2014 Event Google publicly offers Google Glass for the first time in a one-day online sale at $1,500 apiece 2014 Event A day before the U.S. Senate will vote on extending emergency unemployment benefits, Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council publicly promoted the case for extending benefits 2013 Event Ahead of its IPO , Twitter Inc. publicly files disclosure documents posting strong revenue growth 2011 Event The U.S. officially ends its Don't ask, don't tell military policy, allowing gay and lesbian personnel to publicly declare their sexual orientation 2011 Event U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announces she will retire rather than serve a second term in 2012 if President Obama is reelected 2010 Event Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad publicly declares Palestinians have changed; they are now fully committed to non-violence 2009 Event U.S. Army officer William Calley publicly apologizes for the mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai 1993 Event Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics 1991 Event U.S. insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST 1976 Event NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California 1953 Event Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation 1932 Event Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine 1931 Event Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey 1928 Event "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris) 1922 Event 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in U.S., at New York zoo 1921 Event Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty 1895 Event French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1832 Event "America" 1st sung publicly in Boston 1520 Event Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
