2015 The Confederate flag is removed from the South Carolina capitol grounds after the state government enacted a law to permanently remove it; the flag, part of U.S. Civil War history, is viewed by many as a symbol of racism 2014 Mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is now one of the top three downloads in the free app category of the Apple App store in the U.S.; the game was released a little over two weeks ago Labor unions of workers in the public sector went on strike across the U.K. to protest wage increases below the rate of inflation; unions claim that over one million workers participated 2013 Apple Inc., may incur significant damages after a U.S. district court rules the company conspired to fix the prices of eBooks Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears for the first time in court since his arrest April 19; he pleads not guilty to 30 charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction 2012 Hearings are delayed for the U.S. extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom over concerns about the search and seizure of documents France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress 2011 Australia's Prime Minster Julia Gillard introduces details of plan to implement a carbon tax In the Volga River near Bolgar, Russia, cruise ship Bulgaria sinks; 110 people drown and 80 are rescued alive 2010 The largest manhunt in U.K. recent history ends when gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself in a 6-hour standoff with police 2005 Luxembourg accepts a referendum on the E.U. constitution 1997 Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a New York Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads 1994 "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 33 performances Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt Fred Norris, from the Howard Stern Show, marries Allison Furman Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36) 1993 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president/Sylvie Kinigi, PM Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38) 1992 John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival U.S. Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons 1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 1990 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers) Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee 1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) 1988 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week Samuel Morses "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000 Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy 1981 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5 degrees C temp 1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion 1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees 1977 "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 75 performances Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic 1976 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) 1975 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, vs. Australia, out for a pair 1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1973 Bahamas declares Independence from U.K. and adopts constitution 1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida, McGovern Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India 1971 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created 1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969 1967 Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon 1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1964 Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo 1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington All star MVP: Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodgers) Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open) 1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed) Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia 1956 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D.C. 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1953 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist] 1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong 1950 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV 1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1948 "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 318 performances "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 62 performances "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 188 performances Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army 1947 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Philadelphia A's, 3-0 1946 Belgian government of Acker, resigns 1945 Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of U.S. Navy staff 1943 6th day of battle at Kursk U.S. and Britain invade Sicily in WW II, Operation Husky 1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union 1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air, 114 days German planes attack British ships in the Canal 1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours 1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club" 1936 109 degrees F (43 degrees C) Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland (state record) 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record 111 degrees F (44 degrees C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record) 112 degrees F (44 degrees C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 home runs in a game 1934 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game 1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York 1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job 1929 In game between Pirates and Phillies 9 home runs hit 1 in each inning U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency 1928 Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout 1926 30th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage 1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS forms 1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam 1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle, Rostov, Russia All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy 1920 Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary 1919 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms 1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft 1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa 1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles 1913 134 degrees F (57 degrees C), Greenland Ranch, California (U.S. record) Romania declares war on Bulgaria 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6) 1911 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) 1910 Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0 1908 H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269 degrees C) 1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo 1892 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio 1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., 1st with female suffrage 1886 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) 1884 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out 1873 French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol 1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass 1862 U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad 1861 Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state 1850 Vice President Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death 1847 Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel 1832 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US 1810 Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France 1797 1st U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Philadelphia 1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army 1762 Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye 1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet Netherlands-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen) 1652 England declares war on Netherlands 1645 Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists 1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA) 1627 English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle 1609 Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League 1598 Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande 1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium 1568 Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish 1553 Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England 1520 King Charles V and King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais 1460 Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton 1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes 552 Origin of Armenian calendar
