2015 Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian journalist Baher Mohamed are released on bail in Cairo while awaiting trial for allegedly assisting the Muslim Brotherhood; a third journalist, Australian Peter Grest, was deported earlier this month 2014 Italy's Democratic leader Matteo Renzi calls for a new government and for the country's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to resign 2014 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrests more anti-government protestors and now holds 19 people suspected of attempting to undermine him 2013 Seven years after Apple Inc. submitted its request to sell their iPhone under the name "iPhone" in Brazil, regulators denied their request, favoring IBG Electronica, who filed for the trademark in 2000, and was granted permission in 2008 2013 U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee, Jack Lew, begins his confirmation hearing by testifying before the U.S. Senate's financial committee 2012 The credit ratings of European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are downgraded by Moody's Investors Service 2012 Moody's Investor's Service issues a negative outlook for the credit ratings for Austria, France and the United Kingdom 2011 In Iran, opposition leaders plan a nationwide anti-government rally in an attempt to replicate the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution 2011 At the 53rd Grammy Awards, Lady Antebellum wins the Song of the Year and Record of the Year award for the song, 'Need You Now' 2010 Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies in a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, hours before the opening ceremonies 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia 2000 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship 2000 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship 1997 "Three Sisters," opens at Criterion Theater New York City 1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope 1996 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts" 1996 Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway 1995 West Indies beat New Zealand by innings and 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55 1994 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis 1994 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96 1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200 1993 Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84) 1993 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) 1992 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 229 performances 1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW 1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game 1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel 1991 U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa 1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games 1990 U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify 1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed 1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1988 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada 1988 Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) 1988 European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 1988 Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) 1988 Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) 1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator 1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders 1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader 1983 "Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances 1983 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA 1983 Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup 1983 E Bernstein, Levinson and Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in New York City 1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds 1982 Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers 1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words 1980 Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated 1980 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin 1979 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation 1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm 1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1977 "Guys and Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 239 performances 1977 "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 39 performances 1977 "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 145 performances 1977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship 1977 Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria 1976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes 1975 Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation 1974 "Rainbow Jones" opens and closes at Music Box Theater New York City 1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R. 1974 James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame 1973 Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in New York City 1973 U.S. dollar devalues 10 percent 1972 "1776" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,217 performances 1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway 1972 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan 1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos 1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi 1970 NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23) 1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released 1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns 1968 U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam 1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1965 Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title 1965 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming 1965 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti 1961 Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus 1960 "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances 1960 "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances 1960 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria 1959 Barbie doll goes on sale 1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans 1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland 1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls 1955 KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open 1954 Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95 1953 A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium 1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win 1948 Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for West Indies in only Test Cricket innings 1948 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy and Baugniet of BEL 1948 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA 1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England 1946 "Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 5 performances 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die 1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1945 U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die 1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front 1943 Women's Marine Corps created 1942 Hitler's Operation Seelowe (invasion of England) cancelled 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council 1940 Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail 1937 Bradman scores 123 SA vs. Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket 1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th U.S. figure skating championship 1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington D.C. 1937 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson 1937 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee 1935 1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland 1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant 1934 Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party 1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang" 1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier 1929 Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow 1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated 1925 U.S. Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult 1924 King Tut's tomb opened 1923 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland 1920 Switzerland rejoin League of Nations 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City 1912 England regains cricket's Ashes 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 1905 -29 degrees F (-34 degrees C) Pond, Arkansas (state record) 1905 -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record) 1905 -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record) 1899 -16 degrees F (-27 degrees C), Minden Louisiana (state record) 1899 -1 degrees F (-18 degrees C) New Orleans, Louisiana 1899 -2 degrees F (-19 degrees C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record) 1895 Moving picture projector patented 1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class 1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna 1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000) 1864 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi 1861 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared president 1861 Col Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians 1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes 1858 Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa 1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour 1832 1st appearance of cholera at London 1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston 1816 Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire 1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege 1799 1st U.S. law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts 1795 1st state university in U.S. opens, University of North Carolina 1786 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia 1782 French fleet occupies St. Christopher 1777 de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress 1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java 1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) 1706 Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen 1693 College of William and Mary opens 1692 MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III 1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1668 Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal 1651 Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo 1635 Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 1578 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system 1566 St. Augustine, Florida founded 1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange 1510 Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal 1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland 1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
