2015 Tiger Woods announces that he will be taking a hiatus from golf in order to recover from a recent injury and work on improving his game back to peak levels; Woods did not specify an expected return date to the game 2014 After restricting its ties with Cuba since 1996, the European Union agrees to launch negotiations; the talks aim to increase the dialogue on human rights and increase trade and investment between Cuba and the EU 2014 Indian athletes are granted permission to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics under their nation's flag; the Indian Olympic Association had been suspended when Indian officials were accused of corruption in 2012 2013 Citing frail health, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation effective February 28, 2013; he is the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415 2013 Parliamentary elections are held in Monaco, with the the Horizon Monaco alliance winning 50.3% of the vote, securing 20 of 24 seats in the country's National Council 2012 Hundreds of thousands of people protest against austerity measures in Portugal's capital of Lisbon 2012 American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in California at age 48 2011 President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi 2011 North Korea places requests with its worldwide embassies to appeal for aid to feed its population 2010 A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece's economy 2009 Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe 2006 Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident 1998 KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview 1998 Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500 1997 Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets 1997 STS-82 (Discovery 22) launches 1996 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio 1995 Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46) 1995 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec) 1995 Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec) 1995 Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands 1995 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge 1995 West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand 1994 Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA 1994 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI 1993 Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 seconds) 1993 Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General 1992 F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) 1992 Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec) 1991 UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague 1990 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami 1990 James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown 1990 Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa 1990 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge 1989 Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) 1989 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary 1988 Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court 1987 British Airways begins trading stocks 1987 England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1987 Philippines constitution goes into effect 1987 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1986 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country 1986 Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1986 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq 1985 Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord 1985 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins 1985 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins 1984 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth 1984 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 1983 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" and "Buckingham Blues" debut LP 1983 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18"(46 cm)) 1982 Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through 1981 Australia all out 83 vs. India at MCG chasing 143 to win 1981 Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski 1979 "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances 1979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC 1979 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation 1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power 1979 Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in New York City 1978 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City 1978 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin 1978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens 1978 EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus 1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) 1976 Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army 1975 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership 1974 Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule 1974 Titan-Centaur Test launch fails 1974 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 1973 1st one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand 1973 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic 1973 Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row 1971 Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal 1971 U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons 1970 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour rec) 1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit 1970 John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland 1969 Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah 1969 Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ 1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight 1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York 1968 Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City) 1966 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year 1965 Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox 1965 Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee 1964 Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum 1964 Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus 1964 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France 1963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album 1963 CIA Domestic Operations Division created 1962 Beatles record "Please, Please Me" 1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black 1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem 1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show 1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) 1958 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York 1958 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs 1958 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting 1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting 1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president 1954 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins 1953 "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances 1953 J. Styne/B. Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in New York City 1953 President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple 1953 Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel 1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) 1950 "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1 1949 Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title 1948 Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs. WI, out for 140 1948 John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland 1948 Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain 1945 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California 1945 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin 1944 German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy 1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland 1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe 1943 Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 "Archie" comic book debuts 1941 Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli 1941 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments 1938 Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ 1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends 1936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay 1935 -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) 1935 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York 1932 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February 1929 Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in New York City 1929 Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland 1927 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran 1927 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles 1926 Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand 1922 "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1 1922 U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras 1921 Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City 1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1916 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert 1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control 1908 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England 1908 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland 1907 De Master's Dutch government resigns 1905 James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299 -last pin breaks but stands 1905 Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos 1903 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna 1902 Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels 1899 -15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record) 1899 -61 degrees F, Montana (record low temperature) 1898 Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia 1897 White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City 1896 Oscar Wildes "Salom" premieres in Paris 1895 -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) 1895 Georgetown became part of Washington D.C. 1889 Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 1878 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms 1878 1st weekly Weather report published in UK 1873 Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I 1861 President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C. 1861 U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state 1858 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time 1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 1851 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston 1843 Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan 1840 Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris 1837 American Physiological Society organizes in Boston 1826 London University founded 1814 Norway's independence proclaimed 1812 Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander" 1811 President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years 1810 Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria 1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat 1808 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa 1794 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public 1793 Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands 1790 Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery 1768 Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes 1766 Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia 1752 Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened 1720 Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) 1638 Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode 1575 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe 1573 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama) 1543 Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army 1543 Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant 1531 Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England 824 St. Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 385 Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
