2012 Event Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Cabinet of Japan approves a bill placing a 40-year cap on the life of nuclear reactors 2011 Event The Tokyo Electric Power Company together with the Government of Japan will not cap compensation payments resulting from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents 1994 Event Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players 1994 Event Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights 1990 Event At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!" 1987 Event Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion) 1977 Event Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders 1967 Birthday Bruny Surin, born in Cap Haitien, Haiti, Canadian 4X100m sprinter, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics 1958 Birthday Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, actress 1950 Event Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung 1947 Birthday Francisca "Cisca" Beaudoux, actress, 2 Under a Cap 1945 Event German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed 1941 Event U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes 1937 Birthday Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut, STS 41B, STS-31 1936 Event Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip 1932 Birthday Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti, 1986-88 1930 Birthday Joe Solomon, cricketer, WI batsman of 50's Cap fell on wkt vs. Australia 1925 Event Ty Cobb hits his 5th home run in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884 1919 Event Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap 1915 Death Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73 1914 Event Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000 1897 Event Cap Anson, is 1st to get 3,000 hits 1892 Event Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) 1889 Event Dan Rylands patents screw cap 1842 Birthday Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher 1816 Event French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1745 Event English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River 1642 Event Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
