| 2011 | South Korea's Central Bank raises its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, to 3.25 percent |
| 2011 | A report submitted to the United Nations states Iran has been caught attempting to transfer weaponry to terrorists including Hamas and the Taliban 10 times |
| 2010 | Russia announces its plan to sell Iran S-300 ground-to-air missiles, claiming that new U.N. sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry |
| 2000 | Stanley Cup Finals, New Jersey Devils beat Dallas Stars 4 games to 2 |
| 1997 | Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful |
| 1997 | Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits San Francisco Giants 9-0 |
| 1996 | 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo, Ohio on WBUZ 106.5 FM |
| 1996 | Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip |
| 1996 | Stanley Cup: Colorado Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games |
| 1996 | Colorado Avalanche sweeps Florida Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods |
| 1995 | "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater New York City after 79 performances |
| 1995 | 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32 |
| 1995 | 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60) |
| 1995 | Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer |
| 1994 | Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel |
| 1994 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1994 | Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic |
| 1993 | "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| 1992 | "Price" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 47 performances |
| 1992 | Intelsat K launched |
| 1991 | "Twin Peaks" airs on ABC-TV |
| 1991 | 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton |
| 1991 | Mother of All Parades - New York City welcomes desert storm troops |
| 1991 | South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises |
| 1990 | "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 52 performances |
| 1990 | "Meet Me in St. Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 253 performances |
| 1990 | 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64) |
| 1990 | 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1990 | Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing |
| 1990 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland |
| 1990 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 1990 | Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity |
| 1989 | "Tales From The Crypt," TV Anthology, debuts on HBO |
| 1989 | 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26 |
| 1989 | 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title |
| 1988 | Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London |
| 1987 | Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated |
| 1986 | A. Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL |
| 1985 | 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell |
| 1985 | Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife |
| 1985 | Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula |
| 1985 | French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near New Zealand |
| 1984 | 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1984 | 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75) |
| 1984 | Ivan Lendl wins French Open, his 1st grand slam title |
| 1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
| 1984 | U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time |
| 1984 | Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m) |
| 1982 | "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall |
| 1982 | Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured |
| 1982 | Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut |
| 1982 | John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1981 | IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail |
| 1981 | Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits |
| 1981 | Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence |
| 1981 | Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co |
| 1979 | 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| 1979 | 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) |
| 1979 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play, 5-4-3 vs. Cleveland |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| 1978 | 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8 |
| 1978 | Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis |
| 1977 | Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II |
| 1977 | James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison |
| 1976 | 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy |
| 1976 | 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome |
| 1975 | Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans |
| 1975 | Yankees sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire |
| 1974 | Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof |
| 1974 | Rumor's government in Italy resigns |
| 1973 | 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
| 1973 | NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit |
| 1972 | 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28 |
| 1972 | Elvis Presley records a live album at New York's Madison Square Garden |
| 1972 | Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 home run hitter (649) |
| 1971 | 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois |
| 1971 | 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon |
| 1968 | "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1968 | AL games at Baltimore and Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy |
| 1968 | KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, Montana (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1967 | 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California |
| 1967 | Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 1966 | Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in U.K. |
| 1966 | Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes |
| 1966 | Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0 |
| 1966 | Janis Joplin's 1st live concert, Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco |
| 1966 | Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday" |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago |
| 1964 | Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women |
| 1962 | A record 54 home runs hit in baseball |
| 1962 | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 3" |
| 1962 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament |
| 1959 | Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive home runs in 1 game |
| 1957 | 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs |
| 1957 | Harold MacMillan becomes British PM |
| 1957 | John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada |
| 1956 | 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm |
| 1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1955 | 1st separation of virus into component parts reported |
| 1955 | KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | KQED TV channel 9 in SF, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting |
| 1952 | Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
| 1952 | St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby |
| 1950 | 50th U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA |
| 1950 | 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6 |
| 1950 | Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens |
| 1949 | Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier |
| 1946 | Italian Republic established |
| 1946 | Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA |
| 1945 | U.S. destroyer William D. Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze |
| 1944 | Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cincinnati Reds is youngest player in major league |
| 1944 | Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime |
| 1942 | Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173 |
| 1942 | Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich |
| 1940 | French government moves to Bordeaux |
| 1940 | German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker |
| 1940 | German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen |
| 1940 | Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II |
| 1938 | Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch vs. Australia at Trent Bridge |
| 1935 | Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous |
| 1934 | Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome |
| 1934 | U.S.S.R. and Romania regain diplomatic relations |
| 1933 | 37th U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill |
| 1933 | 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6 |
| 1932 | 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass |
| 1932 | 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England |
| 1931 | Norway occupies East-Greenland |
| 1930 | Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms |
| 1926 | Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle |
| 1924 | 1st political convention broadcast on radio - Republicans at Cleveland |
| 1922 | 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8 |
| 1921 | Babe Ruth becomes all time home run champ with number 120, Gavvy Cravath |
| 1917 | 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin, banned 41 years |
| 1917 | Limburgse mine workers strike |
| 1916 | 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22 |
| 1916 | Great Arab Revolt begin |
| 1915 | British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
| 1915 | Girl Scouts founded |
| 1911 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam |
| 1908 | 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens |
| 1905 | 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine |
| 1902 | Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan |
| 1899 | Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati |
| 1898 | U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War |
| 1893 | 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53 |
| 1892 | Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
| 1891 | 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75 |
| 1890 | 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75 |
| 1882 | Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans |
| 1880 | Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning |
| 1876 | 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40 |
| 1871 | 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56 |
| 1869 | 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef |
| 1868 | 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02 |
| 1865 | Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany |
| 1864 | Battle of Kellar's Bridge Kentucky, Licking River |
| 1864 | Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia |
| 1863 | Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds |
| 1861 | Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats |
| 1857 | England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system |
| 1854 | Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved |
| 1850 | Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of U.S. (replacing Taylor) |
| 1848 | 1st telegraph link between New York City and Chicago |
| 1848 | Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
| 1847 | Chicago Tribune begins publishing |
| 1846 | Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean |
| 1826 | Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey |
| 1818 | Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra" |
| 1809 | 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Philadelphia |
| 1801 | Tripoli declares war on U.S. for refusing tribute |
| 1794 | Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms |
| 1794 | France revolutionary regime begins trials |
| 1793 | 1st public zoo opens in Paris |
| 1793 | Washington replaced Philadelphia as U.S. capital |
| 1776 | Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence |
| 1772 | Burning of Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders |
| 1761 | Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island |
| 1760 | New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine |
| 1752 | Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock! |
| 1720 | Mrs. Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard |
| 1682 | Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree |
| 1652 | In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America |
| 1648 | Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov |
| 1639 | 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware) |
| 1627 | Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador |
| 1624 | Netherlands and France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiegne |
| 1610 | 1st Dutch settlers arrive, from New Jersey, to colonize Manhattan Island |
| 1605 | Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time |
| 1540 | Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister |
| 1538 | Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg |
| 1358 | French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured |
For Veterans and Serving Submariners of all Nations. - News, Updates on World Conflicts and Interesting Information
Sunday, 10 June 2012
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