2015 Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina, supports removal of the Confederate flag from state grounds; however, the state legislature must first overturn a law requiring the flag to be flown at the Confederate Soldier Monument 2014 The Pyu Ancient Cities in Myanmar and the Shahr-i-Sokhta (Burnt City) in Iran have been named World Heritage sites; the Myanmar cities were active from 200 B.C. to 900 A.D.; the Iranian city was active primarily from 3200 B.C. to about 1800 B.C. 2014 The week-long cease-fire in the Ukraine has been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who urged separatist fighters to stop fighting and instead hold discussions with the Ukrainian government 2013 UNESCO officially names Mount Fuji a World Heritage Site 2013 The Canterbury Region of New Zealand experiences the worst flooding in 20 years; Leeston and Lyttelton are the towns hardest hit 2012 The Sudanese city of Khartoum requires security forces to break up anti-austerity protests 2012 The Philippines lends $1 billion to the International Monetary Fund 2011 People's Republic of China officials warn that the the 2011 China floods will likely raise the price of food 2011 South Korea states it plans to build a new resettlement center for North Korean refugees 2010 Kurdish rebels claim responsibility for a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey; five people were killed and twelve people injured 2002 Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran 1997 Ernie Els wins golf's Buick Classic 1997 Nationwide Senior Golf Championship 1997 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International 1997 World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24 1996 29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain and Ireland, 11 - 6 1996 Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavywgt boxing title 1996 Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut 1994 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3 1994 Ken Griffey, Jr. breaks Ruth's record for most home runs by end of June (31) 1994 Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253 1994 U.S. beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950) 1993 New York Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose 1992 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg ID'ed as Czar Nicholas II and wife 1992 Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights 1991 "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 88 performances 1991 Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft 1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines 1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium 1990 Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with General Manager Bobby Cox 1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit 1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yankees beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns 1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with New York Mets 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International 1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections 1985 "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 79 performances 1985 "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12 1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins 1984 Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins 1984 Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30) 1984 Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO 1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France 1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle 1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period 1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes 1982 Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place 1982 Prince Chuck and Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital 1982 Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss 1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2 1981 Iran president Bani Sadr deposed 1981 John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon 1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1979 Little Richard quits rock and roll for religious pursuit 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio 1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois 1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 1977 Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released 1976 "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 527 performances 1976 San Diego Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk 1975 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic 1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water 1973 George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" 1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land 1972 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 140 performances 1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18 1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional 1970 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting 1969 Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire 1969 Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic 1968 "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88 1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens 1965 Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, vs. New Zealand at Lord's 1963 "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips" 1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft 1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed 1961 Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo 1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg 1959 "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9 1959 "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 1959 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games 1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax) 1959 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to San Francisco voyage 1958 Game in Kansas City between A's and Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado 1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open 1955 Antonio Segni forms government in Italy 1955 U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea 1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands 1951 Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio 1949 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title 1947 Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn) 1946 Alec Bedser takes 7-49 vs. India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket 1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn 1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters 1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms 1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation 1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states 1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1941 Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk" 1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms 1940 SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands 1939 Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip 1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium 1937 Joe Louis KOs James J. Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title 1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee and survives 1936 Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act 1933 German social-democratic party, SPD, forbidden 1932 NL, finally approves players wearing numbers 1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms 1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 home runs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader 1929 Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader 1926 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs 1925 Spain and France fight Morocco 1921 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2) 1918 32nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63) 1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68, Ivanhoe, Illinois 1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service 1911 King George V of England crowned 1910 1st Zeppelin with passengers sets afloat 1906 Hakon VII crowned king of Norway 1894 Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner 1893 British fleet under Vice-Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut 1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss 1875 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000 1874 Dr. Andrew T Sill, of Macon Missouri, finds science of osteopathy 1874 Game of lawn tennis introduced 1873 Prince Edward Island joins Canada 1870 1st Boardwalk in America invented 1870 Congress creates Department of Justice 1868 Arkansas re-enters U.S. 1865 1st class cricket debut of Dr. W. G. Grace 1864 Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia, Wilson's Raid 1864 Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia 1851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco 1849 Stephen C. Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California 1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for president 1847 Doughnut created 1832 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine 1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) 1814 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC vs. Herefordshire 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia 1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 1799 England and Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic 1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000) 1774 English parliament accepts Quebec Act 1772 Slavery outlawed in England 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland 1740 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) 1611 Henry Hudson and son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers 1596 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java 1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted 1533 Ferdinand of Austria and Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty 1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath 1476 Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland 1377 Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England 1342 Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning) 816 Pope Stephen IV, V, elected to succeed Leo III 431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
