2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama restores the Native American name of Alaska's Mount McKinley, the tallest North American peak; the mountain will revert to its former name of Denali 2013 Event North Korea restores the Red Cross link used for government-to-government communications with South Korea 2011 Event Egypt partially restores Internet access after a five-day blackout 1989 Event Appeals court restores America's Cup to U.S. after New York Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (New Zealand protested US's use of a catamaran) 1985 Event Pakistan restores constitution 1983 Event IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball 1982 Event IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe 1959 Event Indonesia restores constitution 1955 Event Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence 1927 Event U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Turkey 1926 Event Canada restores gold standard 1911 Event Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins 1872 Event Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1772 Event Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720 1303 Event Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
