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2013 Event - In China, more than 9,000 pigs were found rotting in the Huangpu river, threatening to contaminate Shanghai's drinking supply; the government said the water quality in the city tested as normal

2013 Event - More than 100 Catholic cardinals meet in Rome, Italy, to begin the process of selecting the successor to Pope Benedict XVI

2013 Event - Estonia becomes the first country in the world to establish a national electric car charging network , with cars charging in less than 30 minutes

2013 Event - After more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas

2013 Event - A near-earth asteroid, called 99942 Apophis, passes close to Earth; astronomers in Europe estimate 99942 Apophis is larger than previously thought

2012 Event - Severe weather hits the U.S. on Christmas Day; more than 30 tornadoes are reported in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana

2012 Event - Astronomers have identified the nearest planet outside of our Solar System, Alpha Centauri B, which circles its star much closer than Mercury orbits our Sun

2012 Event - Winds in southwestern Western Australia of up to 140km/h batter the area and leave more than 170,000 homes without power

2012 Event - Madonna begins her MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, the first of more than 65 cities she will perform at worldwide

2012 Event - More than 700 writers, academics and others send a letter to protest the planned spending of $300 million on the Fifth Avenue Branch of the New York Public Library

2012 Event - More than 1,000 birds, mostly pelicans and hundreds of dolphins die off the coast in the north of Paru, under unexplained circumstances

2012 Event - Less than three years after accepting the position of Chairman of Disney Studios, Rich Ross, resigns

2012 Event - Following political reforms in Myanmar, Australia relaxes sanctions on the country, including by-elections earlier this month where opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi's party won more than a dozen seats

2012 Event - U.S. company Google, Inc., announces its 2012 first quarter earnings rose by more than 24%, and net profits increased to $8.14 billion

2011 Event - According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 2010 greenhouse gas levels are higher than a worst case scenario set by climate experts in 2007

2011 Event - Higher than expected consumer price index figures and U.S. default concerns cause the Australian dollar to reach a post-float record against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - The Hendra virus is detected in a dog in Queensland, Australia near the Beaudesert; the virus has never before been detected in anything other than flying foxes, horses or humans

2011 Event - More than 100,000 homes in Michigan lose power after powerful storms hit the state

2011 Event - A bill banning the abortion of a fetus more than 20 weeks old passes in the Idaho House of Representatives

2011 Event - The moon appears 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point; it reaches its closest point to Earth since 1993

2011 Event - U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announces she will retire rather than serve a second term in 2012 if President Obama is reelected

2011 Event - The Tokyo Stock Exchange falls more than five percent on the first day of trading following the 2011 Sendai earthquake

2011 Event - More than 1,000 people are estimated to have been killed during the unrest in Libya

2011 Event - In Malaysia, Islamic morality police arrest more than 80 muslims to prevent them from celebrating Valentine's Day

2011 Event - China reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than expected

2011 Event - After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader

2011 Event - The Arctic sun rises two days earlier than expected over Ilulissat, Greenland

2010 Event - The United Kingdom gives prisoners serving less than four years the right to vote

2010 Event - Booksellers object to plans for the UK and Ireland to make more than a million free books available March 5, 2011

2010 Event - More than 5,000 people lose their homes and crops when the Niger River bursts its banks

2010 Event - Ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh and Jalal-Abad left more than 100 people dead and over 1,400 injured after three days of four days of fighting

2010 Event - John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005

2010 Event - Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues

2010 Event - Residents of Mogadishu are instructed to leave the war zone after more than 50 are killed in three days of violence

2010 Event - The second day of conflict between Somali government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu results in more than 20 civilian deaths

2010 Event - At least 33 people are killed, more than 50 wounded, by multiple suicide bombers in Baquoba, Iraq

2009 Event - European astronomers discover 32 extrasolar planets, or exoplanets - planets that orbit a star other than the Sun

2009 Event - More than 2,000 people found in Poland's largest mass grave during World War II are reburied in a military cemetary

2008 Event - 8.0 Earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000

2007 Death - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, conductor, commissioned new works, enlarged cello repertoire more than any cellist, considered greatest cellist of 20th century, died of intestinal cancer

2006 Death - Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland

2006 Event - Java, Indonesia suffers a 6.3 magnitue earthquake, killing more than 6,000

2004 Event - Tropical Storm Jeanne kills more than 550 during flooding in Haiti

2003 Event - Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran

1999 Death - Frankie Vaughan, singer/actor, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, dies at 71

1998 Event - India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20 year gap

1998 Death - Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69

1998 Event - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

1997 Event - More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809

1996 Death - U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52

1996 Death - Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65

1995 Event - Senator Bob Packwoord R-Oregon resigns rather than face expulsion

1995 Event - Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years

1991 Event - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)

1990 Event - Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits

1990 Birthday - Emma Watson, born in Paris, France, British actress, model, known for role as Hermione in 'Harry Potter' film series, earning her more than $10 million pounds

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

1988 Event - Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US

1987 Event - Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)

1987 Event - Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it

1987 Event - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

1987 Event - Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires

1986 Event - Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound

1986 Event - Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made

1986 Death - Paul Tournier, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings, dies from carcinoma, Troinex, Switzerland

1985 Event - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000

1983 Event - Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"

1982 Event - U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982

1982 Event - Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours

1982 Event - Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1982 Event - Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million

1981 Event - Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen

1981 Event - Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey

1981 Birthday - Kelly Rowland, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, actress, founding member of group, Destiny's Child, sold more than 50 million albums, collaborated with Nelly on 'Dilemma' single

1980 Death - Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70

1979 Birthday - Norah Jones, born in Brooklyn, New York, musician, singer, jazz artist album, 'Come Away with Me', won five Grammy awards, sold more than 40 million albums worldwide

1978 Event - Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size

1978 Event - RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service

1977 Event - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"

1976 Death - Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88

1976 Death - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78

1974 Event - Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs

1974 Event - Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo Brazil)

1974 Event - Oakland A's beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yankees to win 3 straight series

1970 Event - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional

1967 Birthday - Pat Badger, heavy metal bassist, Extreme-More Than Words

1966 Birthday - Nuno Bettencourt, Azores, rock guitarist, Extreme-More Than Words

1966 Event - John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1965 Event - 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India

1965 Event - 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)

1965 Birthday - Robert Downey, Jr., born in New York City, comedian, SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School

1964 Event - Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st U.S. chief engraver to retire (than die)

1964 Event - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years

1963 Birthday - Paul Geary, born in Boston, Massachusetts, heavy metal drummer, Extreme-More Than Words

1962 Birthday - Chuck Finley, born in Monroe, Louisiana, pitcher, Major League Baseball, played for California Angels, won more than 15 games six times between 1986 and 1999

1962 Event - U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million

1962 Event - West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album

1961 Event - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion

1961 Birthday - Gary Cherone, born in Boston, heavy metal vocalist, Extreme-More Than Words

1959 Event - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects

1958 Event - Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars

1957 Event - U.S. announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)

1957 Event - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed

1957 Event - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants

1955 Birthday - Mark Mitchell, actor, Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero

1954 Birthday - John Kimmel, born in East Orange, New Jersey, John C. Kimmel, horse trainer, trained at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, trained famous horses, Better Than Honour, Premium Tap, wins include Florida Derby, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, 2007, among others

1953 Event - Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr

1953 Event - Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team

1952 Event - Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds

1949 Birthday - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist, Boston-More than a Feeling

1949 Birthday - Fran Sheehan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock bassist, Boston-More than a Feeling

1948 Event - British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound

1947 Birthday - Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist, Boston-More Than a Feeling

1945 Event - Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged

1944 Birthday - Michael Johnson, born in Alamosa, Colorado, pop, guitarist, country, pop music, known for song, 'Bluer Than Blue'

1944 Event - Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans

1944 Event - In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians

1943 Birthday - Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress, Love is Colder than Death

1943 Birthday - Neale Donald Walsch, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author, wrote series of books titled, 'Conversations With God', which include, 'What God Wants', 'Happier than God', 'Friendship with God', ' Communion with God'

1940 Birthday - Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987

1939 Birthday - Ken Blanchard, born in Orange, New Jersey, author, professional speaker, management expert, co-wrote, 'The One Minute Manager' with Spencer Johnson, sold over 13 million copies in 37 languages, wrote more than 30 successful books

1937 Event - Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yankees release Tony Lazzeri

1936 Event - Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown

1931 Birthday - Hikaru Hayashi, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, conductor, pianist, wrote more than 30 operas, over 100 film scores, authored more than 20 books

1931 Death - Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages

1930 Event - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

1929 Event - 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch

1927 Birthday - Raaj Kumar, born in Balochistan, Pakistan, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', starred in more than 70 Bollywood films, had an iconic, gravelly voice

1927 Birthday - Mstislav Rostropovich, born in Russia, Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, nickname "Slava", cellist, conductor, commissioned new works, enlarged cello repertoire more than any cellist, considered greatest cellist of 20th century

1926 Birthday - Big Mama Thornton, blues singer, Ball and Chain, Stronger than Dirt

1924 Event - White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend

1919 Birthday - Than Wyenn, New York City, actor, Pete Kelly's Blues

1917 Birthday - Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries

1916 Birthday - Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles

1912 Birthday - Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles

1907 Birthday - Malcolm Atterbury, Philadelphia, actor, Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way

1904 Event - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes

1904 Birthday - Leslie French, actor/singer, More than a Miracle

1900 Birthday - Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1898 Birthday - Paul Tournier, born in Geneva, Switzerland, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings

1892 Event - U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1889 Event - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6

1888 Birthday - Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose

1880 Birthday - Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

1873 Birthday - Harry M O'Connor, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Stranger than Fiction

1858 Event - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month

1852 Event - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day

1845 Event - More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa

1839 Event - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

1828 Event - More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar

1809 Event - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state

1791 Event - Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent

1755 Event - Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000

1733 Event - England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions

1653 Event - An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St. Albans to London in less than 90 minutes

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