2015 E-commerce company eBay announces that it will lay off 2,400 employees in advance of its plans to spin off its PayPal unit; the split is expected to take place in mid-2015 2014 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces plans to raise the price of gas to 17 cents from 6 cents; the country's annual gas subsidy's cost $12 billion, too much to bear when facing 50 percent inflation and dwindled cash reserves 2014 Expansion plans for the Panama Canal are paused so Grupo Unidos por el Canal, the group behind the project, can seek more funding for the $3.2 billion project 2013 Germany, France, and nine other countries within the EU await approval from EU Finance Ministers to institute the Tobin tax, a tax on financial transactions 2013 The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, loses his position as President of the Euro Group; he is unseated by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance for the Netherlands 2012 Fears over bioterrorism cause top international virologists agree to halt work on a more virulent strain of H5N1 influenza virus 2011 In a referendum based on official figures, nearly 99% of South Sudanese voted for independence from the north 2011 Tunisians take part in a demonstration urging the interim government to step down 2010 Toyota announces recalls for approximately 5.2 million vehicles for a pedal entrapment and floor mat problem 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba 1998 News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations 1996 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta 1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament 1996 U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo 1995 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange 1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20) 1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder 1991 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf 1990 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh 1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director 1990 John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open 1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic 1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer 1988 U.S. accept immigration of 30,000 U.S. - Vietnamese children 1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi 1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana 1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA 1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed 1985 -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record) 1985 -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina (state record) 1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java 1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals 1984 U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht 1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid 1982 "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 36 performances 1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak 1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 54 performances 1981 Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a New York subway train 1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce 1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) 1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz 1979 Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, quarterback 1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks 1977 Italy legalizes abortion 1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders 1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France 1975 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal 1974 Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London 1973 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28 1973 Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" 1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr 1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms 1972 Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union 1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory 1971 "Alias Smith and Jones" premieres on ABC TV 1970 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight 1970 Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London 1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal 1968 AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24 1968 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20 1968 U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1967 AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23 1967 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming 1967 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti 1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd 1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured 1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency 1962 John F. Kennedy arrives in Uruguay 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational 1962 Snow falls in San Francisco 1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 8 performances 1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (NBC) begins broadcasting 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria 1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km 1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning 1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting 1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen) 1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City after 849 performances 1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker 1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City) 1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State 1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India 1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open 1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City after 460 performances 1950 NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury 1950 T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in New York City 1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman) 1948 W Indies vs. England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker 1947 "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 288 performances 1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel 1946 "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 16 performances 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma 1944 447 German bombers attack London 1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad 1943 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet 1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal 1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain 1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca 1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria 1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX 1941 Australia and Britain attack Tobruk Libya 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship 1939 George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in New York City 1939 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer 1939 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee 1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance 1935 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record) 1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) 1935 Wilderness Society forms 1932 U.S.S.R. and Finland stop non-attack treaty 1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London 1927 1st national opera broadcast from a U.S. opera house (Faust, Chicago) 1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties 1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president 1922 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland 1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland 1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit 1913 Aristide Briand forms French government 1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia 1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm 1908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup 1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno 1903 "Wizard of Oz," premieres in New York City 1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam 1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City 1901 Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in New York City 1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec 1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper 1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms 1880 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis 1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen 1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna 1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign 1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass 1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News" 1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported 1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing 1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa 1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die 1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" 1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii 1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced 1793 Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) 1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published 1732 Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha 1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston 1664 Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army 1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar 1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard 1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope 1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon 1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V 1189 Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade 1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
