2015 American skier Lindsey Vonn wins her 63rd World Cup, setting a new record after 35 years; the previous record of 62 wins was held by Austrian skier Annemarie Moser-Proell 2014 Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic, 2008 French Open Champion and former world number one, beats Serena Williams, a five-time Australian Open champion, during the fourth round of the 2014 Australian Open 2014 The 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are held in Los Angeles; 'American Hustle' takes top awards, actor Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win Outstanding Performance awards 2013 Calcium deposits found on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover; the deposits are similar to deposits formed on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures 2013 Heavy snowfall in Great Britain and Ireland causes Heathrow airport in London to cancel 100 flights; many passengers spend the night sleeping on the floor in the terminal 2012 The famous film and camera company Kodak, files for bankruptcy protection 2011 All remaining political prisoners in Tunisia are freed 2011 A Mongolian bulk carrier sailing off the coast of Oman is seized by Somali pirates 2010 United States Navy troops land near the Haitian presidential palace, bringing food, water, and equipment to aid victims of the earthquake 1997 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn and Geoffrey Rush 1997 Cerebral Palsy telethon 1997 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural 1996 NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix 1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg 1994 -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio 1994 -36 degrees F (-38 degrees C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record) 1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal 1993 Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo 1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA 1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands 1992 "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 878 performances 1992 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000 1992 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992 1992 Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble 1992 Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ 1991 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago 1991 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves 1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operation 1991 Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title 1991 Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt 1990 Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs. Australia at Adelaide 1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon 1988 "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV 1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 1986 Cerebral Palsy telethon 1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands 1986 Spain recognizes Israel 1985 "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9 1985 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill 1984 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km 1984 California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital 1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia 1982 Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case 1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher 1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide 1981 U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison 1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame 1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI 1977 Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame 1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) 1977 World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival 1975 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown 1974 Belgium government of Leburton falls 1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak 1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame 1971 "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 861 performances 1971 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston 1971 Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial 1971 NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association 1970 Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest 1970 Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1969 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25 1969 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1969 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7 1968 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting 1967 Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1966 Neil Simons, Coleman and Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres 1966 Tippetts cantate "Vision of St. Augustine," premieres in London 1964 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24 1964 KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed 1960 Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact 1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League 1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test 1956 Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field 1955 "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS 1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market 1955 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) 1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary 1952 NFL takes control of New York Yankees 1952 PGA approves allowing black participants 1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane 1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily 1942 Japanese forces invade Burma 1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers 1941 British offensive in Eritrea 1941 British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan 1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec 1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines 1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s) 1935 KLM begins flight path between Curaeao and Aruba 1934 Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement 1932 Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game 1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established 1929 Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec 1927 British government decides to send troops to China 1925 -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Van Buren, Maine (state record) 1923 WMC-AM in Memphis Tennessee begins radio transmissions 1922 Geological survey says U.S. oil supply would be depleted in 20 years 1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union 1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French government 1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston 1918 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly 1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die 1915 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die 1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude 1913 Raymond Poincare installed as president of France 1910 Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty 1910 National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress 1909 Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in New York City 1906 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between U.S. and England 1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms 1898 Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game 1886 Aurora Ski Club, 1st in U.S., founded in Minnesota 1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan, 800-1000 killed 1884 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris 1865 NV Suriname Bank established 1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) 1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede 1861 MS troops take Ft. Massachusetts an Ship Island 1853 Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo 1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome 1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim) 1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland 1829 Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres 1825 Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth, New Hampshire drops 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) 1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law 1806 Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope 1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling 1714 Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success 1668 King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain 1493 France cedes Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona 1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War 973 Pope Benedictus VI elected 379 Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire
