2015 Hackers steal personal data for about 100,000 taxpayers after breaking into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service system that allows taxpayers to retrieve previous tax returns; the data can be used to file tax refund claims and commit identity theft 2014 The Malaysian government has released the last transmission from Malaysian Air Flight 370; the data confirm that the plane was last located over the eastern Indian Ocean; over a year of mapping and search may be needed before remnants might be found 2014 The Nigerian government announces that it has located the 270-plus girls abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram, but it cannot rescue the girls yet due to fears that the abductors will kill them if the military attempts a direct confrontation 2013 At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the French film, 'Blue is the Warmes Colour' wins the Palme d'Or 2013 The movie, 'Fast & Furious 6' opens in 59 countries, including the U.S. and Canada, grossing an estimated $122 million 2012 Voters in Lesotho, a landlocked country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, go to the polls for a general election 2012 The Vatican confirms that Pope Benedict XVI's butler was arrested for allegedly leading confidential documents 2011 The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly votes against funding for ground troops in Libya 2011 About 193,000 people are without power after severs storms struck the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia 1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton 1997 Sammy Sosa (Cubs) and Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park home runs 1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 66 performances 1996 Indianapolis 500 race 1996 Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game 1996 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) 1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time 1993 Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich 1993 Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run 1992 Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run 1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour 1991 Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1990 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1990 Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio 1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1988 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games 1987 Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe 1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka 1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail 1987 William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA 1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin 1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die 1985 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia 1984 Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die 1983 29th Walker Cup: U.S., 13 -10 1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 1983 Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws 1983 NASA launches Exosat 1983 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1982 Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" 1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters 1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6 1979 Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45 1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City 1977 George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center 1977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts 1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes 1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled 1974 Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic 1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution 1973 Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1 1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) 1973 Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 1973 Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 1973 Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres 1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1972 Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord 1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance 1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth 1969 John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at U.S. consulate in Hue South-Vietnam 1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK 1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes 1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect 1964 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances 1963 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 1963 Organization of African Unity forms 1963 Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader 1962 "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances 1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta 1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th 1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 1958 Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark 1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 1956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 1955 "7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 44 performances 1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election 1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade 1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die 1951 Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers 1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy 1946 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball 1946 Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague 1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia 1946 Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb 1945 U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo 1944 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise 1943 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) 1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam 1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London 1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star 1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia 1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck 1941 German occupiers begin youth labor 1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk 1938 House on un-American Activities forms 1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms 1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens 1936 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends 1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago 1933 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms 1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St. Louis Cardinals 1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo 1930 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway 1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution 1928 A's commit 7 errors and lose to Yankees 7-4 1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution 1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery 1925 Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139) 1924 German government of Marx resigns 1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration 1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run 1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg 1922 Lenin suffers a stroke 1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia 1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st home run out of Braves Field 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England 1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (New York City) 1911 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run 1907 Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits New York Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game 1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms 1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" 1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa 1898 32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32 1898 San Francisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities 1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) 1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned 1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player 1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state 1884 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 and 7-3 vs. England XI in 4 hours 1883 11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42 1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration 1874 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56 1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote 1865 Battle of Galveston, Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith 1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia 1864 Territory of Montana formed 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South 1861 Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama 1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy 1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates 1824 Brazil is recognized by U.S. 1805 Lewis and Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains 1805 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy 1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara 1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress 1781 Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia 1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat French 1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony 1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven, Connecticut kills 500 indians 1596 England, France and Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain 1538 Geneve throws out Calvijn 1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII 961 German King Otto II crowned
