2015 H.J. Heinz Co and Kraft Foods Group Inc. will merge to form the third-largest global food company, Kraft Heinz Co.; the merger will be financed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Jorge Paulo Lemann's 3G Capital 2014 Disney announces that it will buy Maker Studios for $500 million with an additional payout of $450 million if certain performance targets are met; purchase of the online video producer may help Disney expand marketing outlets for its media 2014 A lawsuit against Lance Armstrong is dismissed; after he admitted to doping, the plaintiffs sued, claiming that they bought energy-drink maker FRS Co. believing that the drinks endorsed by Armstrong had been the key reason for his cycling success 2013 In Paris, hundreds of thousands of people protest the legalization of same-sex marriage in France; the protest turns violent after access to the Champs-Elysees is denied 2013 The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, asserts he will have the International Court of Justice in The Hague solve the border dispute between Bolivia and Chile 2012 China announces its plan to phase-out the practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum wins the caucuses in the state of Louisiana 2011 Kenya opens The Africa Carbon Exchange, the first carbon exchange in Africa to exchange carbon credits 2011 The U.S. Census conducted April 1, 2010 reveals that New York city is the country's most populated city, with 8,175,133 residents 2010 Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia 2008 Bhutan holds it's first public election 2002 74th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards 1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards 1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual 1996 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament 1996 Metropolitan Transportation Authority raises New York City bridge tolls to $3.50 each way 1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 322 performances 1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 53 performances 1994 Robert F Kennedy, Jr. divorces Emily Black 1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel 1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 245 performances 1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space 1992 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space 1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It wins 1991 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game 1991 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament 1991 Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait 1991 New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3 1991 Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter 1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka 1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973 1989 Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1988 "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 61 performances 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires 1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross 1987 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria 1986 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling 1986 U.S. and Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" 1985 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins) 1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic 1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah) 1984 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) 1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics 1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) 1982 U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia 1981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC 1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy 1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba 1980 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" 1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks 1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 116 performances 1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes 1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center 1979 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck" 1976 Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1974 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64 1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk, Jr. in Kansas City, to become NWA champ 1973 Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title 1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile 1973 San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip 1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational 1967 University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance 1965 U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued 1962 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59 1962 Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later 1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys 1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows 1960 U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances 1953 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa 1950 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman 1950 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1949 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win 1949 Walter and John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win 1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency 1947 John D Rockefeller, Jr. donates New York City East River site to the U.N. 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports and 1300 gliders 1945 Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine 1945 U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox 1941 LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship 1941 Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in New York City 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois) 1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress 1936 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 minutes and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network 1934 U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency 1932 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) 1930 1st religious services telecast in U.S. (W2XBS New York City) 1930 Planet Pluto named 1930 Ronsburgse Boys soccer team forms 1927 Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie 1927 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty 1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands 1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions 1924 Greece becomes a republic 1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish 1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1913 Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England 1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway New York City 1910 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March 1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1898 1st automobile sold 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" 1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) 1883 1st telephone call between New York and Chicago 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB 1882 Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis 1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost 1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms 1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY 1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas 1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam 1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote 1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio 1828 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized 1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia 1792 Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers 1734 Netherlands William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts 1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beats RC emperor Ferdinand III 1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia 1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England 1550 France and England sign Peace of Boulogne 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms 1379 End of Gelderse war victory
