2015 Scientists have concluded that a large ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter; the discovery was made by using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe aurora movements at the moon's poles 2014 The European Central Bank announces its readiness to ensure that interest rates will remain steady or decrease as inflation rises 2014 The government of the U.K. has announced that it will put 11 million pounds into the funding of the Square Kilometer Array project, a radio telescope that will collect massive amounts of data from space, requiring immense computing resources 2013 For the first time in its history, the European Parliament rejects a European Union budget 2013 In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister 2012 A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications 2012 Twenty-five year old Alaskan, Dallas Seavey becomes the youngest winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 2011 Over 200,000 people are evacuated from Japan as fear of nuclear contamination from the power plants grows 2011 Japan estimates over 46,000 structures were damaged in the 9.0 magnitude earthquake 2010 Six people are killed by a remotely operated bomb while travelling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province 1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play 1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself 1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win 1995 Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms 1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9% 1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators 1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP 1994 Cuba Godding, Jr. (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26) 1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship 1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed) 1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed 1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east U.S. 1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake 1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12) 1992 Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit 1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill 1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown 1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S. 1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched 1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win 1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) 1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering 1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes and 3 seconds 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir 1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) 1985 Michael Secrest (U.S.) begins 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards 1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird 1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield 1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances 1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) 1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR) 1982 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA) 1982 Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) 1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship 1981 NCAA St. Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul 1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60) 1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR 1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created 1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement 1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick 1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house 1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test 1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris 1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia 1973 Syria adopts constitution 1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 605 performances 1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St. New York City 1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer 1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth 1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK 1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death 1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in New York City 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational 1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks 1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds 1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack 1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska 1963 Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City 1963 Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party 1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title 1961 John F. Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress 1961 Landslide in U.S.S.R., kills 145 1961 Old type, black and white notes cease to be legal tender 1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37) 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis 1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number 1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia 1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba 1956 New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win 1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal 1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron 1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu 1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms 1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany 1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) 1949 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman 1949 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42 1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 581 performances 1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win 1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands 1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman 1944 U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government 1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork and balata) 1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight 1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army 1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) 1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische 1938 Austria annexed by Nazi Germany 1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain 1933 Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory 1929 Bradman scores 123 Australia vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton 1928 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif) 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in New York City 1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games 1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution 1924 German Republic day 1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City) 1922 George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in New York City 1922 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas begins radio transmissions 1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St. Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games 1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China 1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails 1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms 1918 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set 1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit 1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures 1912 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games 1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in New York City 1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4 1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated 1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages 1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs 1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins 1884 U.S. adopts Standard Time 1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match 1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law 1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1865 U.S. Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service 1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers 1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly 1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Konigsberg 1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing 1797 Cherubini's opera "Medee," premieres in Paris 1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia 1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus) 1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick 1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1735 1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany 1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam 1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1634 Academe Franeaise opens 1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai 1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots 1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger 1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels 1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli 1519 Cortez lands in Mexico 1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned 607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 483 St. Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
