 1948 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel 1948 U.S.S.R. blocks access road to West Berlin 1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca 1946 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn 1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down 1944 French troops free Elba 1944 Heavy air raid on U.S. fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot" 1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China 1943 "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones and City Slickers peaks at #19 1943 NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5) 1942 Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits 1941 Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal 1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani 1941 U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act 1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago 1940 German 7th Armour division under General-Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg 1940 Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris 1938 Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH 1938 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th 1937 Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques 1936 Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl 1936 German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis 1936 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown 1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created 1933 Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations 1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR 1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct 1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry 1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6) 1923 "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts 1923 Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2) 1921 Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews 1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor 1914 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club 1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A and L State College 1910 1st airship in service "Germany" 1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) 1894 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56 1893 Lizzie Bordon acquitted 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip" 1881 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan 1875 Formal opening of U.S. Marine Hospital at Presidio 1868 Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC 1867 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05 1865 Siege of Richmond, Virginia 1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas 1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France 1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia 1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia, 100+ casualties 1862 Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories 1861 Anaheim Post Office established 1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia 1850 Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina 1848 Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention 1846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 1835 New Orleans gives U.S. government Jackson Square to be used as a mint 1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) 1825 Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres 1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge 1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established 1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies and Iroquois indians 1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king 1631 Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua 1621 Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece 1588 Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna 1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina 1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater 1502 Emperor Maximilian I and England sign treaty of Antwerp 1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service 1369 Duke Philip the Stout marries Margaretha van Male 1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim 1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame 1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne 987 Louis IV, crowned king of France
