2015 Event France�s far-right National Front party has expelled one of its founders, Jean-Marie Le Pen, after continued conflict over his anti-Semitic remarks; current party leader Marine Le Pen, his daughter, seeks to move the party away from its past 2015 Event China devalues the yuan by 1% after devaluations of 1.62% and 1.92% over the past two days; the moves are an effort to stem an economic slowdown by boosting the competitiveness of exports and reducing the costs of borrowing 2015 Event Juan Felipe Herrera, age 66, has been named by U.S. Congress as this year's national poet laureate; Herrera, who is the first Latino to be given the title, has served for the past three years as California poet laureate 2014 Event American freelance videographer Ashoka Mukpo tests positive for Ebola while working in Liberia; the cameraman has been working in the country for the past three years but became symptomatic the day after beginning an assignment for NBC News 2014 Event The NCAA settles a lawsuit regarding concussions, paying $70 million to assess head injuries for current and past players of college sports; The fund does not cover treatment, forcing injured players to sue their colleges for compensation 2013 Event NASA's Voyager 1 space probe makes history by advancing past the solar system - becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space 2013 Event The olinguito becomes the first mammal to be discovered in the past 35 years; the adorabel creature is described as a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face 2013 Event A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years 2012 Event A proposal for a statue to George Orwell is flatly turned down by the BBC, who said Orwell resigned from the organization, 'because for some time past I have been conscious that I was wasting my time and the public money on doing work that produces no results.' 2012 Event The United States space agency NASA reveals it had its security compromised by hackers 13 times in the past year 2011 Event The robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover ever sent to Mars, is launched by NASA; the goal is to find evidence of past or present life on Mars 2010 Event Northern Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army is accused of abduction and forced recruitment of 697 people in the past year and a half 2010 Event Fighting over the past three days in Darfur, Sudan's western region, has killed 41 people 1990 Event Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list 1989 Event Voyager 2 flies past Neptune 1982 Event Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place 1979 Event Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter 1978 Event CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past 1978 Event Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI 1976 Death Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 1975 Event 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop 1971 Death Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70 1969 Event Mariner 7 flies past Mars 1969 Event Mariner 6 flies past Mars 1967 Event At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million 1922 Birthday Adele Jergens, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man 1880 Birthday Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117 1871 Birthday Marcel Proust, France, novelist, Remembrance of Things Past 1861 Event CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade 1852 Event Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
