2015 Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding; Greece has a deadline of tomorrow to repay USD $336 million of its existing debt 2014 President Barack Obama exchanges 5 Guantanamo Bay prisoners for the lone U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl; some lawmakers protest that the secret exchange was illegal because Congress was not notified in advance 2014 A memorial event was held in Hong Kong in remembrance of lives lost in Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989; authorities on the mainland tightened security and may be detaining many in order to avoid commemorative protests at the square itself 2013 U.S. growth in imports outpaces its growth in exports, causing the U.S. trade deficit to widen 8.5% during the month of April 2013 The 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation is commemorated by thousands at Westminster Abbey 2012 A pop concert celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee takes place at Buckingham Palace, featuring artists Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, among others 2012 On the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, China blocks internet access to terms related to the event 2011 Li Na becomes the first Asian tennis player to win a major title winning the 2011 French Open; Li Na is from the People's Republic of China 2011 In Hong Kong, tens of thousands gather in Tiananmen Square to remember victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests 2010 Joran van der Sloot is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges of killing a Peruvian woman; he is suspected of killing Natalie Holloway in Aruba 2000 Tony Awards, Copenhagen, Contact, The Real Thing revival, and Kiss Me Kate revival won major awards 1995 "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden New York City at 347 perf 1995 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! and Sunset Boulevard win 1995 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000 1995 Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic 1994 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96) 1992 San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium 1992 USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp 1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania 1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church 1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders 1991 Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union 1990 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Patty Loveless 1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy 1990 Los Angeles Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves 1990 New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 1990 Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die 1989 2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000 1989 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles and Jerome Robbin's Broadway win 1989 Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping 1989 Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland 1989 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s 1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary 1989 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International 1989 Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway 1988 "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 262 performances 1988 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win 1988 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60) 1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone 1988 Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6) 1988 Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee 1987 Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins 1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court 1985 STS-51-G vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law 1984 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers 1984 Arnold Palmer fails to make U.S. Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs 1984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA" 1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal 1984 New York Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1 1983 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) 1982 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA 1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon 1981 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus 1979 South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal 1979 Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons 1978 "Working" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 25 performances 1978 32nd Tony Awards: Da and Ain't Misbehavin' win 1978 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner 1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections 1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 1975 Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina 1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks 1974 Never-to-be-repeated 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs 1974 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th 1973 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) 1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard 1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open 1972 Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3) 1971 Joseph Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO 1971 Oakland A's beat Washington Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings 1971 Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours 1970 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant 1970 San Diego Padres draft Mike Ivie #1 1970 Tonga, formerly Friendly Islands, declares independence from U.K. 1970 WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting 1970 Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days 1969 Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US 1969 Nicky Hopkins quits rock and rolls, Jeff Beck Group 1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft 1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings 1967 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts and Lucy Ball 1967 KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational 1967 Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series 1967 Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) 1966 "Batman and His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70 1966 Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras 1966 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6 1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" 1964 Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark 1964 Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0 1964 Maldives adopts constitution 1964 Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott vs. Australia at Trent Bridge, 48 1963 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler 1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to U.S. 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open 1958 French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1958 San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch home runs 1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation 1957 May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs 1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public 1955 "Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC 1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m 1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union 1953 Pittsburgh trades outfielder Ralph Kiner and Joe Garagiola to Chicago 1951 Mississippi Valley State University founded 1951 Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 1950 CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election 1950 Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25) 1949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950 1947 "Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater New York City after 4 performances 1947 House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act 1946 Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed 1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa 1945 U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day 1944 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 1944 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies 1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London 1943 Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron 1943 St. Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter 1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II 1942 Capitol Record Co. opens for business 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island 1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z 1940 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1) 1940 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2) 1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops 1940 German forces enter Paris 1940 The synthetic rubber tire unveiled 1940 Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans" 1938 10th Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 4 1938 70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6 1937 Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France 1932 64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8 1932 Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France 1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie in Rochester, New York 1927 1st Ryder Cup: U.S. beats England, 9 -2 at Worcester CC Mass 1927 Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style 1920 Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary 1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill 1919 U.S. Marines invade Costa Rica 1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) 1917 American men begin registering for the draft 1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated 1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack 1913 Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse 1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses 1912 Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law 1907 Automatic washer and dryer introduced 1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit 1892 Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die 1892 Sierra Club forms in San Francisco 1884 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42 1878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens 1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname 1870 4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59 1868 Van Bosse/Fock government begins 1862 Confederates evacuate Ft. Pillow, Tennessee 1850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized 1850 Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England 1845 Mexican - U.S. war starts 1832 3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia 1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium 1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City 1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory" 1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute 1800 White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in 1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers 1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain 1789 U.S. constitution goes into effect 1784 Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon 1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon, unmanned 1756 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania 1745 Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Prussia beats Austria 1745 Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons 1741 Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg 1666 Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet 1664 Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans 1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner 1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo 1487 Lord Lovell and John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire 1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery 1133 Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor 1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
