2014 Event A U.S. lawsuit against IBM and Ford Motor Company, seeking damages for the companies' transactions with the former apartheid government, has been dismissed; the transactions were conducted by foreign units and are not under jurisdiction of U.S. law 2014 Event The International Court of Justice at the U.N. agrees that Japanese whaling is conducted for commercial purposes, not scientific research; Japan accepts the order to cease all whaling activities in the Antarctic 2013 Event According to files published in 'NRC Handelsblad', the U.S. has conducted surveillance on the Netherlands since 1946 2012 Event A study conducted at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, announces the a harmful type of space radiation may accelerate the development of Alzheimer's disease 2011 Event Testing is conducted to confirm whether the E. coli outbreak came from vegetable sprouts in the Uelzen, Germany 2011 Event Crewmembers of the Endeavour space shuttle Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff take what is potentially the last spacewalk ever conducted by a space shuttle crew 2011 Event 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 2004 Event Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted 1972 Event Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America 1970 Event Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank 1916 Birthday Helmut Eder, born in Linz, Austria, composer, studied and later taught at the Linz Conservatory, conducted the Singakademie, founded electronic music studio in Linz in 1959 1913 Birthday Gyula David, born in Hungary, composer, violinist, conductor, studied at the Liszt academy, conducted for the National Theatre 1945 - 1949, wrote folk song music and 12 tone serial music 1893 Event Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique" 1805 Event Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
