2015 California officials believe that an outbreak of measles among Disneyland visitors was caused by someone with overseas exposure; Disneyland visitors account for 67 cases, with 94 total infections across the U.S. to date 2014 Royal Caribbean's cruise liner, Explorer of the Seas, returns to port after 700 of its 3,050 passengers become ill with gastroenteritis; the illness is suspected to be the Novovirus, a variant strain of the species Norwalk virus 2014 Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion after purchasing it three years ago for $12.5 billion, and selling off it's cable-box division for $2.4 billion 2013 Research In Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of wireless devices, releases the Blackberry 10, its newest operating system for Blackberrys; the company also announces two smartphones, the Z10 and Q10 2013 In preparation for the Scottish independence referendum, the Scottish Government agrees to alter the wording in its referendum because members expressed concerns that it might lead people to vote for it 2012 In the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C., Occupy DC activists are prohibited from camping in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square 2012 In Lahore, Pakistan, a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital leads to 112 fatalities, and rising 2011 Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens 2011 Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods 2007 Microsoft releases Windows Vista 2005 Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958 2000 NFL Pro Bowl 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans 23-16 2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem 1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis, Indiana on WNAP 93.1 FM 1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres 1997 Minuteman III launches 1995 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win 1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured 1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show" 1994 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62) 1994 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64) 1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76) 1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts 1994 Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB 1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism 1993 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62) 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands 1989 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter 1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl) 1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ 1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic 1983 Superbowl XVII: Washington Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB 1982 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners 1981 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins 1980 Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in New York City 1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution 1978 Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever 1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW vs. Qld) 1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame 1976 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg 1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) 1976 William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA 1974 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1973 1st Kiss concert (Queens New York) 1973 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts 1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens New York) 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth 1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 19 performances 1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs. England 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert 1969 U.S. / Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" 1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon 1966 -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record) 1966 -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), New Market, Alabama (state record) 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2) 1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet 1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill 1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail 1962 U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC 1961 John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp 1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide 1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1960 Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI vs. England 1960 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss 1960 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins 1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs. England, Adelaide Oval 1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx 1958 Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars 1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in New York City 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in 1957 U.S. Congress accepts the Eisenhower-doctrine 1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" 1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting 1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 Martin Luther King, Jr's home bombed 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with U.S.S.R. 1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns 1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio 1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland 1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime 1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed 1944 U.S. invades Majuro, Marshall Islands 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia 1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-Field Marshal 1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya 1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London 1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race 1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win 1939 Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile 1939 Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1936 New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname 1936 Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on and is scrapped by 1940 season 1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" 1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by U.S. government, New York City 1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days 1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states 1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio 1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen 1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match 1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval 1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater 1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad 1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US 1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) NSW vs. Vic 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in New York City 1927 Left wins national election in Thuringen 1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople 1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW 1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW 1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated 1920 Quebec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game 1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army 1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre 1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic vs. Tas 1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba 1895 C. J. Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic) 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed 1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit 1894 U.S. flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham 1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test 1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out 1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope 1889 Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76) 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria 1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test 1879 French President MacMahon resigns 1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces 1862 U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched 1858 Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester 1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" 1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast 1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugenie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco 1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C. 1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim) 1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" 1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River 1800 U.S. population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) 1798 Rep Matthew Lyon, Vermont spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold,Connecticut, in U.S. House of Representatives, after an argument 1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks 1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Greathead, the inventor 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland 1774 Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1713 England and Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty 1648 Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War 1647 King Charles I handed over to English parliament 1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 40 pounds 1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII 1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland 1487 Bell chimes invented 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hungarian king Matyas Corvinus beats Bratrici 1349 Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king 1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
