USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Famer Renee Richards is 80. Actor Lee Thompson Young, 29, was found dead in his North Hollywood home. A train ran over a group of Hindu pilgrims at a crowded station in eastern India, killing at least 37 people. One year ago: Olympian runner Oscar Pistorius was indicted in Pretoria, South Africa, on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home on Valentine’s Day 2013 Pistorius has maintained he’d mistaken her for an intruder.

Don Hewitt, the TV news pioneer who’d created CBS’ “60 Minutes,” died at his Long Island, New York, home at age 86. Four members of an elite Army special operations unit were killed when their helicopter crashed on a Colorado mountain during a training mission. woman to win the all-around title since Mary Lou Retton in 1984.įive years ago: Suicide bombers struck Iraq’s finance and foreign ministries, killing more than 100 people. Carly Patterson won gymnastics’ premier event at the Olympics in Athens, becoming the first U.S. Bush of using a Republican front group “to do his dirty work.” Google began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, ending the day up $15.34 at $100.34. Ten years ago: Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry fought back against campaign allegations of exaggerating his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President George W. (The coup attempt collapsed two days later.)

In 1991, Soviet hard-liners made the stunning announcement that President Mikhail S. In 1980, 301 people aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency return to the Riyadh airport. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Kansas City. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots. tour as they performed at San Francisco’s Cow Palace. In 1964, The Beatles opened their first full-fledged U.S. In 1955, severe flooding in the northeastern U.S. In 1942, during World War II, about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering more than 50-percent casualties. In 1936, the first of a series of show trials orchestrated by Soviet leader Josef Stalin began in Moscow as 16 defendants faced charges of conspiring against the government (all were convicted and executed). In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler. In 1918, “Yip! Yip! Yaphank,” a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits from Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, opened on Broadway.

The 231 Club by J. Bartell