2015 Event Prince Charles shakes hands with Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein party, which was formerly part of the militant Irish Republican Army; Prince Charles is the first member of the British royal family to meet him 2014 Event After two years of hostility between Japan and China over control of certain islands in the East China Sea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Linping shake hands during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit 2014 Event Twenty-eight years after Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, the Philippine government recovers $29 million from Swiss accounts, bringing the total Marcos' secret accounts now recovered and in government hands to $712 million 1996 Death Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85 1991 Event Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured 1990 Event U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians 1986 Event Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York 1982 Event 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec 1977 Event Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S. 1974 Event President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings 1972 Death Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61 1962 Event St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands 1957 Birthday Holly Dunn, born in San Antonio, Texas, country singer, Daddy's Hands 1948 Event Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands 1944 Event French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands 1943 Event Arundel (Solomon Island) in U.S. hands 1941 Event Admiral Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note 1940 Event Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands 1938 Birthday Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End 1918 Event Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors 1911 Birthday Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer, Whole World in his Hands 1911 Birthday Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress, Hands of a Stranger 1907 Event President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day 1900 Event Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands 1816 Event Java again in Dutch hands 1800 Event Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803) 1793 Event Bank of England hands out 1st 5 pound note 1667 Event English colony Suriname in Dutch hands 1583 Birthday Orlando Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized
