2014 Event Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife 2014 Event Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies in a congressional hearing to investigate the recent intrusion of the White House as well as other security breaches under her leadership; Pierson stated that such incidents will not happen again 2014 Event President Barack Obama exchanges 5 Guantanamo Bay prisoners for the lone U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl; some lawmakers protest that the secret exchange was illegal because Congress was not notified in advance 2014 Event Twenty-eight years after Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, the Philippine government recovers $29 million from Swiss accounts, bringing the total Marcos' secret accounts now recovered and in government hands to $712 million 2011 Event Secret documents on Egypt's nuclear power plant are released by WikiLeaks 2010 Event After new allegations of torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross reports a second U.S. secret prison exists at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan 2000 Death Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47 1999 Death Brian Moore, writer, The Secret Passion of Judith Hearn, dies at 77 1998 Event Federal rules that the Secret Service must testify in the Lewinsky case 1994 Event South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police 1993 Death Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78 1993 Event Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad 1993 Event "Secret Garden" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 706 performances 1991 Event Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents 1991 Event "Secret Garden" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 706 performances 1988 Event STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission 1988 Event STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission) 1988 Death Morgan Farley, actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90 1988 Event Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance 1987 Death Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81 1987 Event President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran 1986 Event Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1986 Event Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran 1986 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita 1986 Death Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77 1985 Event Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula 1984 Event Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary 1983 Death Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65 1983 Birthday Kim Smith, born in Houston, Texas, model, featured in Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess ad campaigns, appeared in 'Girls of Summer' Aerosmith video 1982 Birthday Kate Maberly, actress, Secret Garden 1981 Birthday Larisa Oleynik, born in Santa Clara County, California, actress, starred in 'The Secret World of Alex Mack' television series and film, '10 Things I Hate About You' 1979 Birthday Daisy Eagan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actresss, Secret Graden 1979 Death Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82 1978 Birthday Estella Warren, born in Peterborough, Canada, actress, fashion model, Maxim Magazine's Hottest Woman 2000, Victoria's Secret model 1978 Death Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75 1977 Death Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93 1976 Death Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67 1974 Birthday Jerry O'Connell, New York City, actor, Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity 1974 Event Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run 1973 Birthday Barret Oliver, actor, Never Ending Story, Secret Garden 1973 Event U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia 1973 Birthday Heidi Klum, born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, model, Victoria's Secret 'Angel', television host, fashion designer, television producer 'Project Runway' 1973 Event Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris 1971 Event Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House 1967 Event New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments 1965 Birthday David Whyte, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret 1965 Birthday Nathan, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret 1964 Event U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy 1963 Event 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral 1963 Birthday Carl Fysh, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret 1962 Birthday Steve Alexander, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret 1962 Event Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia 1960 Birthday Eg White, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret 1959 Birthday Val Kilmer, actor, Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow 1959 Birthday Val Kilmer, actor, Top Secret, Batman Forever 1958 Death Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 1957 Birthday Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1956 Birthday Lucy Gutteridge, actress, Top Secret, Trouble With Spies 1956 Birthday Juliet Stevenson, Essex England, actress, Secret Rapture, Life Story 1954 Event West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany 1954 Birthday Patty Hearst, born in San Francisco, California, newspaper heiress, convicted bank robber, socialite, known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, autobiography titled, 'Every Secret Thing' 1954 Event 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres 1953 Event Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1952 Event "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host 1951 Event Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 Birthday Anne Twomey, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Secret, Deadly Friend, Imagemaker 1949 Birthday Lukas D. Barnard, head of South Africa secret service, NIS 1948 Birthday Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret 1947 Birthday David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret 1946 Birthday Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress, Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service 1945 Event Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada 1945 Birthday Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist, Holland's secret service 1945 Event Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary 1944 Event Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat 1944 Birthday Jim Abrahams, Shorewood, Wisconsin, director, Hot Shots, Top Secret 1943 Birthday Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress, Secret Policeman's Ball 1943 Birthday Susan Jameson, actress, Secret World of Polly Flint 1942 Birthday Johnny Rivers, Ramistella, New York City, singer, Secret Agent Man 1942 Birthday Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1941 Death Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies 1940 Birthday George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker 1938 Event LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police 1934 Birthday Alan Bennett, England, playwright/actor, Secret Policeman's Other Ball 1934 Event Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police 1933 Event Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) 1933 Event German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1932 Birthday Omar Sharif, born in Egypt, actor, Dr. Zhivago, Top Secret 1931 Birthday Eileen Diss, theatrical designer, August, Secret Places, Betrayal 1923 Birthday Andrew Duggan, actor, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War 1921 Birthday Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic, Secret Diary 1920 Birthday Louise Allbritton, born in Oklahoma City, actress, Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret 1918 Event Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents 1918 Birthday David Opatoshu, New York City, actor, Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada 1917 Event Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski 1917 Birthday Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress, Dr. Kildaire, I've Got a Secret 1917 Birthday Faye Emerson, born in Elizabeth, Louisiana, actress, I've Got a Secret 1917 Event Secret Service extends protection of president to his family 1915 Birthday Henry Morgan, born in New York City, comedian/TV panelist, I've Got a Secret, Arena 1915 Birthday Garry Moore, Thomas Garrison Morfit, Balt, host, I've Got a Secret 1914 Event Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty 1914 Birthday Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service 1911 Event British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany 1909 Birthday Astrid Allwyn, Manchester CT, actress, Charlie Chan's Secret 1908 Birthday Paul Stewart, born in New York City, actor, Top Secret USA, Deadline 1906 Birthday Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6 1906 Birthday Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer, Secret Resistance 1906 Birthday Madeleine Carroll, England, actress, 39 Steps, Secret Agent 1902 Death Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1902 Birthday Walter Keirnan, New Havens, Connecticut, TV panelist, I've Got a Secret 1901 Event Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast 1900 Birthday Laura Hobson, New York City, TV writer/panelist, I've Got a Secret 1899 Birthday Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin 1896 Birthday Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist, I Got a Secret 1896 Event William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in New York City 1894 Event British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa 1893 Event Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret 1878 Event Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley 1872 Event Britain introduces secret ballot voting 1865 Event Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department 1860 Event U.S. Secret Service created 1849 Birthday Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book, My Secret Garden 1822 Event Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin 1800 Event Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty 1784 Death Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 1776 Event Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati 1753 Event Austria, England and Modena sign secret military treaty 1739 Event French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty 1727 Event France and Bavaria renew secret treaty 1725 Event Spain and Austria sign secret treaty 1716 Birthday Patrice F earl De Neny, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council 1714 Event Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty 1678 Event King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty 1676 Event Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty 1671 Event French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty 1669 Event France and Brandenburg sign secret treaty 1585 Event English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I 1570 Event King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II 1552 Event France signs secret treaty with German Protestants 1544 Event Scottish earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII 1532 Event Henry VIII and Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V 1531 Event Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V
