2014 The NASA Mars rover Curiosity has returned images from the red planet's Gale Crater showing evidence of sediment deposits, suggesting that lakes and rivers potentially existed across the planet millions of years ago 2014 The U.S. Senate intelligence committee releases its report on CIA interrogation methods after 9/11; the report found that the CIA hid many of its actions from Congress and former President George W. Bush and claims that little useful intelligence resulted 2013 AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, merges with US Airways Group; American Airlines Group is formed and the public company begins trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol AAL 2013 Ukraine's former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko posted messages supporting the anti-government protesters who toppled the last status of Vladimir Lenin on her website, calling on suporters to keep up their demands 2012 Vietnamese police break up anti-China protests over oil and gas claims in the disputed territorial waters of the South China Sea 2012 Chinese authorities arrest a Tibetan monk and his nephew in Sichuan province, for inciting 8 self-immolation protests against Chinese rule 2011 France's three biggest banks, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, are downgraded by Moody's credit rating agency 2011 After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord 2010 China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it 2010 Pakistani's media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India 2000 Supreme Court halts Florida vote recount 1995 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB) 1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth 1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments 1993 "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 165 performances 1993 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns 1992 3rd Billboard Music Awards 1992 Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks 1992 Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia 1992 Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v New Zealand by 9 wkts) 1992 New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season 1991 2nd Billboard Music Awards 1990 Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship 1990 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) 1990 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14 1990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland 1990 NFL New York Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne 1988 New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M 1987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws 1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank 1985 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63) 1985 Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions 1985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow 1984 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63) 1984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends 1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane 1984 LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards 1984 Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1983 Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it" 1983 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1982 Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce 1980 61 degrees F in Boston at 1 AM 1979 Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus 1978 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does 1975 Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize 1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City 1974 Dow Jones index hits 570.01 1974 Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ 1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail 1973 "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances 1973 Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland 1971 Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court 1970 Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls 1968 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace 1967 Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House 1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania 1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres 1965 Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles 1965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium 1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway 1962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth 1961 "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 87 performances 1961 "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 68 performances 1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania 1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY 1960 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV 1958 Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society 1957 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel 1954 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad 1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1953 Mont Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty minutes 1951 Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ 1949 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty 1949 NFL merges Cleveland Browns, San Francisco '49ers and Baltimore Colts from AAFC 1948 U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide 1941 1st U.S. WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines 1941 300 Montgomery, San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ 1941 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB) 1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy 1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester" 1941 Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed 1940 British assault on Banghazi Libya 1940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II 1940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius 1940 South Australia all out for 47 vs. NSW, O'Reilly 5-11 1939 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7 1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki 1936 AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis 1934 New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship 1933 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3 1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard 1931 Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in New York City 1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol 1931 Spain becomes a republic 1931 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers 1926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs 1925 AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 and raise to $40,000 1925 Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000 1924 Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed 1924 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president 1918 French troops occupies Mainz 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem 1913 Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris 1913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League 1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir 1909 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York) 1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) 1907 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna 1906 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo 1905 French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state 1905 Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden 1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage 1902 AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY 1900 Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession 1894 Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium 1889 President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium 1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate 1883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902) 1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia 1868 1st British government of Gladstone forms 1861 Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah) 1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published 1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) 1842 St. M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg 1824 Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain 1805 Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth 1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva 1783 1st execution at English Newgate-jail 1762 British parliament accept Treaty of Paris 1747 England and Netherlands sign military treaty 1738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia 1724 Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London 1688 King James II's wife and son flee England for France 1658 Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India 1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin 1625 Netherlands and England sign military treaty 1570 Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein 1425 Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven 1315 Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) 1212 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king 656 Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion 536 Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten
