2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to speak out against the pending deal with Iran in which sanctions will be lifted in exchange for cuts in Iranian nuclear capacity; Netanyahu warns the pact may lead to nuclear arms acceleration 2014 Event Microsoft announces that it will lay off 14% of its workforce, equalling approximately 18,000 employees; many of the cuts are expected to come from recently-acquired Nokia 2014 Event Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announces reduction of at least 45,000 jobs, expanding the original plan for 34,000 cuts; Whitman seeks to refocus and align HP with changing computing habits such as use of cloud services rather than servers 2013 Event The Pentagon will furlough 650,000 civilian employees without pay for six days this year after receiving warnings that mandatory budget cuts might idle defense workers for a longer period of time 2013 Event Canada's Cirque du Soleil cuts 400 jobs due to strong loonie and surging costs 2012 Event David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, suggests government spending cuts will be required until the end of the decade 2012 Event Naples' Casoria Contemporary Art Museum begins burning its artworks to protest government budget cuts affecting cultural institutions 2012 Event Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne reveals the 2012 British budget which cuts the top rate of income tax 2011 Event In Bogota, Columbia, 200,000 people protest government cuts in education 2011 Event In Greece, Police fire tear gas on protesters angry over cuts their government made in co-operation with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund 2011 Event In London, England, hundreds of thousands march in Trafalgar Square to protest government budget cuts 2011 Event Responding to anti-government protests in Egypt, the government cuts off access to the internet, cell phones, and imposes a curfew 2011 Event In an effort to suppress riots, the Algerian government cuts food prices and commits to punishing those responsible for the riots 2010 Event Some Greeks in the Greek Parliament protest sweeping cuts approved in the budget 2010 Event University students in England and Wales protest the government's plan to increase tuition fees and make higher education funding cuts 2010 Event U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010 2010 Event After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters 1997 Event Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268 1995 Event Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport 1991 Event U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti 1986 Event Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty 1983 Event Storm cuts short free Diana Ross concert in New York's Central Park 1978 Event Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent 1971 Event Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117 1968 Event NBC cuts to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32 1967 Birthday Lili Taylor, actress, Ransom, Short Cuts 1945 Event RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1942 Event Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road 1940 Event NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards 1932 Event President Hoover cuts own salary 15% 1931 Event Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers 1931 Event British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 1931 Birthday John Perkins, rocker, Crew Cuts 1924 Event British Labour government cuts military budget 1923 Event General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar 1890 Event Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London 1888 Event Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
