2015 France has outlawed the hiring of models who do not meet new Body Mass Index (BMI) minimums for a certain period of time before and during a modeling job; the law aims to prevent promotion of anorexia among models and people who emulate them 2014 David Letterman announces that he will retire from the 'Late Show' in 2015 2014 The mall-building company owned by Filipino billionaire Henry Sy is set to accelerate mall development in China 2013 The U.S. TV network NBC announces Jay Leno, host of 'The Tonight Show' will leave in the spring of 2014, and be replaced by comedian Jimmy Fallon 2013 A scientific study determines that common drugs taken for reducing cholesterol can prevent macular degeneration 2012 Part of the April 3, 2012 tornado outbreak, tornadoes impact the Dallas, Texas area 2012 Following the News International phone hacking scandal, James Murdock resigns as Chairman of BskyB 2011 The Academy of Country Music Awards 2010 selects Taylor Swift winner of the 2010 Entertainer of the Year award 2011 Kazakhstan holds a presidential election; President Nursultan Nazarbayev wins 95% of the vote 2010 Rescuers in Shanxi, China, enter a flooded mine to help over 153 workers who have been trapped for over a week 2000 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis 1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota 1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance 1996 South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield 1996 St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1 1995 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78 1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena 1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 1994 1st roster of Silver Bullets, all-female pro baseball team, announced 1994 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd 1992 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat New York Mets 1991 "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City 1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation 1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox 1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) 1991 U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution 1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx 1989 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime 1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stad 1988 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott 1988 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54 1988 Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak 1988 New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time 1988 Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert 1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega 1987 Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers 1987 Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1986 U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system 1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games 1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London 1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy 1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup 1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 1983 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott 1983 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67 1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point 1982 U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands 1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg 1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area 1980 France performs nuclear test 1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1979 Belgium's Martens government forms 1979 Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win 1978 European market and China signs trade agreement 1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C. 1977 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth 1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter 1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time 1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game 1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it 1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit 1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states 1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris 1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try 1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks 1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum 1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open 1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus 1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched 1964 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts 1964 U.S. and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations 1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) 1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 97 performances 1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties 1960 Earthquake at Havre, Belgium 1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances 1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London 1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test 1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances 1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated 1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed 1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics) 1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open 1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300 1954 "Me and Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 358 performances 1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record) 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to U.S. Congress 1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford 1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada 1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting 1948 1st U.S. figure skating championships held 1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) 1948 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1948 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 108 performances 1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army 1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald 1945 U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar 1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional 1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested 1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion 1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq 1941 Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago 1936 Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round 1936 Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds 1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) 1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest 1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1930 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games 1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact 1927 Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone 1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C 1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard 1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions 1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard 1925 Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde 1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers 1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd 1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1911 Harry James Smith' "Mrs. Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in New York City 1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours 1893 1st NSW vs. Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground 1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia 1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks 1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave 1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg 1864 Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas 1860 Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California 1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher 1790 Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created 1783 Sweden and U.S. sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce 1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College 1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king 1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury 1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig 1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance 1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen 1559 Spain and France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis 1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France 1312 2nd council of Vienna 1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England 419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
