2015 Event Sea incidents involving migrants continue at a steady pace in the Mediterranean, as Italian ships rescue 1,500 people from 5 separate vessels in less than 24 hours 2015 Event The U.S. will support the Ukraine in its fight against separatist militants by providing $75 million in non-lethal aid in the form of drones, ambulances and radios; Humvees will also be sent under a separate agreement 2014 Event Germany commemorates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall with a balloon-release ceremony and celebrations throughout the country; the wall had been built through Berlin to separate communist East Germany from West Germany 2014 Event EBay Inc. announces that it will split its PayPal unit into a separate company, raising the possibility of a PayPal buyout by mobile payment operators such as Google 2014 Event U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder flies to Ferguson, MO to inform residents that the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown will be investigated by the federal government; a separate county-appointed grand jury has already begun reviewing the case 2014 Event Google will be launching a paid subscription-based music service featuring YouTube music video content; the service will be separate from the company's existing subscription music service on Google Play 2012 Event At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform 2012 Event SkyNews admits it illegally hacked emails that belonged to members of the public on two separate occasions 2010 Event At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury 1997 Event South African and U.S. surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head 1995 Event Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria 1994 Event ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa 1989 Event South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act 1989 Event Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage 1982 Death Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 1981 Event RKO radio network is 1st to offer 2 separate overnight services 1980 Event Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts 1978 Event Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points and San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter) 1975 Event Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate 1974 Event Expert panel reports 18 -m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures 1972 Event Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1972 Event Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union 1954 Event Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision 1951 Birthday Stephen Bishop, born in San Diego, California, singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote Academy Award-nominated song, 'Separate Lives' 1951 Birthday David Naughton, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, My Sister Sam, Separate Vacations 1948 Event Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1942 Event 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace 1922 Event Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland 1921 Event Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty 1917 Event Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas 1913 Event Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments 1880 Event 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis 1863 Event Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game 1862 Event Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles 1856 Event Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony 1849 Event Princess WFLC Marianne and Albrecht of Prussia separate 1849 Event Dutch princess Marianne and Prince Albert of Prussia separate
