2015 The New England Patriots win their fourth Super Bowl title, beating the Seattle Seahawks 28-24; Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is named MVP and is now one of only three quarterbacks to have won three Super Bowls 2014 A long-delayed review of the Keystone XL Pipeline is completed by the U.S. State Department; it concluded the pipeline would not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions 2014 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg as a U.N. special envoy for cities and climate change 2013 U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry 2013 Former Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, dies in Manhattan of congestive heart failure at age 88 2012 American Airlines' parent company announces it will cut 13,000 jobs or 15% of its workforce 2012 In the state of Washington, the State Senate passes legislation allowing same sex marriage 2011 Protesters stage the largest demonstration ever against the Mubarak regime; two million people gather in Tahir Square, vowing to stay until Mubarak leaves his post 2011 Russia began searching for a missing military satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama proposes a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 which projects a record-high budget deficit of $1.6 trillion in fiscal 2010 2009 The Russian Orthodox Church enthrones Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church 2006 United Airlines emerges from bankruptcy 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII, Reliant Stadium, Houston, New England Patriots beat Carolina Panthers 32-29 2004 At least 250 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia destroyed over Texas when returning to Earth, 7 crew members are killed 1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf 1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62) 1998 Australian Mixed: J. Gimelstob and V. Williams beat Suk and Sukova (62 61) 1998 NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24 1998 At least 119 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia 1995 Amtrak New York City - Tampa run ends 1995 Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) 1995 Andy and Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record 1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air 1994 Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec) 1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean 1993 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman 1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands 1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 7 performances 1992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract - $4.7 mil 1992 Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by New York Islanders 1991 Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die 1991 Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs. England at the WACA 1991 President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws 1991 U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion 1989 Princess Diane of Wales visits New York City 1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze 1987 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit 1987 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic 1987 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6 1986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KRTH 1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland 1985 -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell, Colorado (state record) 1985 -69 degrees F (-56 degrees C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record) 1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs. Eng) 1985 Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark 1985 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin 1984 China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations 1984 Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner 1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) 1983 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1982 "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV 1982 Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) 1981 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7 1981 31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland 1981 Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York City 1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231,932 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq 1981 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7 1981 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek 1981 Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG 1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System 1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile 1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp 1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl 1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives 1977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball 1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV 1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1976 Sonny and Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce 1976 East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to 1975 "Hoppy, Gene and Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65 1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater New York City after 5 performances 1975 1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks 1975 Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department 1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV 1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1972 1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395 1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK 1970 Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame 1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die 1970 WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 West-Germany and U.S.S.R. sign gas contract 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert 1969 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn 1969 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood 1969 WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 Former Vice President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for presidency 1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers 1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi 1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head 1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives 1967 WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama 1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news 1965 NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster 1964 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert New York City after 556 perf 1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks 1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity 1964 Suriname River dammed 1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda 1962 "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances 1962 NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule 1961 1st full-scale test of U.S. Minuteman ICBM is successful 1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive 1961 Mackay and Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies 1960 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) 1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth 1960 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) 1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women 1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) 1959 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss 1959 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins 1959 WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, Louisiana (ABC) begins broadcasting 1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament 1959 Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1958 1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched 1958 Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic 1958 WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting 1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline 1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam 1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking 1956 WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting 1955 HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark 1954 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres 1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire 1954 Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem 1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts 1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television 1953 Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State 1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835 1953 WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia 1952 SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in New York City 1951 -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record) 1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion 1951 Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed 1951 United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea 1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1950 U.S.S.R. demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland 1949 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used 1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm) 1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists 1947 Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president 1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN 1945 U.S. Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie 1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy 1944 U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur 1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier 1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands) 1942 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms 1941 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn 1941 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland 1937 Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port 1935 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol 1935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy 1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his 1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname 1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions 1933 German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe 1932 Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th 1930 Arnold Schonbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt 1929 1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402 lbs 1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR 1926 Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch 1925 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkampferbund in Berlin 1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens 1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes U.S.S.R. 1924 Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg 1924 Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain 1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel 1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini 1923 Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London 1920 1st commercial armored car introduced in St. Paul Minn 1920 Soccer team Quick Boys forms 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police 1919 Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert 1918 Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest 1918 Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical premieres in New York City 1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) 1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war 1914 New York Giants and Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens 1910 1st British labour exchange opens 1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece 1909 U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens 1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas 1906 English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured 1905 Hague soccer team ADO froms 1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet 1902 Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin 1898 1st auto insurance policy in U.S. issued, by Travelers Insurance Co 1896 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin 1893 Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin 1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey 1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1884 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1883 French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger 1881 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates) 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins 1865 J. S. Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar 1864 2nd German-Danish war begins 1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein 1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic" 1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands 1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede 1860 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York City 1846 Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation 1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in U.S., incorporated 1814 Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication 1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200 1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks, American Insurance Company of Philadelphia 1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to French 1810 U.S. Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%) 1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system 1793 France declares war on England and Netherlands 1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk and linen 1790 Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (New York City) 1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long 1788 1st U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet 1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex 1742 Sardinia and Austria sign alliance 1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions 1720 Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty 1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France 1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion 1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates 1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence 1539 Emperor Karel and King Francois I sign anti-English treaty
