2015 Event Stock markets around the world fall after China reports a low value for its purchasing managers' index, suggesting that the nation's economy is slowing; in the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops by 470 points 2015 Event Stock markets around the world fall drastically due to concerns about an economic slowdown in China; the Dow Jones falls 1,000 points, closing down 588 points, while the Shanghai composite closes down 8.5% 2015 Event Australian golfer Jason Day wins the PGA Championship with a score of 20 under par; American Jordan Spieth wins second place, resulting in a rank of #1 in the world, replacing Northern Irish golf champ Rory McIlroy 2015 Event Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asserts Japan's continued pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons as the city of Nagasaki commemorates the 70th anniversary of its destruction by atomic bombing 2015 Event Kazumi Matsui, mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, calls upon world leaders to free the world of nuclear weapons during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city 2015 Event Water pollution in Rio de Janeiro may pose health hazards to participants in the Summer 2016 Olympics; the World Health Organization has asked the International Olympic Committee to expand its list of tested substances to protect the athletes 2015 Event The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has taken back Floyd Mayweather's welterweight title belt, won after his recent victory over Manny Pacquiao; WBO stripped the title after Mayweather failed to pay a $200,000 fee and vacate his existing titles 2015 Event UNESCO has added new sites to its World Heritage list, including the regions of Champagne and Burgundy in France, both Susa and the cultural setting of Maymand in Iran, and the Singapore Botanical Gardens, among others 2015 Event HSBC bank announces plans to let go up to 8,000 workers in the U.K. and potentially up to 25,000 around the world as it restructures itself to improve profitability 2015 Event World leaders at the latest G7 meeting reinforce their commitments to reduce carbon-based emissions, reaffirm support for sanctions against Russia in light of the Ukraine conflict, and discuss issues related to Greece's debt load 2015 Event Construction workers discover an unexploded bomb from World War II near Wembley Stadium in London; after evacuations near the site, explosives specialists safely defused and removed the threat 2015 Event Two art works set world records at a Christie's auction in New York, with Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers Version O' selling for $160 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Pointing Man' selling for $141.3 million 2015 Event The World Health Organization declares Liberia free of the Ebola virus after a period of 42 days with no new cases, which is twice the normal quarantine duration; over 4,700 people perished in the nation during the epidemic 2015 Event The world's oldest living person, Gertrude Weaver of the U.S., dies at age 116, just five days after the death of the previous record holder, Misao Okawa of Japan, who died at age 117 2015 Event The last Ebola patient in Liberia, a 58-year-old English teacher, has been released; the nation will be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization if no new cases of the virus emerge in the next 42 days 2015 Event The four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta have been put on display at the British Library in London; access is limited to scholars and to 1,215 viewers from all over the world who were selected by lottery 2015 Event New Zealand professional golfer Lydia Ko, age 17, becomes the youngest No. 1 ranked golfer in the world, beating the record set by Tiger Woods in 1997 at age 21 2015 Event Officials at the World Health Organization state that the number of new Ebola cases is rapidly declining, signaling a reversal of the epidemic; however, preventive measures and safety protocols are still needed in Ebola-infected nations 2015 Event American skier Lindsey Vonn wins her 63rd World Cup, setting a new record after 35 years; the previous record of 62 wins was held by Austrian skier Annemarie Moser-Proell 2014 Event Private car scheduling service Uber has been meeting with opposition as it rapidly expands into cities around the world; complaints range from insufficient driver background checks to violation of rules protecting existing transportation services 2014 Event Somalia and North Korea tie for the most corrupt country in the world according to this year's ranking on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 Event The U.N. World Food Program stops assistance to over 1.7 million Syrian refugees in the nations adjoining Syria; the program has provided over $800 million in aid but lacks funds to continue this support 2014 Event Chocolate manufacturers state that a cocoa-pod fungus and dry weather in cocoa-growing regions has created a shortage of cocoa that may increase in the future; world chocolate demand already exceeds production capacity 2014 Event Representatives for the Islamic State announce that the group will begin minting its own currency in order to remove itself from the world financial system, which it considers 'satanic' 2014 Event Botswana doctor Matshidiso Moeti will serve as new director of the World Health Organization office in Africa; Moeti will be instrumental in prevention of additional Ebola outbreaks and in restoration of health care facilities in Ebola-hit nations 2014 Event One World Trade Center opens today, 13 years after terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the original World Trade Center; the tower is one of 5 to be built on the same site and, at 1,773 feet high, is now the tallest building in the United States 2014 Event The World Health Organization reports that the rate of Ebola infection is slowing in Liberia, with hospitals now at less than full capacity; the slowdown is attributed to a campaign to educate citizens on safe burial practices 2014 Event The San Francisco Giants are this year's World Champions of Baseball after winning the World Series over the Kansas City Royals with a score of 3-2; this marks the third title by the Giants in the last 5 years 2014 Event A male of the rare northern white rhino species has been found dead at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya; only six animals remain in the world, of which only one is a breeding male 2014 Event As the Ebola epidemic spreads, the World Health Organization (WHO) has requested Ebola vaccine doses from GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo); the company offered the vaccine to WHO in March, but the offer was rejected because the vaccine had not been tested on humans 2014 Event 17-year-old Katie Ledecky, the current world record holder for fastest 400-meter freestyle, breaks her own record at the Pan Pacific championships 2014 Event Time Warner, Inc. may be offered $75 billion by Twenty-First Century Fox in a proposed merger deal that would create the world's largest media company; Time Warner rejected an earlier proposal by Fox 2014 Event The Netherlands wins over Brazil 3-0 in the World Cup game for third place 2014 Event Argentina beats The Netherlands in the World Cup semifinals with a score of 4-2; the team will play Germany in the final match 2014 Event Germany beats Brazil 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals; the defeat is considered a possible explanation for ensuing incidents of bus burning around Sao Paulo 2014 Event While the world economy is growing, forecasts have been reduced due to weak global investment spending and risks to U.S. growth stemming from potential Federal Reserve attempts to end stimulus efforts 2014 Event Argentina and the Netherlands join Brazil and Germany as World Cup semifinalists 2014 Event After advancing to the World Cup semifinals, Brazil loses star player Neymar, who suffered a broken vertebra after a knee to the back during the Colombia match 2014 Event Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez is thrown out of the World Cup for biting Italian player Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder; Suarez has also been banned from nine international matches and a four-month suspension from playing 2014 Event Lesotho has received funding from the World Bank to continue improving its water supply by enhancing the Metalong Dam and providing water to more areas; the project benefits around 30,000 residents 2014 Event Rebekah Brooks has been declared not guilty, and Editor Andy Coulson has been pronounced guilty in the 'News of the World' phone hacking case 2014 Event 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 Event Last year's World Cup victor Spain is defeated by Chile in the tournament today, eliminating the champion team's chances for a second title 2014 Event Mexico matches Brazil in today's World Cup game, resulting in a 0 - 0 score 2014 Event Costa Rica shocks World Cup fans by beating Uruguay 3-1; The Uruguay team is considered one of the strongest and the Costa Rica team one of the weakest in the competition 2014 Event The World Cup opens in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with Brazil matched against Croatia; Brazil wins the opening game 3 - 1 2014 Event Russia seeks to intimidate Finland out of thoughts of joining NATO; a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that any moves by Finland to do so could potentially trigger World War III 2014 Event The world's oldest man, Alexander Imich, passes away at age 111 in New York; the oldest living woman is currently 116 years old and lives in Japan 2014 Event World leaders gather in France to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day; Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko and others concerning the need to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine 2014 Event The World Trade Organization upheld its November decision to continue banning European imports of seal products on the grounds of concern for the suffering of the hunted animals; the WTO is also reexamining its exception for indigenous hunters 2014 Event Unidentified remains of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack are put to rest in a private depository next to the museum at the World Trade Center Memorial site; the remains will not be accessible or viewable to the public 2014 Event Brazilian police distribute pamphlets to World Cup visitors with instructions on how to behave in the event of a robbery; the advice is meant to protect victims from injury or death during crime 2014 Event Vladimir Putin visits Crimea today for the first time since annexing the region; the visit coincides with a holiday celebrating the U.S.S.R. victory in the Second World War 2014 Event The average monthly world CO2 concentration exceeded 400 ppm in April; the U.N. has set a 450 ppm limit for all greenhouse gases to reduce climate impact; concentrations for CO2 and all greenhouse gases averaged 391 and 430 ppm, respectively, in 2011 2014 Event The World Bank reports that India is now the third-largest economy behind the U.S. and China on the basis of purchasing power parity; India replaces Japan, though Japan remains in third place when GDPs are compared on an exchange-rated basis 2014 Event Dubai International Airport beat London Heathrow Airport in the first quarter of this year as the world's busiest international airport; Dubai Airport hopes to retain this position after a series of expansion projects are completed 2014 Event African Story wins the Dubai World Cup with 12-1 odds, overtaking favored Mukhadram with 14-1 odds; both horses are owned by members of Dubai's Al Maktoum family 2014 Event Beijing issues air pollution warnings, advising limited outdoor activity as particulate concentration (PM 2.5) measures 309, over 12 times the World Health Organization standard 2014 Event The world's largest banana company is created as the Irish fruit company Fyffes merges with U.S. company Chiquita; the new company, ChiquitaFyffes, will trade on the New York Stock Exchange 2014 Event The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site 2014 Event Bill Gates is named the world's richest person in the 'Forbes' annual ranking, with a total net worth of $76 billion; he outranked last year's wealthiest person, Carlos Slim, by $4 billion 2014 Event The world's largest virus to date is discovered in 30,000-year-old Siberian ice; the ancient virus is still able to infect amoebae, its target hosts 2014 Event Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka's world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993 2014 Event The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, now the world's largest solar energy plant, opens in the Mojave Desert; the $2.2 billion plant, owned by Google, NRG Energy, and BrightSource energy, spans five square miles and can provide power to 140,000 homes 2014 Event Leaders from around the world attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 2014 Event Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic, 2008 French Open Champion and former world number one, beats Serena Williams, a five-time Australian Open champion, during the fourth round of the 2014 Australian Open 2014 Event A new world record is achieved by the United Kingdom's Lewis Clarke of Bristol; the 16 year-old becomes the youngest person to trek to the South Pole 2014 Event It is revealed that the National Security Agency, NSA, is using software to spy on nearly 100,000 computers around the world; most of the software is implanted by accessing the Internet, but some technology enables data to be entered or altered through radio wave transmission 2014 Event The World Bank global forecast predicts an increase in growth to 3.2 percent, from 2.4 percent in 2013 2014 Event According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the net worth of the 300 richest people in the world collectively increased by $524 billion; the group has an aggregate net worth of $3.7 trillion 2013 Event Pope Francis gives his Urbi et Orbi speech (to the City of Rome and to the World), a papal address and Apostolic Blessing dating back to Ancient Rome; the Pope calls for peace in Syria and South Sudan 2013 Event In an effort to hunt for terrorists 'hiding in plain sight' online, spies at U.S. surveillance agencies may have spent time playing online games such as 'World of Warcraft', 'Second Life', and may have gathered information on the gaming network, Xbox Live 2013 Event At a World Trade Organization meeting, a trade agreement called the Bali Package is reached; the agreement will lower global trade barriers and will simplify trade deals to better enable poorer states in Bali, Indonesia to sell their goods 2013 Event A special episode of the British science fiction program 'Doctor Who' called, 'The Day of the Doctor' broadcasts simultaneously to 94 countries in celebration of the show's 50th Anniversary; the broadcast earned a Guinness World Record for the largest ever simulcast of a TV drama 2013 Event The Philippines receives a $500 million emergency loan from the World Bank to help the country recover and rebuild in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan 2013 Event A railway under the sea, first proposed by Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid 150 years ago is completed; the sea tunnel, connecting Europe and Asia is the deepest submerged railway tunnel of its kind in the world 2013 Event In Game 3 of the World Series baseball championships, the St. Louis Cardinals score a 2-1 series lead over the Boston Red Sox 2013 Event Libya's ruins of Cyrene, a World Heritage Site near Shahhat, is damaged by real estate developers 2013 Event Footage of the previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is released; the Kawahiva is an indigenous tribe living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and is thought to have had very little contact with the outside world 2013 Event Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium hosts the 2013 World Championships in Athletics 2013 Event In London, the world's first bovine stem cells lab-grown burger is cooked and eaten at a news conference; one food expert said it was 'close to meat, but not that juicy' 2013 Event A training exercise emergency causes two U.S. marine harrier jets to drop several hundred unarmed bombs on the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site 2013 Event UNESCO officially names Mount Fuji a World Heritage Site 2013 Death The world's oldest living person and verified longest lived man ever, Jiroemon Kimura, dies in the city of Kyotango, Japan at age 116 2013 Event Columbia University researchers believe the new material, graphene, even if stitched together, is the strongest material in the world 2013 Event Shuanghui, a Chinese meat processing company, buys Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion; Smithfield was the world's largest meat processing company 2013 Event Guinness World Records records the largest flag ever made, by a village in Romania; the flag of Romania weighs five tons and used 44 miles of thread 2013 Event The World Health Organization announces that the Novel coronavirus 2012, the newly discovered coronavirus, also referred to as Saudi SARS, can be transmitted from person-to-person contact 2013 Event Brazilian Roberto Azevedo is named the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization; he assumes the position September 1, 2013 2013 Event A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years 2013 Event The world's first plastic gun, produced by a 3-D printer by Defense Distributed fires successfully in Austin, Texas. Security officials fear plastic weapons would not be detected at airport screenings 2013 Event Once the world's fastest computer, the IBM Roadrunner, was decommissioned; advances in chip design have surpassed its capabilities 2013 Event Scientists discover that a large amount of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles 2013 Event The 2012-13 Biathlon World Cup ends, with Martin Fourcade winning men's and Tora Berger winning women's overall World Cup titles 2013 Event Estonia becomes the first country in the world to establish a national electric car charging network , with cars charging in less than 30 minutes 2013 Event Bankrupt carrier, American Airlines and U.S. Airways merge, forming the world's largest air carrier, to trade under the name, American Airlines 2013 Event Davos, Switzerland hosts its 2013 World Economic Forum 2013 Event In efforts to turn its back on nuclear power, Japan announces plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Fukushima Prefecture, near the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant 2012 Event At 115 years old and 266 days, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest living person 2012 Event Atlanta IntercontinentalExchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchange in the world 2012 Event The 2012 'World Soccer' Player of the Year award is given to Lionel Messi 2012 Event In ceremonies held at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, is officially inactivated after a 51-year U.S. Naval career 2012 Event In Oklahoma, airport workers discover a painted golden object with a hole in the bottom in the luggage of musician Wayne Coyne; they mistake the object for a live grenade and shut down the Will Rogers World Airport 2012 Event According to the United Nations World Meterological Organisation, greenhouse gases reached record levels in 2011 2012 Event Publishers Penguin and Random House merge to become Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the world 2012 Event Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for human ascent by balloon by space diving 128,100 feet out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico 2012 Event After a strike over working conditions, the world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo Platinum Limited, fires 12,000 people in South Africa 2012 Event The novel coronavirus alert is lifted by the World Health Organization after they determine the virus, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is not highly contagious 2012 Event A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert 2012 Event Japan wins their third title in the 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup 2012 Event Trogloraptor marchingtoni, an unusual spider discovered in 2010 is determined to be a new family of spiders previously unknown in the world of science; the new spider family has been named Trogloraptor, meaning 'cave robber' 2012 Event Jamaican runner Usain Bolt wins his third gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, anchors the sprint relay team to a world record; Bolt is 25 years old and now holds six Olympic gold medals 2012 Event David Rudisha of Kenya becomes the first athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics to set a new world track record and secures the 800m gold medal 2012 Event News that European Union members agree on a deal to help some struggling Eurozone members causes world stock markets to soar 2012 Event During the U.S. selection trials, U.S. track and field athlete Ashton Eaton sets the new world record for the decathlon 2012 Event Sequoia, IMB's Blue Gene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy becomes the world's fastest supercomputer 2012 Event Australia announces its plan to create the largest marine reserve in the world 2012 Event Swedish doctors perform the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant on a 10-year old girl 2012 Event Construction of The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the world's biggest optical telescope is approved 2012 Event A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun 2012 Event A missing piece of the Mayan calendar is discovered, proving the Maya didn't believe 2012 would be the end of the world 2012 Event U.S. researchers report that preventable infections are the leading cause of the world's child mortality rate, where out of 7.6 million children who died before the age of 5 in 21010, 60% died of infections like pneumonia 2012 Event The nearly finished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York City 2012 Event During the second day of evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, Rupert Murdock reveals there was a 'cover-up' at 'News of the World' but that he had no knowledge of it 2012 Event The Vietnamese government asks for help from the World Health Organization after an outbreak of an unidentified fatal disease occurs in Quang Ngai Province 2012 Event Ceremonies and special events marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic are help around the world 2012 Event The American company Apple, Inc. announces it is worth over $600 billion dollars, making the technology company the largest in the world by market capitalization 2012 Event As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil 2012 Event The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history - $500 million dollars 2012 Event World leaders discuss nuclear security during a summit in Seoul, South Korea 2012 Event The U.S. Census Bureau reports the world now has 7 billion people 2012 Event The world's oldest Charles Dickens film, dating from 1901, featuring a depiction of a Bleak House character, is rediscovered by the British Film Institute 2012 Event IBM announces it is on the cusp of creating the world's first quantum computer 2012 Event New Corporation announces its launch of 'The Sun on Sunday' to replace 'News of the World' which shut down due to a phone hacking controversy 2012 Event Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies in the United Kingdom at the age of 110 2011 Event Brazil overtakes the United Kingdom as the world's sixth largest economy 2011 Event The world's oldest performer, Dutch actor and singer Johannes Heesters dies at the age of 108 2011 Event Japan's Government apologizes to Canada for the treatment of its POWs during World War II 2011 Event In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years 2011 Event Tiger Woods wins the Chevron World Challenge, the first tournament he has won in over two years 2011 Event According to the U.N. Population Division, the world population has reached seven billion people 2011 Event A World War II-era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle; 12,000 people are evacuated 2011 Event In Major League Baseball's World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals win Game 1 against the Texas Rangers 2011 Event In Mexico, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, with flights expected to being by 2013 2011 Event Australian Casey Stoner wins the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at the 2011 MotoGP World Championship 2011 Event In Auckland, New Zealand, France defeats Wales 9-8 in the 2011 Rugby World Cup 2011 Event Germany's Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest driver to win the Formula One World Championship twice 2011 Event Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy 2011 Event Kenyan runner, Patrick Makau Musyoki, breaks the world record for the marathon at the Berlin Marathon 2011 Event The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces the 2015 UCI World Championships will be held in Richmond, Virginia 2011 Event The 8th largest search engine in the world, Russia's Yandex, marks its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by expanding into Turkey 2011 Event The 2011 Rugby World Cup begins in New Zealand 2011 Event A new world record is set by Jamaica's 4x100-meter relay team of Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake 2011 Event The world's potentially oldest fossils, thought to be 3.4 billion years old, are found in the Strelley Pool rock formation in Western Australia's outback 2011 Event U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte sets a new world record for the 200-meter individual medley, winning gold at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, People's Republic of China 2011 Event The World Health Organization claims over 5 million Ethiopian are susceptible to developing cholera due to the breakout of acute watery diarrhea 2011 Event U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announces an inquiry into News of the World, allegedly involved in a phone hacking scandal 2011 Event According to a new study, the number of adults in the world with diabetes has doubled since 1980 2011 Event The World Health Organization announces the E. coli strain responsible for the 2011 E.coli O104:H4 outbreak had never before been isolated from patients 2011 Event According to the UN, 2 million adolescents in the world live with HIV; 86 per cent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa 2011 Event After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans 2011 Event Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicts May 21, 2011 at 6:00pm as the date of the Rapture for all Christians around the world 2011 Event Burial services for Claude Choules, aged 110, the last living veteran of World War I, take place in West Australia's port of Fremantle 2011 Event The oldest panda in the world, Ming Ming, dies at the age of 34 in Guangdong, China 2011 Event According to the WHO, leading causes of death in the world include chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes 2011 Event A German naval mine from World War II is discovered and dismantled by BP; removing the bomb avoided potential closure of 16 oil fields 2011 Event At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency 2011 Event The United Nations releases a report stating world food prices are at the highest in 20 years 2011 Event The last surviving veteran of World War I, Frank Buckles, dies in Charles Town, West Virginia at the age of 110 2011 Event The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that world food prices have reached a record high 2011 Event Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens 2011 Event The 41st World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland 2011 Event After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader 2011 Event A plan to prevent the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria is launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) 2010 Event The World Bank officially ends financing Cote d'Ivoire 2010 Event Tibet's Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed, linking Medog county to the outside world 2010 Event While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire 2010 Event The Paris Masters final is won by Sweden's Robin Soderling, a first major win for the player, now ranked fourth in the world of tennis 2010 Event Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed 2010 Event The oldest type of stone axe in the world is dated at 35,500 years old; it was found in Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people 2010 Event American Alexandria Mills, age 18, wins the 60th Miss World pageant in China 2010 Event Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and utilization project, announces its water levels have reached full capacity 2010 Event Shanghai's Expo 2010 attracts over 64 million people, a record-breaking number of visitors in the history of World's Fairs 2010 Event In the Swiss Alps, final breakthrough occurs on the east bore of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now the world's longest railway tunnel 2010 Event Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old 2010 Event Delegates from 120 nations worldwide arrive in China for the 60th Miss World 2010 pageant 2010 Event The world's biggest airline is created when United Airlines shareholders approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines 2010 Event Muslims across the world begin the holy month of Ramadan where they must fast between sunrise and sunset 2010 Event The Census of Marline Life 10-year study reports that 230,000 species of animal live in the world's oceans 2010 Event Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and Sri Lanka's central highlands are added to the World Heritage List 2010 Event The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years 2010 Event Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh is shut down after a student rampage injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever 2010 Event The U.N. environment agency appoints actor Don Cheadle Goodwill Ambassador at a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day 2010 Event Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell 2010 Event United and Continental air lines announce that the two American companies will merge, creating the world's largest airline 2010 Event Iran calls upon Muslims around the world to act in protest in response to Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem 2010 Event The World Food Programme reports that 4.3 million people suffer from hunger in Sudan, the number has quadrupled since 2009 2010 Death Florence Green, the last known female First World War veteran who served with the Women's RAF in 1918, dies at 108 2010 Event China surpasses Germany, becoming the. world's largest exporter 2010 Event The World Food Programme announces it will suspend operations in Somalia due to increased instability in the region 2009 Death Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies 2009 Event More than 2,000 people found in Poland's largest mass grave during World War II are reburied in a military cemetary 2007 Event Burj Dubai becomes the world's largest structure 2007 Event Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization 2006 Event Italy wins the World Cup 5-3 vs. France 2005 Event Steve Fossett flies the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world 2005 Event Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66 2004 Event World Series, Boston Red Sox beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 0 2004 Event World Series, Florida Marlins beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 2 2004 Death Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, formerly world's oldest person in 2004, dies at 114 2004 Death Charlotte Benkner, the world's second oldest person for a few years, dies at 114 2004 Death Norris McWhirter, Guinness World Records curator/commentator, dies at 78 2003 Death Kamato Hongo, old man, world's oldest well-documented man for almost four years, dies at 116 2003 Death "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed 2003 Death "DeVon ""Robot Man"" Smith", world champion hitchhiker, dies at 76 2003 Death Lynne Thigpen, Joliet, Illinois, actress, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Nancy-Love Sidney 2003 Death Lynne Thigpen, actress, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, dies at 54 2003 Death Barry Sheene, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix, dies of esophagus and stomach cancer 2002 Event World Series, Anaheim Angels beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3 2001 Death Tony Miles, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 dies 2001 Event World Series, Arizona Diamondbacks beat New York Yankees 4 games to 3 2000 Event World Series, New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 4 games to 1 2000 Death "Raymond E. Portwood, Jr", game creator, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, dies at 66 2000 Death Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57 2000 Death A. E. van Vogt, writer, The World of Null-A, dies at 87 1999 Event The London Eye, the world's largest Ferris wheel, opens by the banks of the Thames 1999 Death Greg Moore, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series, fatally injured in violent car crash on the 10th lap of the CART season finale 1999 Event World Series, New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 0 1999 Death Hoyt Axton, singer/actor/songwriter, Joy to the World, dies at 61 1999 Death Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 1998 Event World Series, New York Yankees beat San Diego Padres 4 games to 0 1998 Event Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1998 Event World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany 1998 Event World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota 1998 Event World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota 1998 Event World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota 1998 Event World League of American Football becomes NFL East 1998 Event 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver 1998 Event World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life 1997 Event Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH 1997 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away 1997 Event World Series: Florida Marlins beat Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 3 1997 Event Cleveland Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games 1997 Event Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38 degrees F) 1997 Event 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11 1997 Event Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana breaks world record, 318 million distributed 1997 Event Cleveland Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17) 1997 Event 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleveland Indians) 1997 Event David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic 1997 Event Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship 1997 Event Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph 1997 Death Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36 1997 Death Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World), dies at 78 1997 Event Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 1997 Event Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273 1997 Event Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial 1997 Death Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122 1997 Event World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24 1997 Event NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL and possible "World Classic Bowl" 1997 Event Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law 1997 Event 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes wins 1997 Event Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant 1996 Death Howard E Rollins, Jr., actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46 1996 Event Irebe Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World 1996 Event New York Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win 1996 Event Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1996 Event Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series 1996 Event Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf 1996 Event Braves beat New York Yankees by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series 1996 Death William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83 1996 Event Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo 1996 Death Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 1996 Event India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's 1996 Birthday Austin Michael Luciano, actor, Dante Carlino-Another World 1996 Event Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont 1996 Event Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore 1996 Event Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory 1996 Event Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup 1996 Event Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi 1996 Event Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play 1996 Event Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs. Australia, World Cup 1996 Event Mark Waugh scores 110 vs. New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup 1996 Event Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs. Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup vs. Kenya 1996 Event Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind vs. SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose 1996 Event Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup 1996 Event Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India 1996 Event Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve 1996 Event 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup vs. India 1996 Event Tendulkar scores 127* in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya 1996 Event 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, vs. New Zealand, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47 1996 Event Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup 1996 Death Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94 1995 Event Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup 1995 Death Benny Lee, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder, dies at 84 1995 Death Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater, Olympic and World figure skating champion, dies of heart attack at 28 1995 Event Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World 1995 Event Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series 1995 Event Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf 1995 Death John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31 1995 Death Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 1995 Event Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs vs. Glam, world record 16 x 6 1995 Death Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80 1995 Event Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world, worth$12.9 billion dollars 1995 Death Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies 1995 Event World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai 1995 Death Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies 1995 Event General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby 1995 Death Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide 1995 Event World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge 1995 Event Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450) 1995 Event Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08) 1995 Event World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh, Jr. and P Dharmani 1995 Event Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m 1995 Event Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26) 1995 Event Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) 1995 Event Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) 1995 Event Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly 1995 Event Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle 1995 Event Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly 1995 Event Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec) 1995 Event Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec) 1995 Event Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15) 1995 Event Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) 1995 Event Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec) 1995 Event Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46) 1995 Event Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec) 1995 Event Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) 1995 Event Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) 1995 Event Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) 1995 Event Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1994 Death Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 80 1994 Event Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World 1994 Event Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km) 1994 Event Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km) 1994 Event Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf 1994 Event Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57) 1994 Event Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle 1994 Event Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30) 1994 Event Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) 1994 Death Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70 1994 Event Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km) 1994 Death Detlef Macha, East Germany cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35 1994 Event Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66) 1994 Event Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00) 1994 Event Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) 1994 Event The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour 1994 Event Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m) 1994 Event William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53) 1994 Event Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup 1994 Event Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup 1994 Death Lex Humphries, born in New York City, New York, drummer, music style mixed world music with jazz, worked with John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, dies at 57 1994 Event Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36) 1994 Event Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36) 1994 Event Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) 1994 Event Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85) 1994 Event U.S. loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals 1994 Event Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup 1994 Death Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US 1994 Event U.S. loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup 1994 Event 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina 1994 Event U.S. beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950) 1994 Event Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec) 1994 Event U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup 1994 Event 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago 1994 Event Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96) 1994 Event Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km) 1994 Event General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke 1994 Event Sohail and Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263 1994 Event Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88) 1994 Event Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record) 1994 Death Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64 1994 Event Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records 1994 Event Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60) 1994 Event Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32) 1994 Event Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37) 1994 Event Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28) 1994 Event Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec) 1994 Death Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 1994 Event Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec) 1994 Event 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center 1994 Event Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55) 1994 Event Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43) 1994 Event Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29) 1994 Event Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m 1994 Event Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96 1994 Event Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m 1994 Event Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432 1994 Event Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m 1994 Event Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec) 1994 Event Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71) 1994 Event Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec) 1994 Event Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76) 1994 Event Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts 1994 Death Ulrike Maier, olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26 1994 Event Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m) 1994 Event Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup 1994 Event Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54) 1994 Event Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m) 1994 Event Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal 1994 Event Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts) 1994 Event Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) 1994 Event Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60) 1994 Event Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) 1994 Event Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44) 1994 Event Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) 1994 Event Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) 1994 Event Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71) 1994 Event Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83) 1993 Event Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54) 1993 Event Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54) 1993 Event Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29 1993 Event Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec) 1993 Event Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53) 1993 Event Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World 1993 Event End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood 1993 Event Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series 1993 Event Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m 1993 Event Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf 1993 Birthday Lindsay Fabes, actor, Charlie Winthrop-Another World 1993 Death Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80 1993 Event Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11) 1993 Event Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29) 1993 Event Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46) 1993 Event Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) 1993 Event Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39) 1993 Event Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world 1993 Event Long Beach, California beats Panama for little league world championship 1993 Event Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91) 1993 Event Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74") 1993 Event Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high 1993 Event Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93) 1993 Event Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K) 1993 Event Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38) 1993 Event Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91) 1993 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham 1993 Death Bertus Aafjes, poet and writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78 1993 Event Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) 1993 Event Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec) 1993 Event Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57) 1993 Death Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58 1993 Event Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m) 1993 Event 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center bombed, 7 die 1993 Death Constance Ford, U.S. actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64 1993 Event Pakistan all out 43 vs. West Indies, world one-day int record low 1993 Death Bobby Moore, English soccer team captain (World champs 1966), dies 1993 Event Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m) 1993 Death Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 1993 Death Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 1993 Event Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec) 1993 Event Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec) 1993 Event Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84) 1993 Event Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) 1993 Event Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 seconds) 1993 Event Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59) 1993 Death David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 1993 Death Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76 1993 Event Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec) 1993 Event Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 1993 Event Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 1993 Death Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72 1993 Event West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 1993 Event Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45") 1993 Event Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33) 1992 Event Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World 1992 Birthday Miley Ray Cyrus, pop-rock singer, actress, 100 Most Influential People in the World list, Time magazine, 2008, star of Disney's 'Hannah Montana', debut album, 'Meet Miley Cyrus' had first top ten single, 'See You Again' 1992 Event Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec) 1992 Event Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec) 1992 Event Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec) 1992 Event Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec) 1992 Death David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World), dies of AIDS at 30 1992 Event Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world! 1992 Event Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series 1992 Event Atlanta, becomes 1st U.S. team to win a World Series game out of US 1992 Event 1st World Series game outside of U.S. - Toronto beats Atlanta 1992 Event 1st non-U.S. team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 1992 Event 1st World Series with non-U.S. team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves 1992 Event Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) 1992 Event NFL decides to suspend World League Football 1992 Event Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) 1992 Event Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) 1992 Event England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record 1992 Event Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96) 1992 Event USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica 1992 Event Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec) 1992 Event Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4) 1992 Event Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36) 1992 Event Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec) 1992 Event Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) 1992 Event Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00) 1992 Event Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95) 1992 Event Round World Air Race begins in Paris 1992 Event Sharon Belden, of Fla, 25, crowned Miss World USA 1992 Death Mikhail Tai, World chess champion (1960-61), dies at 55 1992 Death Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies 1992 Birthday Tyler Davison, was world's smallest baby at 6 inches, 11 ounces 1992 Event WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17, Montreal 1992 Event World's largest environmental summit opens, Rio De Janeiro Brazil 1992 Death Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84 1992 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell 1992 Birthday Sean Rademaker, actor, Kirkland Harrison-Another World 1992 Event World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R. 1992 Event Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31) 1992 Event Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup 1992 Event England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final 1992 Event Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi 1992 Event Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury 1992 Event Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) 1992 Event Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) 1992 Event Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) 1992 Event Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40) 1992 Event World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312, Sri Lanka 7-313 1992 Event Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec) 1992 Event Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60) 1992 Event Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec) 1992 Event Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec) 1992 Event Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) 1992 Event Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10) 1992 Event Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec) 1992 Event Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40) 1992 Event Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41" 1992 Event Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1991 Event Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venezuela, crowned 41st Miss World 1991 Death W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies 1991 Event A J Kitt, U.S., wins World Skiing Cup 1991 Event Pan American World Airways ceased operations 1991 Event 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1 1991 Event Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57) 1991 Event Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7 1991 Event Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship 1991 Event U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) 1991 Event Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts 1991 Event Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57) 1991 Event Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62) 1991 Event Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53) 1991 Event Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0 1991 Event Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31) 1991 Event Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29) 1991 Birthday Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world Chess Champion 1991 Event Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) 1991 Event WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0 1991 Event College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3 1991 Event Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1" 1991 Event Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km) 1991 Event World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs 1991 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio 1991 Event Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17) 1991 Event Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) 1991 Event Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins) 1991 Event Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51) 1991 Event Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) 1991 Event Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) 1991 Event 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 1991 Event Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup 1991 Event Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) 1991 Event Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) 1991 Event Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) 1991 Event Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16) 1991 Event End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft 1991 Event Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) 1991 Event Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) 1991 Event Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record 1991 Event World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait 1991 Event Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1991 Event Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69) 1991 Event Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) 1991 Event Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) 1991 Event Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal 1990 Event Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship 1990 Event Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) 1990 Event Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World 1990 Death Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73 1990 Event Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series 1990 Event Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series 1990 Event Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat 1990 Event Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship 1990 Death Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67 1990 Event Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon 1990 Death Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83 1990 Event Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, world record 1990 Event Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome 1990 Event Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game 1990 Event 1st ever loss for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, U.S.S.R. - 4 Cameroon - 0 1990 Event Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Netherlands 1-1 in World Cup game 1990 Event Czechoslovakia beats U.S. 5-1 in World Cup soccer 1990 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro 1990 Event Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10 1990 Death Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies 1990 Death Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies 1990 Event World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall in New York City 1990 Event Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4) 1990 Event Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) 1990 Event 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa) 1990 Event Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec) 1990 Event Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup 1990 Event Ian Smith 173* New Zealand vs. India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat 1990 Event Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) and mile (4:17:13) 1990 Event Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81) 1990 Event Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04) 1990 Event Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69) 1990 Event 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds 1990 Event Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64 1989 Event Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec) 1989 Event France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph 1989 Event Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World 1989 Event U.S. beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950 1989 Event U.S. plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1989 Event After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played 1989 Event Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67 1989 Event Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consec World Series openers 1989 Event Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series 1989 Event Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship 1989 Event Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38) 1989 Event Janet Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22) 1989 Event Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45) 1989 Death Bert Oosterbosch, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer, dies at age 32, of acute cardiac arrest 1989 Event Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69) 1989 Event Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) 1989 Event U.S. beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1989 Event Ground breaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall 1989 Event Trinidad and Tobago ties U.S. 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1989 Death Douglass Watson, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 68 1989 Event U.S. beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1989 Event Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world 1989 Event Costa Rica beats U.S. 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1989 Event Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28) 1989 Event Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48) 1989 Death Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs, dies 1989 Event Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) 1989 Event Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 1989 Event Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 seconds) 1989 Event Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82) 1989 Event Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) 1989 Event World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens 1989 Event West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup 1988 Event Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite 1988 Event Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World 1988 Event Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland A's in World Series 4 games to 1 1988 Event Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series 1988 Event Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff and World Series 1988 Event With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run home run to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series 1988 Event Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) 1988 Event Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec) 1988 Event Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world 1988 Event Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ") 1988 Event Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship 1988 Event Yordanka Donkova runs world record 100 m hurdles (12.21) 1988 Event Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) 1988 Event Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) 1988 Event U.S. beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1988 Event Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes 1988 Event Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) 1988 Event Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes) 1988 Event U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1988 Event Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds 1988 Event World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long 1988 Death Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42 1988 Event World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Australia 1988 Event Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) 1988 Event Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50) 1988 Birthday Kerri Ann Darling, actress, Alli Fowler-Another World 1988 Event Janet Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) 1988 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25) 1988 Death Glenn Cunningham, U.S. world record miler, dies at 78 1988 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13) 1988 Event Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34 1988 Event Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65) 1988 Event Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec) 1988 Event Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20) 1988 Event Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) 1988 Event Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec) 1988 Event Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2) 1988 Event Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) 1988 Event Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) 1988 Event Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) 1988 Event Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) 1988 Event Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) 1988 Death Lin[wood V] Carter, U.S., sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57 1988 Event Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 1988 Event United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s 1988 Event Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1988 Event Andre Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) 1988 Event Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record 1988 Birthday Jordy, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, French singer, guitarist, achieved Guinness Book of World Records as youngest singer with number one chart-topping hit, 'Dur dur d'etre bebe!', or, 'It's Tough to be a Baby', founded, tours, records with Jordy and the Dixies 1988 Death Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46 1987 Event Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ 1987 Event Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) 1987 Event Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76) 1987 Event Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51) 1987 Event Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World 1987 Event Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup 1987 Event Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series 1987 Event 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome) 1987 Event West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup vs. Sri Lanka 1987 Event Janet Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) 1987 Event Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship 1987 Event Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec 1987 Event Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91) 1987 Event Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) 1987 Event Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5 " jump 1987 Event Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series 1987 Event Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) 1987 Event Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81) 1987 Event Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump 1987 Event Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55) 1987 Event Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) 1987 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36) 1987 Event Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 m (39.43 sec) 1987 Event Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85) 1987 Event Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor 1987 Event Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m) 1987 Event Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec) 1987 Event Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92) 1987 Event Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater 1987 Event England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1987 Event Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team 1986 Event Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors wins Davis Cup 1986 Event Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500 1986 Event Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world 1986 Event Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km 1986 Event Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World 1986 Event New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series 1986 Event Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball 1986 Event 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) 1986 Event Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k) 1986 Event Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News World Report) 1986 Event Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) 1986 Event Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship 1986 Event Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74 1986 Birthday Lindsay Lohan, actress, Alli Fowler-Another World 1986 Event Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany) 1986 Death Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47 1986 Event World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal 1986 Event Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84) 1986 Event Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup 1986 Event Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) 1986 Event Jurgen Schull sets world discus record, 74.07 m 1986 Birthday Megan Fox, born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, actress, sex symbol, debut film, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', breakout role, Mikaela Barnes in movie, 'Transformers', voted 'Sexiest Woman in the World' by FHM 1986 Event Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster 1986 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman 1986 Event Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec) 1986 Event Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days 1986 Event World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel 1986 Event Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99) 1986 Event Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30) 1986 Event Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) and 3 km (4:18.02) 1986 Event 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins 1986 Event Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec) 1986 Event Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater 1986 Event Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14) 1986 Event Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1986 Event West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) 1985 Event Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World 1985 Event Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion 1985 Event Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series 1985 Event On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series 1985 Event Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win 1985 Event Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest 1985 Event Igor Paklin of U.S.S.R. set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12 1985 Event Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion 1985 Event Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71 1985 Event Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf 1985 Event Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) 1985 Death Eugene Carson Blake, Secretary-General World Council of Churches, dies at 78 1985 Birthday Michael Phelps, born in Baltimore, Maryland, professional swimmer, winner, 14 Olympic gold medals, considered greatest Olympian of all time, broke 37 world records 1985 Death Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74 1985 Event Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12) 1985 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams 1985 Event Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09) 1985 Event Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) 1985 Event Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' 1985 Event India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket" 1985 Event Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater 1985 Event World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23 1985 Event West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup 1985 Event Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75) 1985 Event "Doug Henning and His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 perf 1985 Event Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25) 1985 Event "We are the World" is recorded by Pop stars in Los Angeles 1985 Event U.S. renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise 1984 Event "Doug Henning and His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 60 perf 1984 Event Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ 1984 Event Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05 1984 Event Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series 1984 Event Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) 1984 Event Evelyn Ashford of U.S. ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec 1984 Event Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1984 Event Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s 1984 Event World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans 1984 Event Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) 1984 Event Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) 1984 Event Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) 1984 Event Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91) 1984 Event British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships 1984 Event Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m) 1984 Event West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality and gold medal 1984 Event Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas 1984 Event Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km 1984 Event Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) 1983 Death Leora Dana, actress (Sylvie Kosloff-Another World), dies 1983 Event World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England 1983 Event Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship 1983 Event Baltimore Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series 1983 Event Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1983 Event 1st World Track and Field Championships 1983 Event -128.6 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) 1983 Event Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world 1983 Event India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup 1983 Event Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match vs. Australia 1983 Event Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14 1983 Birthday Kim Clijsters, born in Bilzen, Belgium, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World for singles and doubles, winner of 36 WTA singles and 11 WTA doubles titles 1983 Event Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) 1983 Event Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) 1983 Event Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) 1983 Event Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58) 1983 Event Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) 1983 Event Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup 1983 Event Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling 1983 Event Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup 1983 Event World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds 1983 Event World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid 1983 Event Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title 1983 Event Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97) 1983 Event World Communications Year begins 1982 Event Ingrid Berghmans (Netherlands) retains judo's world championship 1982 Event Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World 1982 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series 1982 Event Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series 1982 Birthday Ian Thorpe, born in Sydney, New South Wales, professional swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, won 11 World Championship gold medals, nicknamed, 'Torpedo' 1982 Event Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits 1982 Death Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 1982 Birthday Andy Roddick, born in Omaha, Nebraska, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World for singles in November 2003 1982 Death Nahum Goldmann, President Zionist World Organization, dies at 87 1982 Event Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf 1982 Death Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb 1982 Event Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) 1982 Death Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies 1982 Event Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid 1982 Birthday Tara Lipinski, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, figure skater, 1997 World Champ 1982 Birthday Robert Anthony, born in Chicago, Illinois, ring name, 'Egotistico Fantastico', professional wrestler, athlete, World Junior Heavyweight Champion, Iron Man Champion, AAW Heavyweight Championship 1982 Death Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 1982 Death Hugh Marlowe, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World), dies at 71 1982 Event 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens 1982 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin 1982 Event Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship 1982 Event Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) 1982 Event Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59) 1982 Event West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup 1982 Event World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 1982 Event Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31) 1981 Death Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80 1981 Event Anatoly Karpov, U.S.S.R. retains world chess championship 1981 Event Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World 1981 Event New York Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games 1981 Event Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series 1981 Event West Tampa Florida defeats Richmand Virgina, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series 1981 Event Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf 1981 Event Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0) 1981 Event Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93) 1981 Event Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) 1981 Birthday Roger Federer, born in Wollerau, Switzerland, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in March 2010, many consider him the greatest tennis player of all time 1981 Event Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world's longest span, 1.4 km, opens 1981 Birthday Adriana Lima, born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, model, appeared on covers of 'ELLE', 'GQ', 'Vogue' magazines, ranked world's 4th highest paid supermodel in 2008 1981 Birthday Larisa Oleynik, born in Santa Clara County, California, actress, starred in 'The Secret World of Alex Mack' television series and film, '10 Things I Hate About You' 1981 Death Carleton Coon, anthropology professor (What in the World), dies at 76 1981 Death Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57 1981 Birthday Danielle Christine Fishel, Mesa, Arizona, actress, Topanga-Boy Meets World 1981 Event Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) 1981 Event Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec 1981 Event Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70) 1981 Event Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 seconds) 1981 Event Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8) 1981 Event Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia 1981 Birthday Lleyton Hewitt, born in Adelaide, South Australia, professional tennis player, youngest male ever ranked number one in the World, at age 20 1981 Event James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec) 1981 Event Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4) 1981 Event Australia beats New Zealand 3-1 to win World Series Cup 1981 Event Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39) 1980 Event "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV 1980 Birthday Rider Strong, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Shawn Hunter-Boy Meets World 1980 Event Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World 1980 Event Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend 1980 Event Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) 1980 Death Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63 1980 Event Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph 1980 Event 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years) 1980 Event Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA 1980 Event Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf 1980 Event World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens 1980 Event U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships 1980 Birthday Michelle Kwan, born in Torrance, California, professional figure skater, won nine U.S. championships, five World Championships, two Olympic medals 1980 Event Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo 1980 Event Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06) 1980 Event ESPN begins televising college world series games 1980 Event Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages 1980 Event World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated 1980 Birthday Jordana Brewster, born in Panama, actress, Nikki Graves-As the World Turns 1980 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb 1980 Event Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60) 1980 Death Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82 1980 Event Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater 1980 Event West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup 1979 Event World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages 1979 Event Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest 1979 Event Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series 1979 Death S J Perelman, U.S. humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75 1979 Birthday Jaycie Phelps, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, gymnast, Bronze Medal 1995 World/Gold Medal 1996 Olympics 1979 Event Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72") 1979 Death Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 1979 Event Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo 1979 Event West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup 1979 Event Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset 1979 Event Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs 1979 Event Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage 1979 Birthday Jonny Wilkinson, born in Frimley, England, professional rugby union player, member of the England national team, considered one of the world's best rugby players 1979 Event CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney 1979 Event Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99) 1978 Event Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20) 1978 Event Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) 1978 Event New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series 1978 Event Yankees win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year 1978 Event New York Yankee Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st and deflects the ball away 1978 Event Yankees and Dodgers play in World Series # 75 1978 Event Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) 1978 Event Dutch women hockey team wins world championship 1978 Event Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia 1978 Event Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion 1978 Event Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) 1978 Birthday Louise Joy Brown, born in Oldham, England, world's 1st "test tube baby" 1978 Event World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m 1978 Event Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires 1978 Birthday Thomas Odoyo, cricketer, Kenyan all-rounder 1996 World Cup 1978 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 1978 Birthday Irene Skliva, born in Athens, Greece, Miss World 1996 1978 Event Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) 1978 Event Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) 1977 Event Miss World Contest - Miss U.K. wears $9,500 platinum bikini 1977 Event New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games 1977 Event Yankees beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years 1977 Event Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51) 1977 Event Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series 1977 Birthday Bode Miller, born in Easton, New Hampshire, professional alpine ski racer, won World cup races in slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill and combined 1977 Event Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) 1977 Event Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) 1977 Event George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center 1977 Birthday Amanda Borden, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, gymnast, Silver Medal 1994 World, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics 1977 Event Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) 1977 Event Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33) 1977 Birthday Bas Zuiderent, cricketer for Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup 1977 Event Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship 1977 Event World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival 1976 Birthday Matt Welsh, born in Melbourne, Australia, professional swimmer, backstroke and butterfly gold medalist at the World Championships in Shanghai, 2006 1976 Event Cincinnati Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series 1976 Event New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles 1976 Event Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997) 1976 Birthday Carlos Moya, born in Geneva, Spain, professional tennis player, ranked 1st in the World for singles, won over 500 ATP-level matches, won French Open singles, 1998 1976 Event Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion 1976 Birthday Will Friedle, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Eric-Boy Meets World, Gift of Love 1976 Birthday Michael Weiss, Washington D.C., figure skater, 1997 World Champ-7th 1976 Event Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph 1976 Event Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds) 1976 Event Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) 1976 Event Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70) 1976 Event Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) 1976 Event Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest 1976 Event World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.) 1976 Birthday Shae-Lyn Bourne, Chatham Ontario, ice dancer, 1995 World Champs-4th 1975 Event Cincinnati Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series 1975 Event World Football League disbands 1975 Event Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19) 1975 Event World Football League folds 1975 Event Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world 1975 Death Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79 1975 Birthday Torrie Wilson, born in Boise, Idaho, professional wrestler, fitness competitor, model, signed by World Championship Wrestling, appeared in 'Playboy' magazine 1975 Event West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup 1975 Event Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi vs. England 1975 Event Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 vs. Pakistan World Cup 1975 Event Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, vs. WI Cricket World Cup 1975 Event Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) 1975 Event Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) 1975 Birthday Greg Moore, born in New Westminster, British Columbia, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series 1975 Event Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24) 1975 Event Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it 1975 Event Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens 1975 Event Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) 1975 Event Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) 1975 Birthday Christina Nigra, actress, Out of This World 1974 Event 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida 1974 Event Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) 1974 Event Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) 1974 Event Oakland A's beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yankees to win 3 straight series 1974 Event U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series 1974 Death Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71 1974 Event World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 1974 Event World Football League plays 1st games 1974 Event West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich 1974 Death John C Ransom, U.S. poet (World's Body), dies 1974 Event Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion 1974 Event Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16 1974 Event Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories) 1974 Death Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72 1974 Event Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended 1974 Death Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67 1974 Event World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) 1974 Event Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 1974 Event Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater 1974 Birthday Jennifer Lien, actress, Hannah Moore-Another World 1974 Event World Football League founded 1974 Event World Population Year begins 1973 Birthday Ato Boldon, born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, athlete, world's fastest human sprinter, 4-time World Champion and Olympic medalist 1973 Event Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disney World 1973 Event World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit) 1973 Birthday Aishwarya Rai, born in Mangalore, India, actress, model, former Miss World 1994, appeared in movie, 'Dhoom 2', 'Guru', 'Jodhaa Akbar' 1973 Event A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series 1973 Event Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him 1973 Event Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1 miles 1973 Event Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion 1973 Event Netherlands wins hockey world's championship 1973 Birthday Kieren Perkins, Australian free-style 1500m swimmer, world record 1973 Event George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" 1973 Event George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold 1973 Birthday Karim Alami, born in Casablanca, Morocco, professional tennis player, ranked 25th in the World for singles in February, 2000 1973 Event Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished 1973 Birthday Lee Westwood, born in Workshop, England, professional golfer, top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings between 1998 - 2001 1973 Birthday Larry Page, born in East Lansing, Michigan, computer scientist, Google co-founder, named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum 1973 Birthday Kennedy Otieno, Kenya cricket wicket-keeper, 85 vs. Australia 1996 World Cup 1973 Event Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens 1973 Birthday Diego Serrano, Quito Ecuador, actor, Tomas Rivera-Another World 1973 Event Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec) 1973 Birthday Oscar de la Hoya, born in Los Angeles, California, boxer, light middleweight, Mexican-American, nicknamed 'The Golden Boy', defeated 17 world championships, won 10 world titles in six different weight classes 1973 Event Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6) 1972 Birthday Maureen Flannigan, actress, Evie-Out of This World 1972 Death Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61 1972 Birthday Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor, Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns 1972 Birthday Luis Figo, born in Almada, Portugal, professional soccer player, midfielder, 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year, won 127 caps for the Portuguese national soccer team 1972 Event Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series 1972 Event Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats 1972 Event Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series 1972 Event 1st games of World Hockey Association 1972 Event Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship 1972 Event Bobby Fischer (U.S.) defeats Boris Spassky (U.S.S.R.) for world chess title 1972 Event Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4) 1972 Event Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches 1972 Birthday Shinjiro Otani, born in Yamaguchi City, Japan, professional wrestler, WCW World Cruiserweight Champion, created Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE with Shinya Hashimoto, acting president of ZERO1 1972 Birthday Andrew Kavovit, actor, Paul-As the World Turns 1972 Event Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m 1972 Event West Germany wins soccer world championship 1972 Event Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia) 1972 Event Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion 1972 Birthday Charlie Haas, born in Houston, Texas, Charles Doyle 'Charlie' Haas II, professional wrestler, wrestles for World Wrestling Entertainment, previously teamed with brother, Russ, on independent circuit, winning JAPW Tag Team Championship 1972 Event Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic 1972 Event Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) 1972 Event Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater 1972 Death Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60 1971 Event 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World 1971 Event Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement 1971 Birthday Laura Moss, Kings Mountain, Ohio, actress, Amanda Cory-Another World 1971 Event Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World 1971 Event Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series 1971 Event 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) 1971 Birthday Hitesh Modi, cricketer, Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup 1971 Event Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962 1971 Event Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World 1971 Event Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens 1971 Birthday Janet Evans, born in Placentia, California, competitive swimmer, 1988 Olympics gold-medal winner, freestyle, seven World records, five Olympic medals 1971 Event World Hockey Association forms 1971 Birthday Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan 3K runner, world record 1971 Event Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) 1971 Birthday Scott Eldredge, Chatham Massachusetts, 1996 World Mens' Champion 1971 Birthday Roy Keane, born in Cork, Ireland, soccer player, midfielder, manager of Ipswich Town, an English Championship club, represented Republic of Ireland in 1994 World Cup and 2002 World Cup 1971 Birthday Wendy Benson, born in New York City, actress, Meredith-As the World Turns 1971 Birthday Steve Tikolo, cricketer, outstanding Kenyan batsman in 1996 World Cup 1971 Birthday Martin Suji, cricketer, Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup 1971 Birthday Matt Stone, born in Houston, Texas, musician, actor, screenwriter, co-creator of 'South Park' Emmy-Award winning television series, co-created film, 'Team America: World Police' 1971 Birthday Eric Nies, actor, MTV Real World, Grind 1971 Event Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) 1971 Birthday Hayley Carr, born in Salzburg, Austria, actress, Courtney-As the World Turns 1971 Birthday Finidi George, born in Part Harcourt, Nigeria, soccer player, played as a midfielder for Ajax, played Football World Cups in 1994 and 1998, played in England and Spain 1971 Birthday Victor Kraatz, born in Berlin, Germany, Canadian ice dancer, 1995 World Champs-4th 1971 Birthday Jose Solano, born in Inglewood, California, actor, played Manny Gutierrez on Baywatch, listed as '50 Most Beautiful People in the World' by YM Magazine, nominated for the ALMA Award 1971 Event Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic 1971 Birthday Richard Green, born in Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia, professional golfer, won 1997 Dubai Desert Classic, listed in the top 30 of the Official World Golf Rankings 1971 Birthday Denise Richards, born in Downers Grove, Illinois, actress, fashion model, appeared in 'The World is Not Enough', reality show, 'Denise Richards: It's Complicated' 1971 Event Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8) 1971 Event Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7) 1971 Death Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 1970 Birthday Azhar Saeed, UAE cricketer, opening batsman 1996 World Cup 1970 Event NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) 1970 Birthday Martha Byrne, actress, Lily Grimaldi-As the World Turns 1970 Birthday Arshad Laiq, cricket all-rounder, United Arab Emirates World Cup 1996 1970 Birthday Dahlia Salem, actress, Sofia Carlino-Another World, approx 1970] 1970 Birthday Alla Korot, Odessa U.S.S.R., actress, Jenna Norris-Another World 1970 Event Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series 1970 Birthday Jacco Eltingh, Heerde, Netherlands, tennis star, 1993 ATP World Doubles 1970 Event Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship 1970 Birthday Klaas Van Noortwijk, cricketer, Holland batsman 1996 World Cup 1970 Event Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City 1970 Birthday Brian Bloom, actor, As the World Turns 1970 Birthday [Jack] Stephen Burton, Indianapolis, actor, Chris-Out of this World 1970 Event Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup, in Mexico City 1970 Birthday Carl Everett, born in Tampa, Florida, baseball player, outfielder, played for Florida Marlins, Major League Baseball team, played for New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Montreal Expos, 2005 World Series Champion 1970 Birthday Heike Friedrich, born in East Germany swimmer, world record 200m 1970 Event Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson 1970 Event 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world 1970 Event U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship 1970 Birthday Vince Vaughn, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor, films include, 'Swingers', 'The Lost world: Jurassic Park', 'Couples Retreat', 'The Break-Up' 1970 Event Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater 1970 Event Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53) 1970 Event Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater 1970 Birthday Eric Gouka, cricketer, Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup 1970 Event Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec) 1970 Event World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight 1970 Event Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec 1969 Birthday Martha Byrne, actress, Lily-As the World Turns 1969 Event Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points) 1969 Birthday Craig Evans, cricketer, Zimbabwe batsman 1996 World Cup 1969 Birthday Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg, East Germany, 100m/200m, World Champ 1991 1969 Birthday Dahlia Salem, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Sofia Carlino-Another World 1969 Birthday Helen Kelesi, born in Victoria, Canada, professional tennis player, dubbed 'Hurricane Helen', ranked 13th in the World, November 1989 1969 Event 100-1 shot New York Mets beat Orioles 5-3 and win 66th World Series in 5 1969 Event Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a home run in World Series 1969 Event Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated 1969 Event New York Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st and 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game 1969 Event Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series 1969 Birthday Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy, 5-time all-around world champion 1969 Birthday Byron Black, born in Salisbury, Zimbabwe, professional tennis player, double-handed forehand player, played for Zimbabwe, singles ranking 22nd in the World, June, 1996 1969 Birthday Scott DeFreitas, Newton Massachusetts, actor, Andy Dixon-As the World Turns 1969 Event Audrey McElmory (U.S.) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, 1969 Birthday Amy Carlson, born in Elmhurst, Illinois, actress, Josie-Another World, 1969-Approx] 1969 Birthday Cree Summer, actress, Freddie-Different World 1969 Birthday Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer, Sri Lankan open bat MVP-1996 World Cup 1969 Birthday Alina Ivanova, born in Ukraine, race walker, indoor 3K world record 1969 Event John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) 1969 Birthday Maurice Odumbe, cricketer, Kenyan batsman and 1996 World Cup captain 1969 Event "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 132 performances 1969 Event Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp 1969 Event Walt Disney World construction begins 1969 Birthday Dondre T Whitfield, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Another World, All My Children 1969 Birthday Marcel Schewe, cricketer, Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup 1969 Birthday Judson Mills, Purcellville, Virginia, actor, Hutch-As The World Turns 1969 Birthday Brian Lara, cricketer, WI left-hand bat Smashed world records in 1994 1969 Event Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman 1969 Event "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 132 performances 1969 Event Jerry Herman's "Dear World," premieres in New York City 1969 Birthday Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer, world record 200m 1969 Birthday Andre Cason, U.S. runner, world record 50 indoor 1969 Event Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed 1968 Birthday Anders Holmertz, Swedish free style swimmer, world record 400m 1968 Birthday Ming Na-Wen, actress, ER, One Night Stand, Lien-As the World Turns 1968 Birthday Irina Privalova, Russian runner, indoor world record 50/60m 1968 Birthday Parker Posey, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Tess Shelby-As the World Turns 1968 Birthday Grayson McCouch, New York City, actor, Morgan Winthrop-Another World 1968 Event Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash 1968 Birthday Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman, Holland 1996 World Cup 1968 Event J R Hines of U.S. runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec 1968 Event Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series 1968 Birthday Toni Braxton, singer, You Mean the World to Me 1968 Event Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts 1968 Birthday Mika Hakkinen, born in Vantaa, Finland, racing driver, Formula One World Champion, seven times world champion 1968 Event Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf 1968 Event France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa 1968 Birthday Henrik Holm, born in Taby, Sweden, professional tennis player, won five doubles titles, achieved highest ATP-ranking of 17th in the world, July 1993 1968 Birthday Horst Skoff, born in Klagenfurt, Austria, professional tennis player, won top-level singles title in Athens in 1989, ranked 18th in world rankings for singles, 70th for doubles 1968 Birthday Halle Berry, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Miss World USA, 1986, actress, Boomerang 1968 Birthday Chris Boardman, English cyclist, world 1 hour record 1968 Birthday Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain 1968 Event Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt 1968 Birthday Mark Tewsksbury, Canada swimmer, world record backstroke 1968 Death Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies 1968 Death Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 1968 Birthday Omar Camporese, born in Bologna, Italy, professional tennis player, won two top-level singles and five tour doubles titles, ranked 18th in the World in singles, 27th for doubles, 1992 1968 Birthday Alicia Coppola, actress, Lorna Devon-Another World 1968 Death Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car 1968 Event Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis 1968 Birthday Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete, world record 1992 1968 Event LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" 1968 Event USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world 1968 Birthday Abeyratne Samarasekera, UAE cricket all-rounder, 1996 World Cup 1968 Birthday Johanne Samarasekera, UAE cricket opening bowler, 96 World Cup 1968 Birthday Imtiaz Abbasi, UAE cricket wicket-keeper, World Cup 1996 1968 Birthday Kristen Marie, actress, Cheryl McKinnon-Another World 1968 Event World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi 1968 Birthday Tim De Leede, cricketer, Holland batsman 1996 World Cup 1967 Event Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4) 1967 Event Robert McNamara elected president of World bank 1967 Birthday Lisa Bonet, SF, actress, Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart 1967 Birthday Laura Garrone, born in Milan, Italy, professional tennis player, won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, ranked 32nd in the World, January 1987 1967 Event Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) 1967 Birthday Mazhar Hussein, cricketer, UAE batsman World Cup 1996 1967 Birthday Jaime Yzaga, born in Lima, Peru, professional tennis player, ranked 18th in the World for singles and 54th in the World in doubles 1967 Birthday Javier Sotomayor, Cuban jumper, world record 1989 1967 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series 1967 Event World Series record 3 consecutive home runs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox 1967 Event 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yankees, Giants or Dodgers 1967 Event King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp) 1967 Event International Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system 1967 Event Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26) 1967 Event Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 1967 Birthday Reinout Scholte, cricketer, Netherlands batsman 1996 World Cup 1967 Birthday Julian McMahon, actor, Ian Rain-Another World, John Grant-Profiler 1967 Event BBC starts their World Radio Club 1967 Event 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special 1967 Birthday Sarah Malin, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Stephane Prescott-Another World 1967 Birthday Wasim Haider, cricketer, member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad 1967 Event Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) 1967 Birthday Matthew Crane, Kimberton, Pennsylvania, actor, Matt Cory-Another World 1967 Event Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (U.S.S.R.) 1967 Birthday Mark Mortimer, actor, Nick Hudson-Another World 1967 Birthday Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker, world record 20 km 1967 Event 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum 1967 Birthday Sandra Reinhardt, born in Pittsburgh, actress, Another World, Illegal in Blue 1967 Birthday Andrew Zesers, cricketer, played for Australia in 1987 World Cup 1967 Birthday Juli Furtado, born in New York City, mountain cyclist, world champion 1991, 92 1967 Birthday Tim Vine, born in London, Enlgand, actor, comedian, performs stand up comedy, television, appears at festivals, tours through the United Kingdom include 'Current Puns' and 'Punslinger', achieved Guinness World Record for most jokes told in an hour 1967 Event Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater 1967 Event Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater 1967 Birthday Sergei Grinkov, born in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian ice skater, Olympic and World figure skating champion 1967 Birthday Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer, world record 200m freestyle 1967 Birthday Ulf Stenlund, born in Falun, Sweden, professional tennis player, won one doubles title in Bari, 1987 and one singles title in Palermo, 1986, highest ATP-ranking was 23rd in the World, April, 1987 1967 Birthday Christine Tucci, actress, Amanda Cory-Another World 1967 Birthday Ricky Paull Goldin, SF, actor, Doug-Hail to the Chief, Another World 1966 Birthday Joseph Barbara, New Symrna, Florida, actor, Joe Carlino-Another World 1966 Birthday Stefan Edberg, born in Vastervik, Sweden, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in singles and doubles tennis 1966 Event Baltimore Orioles sweep Los Angeles Dodgers, in 63rd World Series 1966 Event Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout 1966 Birthday Paul Michael Valley, actor, Ryan Harrison-Another World 1966 Event 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry 1966 Event Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 1966 Event Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world 1966 Event Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world 1966 Birthday Ganesh Mylvaganam, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup 1966 Event England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London 1966 Birthday Mike Tyson, born in Brooklyn, New York, professional boxer, youngest man to win WBC, WBA IBF world heavyweight titles, nickname 'Iron Mike' 1966 Birthday Zola Budd, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, track and field long distance runner, trained and raced barefoot, politically controversial figure, two-time Women's 5000 meters world record holder, two-time World Cross Country Championships winner 1966 Birthday Paolo Seganti, actor, Damian-As the World Turns 1966 Birthday Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer, Around the World 1966 Event 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) 1966 Birthday Chris Bruno, actor, Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World 1966 Event Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record 1966 Birthday Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer, world record 1966 Event Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater 1966 Event Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2) 1966 Event Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2) 1966 Birthday Chetan Sharma, cricketer, Ind Test bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987 1966 Birthday Tia Carrere, Althea Janairo, Honolulu, actress, Wayne's World 1965 Event Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You" 1965 Birthday Colleen Dion, actress, Brett Gardner-Another World 1965 Death Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64 1965 Birthday Charnele Brown, East Hampton, New York, actress, Kim-A Different World 1965 Birthday Amos Mansdorf, born in Tel Aviv, lsrael, professional tennis player, ranked 67th in the World for doubles, May, 1986 1965 Event Dodgers and Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins 1965 Event Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0 1965 Event Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one 1965 Birthday Jill Powell, born in Jacksonville, Florida, actress, Marcy-As The World Turns 1965 Birthday Silke Horner, born in East Germany, swimmer, world record 100m-breast stroke 1965 Birthday Lennox Lewis, born in West Ham, England, professional boxer, won World heavyweight championship three times, 1988 Olympic Games gold medalist 1965 Birthday Jon Hensley, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, actor, Holden Snyder-As the World Turns 1965 Birthday Kyra Sedgwick, actress, Phenomenon, Singles, Julia-Another World 1965 Birthday Jennifer Ashe, actress, As the World Turns 1965 Birthday Kadeem Hardison, actor, A Different World, The Sixth Man 1965 Event Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4) 1965 Event Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00) 1965 Birthday Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria high jumper, world record 1987 1965 Birthday Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner, world record 200 m indoor 1965 Birthday Edward Odumbe, cricketer, Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup 1965 Event New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd and final season 1965 Birthday Marlon Vonhagt, cricketer, 1 ODI Sri Lanka 1984-85 World Series Cup 1965 Birthday Piers Morgan, born in England, editor of tabloids, the Daily Mirror, News of the World, judge on television show, 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'America's Got Talent' 1965 Birthday Clayton Prince, Philadelphia, actor, Hairspray, Reuben-Another World 1965 Birthday Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress, Olivia-Another World 1965 Birthday Christine Wachtel, E German running star, world indoor record 800m 1964 Event Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph) 1964 Birthday David Tikolo, Kenyan cricket batsman, 1996 World Cup 1964 Birthday Heike Drechsler, Gera, East Germany, sprinter, 1988 world record 1964 Event World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City) 1964 Death Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champion cyclist (1921-24, 26), dies at 71 1964 Event Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2) 1964 Event China becomes world's 5th nuclear power 1964 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series 1964 Event New York Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series 1964 Event New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61 World Series 1964 Birthday Thomas "Tom" Hunter, U.S. 50M FREESTYLE swimmer, world record 1964 Event 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire 1964 Birthday Gene Watkins, Waco, Texas, actor, James Walsh-As the World Turns 1964 Birthday Faith Ford, born in Louisiana, actress, Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown 1964 Event St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series 1964 Event 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire 1964 Birthday Harry Lee "Butch" Reynolds, U.S., 400m runner, world record 1964 Event Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) 1964 Birthday Susan Marie Snyder, actress, Julie-As the World Turns 1964 Birthday Judi Evans Luciano, born in Montebello, actress, Paulina Cory-Another World 1964 Birthday Salim Raza, UAE cricket all-rounder, 1996 World Cup 1964 Birthday Michael Gross, born in West Germany, swimmer, Olympic-2 world records-1984 1964 Event Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55) 1964 Event Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark 1964 Birthday Jeff Fenech, born in Marrickville, Australia, professional boxer, boxing trainer, world champion, represented Australia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles 1964 Birthday Elizabeth McColgan, British running star, world record 5 km indoor 1964 Event Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) 1964 Birthday Sara Gomer, born in Torquay, England, professional tennis player, ranked 46th in the World, September, 1988 1964 Birthday John Parrott, born in Liverpool, England, professional snooker player, winner, World Snooker Championship, 1991, won UK Championship title, 1991 1964 Event Peter and Gordon release "World Without Love" 1964 Birthday Heike Henkel, born in West Germany, world record indoor high jumper 1992 1964 Event "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV 1964 Birthday Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish backstroke swimmer, world record 200m 1964 Event World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York) opens 1964 Event Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world 1964 Event Geraldine Mock of U.S. is 1st woman to fly solo round the world 1964 Event Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest) 1964 Birthday Paul Parker, born in West Ham, London, athlete, soccer player, commentator, critical player at 1990 World Cup with England, manager, Blue Square Premier League 1964 Event UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva 1964 Event Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4) 1964 Birthday Chris Farley, actor, SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads 1964 Event "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert New York City after 556 perf 1964 Birthday Kaitlin Hopkins, New York City, actress, Kelsey-Another World 1964 Event World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin 1964 Event Plans for World Trade Center announced (New York City) 1963 Death Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68 1963 Event Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6) 1963 Birthday Asif Karim, cricketer, slow left-arm bowler for Kenya 1996 World Cup 1963 Birthday Allyson Rice-Taylor, Huntington, West Virginia, actress, As the World Turns 1963 Birthday Michael Anthony Powell, Philadelphia, long jumper, world record 1991 1963 Event Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World 1963 Birthday Vijay Mehra, cricketer, United Arab Emirates batsman 1996 World Cup 1963 Event Los Angeles Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series 1963 Event Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees 1963 Birthday Gabriele Reinsch, born in East Germany, discus thrower, world record 1988 1963 Event Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH 1963 Birthday Kadeem Hardison, born in New York City, actor, Dwayne-Different World 1963 Birthday Joanna Going, actress, Lisa Grady-Another World 1963 Birthday Paula Ivan, Romanian runner, world record mile 1963 Birthday Jose Oquendo, born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Jose Manuel Roberto Guillermo Contreras Oquendo, baseball player, infielder, coach, signed with New York Mets at age fifteen, member, St. Louis Cardinals, played 1987 World Series, record for fewest second baseman errors, 1990 1963 Death Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 home runs in 1911 world series) dies at 77 1963 Event Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28) 1963 Birthday Mike Myers, born in Scarborough, Canada, comedian, voice actor, screenwriter, film producer, movies include 'Wayne's World', 'Austin Powers', 'Shrek' 1963 Birthday Dipak Chudasama, cricketer, Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup 1963 Birthday Gary Kasparov, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1985- 1963 Birthday Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist 1963 Birthday Jasmine Guy, born in Boston Massachusetts, actress, Whitley-Different World 1963 Birthday Mohammad Ishaq, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup 1963 Event Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon 2:15:15.8 1963 Event 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) 1963 Event Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec 1963 Birthday Kate Gompert, born in Ames lowa, professional tennis player, career record 77 - 78, ranked 18th in the World for singles in July, 1987 1963 Birthday Petra Schneider, E German swimming star, world record 400m 1963 Event G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank 1962 Birthday Keiji Muto, born in Fujiyoshida, Japan, professional wrestler, trained by Hiro Matsuda, appeared on World Championship Wrestling television editions, ring name, The Great Mota 1962 Birthday Melanie Smith, Scranton, Pennsylvania, actress, Emily-As the World Turns 1962 Birthday Kim Linehan, swimmer, 1979 1500m World record 1962 Event Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World 1962 Event Yankees beat Giants for 20th world championship 1962 Event Yankees (20th championship) beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series 1962 Event New York Yankees appear in 12 and win 9 of last 14 World Series 1962 Event Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends 1962 Event "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances 1962 Birthday Roger Kingdom, U.S. 60m hurdler, world record 1962 Event Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga 1962 Event Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) 1962 Birthday Tina Lehtola, born in Finland, women's ski jumper, world's record holder 1962 Birthday Galina Chistyakova, Russian jumper, world record 1988 1962 Birthday Jensen Buchanan, born in Montgomery, Alabama, actress, Vicky/Marley-Another World 1962 Event Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago 1962 Birthday Floris Jansen, cricketer, Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup 1962 Event Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) 1962 Event Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio 1962 Birthday Robert Druppers, runner, world record 1 km indoor 1962 Event Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater 1962 Birthday Brian Green, born in Columbus Indiana, actor, Sam Fowler-Another World 1962 Birthday [Babette] Renee Props, Oklahoma, actress, Elly Snyder-As the World Turns 1962 Birthday Sultan Zarawani, cricketer, United Arab Emirates captain 1996 World Cup 1961 Birthday Mark McKoy, Canadian track star, world record 50m indoor 1961 Event Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion 1961 Birthday Julianne Moore, actress, Lost World, 9 Months 1961 Birthday Meg Ryan, Bethel, Connecticut, actress, When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns 1961 Event New York Yankees beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series 1961 Event World Series scoreless pitching streak Yankees beat Reds 4 games to 1 1961 Event Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32 1961 Event Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout 1961 Birthday Mary Ellen Stuart, actress, Frannie Crawford-As the World Turns 1961 Birthday Yordanka Donkova, Bulgaria, 100 m hurdler, world record 1961 Birthday Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery, Alabama, actress, Vicky/Marley-Another World 1961 Birthday Dawnn Lewis, actress, Jaleesa-Different World 1961 Event Bricusse and Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres 1961 Birthday Mohammad Aslam, UAE cricketer batsman, 1996 World Cup 1961 Event "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 97 performances 1961 Birthday Maxi Priest, Max Elliott, Jamaican/English singer, Wild World 1961 Event Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time 1961 Event ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts 1961 Birthday Daniel Clowes, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, cartoonist, creator of 'Eightball', published graphic novels including, 'Ghost World' 1961 Event "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 97 performances 1961 Birthday Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker, world record 5 km 1961 Birthday Russell Todd, actor, Jamie Frame-Another World 1961 Birthday Yobes Ondieki, Kenya, 10K runner, world record 1961 Event Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champ all-round skater 1961 Event Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater 1961 Birthday Tim Meadows, born in Highland Park, Michigan, actor, comedian, appeared on 'Saturday Night Live', films include, 'Coneheads', Wayne's World 2', 'Mean Girls' 1961 Birthday Sherry Ramsay, Stauton, Virginia, actress, Trish Mason-As the World Turns 1961 Birthday Maia Chiburdanidze, Kutaisi U.S.S.R., women's world chess champ 1960 Birthday Gary Lineker, English soccer player, World Cup 1986 1960 Birthday Diego A Maradona, Argentina/Italy soccer player, World Cup 1960 Birthday Tom Eplin, Hayward California, actor, Jake McKinnon-Another World 1960 Event Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off home run beats New York Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series 1960 Event Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer 1960 Event Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) 1960 Event Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5) 1960 Event -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) 1960 Event World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea) 1960 Birthday Jo Durie, born in Bristol, England, professional tennis player, tennis commentator, ranked 5th in the World, winner of two Grand Slam titles 1960 Event In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM 1960 Event 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer 1960 Birthday Jozef/Josef Pribilinec, born in Czechoslovakia, speed walker, world record 10K 1960 Event Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0) 1960 Event Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs) 1960 Birthday Jurgen Schult, born in West Germany, discus thrower, world record 1986 1960 Event Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12 -8 for world chess championship 1960 Birthday Anne Howard, born in San Diego, California, actress, Nicole Love-Another World 1960 Birthday Russell Todd, born in Troy, New York, actor, Dr. Jamie Frame-Another World 1960 Birthday Barry McGuigan, born in Clones, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, professional boxer, world featherweight champion, number one featherweight challenger in the World Boxing Association 1960 Death Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 1960 Birthday B J Jefferson, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, Ronnie Laurance-Another World 1960 Birthday Paul Azinger, born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Paul William Azinger, professional golfer, ranked in the top 10 Official World Golf Rankings for 300 weeks between 1988 and 1994, won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour in 7 seasons, won 1993 PGA Championship 1960 Event 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) 1960 Death Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40 1960 Birthday Michael David Morrison, actor, Caleb Snyder-As the World Turns 1959 Event J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m 1959 Birthday Burke Moses, New York City, actor, Sean Baxter-As the World Turns 1959 Birthday Charles Grant, Winston Salem, North Carolina, actor, Another World 1959 Birthday Mike Moore, born in Eakly, Oklahoma, pitcher, professional baseball player, played for Seattle Mariners, World Series champion, 1989 1959 Event Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World 1959 Birthday Neal Stephenson, born in Fort Meade, Maryland, author books include, 'The System of the World', ''Anathem', 'Quicksilver', 'The Confusion' 1959 Event Pan Am begins regular flights around World 1959 Event Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series 1959 Event Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA) 1959 Event 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA) 1959 Event Los Angeles Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394 1959 Event 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs Chic) 1959 Birthday Andy Waller, cricketer, big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup 1959 Birthday Armin Kogler, born in Austria, skier, 2-time winner of jumping World Cup 1959 Birthday Petra Felke, born in East Germany, javelin thrower, world record 1988 1959 Event World Refugee Year begins 1959 Event World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England 1959 Birthday Ed Fry, actor, Larry-As the World Turns, Adam Cory-Another World 1959 Event Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record 1959 Birthday Kapil Dev, born in Chandigarh, India, cricket player for India, captain of 1983 Cricket World Cup, won by India 1958 Birthday Iqbal Sikander, cricketer, Pakistan leg-spinner 1992 World Cup 1958 Birthday Alan Jackson, born in Newnan, Georgia, country singer, Here in the Real World 1958 Event Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premieres in New York City 1958 Event New York Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series 1958 Event New York Yankees appear in 9 and win 7 of last 10 World Series 1958 Event Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time 1958 Birthday Wilfredo Benitez, PR, boxer, world champ at 17y176d 1958 Event World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec 1958 Birthday Richard Burgi, born in Montclair, New Jersey, actor, Chad Rollo-Another World 1958 Event Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm 1958 Event Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden 1958 Event Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6) 1958 Birthday Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author, How World Begun 1958 Birthday Paul Weller, guitar, Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council 1958 Event Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship 1958 Birthday Hal Sutton, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, professional golfer, 1980 College Player of the Year by 'Golf Magazine', ranked in top-10 Official World Golf Rankings 1986 - 1987 1958 Event Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens 1958 Birthday Cammie Lusko, born in Los Angeles, California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman 1958 Death Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56 1958 Birthday Ian Woosnam, born in Oswestry, England, nicknamed 'Woosie', 'Wee Welshman', 'Woosers', Welsh, professional golfer, played first European Tour, 1979, won Swiss Open, 1982, number one in Official World Golf Rankings in 1991, awarded O.B.E. 2007 New Years Honors List 1958 Event 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels 1958 Event Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days 1958 Birthday Lisa Loring, actress, As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family 1958 Death Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42 1958 Birthday Frank Ullrich, East Germany, world biathlon champion 1958 Birthday Ricardo Acuna, born in Santiago, Chile, former tennis player, ranked was 47th in the world, won three doubles titles during his career 1957 Birthday James Sanford, U.S. runner, world record 50m indoor 1957 Birthday Charles Grant, actor, Evan Frame-Another World, Bold and Beautiful 1957 Event World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan 1957 Birthday Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker, World Party 1957 Event Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series 1957 Event Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series 1957 Birthday Shahzad Altaf, cricketer, UAE off-spinner 1996 World Cup 1957 Event New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series 1957 Birthday Bernhard Langer, born in Anhausen, West Germany, professional golfer, two-time Masters champion, ranked as the world's first official number one player in 1986 1957 Birthday Steve Davis, born in Plumstead, London, snooker player, nine-ball pool player, won six World Championships in the 1980's, performed well in Mosconi Cup, World Pool Championships 1957 Event Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46 1957 Birthday Bert Oosterbosch, born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer 1957 Birthday Mark Tymchyshyn, Minneapolis, actor, Gavin-As The World Turns 1957 Birthday Danny Heep, born in San Antonio, Texas, Daniel William Heep, athlete, baseball player, outfielder, coach, played for Houston Astros, played in two World Series, 1986 with New York Mets, 1988 with Los Angeles Dodgers, head coach for University of the Incarnate Word, Texas 1957 Birthday Elly van Holly, running star, 3k indoor world record 1957 Birthday Eric Bristow, "Crafty Cockney", England, dart thrower, 5 World Masters 1957 Birthday Maurizio Damilano, Italian speed walker, 30K World Record 1957 Event World's biggest glass oven used 1957 Event 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win 1957 Birthday Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer, Baroda off-spinner, UAE World Cup 1996 1957 Event 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights 1956 Birthday Doina Melinte, Romanian running star, world record 1500 m/mile indoor 1956 Birthday Alice Barrett, born in New York City, actress, Frankie Frame-Another World 1956 Birthday Sinbad, comedian/actor, Different World, At the Apollo 1956 Death Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 1956 Event Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8) 1956 Event Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series 1956 Event Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn 1956 Event Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam 1956 Event Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yankees 6-3 in opening game of World Series 1956 Death Stan Ockers, Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36 1956 Event Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) 1956 Birthday Paul Molitor, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, infielder, Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP 1956 Event Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship 1956 Event Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph 1956 Birthday Charlie Magri, world champ flyweight boxer, 1983 1956 Event Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8) 1956 Birthday Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner, world record 25/30 km 1956 Birthday Russell Christian, rocker, Christians-Harvest the World 1956 Event World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco 1956 Event World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo 1956 Birthday Sue Barker, born in Paignton, England, professional tennis player, television presenter with the BBC, won singles title at the French Open, highest career singles ranking was third in the World 1956 Death Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75 1956 Event Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV 1956 Event Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) 1956 Event Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) 1956 Birthday Balwinder Singh Sandhu, cricketer, Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup 1955 Birthday Kevin Conroy, Westport CT, actor, Tour of Duty, Another World 1955 Birthday Sue Novara-Reber, born in Flint, Michigan, cyclist, 1975 World sprint champ 1955 Birthday Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor, Tonio-As the World Turns 1955 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) and 25,000m (1:16:36) 1955 Birthday Yo-Yo, Massachusetts, Paris, France, world famous Chinese cellist 1955 Event Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 1955 Event Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank) 1955 Event 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (New York Yankees beat Dodgers) 1955 Event Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician 1955 Event Guinness Book of World Records 1st published 1955 Event Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) 1955 Birthday Henry Preistman, rocker, Christians-Harvest the World 1955 Birthday Tony Allcock, born in Leicestershire, England, bowler, two-time world outdoor singles champion, 1992, 1996, world singles champion 1986, 1987, 2002, won silver medal in men's singles event at 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada 1955 Birthday Tim Berners-Lee, born in London, England, computer scientist, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, proposed in March, 1989 1955 Birthday Bill Koch, born in Brattleboro, Vermont, skier, first U.S. world-class cross-country skier, won 1982 Cross-country skiing World Cup 1955 Birthday William Koch, U.S. skier, World Cup 1982 1955 Birthday Dana Carvey, born in Missoula, Montana, comedian, SNL, Garth-Wayne's World 1955 Birthday Buster Mottram, born in Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, English tennis player, ranked 15th best tennis player in the world, represented Great Britain in Davis Cup eight times 1955 Birthday John Nunn, born in London, England, champion chess player, chess writer, publisher, mathematician, once ranked among the world's top ten, two-time champion in chess problem solving 1955 Birthday Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 1955 Birthday Dana Carvey, comedian, SNL, Wayne's World 1955 Birthday Sally Spencer, actress, M J McKinnon-Another World 1955 Birthday Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion 1954 Event New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series 1954 Birthday Reed Birney, born in Alexandria, Virginia, actor, Greatest Man in the World 1954 Birthday Derek Warwick, born in Alresford, England, racecar driver, at age 16, won Superstox English Championship and age 18, won the World Championship at Wimbledon Stadium 1954 Event Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio 1954 Birthday Lisa Brown, KC, Missouri, actress, Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns 1954 Event West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern 1954 Event Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 years 352, then world record 1954 Event John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) 1954 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2) 1954 Birthday Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up, 1975 1954 Birthday Donna Pescow, born in Brooklyn, actress, Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow 1954 Birthday John Bolger, actor, Captain Gabe McNamara-Another World 1953 Birthday Betty Wright, born in Miami, Florida, singer, rhythm and blues, soul music, influenced the world of hip hop, sang with Alice Cooper, Gloria Estefan, song Shoorah! Shoorah!, used in movie Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1953 Birthday World B Free, NBA guard, Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors 1953 Birthday Lucinda Green, born in Andover, England, born Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer, champion equestrian, journalist, won gold at 1982 World Championships 1953 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) and 6 mile (28:08.4) 1953 Event 50th World Series sees New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as New York Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yankees win record 5th consec WS 1953 Event Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4) 1953 Event Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series 1953 Event Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series 1953 Event Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter 1953 Birthday Philece Sampler, San Angelo, Texas, actress, Donna Love-Another World 1953 Event 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours 1953 Birthday Raul Ramirez, born in Ensenada, Baja California, professional Mexican tennis player, in 1976, ranked No. 4 in the world, in 1983, ranked No. 6 in the world in doubles, won 60 doubles titles, 19 singles titles, married former Miss Universe, Venezuelan-born Maritza Sayalero 1953 Event Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2) 1953 Birthday Lawrence Lau, actor, Jamie Frame-Another World 1953 Birthday Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner, world record 1953 Birthday Steve Lubbers, cricketer, captain of Dutch World Cup team 1996 1953 Birthday Suleiman Nyambui, Tanzanian runner, world record 5k indoor 1953 Birthday Svetlana Ulmasova, U.S.S.R., 3K, world title 1978 1953 Event Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec 1953 Birthday Paul Allen, born in Seattle, Washington, co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, worth $10 billion, 'Time' magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World 1953 Death Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78 1952 Birthday Karla Bonoff, rock singer, New World, Restless Nights 1952 Birthday Joel Garner, born in Christ Church, Barbados, right-handed, fast bowler, nicknamed 'Big Bird', West Indian cricketer, played 1979 Cricket World Cup, 1983 Cricket World Cup 1952 Event North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH 1952 Birthday Flavian Aponso, cricketer, rebel Sri Lankan 1982, Netherlands World Cup 1996 1952 Event New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series 1952 Event Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins 1952 Event Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship 1952 Birthday Phoebe Snow, singer, Theme from "It's a Different World" 1952 Birthday Pietro Mennea, Italian runner, 200m world record 1952 Event Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) 1952 Birthday Dan Halldorson, born in Winnipeg, Canadian Tour golfer, 1985 World Cup 1952 Event 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record) 1952 Birthday Raul Gonzalez, Mexican 50K speed walker, world record 1952 Birthday Sharon Gabet, Fort Wayne, Indiana, actress, Edge of Night, Another World 1951 Birthday Joe Jordan, born in Carluke, Scotland, professional soccer player, the only soccer player to score in three World Cups in 1974, 1978 and 1982 1951 Birthday Johnny Rep, born in Zaandam, Noord-Holland, professional soccer player, striker, FIFA World Cup record-holder 1951 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles 1951 Event Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game 1951 Event Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yankees beat Giants 13-1 1951 Event In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn 1951 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m and 10 mile 1951 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) 1951 Birthday Mark McCumber, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Mark Randall McCumber, golfer, won PGA tour ten times, won World Cup of Golf for the United states with Ben Crenshaw, golf analyst for Fox Sports, golf course architect 1951 Birthday Queen Noor of Jordan, born in Washington, D.C., Lisa Najeeb Halaby, president of United World Colleges movement, fourth wife and widow to King Hussein of Jordan 1951 Event Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship 1951 Birthday Terry Davis, born in New York City, actress, Stacey Winthrop-Another World 1951 Birthday Diana Dennis, born in Portland, Oregon, body builder, Women Physique World 1951 Birthday Jamey Sheridan, born in Pasadena, California, actor, Another World 1951 Birthday Peter Gordon, born in New York City, New York, Peter Laurence Gordon, experimental composer, musician, opera, world music, jazz, rock influences, founder, Love of Life Orchestra, composed for Suzanne Vega, Laurie Anderson, worked on Desperate Housewives soundtrack 1951 Birthday John Conteh, born in Liverpool, England, athlete, former British boxer, world light-heavyweight boxing champion 1951 Birthday Anatoli Karpov, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1975-85 1951 Event "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 157 performances 1951 Birthday Alphonso Johnson, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bassist, jazz, jazz fusion genres, considered one of the world's best bassists, played on Weather Report album Mysterious Traveller 1951 Death Robert Mark, U.S. chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41 1951 Event World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, New York City) 1950 Event Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) 1950 Event "Out of This World" opens at New Century Theater New York City for 157 performances 1950 Event Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World," premieres in New York City 1950 Event U.S. win 1st world championship bridge contest 1950 Birthday Howard E Rollins, Jr., born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Bannister-Wildside,Another World 1950 Event New York Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series 1950 Event Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2 1950 Event Yankees win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies 1950 Event Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army 1950 Birthday Barry Sheene, born in London, England, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix 1950 Event Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship 1950 Birthday Maricica Puica, born in Romania, 2K runner, world record 1950 Birthday Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener, World Cup ton 1975 1950 Event Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro 1950 Event U.S. beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994) 1950 Birthday Cathy Sherk, born in Bancroft, Ontario, professional golfer, achieved No. 1 World ranking by Golf Digest, 1978, earned silver medal with Canadian team at 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, joined LPGA tour, inducted into Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, 1995 1950 Birthday Michael Swan, born in Palo Alto, California, actor, Duncan-As The World Turns 1950 Death Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70 1950 Birthday Gabriel Byrne, Dublin, Ireland, actor, Hello Again, Cool World 1950 Birthday Marina Stepanova, Russian hurdler, world record 1986 1950 Birthday Terry Lester, Indianapolis, actor, Young and Restless, As World Turns 1950 Event U.N. World Meteorological Organization established 1950 Birthday Mark Pinter, born in Decorah, Iowa, actor, Behind the Screen, Another World 1950 Birthday Jody Schecter, South African auto maker, World Driver's 1979 1949 Birthday Ton [Teunis] Sijbrands, Dutch world checkers champion 1949 Birthday Bill Buckner, born in California, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series 1949 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2) 1949 Event New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series 1949 Event Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2) 1949 Birthday Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion 1949 Birthday Kale Browne, born in San Rafael, California, actor, Michael Hudson-Another World 1949 Event Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m, 29:28.2 1949 Birthday George Willig, stuntman, climbed World Trade Center in 1977 1949 Birthday Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End' 1949 Event Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player 1949 Birthday Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer, world champ 1975, 77, 84 1949 Event Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris 1949 Event Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio 1949 Event Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title 1949 Birthday Sunil Wettimuny, cricket, Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups 1949 Event Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic 1949 Birthday George Foreman, born in Houston, Texas, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1973 - 1974, 1995 1949 Death Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 1948 Birthday Larry Byrom, rocker, Steppenwolf-Hour of the World 1948 Birthday Lynne Thigpen, Joliet, Illinois, actress, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Nancy-Love Sidney 1948 Birthday David Gwillim, Plymouth England, actor, Island at Top of the World 1948 Event Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player 1948 Event Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series 1948 Event Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland 1948 Event World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft 1948 Birthday Shakti Gawain, author, personal development expert, environmentalist, wrote series of successful books, including 'Creative Visualization' and 'Creating True Prosperity', books have sold over 10 million copies, co-founder, New World Library Publishing Company 1948 Event F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph 1948 Event Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters 1948 Event U.N.'s World Health Organization forms 1948 Event World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries 1948 Birthday Stephen Schnetzer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Cass Winthrop-Another World 1948 Event Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion 1948 Event Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs. Essex, world record 1948 Event World Health Organization forms by U.N. 1948 Event John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) 1948 Birthday Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist, 3 Dog Night-Joy to the World 1948 Event Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US 1948 Birthday Manfred Kokot, East German runner, world record 50 m indoor 1947 Birthday Anna Stuart, actress, Donna Love-Another World 1947 Event NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN 1947 Event Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years 1947 Birthday Joe Morton, New York City, actor, Hal-Grady, Abel Marsh-Another World 1947 Event Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series 1947 Event New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series 1947 Event Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series 1947 Event With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game 1947 Event Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer 1947 Event Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828) 1947 Event Happy Chandler announces Ford and Gillette to sponsor World Series 1947 Event John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH 1947 Event Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speed record, 1,047 kph 1947 Event 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport Pennsylvania win 1947 Birthday Walter Willison, born in Monterrey Park, California, actor, McDuff the Talking Dog, Two By Two [Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award] 1947 Birthday Ben Masters, Corvalis OR, actor, Vic-Another World, Making Mr. Right 1947 Event Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39) 1947 Event Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio 1947 Birthday Ian Millar, Halifax NS, dressage rider, World Cup 1988, 89, Silver Medal 2008 Olympics 1946 Birthday Alan Jones, Australia, auto racer, 1980 World Champion 1946 Birthday Anura Tennekoon, cricketer, Sri Lankan World Cup captain 1975-79 1946 Event Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) 1946 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series 1946 Event Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series 1946 Birthday Andre Bolhuis, hockey player, World Cup 1973, European Cup 1978 1946 Birthday Jacqueline Courtney, New Jersey, actress, Another World, One Life to Live 1946 Birthday Marilyn Vos Savant, born in St. Louis, Missouri, writer/world's highest IQ, 228 1946 Event U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court 1946 Birthday Robert L Asprin, U.S., sci-fi writer, Thieves World, Cold Cash War 1946 Birthday Janice Giteck, born in Hicksville, New York, composer, influenced by world music, American Indian music, studied with Olivier Messiaen 1946 Death Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53 1945 Event International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded 1945 Event New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF 1945 Birthday Denise Alexander, New York City, actress, General Hospital, Another World 1945 Event Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series 1945 Event Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs 1945 Event Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time 1945 Event World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member 1945 Birthday Kay Baxter, Woodsfield Ohio, Best Bodybuilder in World, 1983-85 1945 Event Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually 1945 Birthday Khaleda Zia, born in Dinajpur District, India, first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 - 1996, listed in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World 2006 1945 Birthday Linda Harrison, born in Berlin, Maryland, actress, Bracken's World, Planet of Apes 1945 Birthday David Heyn, cricketer, Sri Lankan batsman 1975 World Cup 1945 Birthday Robin Strasser, New York City, actress, Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World 1945 Birthday V K Ramaswamy, cricketer, Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup 1945 Birthday Joe Schermie, Madison Wi, bassist, 3 Dog Night-Joy to the World 1945 Death Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52 1944 Birthday Jack L[aurence] Chalker, U.S., sci-fi author, Saga of Well World 1944 Birthday Warren Burton, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Jason Dunlap in 'Another World' 1944 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series 1944 Event 1st All St. Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park 1944 Event St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance 1944 Birthday Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer, What the World Needs Now 1944 Event Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6) 1944 Event In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell 1944 Event World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) 1944 Event Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank 1944 Birthday Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper, 1975 World Cup 1944 Birthday Tom Okker, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, tennis player, nickname, The Flying Dutchman, world's top doubles player, 1969, world's top ten singles player for 17 years 1944 Birthday David Gerrold, Jerrold David Friedman, author, World of Star Trek 1944 Event During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy 1944 Birthday Joe Frazier, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, heavyweight boxer, 1964 Olympic gold medal, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1968 - 1973 1943 Birthday Floyd Sneed, Calgary, rock drummer, Three Dog Night-Joy to the World 1943 Event New York Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series 1943 Event Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record 1943 Birthday Susan Jameson, actress, Secret World of Polly Flint 1943 Birthday Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days 1943 Birthday Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist, You're My World 1943 Birthday Linda Dano, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Felicia Gallant-Another World 1943 Event James Gow and A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in New York City 1943 Birthday Bobby Fischer, born in Chicago, eleventh World Chess Champion, American chess Grandmaster 1943 Event World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1942 Birthday Bernard Hill, Manchester, actor, Bellman and True, New World, Bounty 1942 Event In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began 1942 Event Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) 1942 Birthday Kees Verkerk, skater World Champion, 1967, Olympics gold 68 1942 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series 1942 Event New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season 1942 Event Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m 1942 Event Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2) 1942 Birthday Chuck Negron, born in Bronx, New York, rock vocalist, 3 Dog Night-Joy to the World 1942 Event Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) 1942 Birthday Giacomo Agostini, born in Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion 1942 Birthday Chuck Negron, singer, 3 Dog Night-Joy to the World 1942 Birthday Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper, world record 3,300' 1942 Death Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53 1942 Birthday John Irving, born in New Hampshire, short-story writer, wrote World According to Garp 1942 Birthday K Callan, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, Joe's World, Martha-Lois and Clark 1942 Event 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" 1941 Birthday Barry Hadlee, cricketer, bro of Dayle and Richard, New Zealand World Cup 1975 1941 Birthday Mary Alice, Indianola MS, newscaster, CBS, Lettie-Different World 1941 Birthday Charles Keating, born in London, England, actor, Carl Hutchins-Another World 1941 Event New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series 1941 Event Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series 1941 Event BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven 1941 Birthday Micki Grant, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, singer, soprano, actress, writer, composer, appeared on NBC's Another World, became first African-American cast member of a daytime soap opera 1941 Event Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) 1941 Birthday Nona Gaprindasvili, U.S.S.R., world women's chess champ, 1962-78 1941 Birthday Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player, 1966-73 1941 Birthday John Aprea, born in Englewood, New Jersey, actor, Lucas-Another World, Godfather 2 1940 Birthday Julie Parrish, Middlesboro, Kentucky, actress, Good Morning World, Capitol 1940 Event Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series 1940 Event Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series 1940 Event Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak 1940 Birthday George Reinholt, Philadelphia, actor, Steve-Another World, One Life to Live 1940 Birthday Beverlee McKinsey, Oklahoma, actress, Iris-Another World, Guiding Light 1940 Birthday Dennis Cole, born in Detroit, actor, Felony Squad, Brackens's World 1940 Death Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 1940 Event Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec) 1940 Birthday Chay Blyth, English sailor, Alone in Order to the World 1940 Event New York World's Fair reopens 1940 Birthday Patricia Bruder, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Ellen-As the World Turns 1940 Birthday David Broome, Show Jumper, world champion 1970 1939 Event Bradman scores 267 SA vs. Vic, world record 34th double cricket century 1939 Event Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8) 1939 Birthday Denise Alexander, actress, Mary McKinnon-Another World 1939 Event New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win 1939 Event Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight 1939 Death Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies 1939 Birthday Heinz Holliger, born in Langenthal, Switzerland, studied with Pierre Boulez, composer, world's most famous oboe player 1939 Birthday Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress, Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong 1939 Event NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair 1939 Event New York World's Fair opens 1938 Birthday Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Holland, speed skater, world champ 1938 Birthday David Borden, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, minimalist music, jazz pianist, founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, the world's first synthesizer ensemble, wrote vocal, chamber ensemble, music, style similar to Phillip Glass, Terry Riley 1938 Birthday Larry Bryggman, Concord California, actor, Dr. John Dixon-As the World Turns 1938 Birthday Robert Drivas, Choromokos, Chicago, actor, Our Private World 1938 Birthday Chris Robinson, Florida, actor, Stanley, General Hospital, Another World 1938 Event New York Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win 1938 Birthday David Willis, British journalist, BBC World Service 1938 Event Yankees Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss 1938 Event Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm) 1938 Event George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH 1938 Event John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) 1938 Event Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight 1938 Event Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours 1938 Birthday Shin Geum Dan, born in North Korea, 400m/800m runner, 1962 world record 1938 Event Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris 1938 Event Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6) 1938 Event Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) 1938 Event Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall 1938 Birthday John Considine, actor, Reginald Love-Another World 1937 Event Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe 1937 Event World's fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors) 1937 Event Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph 1937 Event Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km) 1937 Event New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series 1937 Event Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km) 1937 Birthday Mikhail N Tai, Latvia, World chess champion, 1960-61 1937 Event George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH 1937 Event World's largest flower blooms in New York Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily 1937 Birthday Mort Zuckerman, CEO, US News and World Report, New York Daily News 1937 Birthday Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian world champ billiards player 1937 Birthday Jon Hassell, born in Memphis, Tennessee, composer, played the trumpet, PhD in musicology, known for influencing world music scene with unique electronic manipulation of trumpet sounds 1937 Birthday Ron Clarke, Australia, runner, held 19 world records 1937 Event Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2) 1937 Birthday Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion 1937 Birthday Boris Spassky, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1969-72 1936 Event H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days 1936 Event New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series 1936 Event Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series 1936 Event Yankees set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series 1936 Event New York Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4 1936 Event Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam 1936 Birthday Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman, won 1960 World Series for Pitts 1936 Birthday Lex Humphries, born in New York City, New York, drummer, music style mixed world music with jazz, worked with John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef 1936 Event Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats U.S., 6-5 1936 Birthday Kathryn Hays, New York City, actress, Kim Hughes-As the World Turns 1936 Event German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis 1936 Death Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies 1936 Birthday Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver, world champ 1966 1936 Event Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6) 1936 Event Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South Africa 1935 Event Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin 1935 Event Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp 1935 Event Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) 1935 Event Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series 1935 Event Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series 1935 Birthday Peter Frankl, born in Hungary, pianist, performs classical music, Romantic period, early Modern, recorded the complete solo piano music of Debussy, performed with world class orchestras throughout America and Europe 1935 Event Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) 1935 Event Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour 1935 Birthday Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank 1935 Event World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul 1935 Event Brussel's World Expo opens 1935 Event Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) 1935 Event Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49) 1934 Birthday Barry Briggs, New Zealand auto maker, World Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66 1934 Birthday Nicolas Coster, actor, Robert Delaney-Another World 1934 Birthday Peter Haskell, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Bracken's World, Rituals 1934 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series 1934 Birthday Madlyn Rhue, Washington D.C., actress, Bracken's World, Executive Suite 1934 Event Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 1934 Event Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0) 1934 Event Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome 1934 Event World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines 1934 Birthday Don Hastings, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Captain Video, Bob-As the World Turns 1934 Birthday Elizabeth Allen, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actress, Laura-Bracken's World 1933 Birthday Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist, world champion, 1961 1933 Event New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series 1933 Birthday Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Burgos, Spain, conductor, World of Song 1933 Birthday Eileen Fulton, Asheville, North Carolina, actress, Our Private World 1933 Event Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km) 1933 Event Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist 1933 Event Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record) 1933 Event Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world 1933 Event Financial and Economy World conference opens, 66 countries 1933 Event Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago 1933 Event World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated 1933 Event 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair 1933 Birthday Quincy Jones, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer and singer, We Are The World 1932 Event Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest) 1932 Event New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series 1932 Event World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers 1932 Event New York Yankees win World Series The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth beating Red Sox 9-3 1932 Birthday Ingemar Johansson, Sweden, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1952 1932 Event Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title 1932 Birthday Maria Itkina, U.S.S.R., sprinter, 9 world records 1932 Birthday Jim Berry, cartoonist, Berry's World 1931 Birthday Skeeter Davis, Mary Penick, Dry Ridge, Kentucky, singer, End of World 1931 Birthday Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian, Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World 1931 Birthday David Bryant, English world champion bowler/tv-host 1931 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series 1931 Event World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards 1931 Event Captain G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) 1931 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) 1931 Event Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world 1931 Birthday Jackie Mason, born in Wisconsin, comedian, World According to Me, Chicken Soup 1931 Birthday David Shepherd, born in Britain, painter, artist, considered world's most famous conservationists, famous for paintings of wildlife 1931 Birthday Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier, World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75 1931 Birthday Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete, world record 5k 1931 Birthday Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off 1931 Birthday Galina Zybina, U.S.S.R., discus thrower, 15 world records between 1952-58 1931 Birthday E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow, New York City, novelist, World's Fair 1930 Birthday J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author, Drowned World 1930 Event Jules Ladoumegue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6) 1930 Event Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series 1930 Event A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series 1930 Event World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis 5-2 1930 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4) 1930 Event NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater 1930 Event Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec) 1930 Event Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo 1930 Birthday Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair, New Jersey, actress, Jack and Mike, Another World 1930 Event 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay 1930 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile, 29:36.4 1930 Birthday June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist, World of Islands 1930 Event North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens 1929 Event Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series 1929 Event Philadelphia A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning 1929 Event Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning 1929 Event A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs 1929 Birthday Tigran Petrosyan, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1963-69 1929 Birthday Lee Patterson, born in Vancouver, BC, actor, Dave-Surfside Six, Another World 1929 Birthday Michael Ryan, actor, John Randolph-Another World 1929 Event Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome 1929 Event Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec 1928 Event World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic 1928 Event New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 home run in game 1928 Event New York Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series 1928 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) 1928 Event 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs St. Louis Cardinals 1928 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6) 1928 Event Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists 1928 Birthday Constance Ford, U.S. actress, Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World 1928 Birthday Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals 1928 Birthday Nina Otkalenko, U.S.S.R., 800m runner, 9 world records 1927 Birthday Franklin "Bud" Held, javelin world champ, 1949, 51, 53-55 1927 Birthday Clairmonte Depeiaza, cricketer, world record partnership vs. Australia 1955 1927 Event New York Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series 1927 Event Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game 1927 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6 1927 Birthday Val Dufour, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Eugenie Grandet, Another World 1927 Birthday Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player, 1954-72 1926 Event St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series 1926 Event Babe Ruth hits 3 home runs in a World Series game, Yankees beat Cards 10-5 1926 Birthday Marques Haynes, NBA player, World's Greatest Dribbler, Globetrotters 1926 Birthday Bill Flemming, sportscaster, ABC's Wide World of Sports 1926 Event Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4) 1926 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4) 1926 Event Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2) 1926 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) 1926 Birthday Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union 1926 Birthday Richard DeVos, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, World War II veteran, businessman, author, billionaire, co-founder Amway - now Alticor, owner Orlando Magic, wrote 'Hope from My Heart: Ten Lessons For Life' 1926 Event U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court 1925 Event Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series 1925 Event Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8) 1925 Event White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919 1925 Birthday Norris McWhirter, author, Guinness Book of World Records 1925 Birthday Ross McWhirter, author, Guinness Book of World Records 1925 Event World's fair opens in Chicago 1925 Event AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year 1925 Birthday Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo 1925 Death Jaap Eden, Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating, dies at 51 1925 Birthday Bill Burrud, born in Hollywood, California, host, Safari to Adventure, Animal World 1924 Event Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years 1924 Birthday Piet Roozenburg, World champ checker player, 1948 . . 55 1924 Event Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7 1924 Event New York Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series 1924 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and 5 mile (24:06.2) 1924 Event Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand 1924 Event Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH 1924 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2) 1924 Event Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist 1924 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6) 1924 Birthday Sheldon Allman, born in Chicago, actor, Norm-Harris Against the World 1923 Birthday Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 1923 Event New York Yankees 1st World Series win beating New York Giants, 4 games to 2 1923 Event New York Giant's Casey Stengel home run beats Yankees 1-0 in World Series 1923 Event Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a World Series game 1923 Event New York Giants and New York Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium 1923 Event Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) 1923 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2) 1923 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4) 1923 Birthday Constance Ford, actress, Ada Hobson-Another World 1923 Birthday Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton, Illinois, banker, President of World Bank 1922 Birthday Al Hirt, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz trumpeter, Greatest Horn in the World 1922 Event Karel and Josef Capek's "World We Live In," premieres in New York City 1922 Event New York Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series 1922 Event 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series 1922 Event Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain 1922 Event Yankees and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game 1922 Event For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ and WGY) 1922 Birthday John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II 1922 Event Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ 1922 Event 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) 1922 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4) 1922 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3) 1922 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6) 1922 Event 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris 1922 Event 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn) 1922 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2) 1922 Birthday Iser J Koepermann, Russian/U.S. world checkers champ, 1958-68, 75-76 1922 Birthday Harding Lemay, born in North Bangor, New York, headwriter, Another World 1922 Event World Law Day, 1st celebrated 1921 Event AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 1921 Event Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, and Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series 1921 Birthday Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player, World Champ 1950-55 1921 Event New York Giants beat New York Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series 1921 Event Babe Ruth's 1st World Series homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays 1921 Event Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yankees (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0 1921 Event 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yankees beat Giants 3-0 1921 Birthday Jim McKay, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, sportscaster, ABC's Wide World of Sports 1921 Birthday Philip A. Potter, Dominica Secretary-General World council of Churches 1921 Event Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter 1921 Birthday Ernest Gold, born in Vienna, Austria, Ernst Gold, composer, wrote nearly 100 film and television scores, including It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, On the Beach, four Academy-Award nominations, three Golden Globe nominations 1921 Birthday Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion, 1949-51 1921 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2) 1921 Birthday Ian Percival, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Southport, served in World War II in North Africa and Burma, earned rank of Major 1921 Event Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 seconds) 1921 Birthday Earl Nightingale, born in Los Angeles, California, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs 1921 Birthday Douglass Watson, Jackson Georgia, actor, Satan Murders, Another World 1920 Event Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal 1920 Death Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1920 Event World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders 1920 Event Cleveland Indians beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series 1920 Event Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play 1920 Event Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam 1920 Event 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1 1920 Event 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleveland's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln 1920 Event 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal) 1920 Event Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series 1920 Birthday Irene Dailey, New York City, actress, Liz-Another World, Grissom Gang 1920 Birthday Dolph Sweet, actor, Gil McGowan-Another World 1920 Birthday Irving Howe, U.S., writer/critic, World of Our Fathers 1920 Birthday Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo 1920 Birthday Antony Duff, born in England, served Royal Navy during World War II, Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, diplomat, Director-General of Military Intelligence, section 5, 1985 - 1988, the United Kingdom's internal security service 1919 Event Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series 1919 Event White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series 1919 Event Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series 1919 Event World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal) 1919 Birthday Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist, world record 45,798 km 1919 Event National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series 1919 Event Cincinnati Reds are 10 games back in NL, and win World Series 1919 Birthday Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong' 1919 Birthday John Gregson, born in Liverpool England, actor, Gideon CID, Shirley's World 1918 Event Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min 1918 Event Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series 1918 Event Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers 1918 Event Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early 1918 Birthday Helen Wagner, Lubbock, Texas, actress, Nancy-As The World Turns 1918 Event Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players 1917 Event U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I 1917 Event Chicago White Sox beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series 1917 Event Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter 1917 Event Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world") 1917 Event U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1917 Birthday Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer 1916 Event Boston Red Sox beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series 1916 Event In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3 1916 Event Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings 1916 Death Edward D Pain, English journalist (New York World), dies in battle at 36 1916 Birthday Alex Dreier, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, newscaster, Whats it all about World? 1916 Birthday Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, head World Bank 1916 Birthday Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM, Sri Lanka, 1960..77 1916 Birthday Ralph Baldwin, harness driver, set 11 major world records 1915 Event Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion 1915 Event Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series 1915 Event Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game 1915 Event Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series 1915 Event Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs 1915 Birthday J. Donald Budge, U.S. tennis player, 1st to hold world's 4 major titles 1915 Birthday Maurice B. Latey, commentator, BBC World Service 1915 Birthday Henry Kuttner, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark World, As You Were 1915 Event World's Fair in San Francisco opens 1915 Birthday Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress, Dodge City, Another World 1914 Birthday Tony Martin, Alvin Morris, SF, singer, It's a Blue World, To Each 1914 Birthday Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front 1914 Event Boston Braves sweep Philadelphia A's, 1st sweep in World Series history 1914 Event German troops take Antwerp in World War I 1914 Event Japan declares war on Germany in World War I 1914 Birthday Sydney Wooderson, miler, world record 1937 1914 Event Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I 1914 Event World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms 1914 Event World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia 1914 Birthday Robert Emhardt, actor, Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers 1914 Event NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep 1914 Event Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, and win World Series 1914 Event Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) 1914 Event Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km) 1914 Birthday Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion, 1937 - 1949 1914 Event "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London 1914 Event 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh and Devil" in London 1914 Birthday Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1914 Event World's 1st airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins 1914 Event Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo 1913 Event 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World 1913 Event John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series lose, Robertson blames McGraw and is fired 1913 Event Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series 1913 Birthday Fred Davis, English world champ snooker player, 1948-49, 51 1913 Birthday Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player, 1941-57 1913 Event Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) 1913 Event Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2) 1913 Birthday Philippa Bevans, actress, Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient 1912 Birthday Minoru Yamasaki, architect, World Trade Center, New York 1912 Event Socialist International rejects that world war is coming 1912 Event Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) 1912 Event Boston beats New York Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series 1912 Event Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield 1912 Event World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy 1912 Birthday Michael Wilding, born in England, actor, Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong 1912 Event Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6) 1912 Event Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6) 1912 Birthday Rene Gabriels, Belgian billiard pro, 7 World/9 European championships 1912 Event World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York) 1911 Event Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series 1911 Birthday Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer, Whole World in his Hands 1911 Event Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) 1911 Event M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km 1911 Birthday Cantinflas, Mario Moreno, Mexico, actor, Around World in 80 Days 1911 Birthday Benny Lee, born in Glasgow, Scotland, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder 1911 Birthday Hume Cronyn, born in London, Ontario, actor, World According to Garp, Cocoon 1911 Birthday Terry-Thomas, born in England, actor, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1911 Event Philadelphia Athletics are 12 games back in AL, and will win World Series 1911 Birthday Patrick Maitland, born in England, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, journalist, World War II Special Correspondent, Member of Parliament for Lanark 1911 Birthday Mikhail Botvinnik, of U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1948-63 1910 Event New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station 1910 Event Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series 1910 Event 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series 1910 Death Thaddaus Robl, German bicyclist (world record), dies 1910 Event Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) 1910 Event World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) 1910 Birthday Nan Gindele, U.S. javelin thrower, World Record 1932-38 1910 Birthday Arthur Hazlerigg, born in England, Lord Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, awarded Military Cross, judge, Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, soldier, served during World War II, life peer 1909 Event Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series 1909 Event Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series 1909 Event Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game 1909 Event AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m 1909 Event World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins 1909 Event Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6) 1909 Event Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31) 1909 Event Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) 1909 Event Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) 1908 Event Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch 1908 Event Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers 1908 Event Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris 1908 Event John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) 1908 Event World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam 1908 Event World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama 1908 Event Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours 1908 Event Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) 1907 Event Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise 1907 Event Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series 1907 Death Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77 1907 Event World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army 1907 Birthday Froelich Rainey, born in Wisconsin, quiz moderator, What in the World 1907 Birthday Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Massachusetts, actor, Good Morning World 1907 Event J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called 1906 Event Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris) 1906 Birthday Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations 1906 Birthday Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. Secretary-General of World council of Churches, 1966-72 1906 Event All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series 1906 Event White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game 1906 Event "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1906 Birthday Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927 1906 Event Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km 1906 Event Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec 1905 Event New York Giants beats Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series 1905 Event Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight World Series shutout 1905 Event Philadelphia A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0 1905 Birthday Max Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1930-32 1905 Event Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world, New York - Chicago in 18 hours 1905 Birthday Robert Newton, England, actor, Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days 1905 Event World Exposition opens in Luik 1905 Death Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 1905 Event World's largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carets, found in South Africa 1905 Event Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater 1904 Event Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH 1904 Birthday Carleton Coon, prof of anthropology, What in the World 1904 Birthday S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist, Around the World in 80 Days 1903 Event 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Americans Pilgrims (Red Sox) 1903 Birthday Warren Hull, Gasport, New York, actor, Strike it Rich, Who in the World 1902 Death Swami Vivekananda, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893, dies at age 39, suffered form Asthma, diabetes, and other physical ailments 1902 Birthday Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York 1901 Event Clyde Fitch' "Way of the World," premieres in New York City 1901 Birthday Arleigh Burke, born in Boulder, Colorado, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War 1901 Birthday Michael Todd, producer, Around the World in 80 Days 1901 Birthday Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion, 1935-37 1901 Birthday Otto Waldis, Austria, actor, Port of Hell, Unknown World 1901 Birthday Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer 1900 Event World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors 1900 Birthday Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister, Lutheran World Relief 1900 Birthday Izak D du Plessis, South African writer and director, 3rd World 1900 Event World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens 1900 Event Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec) 1900 Event Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England 1899 Event World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference 1898 Birthday Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor 1898 Birthday Berenice Abbott, born in Springfield, Ohio, photographer, World of Atget 1898 Birthday Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion, 1926-30 1898 Birthday Eugene R. Black, U.S., President of World Bank, 1953-62 1897 Event World's 1st car dealer opens in London 1897 Event After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" 1895 Event World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris 1895 Birthday Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization 1895 Birthday Walderman Marx, cricketer, S Af, 240 on FC debut, then world record, 1895 Birthday Jean Giono, French writer, World Chant 1895 Event Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56) 1895 Event Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 seconds) 1894 Event 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World) 1894 Birthday Aldous Huxley, born in Surrey, England, author, Brave New World 1894 Birthday Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress, Around World in 80 Days 1894 Event Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player 1894 Event French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 1894 Event Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec 1894 Event Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire 1893 Event Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres 1893 Event Dvoraks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City 1893 Birthday Fern Andra, Watseka, Illinois, actress, Eyes of the World 1893 Event 1st newspaper color supplement (New York World) 1893 Birthday Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champ cyclist, 1921-24, 26 1893 Event World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago 1893 Event Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec) 1893 Event Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) 1893 Event Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35) 1892 Event Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne 1892 Birthday Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion, 1927-35, 37-46 1892 Birthday Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate, R-1940, author, One World 1891 Event 1st world weightlifting championship held 1891 Event Oscar Grunden skates world record 500m (50.8 sec) 1890 Event Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games and 1 tie 1890 Event Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma 1890 Event Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) 1890 Event Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) 1889 Event New York World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip 1889 Event New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6 1889 Event New York Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3 1889 Event 1st all New York City World Series New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA) 1889 Birthday Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany 1888 Birthday Jose Raul Capablanca, Cuba, world chess champion, 1921-27 1888 Event World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) 1888 Birthday Bobby Clark, vaudevillan, World's funniest circus clown 1888 Birthday Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer, World Tour of Bulletje and Bonestaak 1887 Event Detroit (NL) beats St. Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series 1887 Event Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3 1887 Event Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) 1886 Event St. Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10 1886 Birthday John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer, hit 2 home run in 1911 world series 1886 Event London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad 1885 Event Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled 1884 Event 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps New York Mets (AA) in 3 1884 Event 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats New York Mets (AA) 6-0 1884 Event Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos) 1883 Birthday Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter, Epic of Culture in New World 1883 Death Olivier Gloux, Gustave Aimard, French world explorer, dies at 64 1883 Event Amsterdam World's Fair opens 1883 Event 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair 1882 Event 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 1882 Event 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0 1882 Event Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo 1881 Event World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) 1880 Birthday Elisabeth Achelis, creator, World Calendar 1879 Birthday Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925 1879 Event Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days 1879 Death Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60 1878 Birthday Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist, 1899 1878 Event Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens 1877 Birthday Thaddaus Robl, German bicylist, world record 1875 Event World 1st roller skating rink opens in London 1875 Birthday Philipp A. Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist, Mensch and World 1875 Birthday Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman, died at 122 1874 Event World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland 1874 Death Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies 1874 Birthday Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer, The World a Dancing Party 1873 Birthday Jaap Eden, Dutch World Champion cycling and speed skating 1873 Event Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad 1873 Birthday Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism 1873 Event Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna 1872 Event HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 -year world oceanographic cruise 1872 Event World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales 1872 Birthday Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper 1872 Event Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park 1871 Event World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London) 1868 Birthday Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion, 1894-21 1865 Event Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws 1863 Birthday Swami Vivekananda, born in Calcutta, India, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893 1861 Event 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record 1861 Event 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record 1857 Event World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England 1853 Event 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York 1851 Birthday Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War 1849 Birthday Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation 1847 Birthday Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World 1846 Event Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world 1843 Event Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today 1841 Birthday Antonin Dvorak, Nelahozeves Czechoslovakia, composer, New World Symphony 1838 Birthday Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911 1836 Birthday Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion, 1866-94 1827 Birthday William Holdman Hunt, English painter, Light of the World 1818 Birthday Olivier Gloux, Aimard, French world explorer/writer, Grande Flibuste 1818 Birthday Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion, 1851-66 1815 Event World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1797 Birthday Claude Ambroise Seurat, born in Troyes, France, World's skinniest man 1791 Event Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published 1790 Event Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage 1790 Event Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry U.S. flag around the world 1787 Event 1st U.S. voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston 1785 Event 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident 1777 Birthday Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician 1775 Event Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world" 1766 Event John Byron back in England after trip around the world 1751 Event 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England 1718 Event James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun 1698 Death Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64 1682 Event William Penn left England to sail to New World 1670 Birthday William Congreve, England, writer, Old Bachelor, Way of the World 1656 Death Armagh James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76 1655 Event Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam 1607 Event 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia 1601 Event Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world 1587 Birthday 1st English child born in New World, Virginia Dare 1581 Event Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world 1577 Event Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world 1522 Event Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip 1521 Death Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50 1519 Event Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world 1502 Event Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World 1497 Event Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World 1494 Event On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 1493 Event Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World 1493 Event Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage 1493 Event Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage 1492 Event 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus 1373 Event Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, world's oldest, signed in London 1325 Event Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca 930 Event World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
