2015 The U.S. has fined American Honda Motor Company $70 million for neglecting to report, from mid-2003 to mid-2014, over 1,700 safety issues that resulted in deaths or injuries 2014 Award nominations are announced ahead of the 67th British Academy Film Awards; heading the list is Sandra Bullock for best actress in 'Gravity' by director Alfonso Cuaron 2014 The U.S. Senate votes to renew jobless benefits for 1.3 million Americans; the bill,calling for a three-month extension, will not be approved unless House Democrats agree to deal to cover $6 billion dollar cost without adding to the federal debt 2013 Thousands of people on Australia's east coast are threatened by over 130 wildfires burning, and are forced to leave their homes 2013 U.S. scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded 2012 After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government 2011 U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is shot, Judge John Roll killed, in a Tucson, Arizona shooting rampage that killed 6 people and injured 14 2011 Chinese prosecutors claim over 600 people were killed in Yunnan over a seven year period from official misconduct 2010 The parliament in Portugal approves a bill legalizing same-sex marriage 1998 New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position 1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas 1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life 1996 Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1995 "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1143 performances 1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000 1995 Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60) 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit 1994 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis 1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale 1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman 1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1991 "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try 1991 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 761 performances 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator 1988 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25) 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams 1984 Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies 1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville, Tennessee 1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM 1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 772 performances 1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia 1981 Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner) 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh 1978 Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles 1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison 1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York 1973 "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances 1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG 1973 Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing 1972 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall 1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established 1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV 1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks 1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier 1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC 1965 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" 1963 "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art 1963 Dmitri Shostakovich' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands) 1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single) 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open 1955 WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way" 1953 Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts) 1953 Rene Mayer forms French government 1952 Jordan adopts constitution 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda 1949 "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 429 performances 1949 "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 95 performances 1949 "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 134 performances 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason 1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns 1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar) 1938 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings) 1937 -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record) 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy 1934 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam 1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter 1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses 1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies 1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia 1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill) 1901 NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship 1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire 1889 1st Computer patented 1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz 1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley 1870 U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto 1857 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City 1856 Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California 1853 1st U.S. bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia 1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes in New Jersey 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established 1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members 1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew 1806 Cape colony becomes English colony 1806 Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address 1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling 1745 England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance 1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested 1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) 1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews 1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais 1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown 1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III 871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island 624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan
