2014 Event Mike Nichols, director of a long list of successful productions in TV, film and theater, dies at age 83 of a heart attack; Nichols was one of very few directors to earn all four major industry awards: the Emmy, Golden Globe, Oscar and Tony 2011 Event U.S. company Hewlett-Packard adds Ralph Whitworth from Relational Investors to it's corporate-government activists on its board of directors 1991 Event Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign 1991 Event Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose 1973 Event All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels 1964 Event Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland and Dallas 1927 Birthday John Hoskyns, director-general, Institute of Directors