2015 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is planning rules for commercial drones that will limit flights to uncrowded areas within the operator's line of sight, meaning that uses such as package delivery or long-range news reporting are off limits 2014 Lebanon's new Prime Minister Tammam Salam declares that he has been able to form a new cabinet, breaking the 10-month impasse between Hezbollah and Sunni rival parties; Salam intends to hold presidential elections on time 2014 Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka's world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993 2013 British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef" 2013 A near-Earth asteroid, 2012 DA14, comes within 17,200 miles of the Earth's surface, a record-close approach for an object estimated at 50 meters, or 160 ft in in diameter 2012 A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; 'The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes' is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house 2012 Procter & Gamble sells Pringles to the Kellogg Company for $2.7 billion 2011 Inflation in the People's Republic of China reaches 4.9% 2011 In Malaysia, Islamic morality police arrest more than 80 muslims to prevent them from celebrating Valentine's Day 2010 Men's freestyle skiing moguls competitor, Alexandre Bilodeau, wins the first gold medal Canada has ever won on home soil at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics 1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship 1998 Daytona 500 race 1997 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski 1997 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge 1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns 1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17 1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion 1994 U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti 1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester, New York on WNVE 95.1 FM 1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys 1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die 1991 Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 1990 Baseball owners lock out players 1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92) 1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater 1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date - Philadelphia at Detroit 1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election 1985 STS-51-E vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23 1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw 1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die 1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic 1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, New York 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec 1980 Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals 1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins 1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes 1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show 1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott captain) 1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida 1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1978 Zaire revises constitution 1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election 1976 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria 1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) 1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos 1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time 1971 After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal 1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater 1970 Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102 1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo 1968 Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted 1967 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber 1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23) 1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater 1965 John Lennon passes his driving test 1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks 1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton 1963 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) 1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1961 Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever 1961 Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash 1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Tournament 1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB 1958 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN 1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA 1958 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA 1958 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister 1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland 1956 Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white 1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced 1954 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California 1954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting 1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting 1950 WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in New York City 1950 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting 1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released 1949 Dmitri Shostakovich' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad 1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan 1947 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater New York City after 60 performances 1946 Bank of England nationalized 1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid 1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery 1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra 1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese 1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train" 1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched 1939 Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in New York City 1936 -60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record) 1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) 1936 Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold 1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party 1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt 1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York 1932 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time 1932 George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show" 1932 John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in New York City 1932 U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) 1931 1st Dracula movie released 1931 Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager 1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago) 1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St. New York City 1926 Contract air mail service begins in U.S. 1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex 1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs. England, Australian Test Cricket rec 1919 American Legion organizes in Paris 1918 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1918 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar 1917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated 1916 New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500 1913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in New York City 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship 1906 British Labour Party organizes 1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark) 1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn) 1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes 1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die 1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans 1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin 1882 SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand with 1st frozen meat to England 1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court 1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down 1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn 1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped 1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans 1862 Grant's major assault on Ft. Donelson, Tennessee 1861 Ft. Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) 1852 Great Ormond St. Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient 1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave 1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston 1845 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector 1842 1st adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City 1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery 1799 1st U.S. printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent 1775 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI 1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia 1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue 1763 Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg 1745 Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London 1689 German Parliament declares war on France 1686 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris 1677 King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands 1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor 1563 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania 1552 Dutch coast hit by heavy storm 1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo 1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders 1313 Peace of Angleur 1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III 732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line 399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
