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2012 Event - Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resign due to major social and political unrest in the country

2011 Event - A lockout causes the Australia's Qantas airlines to ground its entire fleet while it handles the ongoing industrial dispute

2010 Event - Entire villages are burned to the ground and 40,000 people flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo

2010 Event - Scientists announce the discovery of three new animal species that spent their entire lives without oxygen; the species are phylum Loricifera

1994 Event - WMMS-FM's Jeff and Flash, and entire station staff, are fired

1990 Event - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system

1990 Event - Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards!

1987 Event - NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption

1980 Event - 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Canada in 2:34:28, Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course

1972 Event - John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week

1972 Event - Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

1968 Event - Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away

1967 Event - James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes

1966 Event - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)

1961 Event - Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash

1948 Event - Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers

1942 Birthday - Tom Peters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, writer, author, speaker, consultant, business management practices expert, co-wrote, 'In Search of Excellence', believes the least amount of overhead business processes can produce empowering decision-makers within an entire company organization

1941 Event - Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated

1941 Event - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania

1941 Event - Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated

1934 Event - 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York

1931 Event - New Yorks's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

1922 Event - For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ and WGY)

1916 Event - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun

1892 Event - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan

1883 Event - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes

1836 Event - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed

1831 Event - Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather

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