2015 RadioShack, the U.S. electronics retailer founded in 1921, files for bankruptcy; the company plans to sell up to half of its stores to Sprint and close the remainder 2014 Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, considers the territorial claims China has made in the South China Sea comparable to the Nazi Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia 2014 New York Governor, Mario Cuomo, plans to announce executive action to loosen marijuana laws, allowing use of the drug for medical purposes 2013 Founder Michael Dell leads a consortium that announced plans to take Dell private with a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal - the largest buyout seen since the recession 2012 In the Finnish Presidential election, conservative candidate Sauli Niinisto wins in a landslide 2012 Josefina Vazquez Mota is the first woman ever endorsed by a major Mexican party to run for President of Mexico 2011 Protesters continue their 12th day of nationwide protests in Cairo's Tahir Square, calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step down 2011 The North American winter storm causes persistent cold temperatures in Mexico and power outages in the U.S. 2010 Danish special forces storm a ship captured by Somali pirates, freeing 25 crewmembers on board 2006 Super Bowl XL: Steelers defeat the Seahawks 21-10 1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini 1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record 1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe) 1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections 1995 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV 1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime 1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160 1993 James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA 1992 Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case 1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar 1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs. India 1991 Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides 1991 All American Bowl ends after 14 years 1991 Big East Football conference forms 1991 Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame 1991 L.A. King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points 1991 Howard Stern kisses New York Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl 1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points 1988 Andre beats Hulk Hogan in 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years 1988 Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham 1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs 1987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time 1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches 1986 Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" 1984 New Zealand beat England (82 and 93) by an innings in 3 days 1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people 1982 Laker Airways collapse owing 270M pounds ($351M) 1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands 1981 "Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 165 performances 1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane 1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy 1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit 1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time 1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded 1977 "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67 1977 "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56 1977 "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40 1977 "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98 1977 "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91 1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio 1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight 1977 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1977 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner 1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies 1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs and Ian Redpath 1974 British mine strike 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win 1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped 1974 U.S. Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure 1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted 1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1972 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame 1972 U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours 1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six 1970 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban 1970 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting 1969 "Turn-On," debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m 1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) 1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1962 Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees 1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 455 performances 1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide 1958 Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania) 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic 1958 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI vs. Pakistan, Port-of-Spain 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1957 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Piano Concert 1956 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open 1956 New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build 1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City 1953 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic 1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st U.S. figure skating Olympic champion 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st U.S. woman Olympic slalom champion 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) 1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim 1945 U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission 1942 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City 1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yankees for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands 1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander 1940 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction" 1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) 1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed 1936 National Wildlife Federation forms 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license 1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins 1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF 1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar 1923 Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy 1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium 1919 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers 1918 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson 1918 Separation of church and state begins in U.S.S.R. 1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration 1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St. New York City (demolished 1982) 1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted 1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam 1907 Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends 1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot 1901 Pierpont Morgan forms U.S. Steel Corp 1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel 1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms 1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) 1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco 1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London 1881 Phoenix Arizona incorporates 1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow 1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) 1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi 1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia 1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr. Bouligny withdraws from Congress 1855 British government of Palmerston forms 1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, New York 1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast 1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar 1817 1st U.S. gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome 1795 Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French general Michaud 1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 1783 Sweden recognizes U.S. independence 1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English 1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina 1777 Georgia becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish both entail and primogeniture 1736 Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia 1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France 1663 Earthquake in Canada 1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II 1644 1st U.S. livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours 1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk, Netherlands, drive nuns out 1556 Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna 1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium 1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons 816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
