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1998 NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics

1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes

1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge

1992 ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals

1990 New York City MTA stops token redemption at subway stations

1988 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades

1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990

1975 Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production

1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water

1968 U.S. Mint stops buying and selling gold

1967 Radio Malta stops testing

1960 U.S. stops sugar import from Cuba

1953 U.S. stops aid to Persia

1946 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball

1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean

1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots

1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)

1924 2 U.S. Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops

1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops

1913 Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished

1911 White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak

1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row

1901 After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series

1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed

1890 U.S. stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece

1878 U.S. stops minting 20 cent coin

1861 US, banks stops payments in gold

1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

1814 Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves

1650 Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking

1650 Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking



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