2015 A powerful blizzard covers Boston and nearby New England areas with over two feet of snow under winds that reach over 70 miles per hour; New York City had expected the same weather effects but was spared 2014 The U.S. Postal Service will soon implement a rate hike in postage, approved last December the price of first-class postage stamps to 49 cents from 46 cents 2014 Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, claims that his decision to leak classified NSA documents about mining emails and telephone call logs, has resulted in several significant threats to his life 2013 A small pyrotechnics show ignited foram sound insulating material in the ceiling of Kiss, a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil's city of Santa Maria, killing 237 partygoers and injuring 169 others 2013 Serbian tennis pro Novak Djokovic achieves a four-set victory over opponent Andy Murray, winning the men's singles at the 2013 Australian Open 2012 For the first time in nearly 17 years, Spain's unemployment number passes five million 2012 The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest 2011 The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record 2011 Japan experiences its fifth outbreak of bird flu, forcing the slaughter of 150,000 chickens 2010 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils a new invention, a tablet PC called the iPad, at a press conference in San Francisco 1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10 1998 WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics and Detroit Shock 1998 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy 1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City 1997 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette win 1996 15 day old siamese twins separated - Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies 1996 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61) 1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop 1996 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1996 Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day 1996 Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open 1996 Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs. Jamaica at Kingston 1995 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62) 1994 "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances 1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras 1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites 1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 7 performances 1992 19th American Music Award: C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win 1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee 1992 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair 1991 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64) 1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands 1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU 1991 Superbowl XXV: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, New York Giants, RB 1990 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64) 1989 German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1989 Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student 1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court 1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team 1986 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and C Gayle 1985 "Doug Henning and His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 perf 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth 1985 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic 1985 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25) 1985 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14 1984 John and Yoko release "Milk and Honey" album 1984 Los Angeles Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak 1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial 1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid 1982 "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City for 747 performances 1982 Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland 1982 Philadelphia trades Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus 1982 Roberto S. Cordova installed as president of Honduras 1982 West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup 1980 "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 45 performances 1980 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27 1979 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda 1979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) 1977 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV 1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) 1976 "Laverne and Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV 1976 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver 1976 Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara 1976 Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia 1974 "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 320 performances 1973 UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) 1973 U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft 1973 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn 1973 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr 1973 William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign U.S. - North Vietnam treaty 1971 Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru' 1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" 1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad 1969 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria 1969 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack and she dies Feb 5th 1969 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years 1968 "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 31 performances 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee 1967 Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records 1967 New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker) 1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed 1966 Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W. Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966 1965 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite 1965 Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue 1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US 1964 Barlow and Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval 1964 Margaret Chase Smith, Senator-R-Maine, tries for Republican President bid 1963 Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec 1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962 "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 65 performances 1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV 1958 Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open 1956 NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium 1955 "Plain and Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 476 performances 1953 Netherlands end Marshall aid 1951 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 320 performances 1951 U.S. begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site 1950 2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show and Texaco Star Theater win 1949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China 1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates 1948 1st tape recorder sold 1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1945 S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in New York City 1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested 1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves 1943 1st U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) 1942 -19 degrees F (-27.4 degrees C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850 1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor 1940 -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record) 1934 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61) 1934 French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) 1934 VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe 1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game 1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London 1926 U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court 1924 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier 1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square 1918 "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater 1917 Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record) 1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin 1915 U.S. Marines occupy Haiti 1908 Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte 1906 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec 1905 Maurice Rouvier forms government in France 1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City) 1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory 1894 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park 1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania 1888 National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C. 1886 1st British government of Salisbury resigns 1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana) 1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union 1870 Manitoba and Northwest Territories incorporated 1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, TN 1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va 1823 President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America 1785 1st U.S. state university chartered, Athens Georgia 1778 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris 1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland 1710 Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget 1671 Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City 1662 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI) 1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies 1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy 1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 672 St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
