2014 Event The last protest camp has been removed in Hong Kong; activists staged several camps to demand the right to free elections rather than control of candidates and elections by the Chinese government 2014 Event Chocolate manufacturers state that a cocoa-pod fungus and dry weather in cocoa-growing regions has created a shortage of cocoa that may increase in the future; world chocolate demand already exceeds production capacity 2014 Event Hong Kong government offices remain closed as protesters continue to demand resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and an end to selection of Hong Kong candidates by the Chinese government 2014 Event Demonstrators block Wall Street as they demand action on climate change in advance of a U.N. climate change forum tomorrow 2014 Event Apple Inc. forecasts greater demand for its new iPhone6 models than for the iPhone 5S and 5C; in response to consumer demand, the new phones will have larger screens 2014 Event eBay, Inc. will be introducing local, customized e-commerce sites and services throughout Latin America; the company will identify local demand in each market to provide targeted search results and offerings 2014 Event The Brazilian government is auctioning part of the nation's television bandwidth spectrum to mobile phone companies, providing much-needed capacity to meet wireless demand 2014 Event Rising Asian demand for Champagne will represent increasing export growth, with Japan currently the fourth-largest export market after the U.K., the U.S. and Germany 2014 Event Coca Cola Company announces that it plans to reduce its costs by $1 billion over the next few years in an effort to counteract slowing demand 2013 Event In Rome, one hundred thousand protestors rally against their new government's austerity measures, and demand a new policy focused on job creation 2012 Event Riot police are sent out to greet thousands of protesters in Madrid, Spain, who demand that the government quit 2011 Event In Taipei, protesters demand Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers receive the legal right to a weekly day off 2011 Event In Morocco, thousands rally to demand and end to corruption and more civil rights for the Moroccan people 2010 Event Thousands of 'red shirt' protesters demand fresh elections, causing Thai troops to retreat 1994 Event 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin 1994 Event ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa 1990 Event 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence 1988 Event Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia 1985 Event Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief 1961 Event 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium 1944 Event Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium 1943 Event Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts 1938 Event Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government 1932 Event Shaft and Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor 1931 Event Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan) 1925 Event Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament 1918 Event British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace 1916 Event 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right 1914 Event Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army 1914 Birthday Robert Alda, New York City, actor, Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand 1908 Event U.S. and Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo 1804 Event 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony 1796 Event Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam 1547 Event English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
