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2012 Event - For the second time in four months, New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volano erupts; the volcano is located on the country's North Island

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed

2012 Event - After last months extensive flooding, North Korea asks the United Nations for food aid

2012 Event - After Simon Bolivar's U.K. concert, featuring Venezuela's premier youth orchestra sells out eight months in advance, it is announced that the concert will be live-streamed on June 23rd and 26th, 2012

2012 Event - During the first three months of 2012, revised figures show that the U.K. economy shrunk by 0.3%

2012 Event - Fifteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in Egypt by a revolution, voters go to the polls for a presidential election

2011 Event - Australia bans live cattle exports to Indonesia for up to six months in response to reports of cruel treatment at Indonesian slaughterhouses

2011 Event - North and South Korean officials meet for working-level military talks, the first Korean dialogue in eight months

2011 Event - After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader

2010 Event - In Beijing, the minimum wage is raised by 20%, the second time in six months

2010 Event - Despite concern from the opposition, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declares he will pass laws by decree for the next six to eighteen months

2010 Event - Over 100 people die in the Krygyzstani riots; opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva says she will lead a temporary government for six months

1998 Event - After months of wrangling, Lewinsky and Starr announce a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky and her parents

1997 Event - Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him

1997 Event - British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901

1996 Event - Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)

1995 Event - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier

1995 Event - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers

1994 Death - Angela Lakeberg, siamese twin, dies at 11 months

1994 Event - Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen

1994 Event - Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days

1993 Event - Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months

1991 Event - With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)

1990 Event - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion

1990 Event - Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress

1990 Event - Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months

1990 Event - James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months

1988 Event - Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)

1988 Event - Writers guild end their 6 months strike

1987 Event - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail

1986 Event - French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released

1984 Event - 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test

1984 Event - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed

1983 Event - Polish government ends 19 months of martial law

1982 Event - Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud

1980 Event - 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up

1980 Event - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges

1979 Event - Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion

1979 Event - Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months

1977 Event - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison

1977 Event - Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad

1976 Death - George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies

1976 Event - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

1974 Event - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly and dies 14 months later

1974 Event - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2 months

1973 Event - Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later

1970 Event - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank

1969 Death - Philip Blaiberg, after 19 months with artificial heart, dies

1961 Birthday - Julianne Moore, actress, Lost World, 9 Months

1960 Birthday - Hugh Grant, born in London, England, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Months

1960 Event - Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo

1959 Event - Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months

1959 Event - Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement

1958 Birthday - Chris Columbus, writer and director, Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months

1958 Event - Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months

1958 Event - President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months

1954 Event - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months

1954 Event - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months

1951 Event - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months

1950 Event - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name

1946 Event - League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts

1945 Event - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

1944 Event - Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers

1941 Event - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends

1934 Event - U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months

1932 Event - Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey

1929 Event - New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde

1927 Event - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia

1925 Event - NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies of TB 4 months later

1925 Event - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old

1922 Event - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops

1918 Event - U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months

1914 Event - U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months

1909 Event - Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier

1907 Death - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna.

1905 Event - Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months

1900 Event - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close

1900 Event - 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)

1895 Event - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

1885 Death - Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office

1861 Event - Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years

1846 Event - U.S. declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins

1834 Event - William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months

1585 Event - Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma

1573 Event - Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army

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