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2012 Event - President Barack Obama states that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants

2012 Event - As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil

2012 Event - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour

2011 Event - Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab

2011 Event - In an effort to stop the growth of household debt, South Korean banks temporarily stop making household loans

2011 Event - In Libya's capitol of Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi calls on NATO to stop its bombing campaign or else European homes offices and families will be targeted

2011 Event - Libya's military claims it will stop fighting Sunday to allow the rebels to turn themselves in

2010 Event - An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act

2003 Death - Don Gibson, songwriter/singer, I Can't Stop Loving You, dies at 75

1997 Event - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

1996 Event - "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 29 performances

1996 Event - Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play

1996 Event - "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 29 performances

1995 Event - New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern

1991 Event - 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire

1990 Event - U.S. House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop U.S. flag burning, doesn't pass

1988 Event - Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs

1986 Event - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S.

1985 Death - Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack

1984 Event - Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed

1984 Death - Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85

1984 Event - Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak

1982 Event - Streetcars stop running on Market St. after 122 years of service

1982 Event - Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon

1981 Event - Ringo releases "Stop and Smell Roses" album

1981 Event - 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins

1979 Event - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop

1979 Event - L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask

1979 Event - Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver

1979 Event - Supreme Court rules, 8-1, police can't randomly stop cars

1978 Event - Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games

1976 Event - Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)

1975 Event - 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop

1972 Death - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50

1968 Event - State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A and M

1967 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam

1967 Death - Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42

1965 Event - Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"

1964 Birthday - Sam Brown, English singer and songwriter, Stop!

1964 Event - "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert New York City after 556 perf

1963 Event - Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools

1963 Event - Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres

1962 Event - "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances

1961 Event - Bricusse and Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres

1960 Event - U.S.S.R. agrees to stop nuclear testing

1958 Event - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running

1957 Event - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school

1956 Birthday - David Grant, Jamaica, singer and songwriter, Stop and Go, Heaven Knows

1955 Event - William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in New York City

1954 Event - SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia

1950 Death - Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54

1949 Event - Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin

1948 Event - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio

1947 Event - British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel

1945 Event - Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games

1941 Event - Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"

1941 Event - Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base

1940 Event - Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win

1937 Birthday - Robert Stone, U.S. writer, Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA

1934 Birthday - Tammy Grimes, Lynn Massachusetts, actress, Can't Stop the Music

1932 Event - U.S.S.R. and Finland stop non-attack treaty

1931 Birthday - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off

1929 Birthday - Don Murray, born in California, actor, Bus Stop, Advise and Consent, Endless Love

1928 Birthday - Don Gibson, born in Shelby, North Carolina, singer/writer, I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me

1926 Birthday - Karel Reisz, director, Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain

1924 Birthday - Marion Morgan, singer, Stop the Music

1924 Event - Allies stop checking on German navy

1922 Birthday - George Axelrod, playwright, Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop

1917 Event - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks

1913 Birthday - Betty Field, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Kings Row, Bus Stop

1908 Birthday - Cal Tinney, Oklahoma, comedian, Stop Me If You Heard This One

1895 Birthday - Lew Lehr, Philadelphia, comedian, Stop Me if I heard this One

1865 Event - Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

1865 Event - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman

1861 Event - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state

1861 Event - U.S. and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange

1848 Event - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia

1805 Event - Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French

1795 Event - Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves

1664 Event - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men

1439 Event - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)

1328 Event - Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers













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