2015 Beck wins Album of the Year and Sam Smith wins both Song and Record of the Year at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, while 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' wins five awards and 'Boyhood' wins best film at the 68th BAFTA Awards 2014 A report on the U.S. economy shows 113,000 jobs were added in January, well below the expected 180,000 new jobs 2014 The U.S. Congress will as for $4.5 billion for additional missile defense spending over the next five years; the funds would partially pay for new radar in Alaska, indicating safety concerns regarding missiles from Iran and North Korea 2013 Scientists say Pandemrix, GlaxoSmithKline influenza vaccine, may be the cause of Europe's recent increase in cases of narcolepsy 2013 An investigation is taking place over recent hacking incident involving a hacker gaining access to the email accounts of former President George H. W. Bush, his friends and relatives 2012 Elizabeth Taylor's collection of artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas sell for over 13.7 million pounds at Christie's in London 2012 Europe's cold wave continues, with over 400 dead; the Danube River freezes over for 170 km 2011 The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China 2011 North and South Korean officials meet for working-level military talks, the first Korean dialogue in eight months 2010 U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavor launches from the Kennedy Space Center, successfully beginning a two-week mission to the International Space Station 2004 46th Grammy Awards, Coldplay, Outkast, Richard Marx, Luther Vandross, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake win major awards 1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 1998 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City 1998 NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics 1996 NFL and Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind 1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed) 1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car 1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432 1994 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm 1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die 1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires 1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1 1992 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France 1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter 1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract 1990 David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London 1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine 1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles 1989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days 1989 U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die 1988 NASA launches DOD-2 1987 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle 1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic 1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition 1986 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano 1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados 1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5" basketball shot 1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75) 1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea 1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984 1st time 8 people in space 1984 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation 1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7 1983 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander 1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino 1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days 1983 Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City 1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period 1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance 1982 Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey) 1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 12 performances 1981 "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 133 performances 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic 1981 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak 1981 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton 1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait 1977 Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 1976 Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR 1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic 1976 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130) 1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea 1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders 1974 "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV 1974 Ringo releases "You're 16" 1974 Skylab 4's astronauts land 1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run 1973 Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in New York City 1973 Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. New Zealand 1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal 1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame 1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ 1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post 1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico 1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) 1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games) 1967 Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, New Jersey, kills 84 1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" 1964 Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) 1963 AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs 1963 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) 1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die 1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1957 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall 1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die 1955 Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him 1953 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open 1953 WLVirginia (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia (ABC) begins 1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV 1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison 1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland 1947 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51) 1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, Missouri (NBC) begins broadcasting 1946 Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia 1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties 1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald 1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin 1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland 1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk 1942 Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles 1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort 1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore 1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio 1940 Lewis and Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in New York City 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in New York City 1936 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger 1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota 1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers 1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party 1935 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL 1934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C. 1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government 1933 -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record) 1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000 1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions 1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York 1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV 1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed 1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership 1926 Sean O'Casey's "Plough and Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin 1926 Walt Disney Studios forms 1925 Kaufman and Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in New York City 1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta 1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago 1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120 1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily 1922 Radio arrives at the White House 1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage 1918 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published 1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats 1915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA 1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti 1912 1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla 1911 U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras 1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in New York City 1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D. Boyce - Chicago) 1909 France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco 1908 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands 1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people 1904 Russo-Japanese War begins 1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass) 1896 Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris 1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf 1895 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg 1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks 1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast 1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st U.S. ski club 1887 Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship) 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen 1865 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany 1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound 1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London 1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama 1837 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) 1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France 1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau 1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock 1776 Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg 1750 Minor earthquake in London 1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon 1743 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth 1735 1st opera in U.S. "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC 1693 William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US 1690 French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire 1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal 1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London 1622 King James I disbands the English parliament 1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London 1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1575 University of Leiden Netherlands opens 1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die 421 Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp
