2014 Event Burger King Worldwide Inc. will purchase Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons Inc. and move its headquarters to Canada; Burger King will pay a little over $11 billion in U.S. dollars, and the merger will create the third-largest global fast food company 2014 Event Time Warner, Inc. may be offered $75 billion by Twenty-First Century Fox in a proposed merger deal that would create the world's largest media company; Time Warner rejected an earlier proposal by Fox 2014 Event India has officially divided the state of Andhra Pradesh to create the nation's 29th state, Telangana; Hyderabad will act as joint capital for both states for the next decade; K. Chandrasekhara Rao will serve as Telangana prime minister 2014 Event Pope Francis announces that on February 22, he will hold a Consistory and create 19 new Cardinals from 12 countries; the names of the Cardinals were released during the Holy Father's announcement 2013 Event NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars 2012 Event The United Kingdom plans to create new private and public sector universities; these will be the first universities the country has created in decades 2012 Event Scientists create a 'magic carpet' using optical fibers to help prevent elderly people from falling by detecting when unusual footsteps are taken 2012 Event Australia announces its plan to create the largest marine reserve in the world 2012 Event In the U.S., the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists merge to create the SAG-AFTRA union 2011 Event The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers grants private companies the right to create new website domain suffixes 1997 Event 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 1993 Death Jerry Hunt, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques, dies in Canton, Texas, of suicide 1991 Event Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community 1979 Event Congress' final approval to create Department of Education 1958 Event After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion 1957 Event U.S. and Canada create NORAD 1956 Event New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build 1943 Birthday Jerry Hunt, born Waco, Texas, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques 1925 Event Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming) 1918 Birthday Eddy Arnold, born in Tennessee, best-selling, longest-running, country music singer, helped create Nashville sound 1902 Event Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race 1884 Birthday Otto Bohm, born in Prussia, scientist, helped create England Radar 1883 Event Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion 1787 Birthday Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery 1776 Event Continental Congress create a committee to draft Declaration of Independence
