2015 Health care and personal security records of 11 million customers have been stolen from Premera Blue Cross; the health care insurer operates mainly in the U.S. states of Washington and Alaska, but customers in other states may also be affected 2014 Scientists using the BICEP2 telescope identify evidence for cosmic inflation; if confirmed, this evidence will provide support for the Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe 2014 L'Wren Scott, the 49-year-old model, designer and longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger, is found dead in her apartment 2013 Scientists discover that a large amount of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles 2013 The 2012-13 Biathlon World Cup ends, with Martin Fourcade winning men's and Tora Berger winning women's overall World Cup titles 2012 Despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, Julian Assange announces his plan to run for the Senate of Australia 2012 An internal investigation is launched by Pope Benedict XVI involving leaks of confidential documents that allege corruption, financial mismanagement and power struggles among senior church officials 2011 Libya's military claims it will stop fighting Sunday to allow the rebels to turn themselves in 2011 St. Patrick's Day parates are celebrated internationally 2010 Acting president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolves the Nigeria's cabinet 2009 Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military 1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal 1997 CNN begins spanish broadcasts 1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 29 performances 1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 17 performances 1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory 1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship 1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title 1996 Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena 1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup 1995 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) 1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House 1995 U.S. approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck 1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 30 performances 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed 1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta 1992 "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances 1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire 1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad 1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty 1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade 1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in New York City 1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70% 1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International 1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak 1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 44 performances 1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade 1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 vs. Pak 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF 1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' 1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy 1983 9th People's Choice Awards 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms 1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R. 1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA 1979 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) 1979 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm 1978 Reds don green uniforms for St. Patricks Day 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) 1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) 1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International 1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge 1973 St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers 1970 U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England) 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open 1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by U.S. and 6 European nations 1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open 1966 South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund 1966 U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean 1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) 1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game 1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975) 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese 1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA 1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Australia and U.S.S.R. restore diplomatic relations 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash 1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball 1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal 1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M 1953 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting 1951 Government of Drees takes power 1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs. New Zealand Christchurch 1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra 1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke 1943 Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (U.S.) torpedoed and sinks 1943 F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," premieres in New York City 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens 1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR 1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) 1932 German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter 1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee 1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel 1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid 1927 U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty 1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 1926 Richard Rodgers and L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in New York City 1926 Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations 1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in New York City 1924 Netherlands and U.S.S.R. begin talks over U.S.S.R. recognition 1924 Sweden and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats 1921 Dr. Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) 1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages 1918 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford 1918 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles 1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis 1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick 1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft, Netherlands 1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" 1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY 1902 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 1899 Windsor luxury hotel in New York City catches fire, 92 die 1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York City (for 1 hour 40 minutes) 1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" 1894 U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed 1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California 1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs. Eng 1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) 1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps 1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized 1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary 1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities) 1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed 1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh 1854 1st park land purchased by a U.S. city, Worcester, Massachusetts 1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence 1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour 1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London 1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12 mile area in Upper Sandusky 1836 Texas abolishes slavery 1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York) 1824 England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement 1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres 1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die 1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War 1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act 1762 1st St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City 1757 Prince Mas Said of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java 1756 St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern 1755 Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief 1753 1st official St. Patrick's Day 1722 Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente 1672 England declares war on Netherlands 1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered 1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam 1537 French troops invade Flanders 1526 French king Francois I freed from Spain 1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon 1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England 455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor 432 St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
