2014 Event Indonesia's search team finds plane wreckage and the remains of three people who were aboard AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared on December 28th; the findings confirm that the flight crashed in the waters between Indonesia and Singapore 2014 Event The U.S. House Judiciary Committee finds that there are no grounds for impeachment of President Barack Obama, despite calls for such action from political opponents 2012 Event A study finds that 90% of dropouts in Asia's major city schools suffer from myopia, or short-sightedness, with 10 - 20% having advanced, or high myopia, which can cause blindness 2011 Event The Financial Times finds computer hackers may have accessed details on Citigroup bank card customers 2010 Event The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed 1997 Event Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract 1994 Event Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring 1993 Event Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull 1992 Event General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus 1992 Event U.S. Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug crimes 1992 Event Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 1992 Event Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man 1990 Event Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill 1986 Event Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing 1986 Event Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons 1984 Event David Levy finds his 1st comet 1982 Event Washington D.C. jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by insanity 1980 Event NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty 1980 Event Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago 1977 Event Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia 1975 Event Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination 1975 Event Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD 1975 Event Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA 1973 Event Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts 1964 Event Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone 1950 Event NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury 1947 Event Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists 1942 Event Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai 1940 Event British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1931 Birthday Johnny Sheffield, born in Pasadena, California, actor, Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son 1923 Event British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun 1909 Event British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1904 Event Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis 1900 Event Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus 1881 Event Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa 1874 Event Dr. Andrew T Sill, of Macon Missouri, finds science of osteopathy 1848 Event James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California 1792 Event Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion" 1536 Event Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires 1121 Event Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
