2013 Event The biggest version of Boeing's Dreamliner plane, the 787-10, debuts at the Paris Air show; over 100 orders, worth over $30 billion, are placed 2012 Event After a strike over working conditions, the world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo Platinum Limited, fires 12,000 people in South Africa 2012 Event Construction of The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the world's biggest optical telescope is approved 2012 Event The movie 'John Carter' becomes one of the biggest losses in film history; Disney takes a $200 million writedown on the film 2011 Event France's three biggest banks, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, are downgraded by Moody's credit rating agency 2011 Event In one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, the New York Jets defeat the New England Patriots 2010 Event Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed 2010 Event In one of Spain's biggest corruption trials, 95 people, including two former mayors and a planning chief, appear in court in Malaga 2010 Event The world's biggest airline is created when United Airlines shareholders approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines 2010 Event The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years 1995 Death Bobby Stokes, athlete, English footballer, scored the winning goal in 1976, Southampton F.C. vs. Manchester United, FA Cup Final, in the 83rd-minute, considered biggest upset in FA Cup Final history, dies at 44 1994 Event Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel 1991 Event Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii 1991 Event Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49 1990 Event 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds 1989 Event Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa 1989 Event Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world 1987 Event Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history 1986 Event Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded 1982 Event Biggest mass wedding, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City 1981 Event Washington Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2 1976 Event Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89) 1973 Event Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) 1970 Event Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87) 1968 Event USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world 1968 Event Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" 1967 Event King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp) 1964 Death Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash 1957 Event Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) 1957 Event World's biggest glass oven used 1956 Event Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minnesota Lakers-133, St. Louis Hawks-75 1954 Event Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized 1951 Birthday Bobby Stokes, born in Portsmouth, England, athlete, English footballer, scored the winning goal in 1976, Southampton F.C. vs. Manchester United, FA Cup Final, in the 83rd-minute, considered biggest upset in FA Cup Final history 1944 Event Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground 1932 Event Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest) 1930 Event North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens 1923 Event ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower 1794 Event 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) 1655 Event Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
