2015 Event Two animal rights activists are placed under house arrest, awaiting trial for acts of terrorism against the fur industry; in 2013, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane released minks from mink farms and vandalized fur businesses across the U.S. 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 2014 Event Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, reveals the latest Dragon space capsule; the craft is reusable and will allow astronauts to control re-entry and landing; the development suggests that full commercialization of the space industry will soon be a reality 2014 Event Electronics manufacturer Samsung is diversifying into the pharmaceutical industry; after besting Apple in the smartphone market, Samsung has now set a goal to become the leader in the growing biotechnology sector 2014 Event The menswear industry consolidates as Men's Wearhouse announces a merger with JoS. A. Bank Clothiers 2014 Event The banking industry is losing ground as non-banking companies such as Apple, Google and TMobile develop their own payment methods and financial products that circumvent the need for banking services 2013 Event A cross-party royal charter allowing for the regulation of the British press is granted by the UK Privy Council despite a last-minute court challenge by the newspaper industry 2011 Event The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry 2011 Event In Tokyo, anti-nuclear activists rally, demanding change in Japan's nuclear industry 1997 Event Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry 1996 Event Television industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system 1981 Event Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1980 Event President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry 1973 Event Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents 1962 Event U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases 1958 Event Recording Industry Association of American created 1949 Event Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industry 1948 Event Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry 1947 Event Britain nationalizes its coal industry 1943 Event U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry 1943 Event Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry 1943 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry 1930 Event U.S. tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930 1929 Event Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire 1925 Event 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry 1914 Event New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated 1910 Event U.S. tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910 1903 Birthday Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive 1874 Birthday Folkert E. Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry 1866 Birthday Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, Dow Chemical 1865 Death Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies 1864 Event Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam 1852 Birthday John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry 1786 Birthday Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
