French Open Men's Tennis
1989 French Open Men's Tennis: American Michael Chang wins lone career Grand Slam title; beats Stefan Edberg of Sweden 6-1, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; at 17 years, 110 days, becomes youngest male to win a Grand Slam singles title
- 1989 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Sawgrass: Orville Moody wins by 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Charles Coody
- 1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
Sports History
1990 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
- 1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitutional
Music History
1990 UN appoints British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John as environmental ambassador
- 1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
Unforgettable...with Love
1991 Natalie Cole releases "Unforgettable...with Love", covering her father's standards including a "virtual duet" of title track; wins 6 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, 1992
- 1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
Hall of Fame
1992 Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame
- 1992 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibition game, beat Venezuela 20-0
Jurassic Park
1993 "Jurassic Park", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
- 1993 "Scattergories" game show last airs on NBC-TV
- 1993 "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
- 1994 "Meet The Flintstones" by The B-52's (stylized for this release as The B.C. 52's) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33
Belmont Stakes
1994 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
- 1994 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
- 1994 Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden
- 1994 Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria
- 1995 French Open Men's Tennis: Thomas Muster of Austria beats American Michael Chang 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 for his lone major singles title
- 1995 NHL Western Conference Final: Detroit Red Wings beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 1
- 1995 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
- 1996 Exxon states that it will begin work on its $15-billion Sakhalin I oil and natural gas development in Russia's Far East
- 1998 Compaq Computer pays $9.6 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation; largest high-tech acquisition at the time
- 2000 French Open Men's Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil wins his second French title; beats Sweden's Magnus Norman 6-2, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6
- 2001 Saudi Arabia seizes ownership, effective June 7, of the 1.6-million-barrels-per-day IPSA pipeline that had carried Iraqi crude oil to the Saudi Red Sea port of Mu'jiz prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Music History
2002 "American Idol" created by Simon Fuller with judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson premieres on Fox
- 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
- 2004 Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe
Event of Interest
2004 Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
- 2005 137th Belmont: Jeremy Rose aboard Afleet Alex wins in 2:28.75
- 2005 WLAF World Bowl 13, LTU arena, Düsseldorf: Amsterdam Admirals beat Berlin Thunder, 27-21
- 2006 60th Tony Awards: "Jersey Boys" (musical) & "The History Boys" (play) win
- 2006 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal of Spain wins his 2nd straight French title; beats Roger Federer 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6
LPGA Championship
2006 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bulle RockGC: Se Ri Pak wins her 3rd title in the event and 5th major; beats Australian Karrie Webb on first play-off hole
Event of Interest
2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official historic apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century
- 2009 Bulgarian authorities declare the country is officially in recession after dropping 1.6% in the last quarter of 2008
- 2009 Texas mother hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen in her Texas home. Witnesses say lightning came through a light fixture, struck her chest and exited her foot. Survived after three days in hospital.
Swine Flu Pandemic
2009 The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years
- 2011 143rd Belmont: Jose Valdivia Jr aboard Ruler On Ice wins in 2:30.88
- 2012 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
- 2012 Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
- 2012 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Đoković 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; 3rd straight French title for Nadal
- 2012 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA : LA Kings defeat New Jersey Devils, 6-1 for 4-2 series win; first SC title in Kings' 45-year history
- 2012 The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
- 2012 Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
- 2012 US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
- 2014 Islamic State of Iraq forces seize control of government offices and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosul
- 2016 148th Belmont Stakes: Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Creator wins in 2:28:51
- 2017 71st Tony Awards: "Dear Evan Hansen" (musical) & "Oslo" (play) win
- 2017 French Open Men's Tennis: Spaniard Rafael Nadal beats Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland 6–2, 6–3, 6–1; becomes first man to win French title 10 times
- 2017 Jailbreak by militants in Beni, DR Congo kills 11 and frees 900 prisoners
- 2017 Puerto Rico votes overwhelming in favor of statehood in a status referendum with 97% in favor despite a low turnout of 23%
- 2017 Stanley Cup Final, Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN: Pittsburgh Penguins defeat Nashville Predators, 2-0 for 4-2 series win; Penguins back-to-back champions
- 2018 72nd Tony Awards: "The Band's Visit" best musical; "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" best play
Event of Interest
2018 In landmark ruling, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejects El Salvador woman's asylum request based on domestic abuse
- 2018 More than 100 people arrested in Vietnam, after protests against special economic zones at the People's Committee Headquarters in Binh Thuan province and elsewhere
- 2018 Net neutrality is officially repealed by The Federal Communications Commission in the US
Event of Interest
2018 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accepts migrant rescue ship Aquarius with 629 people on board after Italy refuses it
Music History
2019 "The New York Times" reveals an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, lost in 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles
- 2019 Botswana overturns law criminalizing same-sex relationships from colonial-era in landmark African LGBTQ case
Event of Interest
2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces plan to ban single-use plastics by 2021
9/11 Attack on NY's World Trade Towers
2019 Comedian Jon Stewart delivers angry rebuke to Congress for the lack of funds for 9/11 victims
- 2019 Russian journalist Ivan Golunov released from prison and drug charges dropped after major public outcry with unprecedented joint campaign by Russian news sources
- 2019 WHO confirms first case of Ebola virus in Uganda, spread from outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
- 2020 Bodies of 46 migrants recovered off the coast of Tunisia after a boat capsized a few days before
- 2020 Pan-American Health Organisation warns pandemic spreading "exponentially" in many areas of the region, home to nearly half of all cases worldwide
Event of Interest
2021 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to Katori Hall for drama, The New York Times for pandemic coverage and special citation for Darnella Frazier for recording the murder of George Floyd
- 2021 US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 2022 Charl Schwartzel hangs on to beat fellow South African Hennie Du Plessis by a stroke to win the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event at the Centurion GC, Hertfordshire; pockets massive US$4.75m for the victory
- 2023 2nd ICC World Test Championship final, The Oval, London: Australia beats India by 209 runs to take it's first title; Nathan Lyon 4/41 and Scott Boland 3/46 combine to dominate Indian 2nd innings
Tony Awards
2023 76th Tony Awards: held without scripts due to writers' strike "Kimberley Akimbo" Best Musical, “Leopoldstadt” Best Play, Jodie Comer Best Actress, Sean Hayes Best Actor, J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell first out nonbinary winners [1]
- 2023 French Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković beats Casper Ruud of Norway 7-6, 6-3, 7-5 in 3 hours, 13 minutes for his men's record 23rd Grand Slam singles title
