2015 Hackers steal personal data on up to 80 million customers of health insurance provider Anthem, Inc.; though free credit monitoring is being offered to victims, such monitoring won't detect or prevent medical identity theft 2014 U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urges Congress to increase the debt ceiling because the U.S government debt is expected to hit $17.2 trillion soon 2014 Google and Microsoft report that the National Security Agency ordered them to provide information on 10,000 accounts over a six-month period in 2012 and 2013, and Yahoo reported they complied with government request for information on more than 40,000 accounts 2013 At a University of Leicester media conference, it is announced that during a 2012 archeological dig in Leicester, the skeleton they unearthed is confirmed to be the remains of King Richard III of England 2013 Officials at the Kremlin announce that the 2014 G8 summit will be held at Sochi, its southern Black Sea resort 2012 Iran initiates new military exercises as tensions rise over the country's nuclear program 2012 Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies in the United Kingdom at the age of 110 2011 Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, commented that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of 'Islamic awareness' 2011 According to the Catholic Church on the island, Cuba plans free to two more dissidents 2010 Yahoo! sells HotJobs to Monster.com for a reported $225 million 1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium 1998 Earthquake kills about 2,300 in northern Afghanistan 1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide 1997 Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals 1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish 1996 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13 1995 Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria vs. South Australia 1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77) 1995 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning 1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins 1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum, Sudan 1994 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec) 1994 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71) 1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA 1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism 1993 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror 1991 Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose 1991 Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record 1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo 1990 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81) 1990 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04) 1990 Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69) 1990 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21 1990 Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic 1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar) 1990 St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship 1989 Dean Jones scores 216 vs. WI at the Adelaide Oval 1988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges 1987 President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress 1987 Stars and Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup 1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 1986 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford 1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane 1985 20 countries (but not U.S.) sign United Nations treaty outlawing torture 1985 Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons 1984 "9" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 739 performances 1984 "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore 1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas 1983 Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium 1983 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton 1982 "Pump Boys and Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 573 performances 1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash 1982 Musical "Pump Boys and Dinettes," premieres in New York City 1982 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees 1980 Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek 1979 "Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS 1979 End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG) 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament 1977 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver 1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released 1977 Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed" 1976 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria 1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras 1976 Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1974 Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands 1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2 months 1974 Gas rationing ends in Netherlands 1974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army 1973 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 861 performances 1973 Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game 1973 Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec) 1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled 1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria 1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported 1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell) 1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks 1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt 1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil 1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC 1970 "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 23 performances 1970 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 1 performance 1970 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cincinnati - Detroit, San Diego - Boston 1969 Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple 1969 John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders 1969 Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in New York City 1969 Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO 1968 "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 355 performances 1968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball 1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby 1967 U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 3 1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax 1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City 1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 113 performances 1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game 1962 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles 1962 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt 1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure 1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member 1960 Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park 1960 Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres 1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore 1958 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances 1958 Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950 1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York) 1956 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training 1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York) 1951 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer 1951 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia 1948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK 1946 Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in New York City 1945 FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta 1944 Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris 1944 U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein 1943 Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich 1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II 1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya 1941 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin 1941 United Service Organization, USO, founded 1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort 1938 "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway 1938 Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts 1937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games 1936 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) 1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York 1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria 1931 National League adopts a deader baseball 1930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans 1929 Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs. England at Adelaide 1927 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions 1926 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany 1924 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France 1924 George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in New York City 1922 WGY-AM in Schenectady New York begins radio transmissions 1920 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off 1919 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown 1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established 1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary 1914 U.S. Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law 1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim 1913 National Institute of Arts and Letters founded 1904 John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin 1903 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 and 1 tie 1899 Revolt against U.S. occupation of Philippines 1895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago 1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads 1880 Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in New York City 1875 Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belg 1865 Hawaiian Board of Education formed 1865 Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army 1864 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi 1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy 1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela 1854 Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc 1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students 1847 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland 1846 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west 1824 J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public 1822 Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa 1803 William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" 1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000 1794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery 1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and Vice President 1787 1st Anglican bishops of New York and Pennsylvania consecrated in London 1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails 1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy) 1782 British garrison surrenders to French and Spanish fleet 1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow 1697 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia 1657 Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal 1620 Prince Bethlen Gabor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II 1600 Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague 1586 Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands 1508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned 1194 Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000
