May 16 2013 The oldest water ever found is discovered in a Canadian mine; the water dates back 2.6 billion years 2013 Pope Francis calls for worldwide financial reform along ethical lines which would curb the tyranny of markets and financial speculation 2012 The black box is recovered from the Russian passenger jet that carried 44 passengers and crashed in the Indonesian province of West Java, leaving no survivors 2012 The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing 2011 After 23 years running and 1151 fugitives caught, the FOX network cancels Americas Most Wanted 2011 The European Union approves a $110.8 billion (78 billion euro) bailout package for Portugal 2010 A 5.8 magnitude earthquake is felt on Puerto Rico 2005 Sonys PlayStation 3 makes its debut at the E3 trade show 1999 125th Preakness 1998 124th Preakness 1997 Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings 1997 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA 1997 Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of U.S. crowned 46th Miss Universe 1997 Expos trailing San Francisco Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13 1997 St. Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits 1996 Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning 1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyos subways two months earlier 1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM 1994 Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment 1994 Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic 1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana 1993 3 Men on a Horse closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 40 performances 1993 Wilder, Wilder, Wilder closes at Circle in Sq New York City after 30 performances 1993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull 1993 Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head 1993 Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonalds Golf Championship 1993 Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey 1992 Smells Like Nirvana, by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35 1992 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6 1992 Polls show Perot, Bush and Clinton could be in a deadlock 1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour) 1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character) 1991 Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress 1990 Dominican Republic President Joaquin Ricardo Balaguer re-elected 1990 Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino 1989 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing 1988 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin 1988 U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant 1987 Mystery of Edwin Drood closes at Imperial New York City after 608 performances 1987 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8 1987 Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles 1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show 1987 Bobro 400, a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site 1986 Top Gun, premieres 1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas 1986 Joaquin Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election 1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela 1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year 1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium 1984 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution 1984 Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel 1984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer 1984 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1984 Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game 1983 Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel 1982 Barnum closes at St. James Theater New York City after 854 performances 1982 Is There Life after High School? closes at Barrymore after 12 performances 1982 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4 1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament 1982 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep 1982 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games 1981 Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks 1981 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6 1981 Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1 1981 Pretenders Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson 1980 34th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2 1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis 1980 Paul McCartney releases McCartney II album 1980 Former Buggles members Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in Yes 1979 FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel 1979 NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M 1977 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City 1977 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title 1976 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Philadelphia Flyers in 4 games 1976 Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic 1975 India annexes Principality of Sikkim 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everests summit 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1975 Wings release Listen to What the Man Said in UK 1974 Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor 1974 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1973 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar 1973 AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki 1972 Dont Play Us Cheap opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 164 performances 1972 Greg Luzinskis 500 home run hits Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia Vet 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale 1971 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents) 1971 Benjamin Brittens opera Owen Wingrave, premieres in Aldwych 1971 Bulgaria adopts its constitution 1970 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2 1970 Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70 1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute 1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam 1969 U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco 1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere 1969 Whos Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault 1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan 1967 Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium 1966 Beach Boys Pets Sounds is released 1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes 1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating 1965 Roar of the Greasepaint opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances 1965 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmers pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 and homers 1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam 1965 Spaghetti-Os 1st sold 1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open 1965 WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, New York (TEL) begins broadcasting 1964 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8 1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ 1963 Beast in Me opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 4 performances 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury 1961 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck 1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US 1959 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57 1959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, Michigan (NBC) begins broadcasting 1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico 1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter 1957 Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae 1957 U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut 1957 Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade 1956 Egypt recognizes Peoples Republic of China 1956 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia 1956 Kraft Theater presents an act from Profiles in Courage 1956 Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey vs. Australians at the Oval 1955 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in San Francisco 1955 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo 1955 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown 1955 Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title 1954 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open 1954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone 1954 WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast 1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row 1952 New Faces (of 1952) opens at Royale Theater New York City for 365 performances 1948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion 1948 CBS news correspondent George Polks body is found in Greece 1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Egyptians enter the Gaza 1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found 1948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps 1946 Musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City 1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa 1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz 1943 RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) 1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting 1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma 1941 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennetts Symphony in D for the Dodgers 1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain 1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia 1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) 1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) 1940 Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers 1940 Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris 1939 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10) 1939 Food stamps are 1st issued 1938 1st animal breeding society forms in New Jersey 1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire in Atlanta, Georgia 1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs. MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six 1936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France 1936 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59 1933 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game 1932 Yankees 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland and Boston 1931 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8 1930 6th Walker Cup: U.S., 10-2 1929 1st Academy Awards - Wings, Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins 1927 New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd and home 1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax 1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6 1924 108 degrees F (42 degrees C) in Blitzen Oregon 1922 White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage 1921 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2 1920 Joan of Arc (Jean Darc) canonized a saint 1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull 1916 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8 1914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City 1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens 1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK 1911 Zeppelin Deutscheland wrecked at Dusseldorf 1910 U.S. Bureau of Mines forms 1903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann) 1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US 1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Priory School 1894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium and 170 other buildings 1891 George A Hormel and Co introduce Spam 1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC 1884 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40 1882 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40 1881 Worlds 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) 1879 Antonin Dvoraks Slavic Dancing, premieres 1879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia and English 1875 Quake in Venezuela and Colombia kills 16,000 1874 1st recorded dam disaster in U.S. (Williamsburg Mass) 1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time 1869 Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7 1868 Bedrich Smetanas opera Dalibor, premieres in Prague 1868 By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer 1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5 cents piece (replaces silver half-dime) 1866 U.S. Treasury Department authorizes nickel 1864 Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13) 1864 Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA 1864 Last battles at Drewrys Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties) 1863 Battle of Champions Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign 1862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile 1861 Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium 1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality 1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1811 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera 1804 Senate and Tribune declare Napolean leader of France 1803 Peace of Amiens ends 1796 Lombardije Republic forms 1795 Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state 1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade 1770 Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France 1763 James Boswells 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson 1763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London 1747 Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Netherlands 1648 Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielrickis cosacks beat John Casimir 1606 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia 1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V 1584 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal 1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM 1568 Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England 1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor 1527 Florence becomes a republic 1165 Ramjbam and his family reach Acre Palestine 955 Alberich II, son of Octavianus elected pope
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