2015 The last Ebola patient in Liberia, a 58-year-old English teacher, has been released; the nation will be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization if no new cases of the virus emerge in the next 42 days 2014 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act extends to private employees working for public companies under contract 2014 Andrus Ansip resigns as Prime Minister of Estonia; Ansip presided over the entry of Estonia into the eurozone and has served the longest to date among the prime ministers of the European Union 2013 In China, Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the National People's Congress announcing the country's 2013 goal of a 7.5% growth rate in GDP 2013 President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas; he was 58 2012 The animated film, 'The Lorax' earns $70.7 million dollars at the box office, the fifth highest returns ever for an animated film 2012 The U.S. requests New Zealand extradite Kim Dotcom and three of his MegaUpload associates, forcing them to face charges for breaching copyright 2011 Saudi Arabia bans all protests after demonstrations have taken place east of the country 2011 In the Battle of Az Zawiyah, rebels successfully overcome pro-Gaddafi forces trying to push into the city 2010 Gordon Brown, United Kingdom's Prime Minister, gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry 1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame 1996 Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame 1995 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins 1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election 1995 Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg 1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26) 1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship 1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) 1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber 1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop 1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery 1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die 1993 Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi 1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game 1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks 1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000 1989 Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266 1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82) 1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) 1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons 1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene 1984 U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas 1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons) 1983 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield 1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 4 performances 1981 Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill and C Dean (GRB) 1981 Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS) 1981 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) 1981 U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer 1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 152 performances 1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California 1976 British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time 1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 740 performances 1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot 1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City 1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect 1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany 1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London 1968 U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun 1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record 1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association 1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony 1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., announces a baseball team is moving there 1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest 1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl" 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army 1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB) 1960 Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) 1960 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA) 1960 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA) 1959 Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty 1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast 1957 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland 1957 Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin) 1956 "King Kong," 1st televised 1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 115 performances 1952 Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London 1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson 1948 U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville 1945 U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne 1945 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony 1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany 1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia 1942 Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia 1936 Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton) 1935 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago) 1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas) 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday 1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) 1931 Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact 1928 Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Kopenick," premieres in Berlin 1927 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property 1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM 1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief 1923 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada 1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin 1919 Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City 1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die 1910 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres 1910 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1 1908 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica 1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn 1900 American Hall of Fame found 1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D 1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns 1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president 1872 George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains 1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan 1868 Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould 1868 U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson 1864 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge 1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida 1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire 1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads 1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S. 1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model 1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun 1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays 1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution 1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France 1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno 1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi) 1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French 1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg 1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City 1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen 1743 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz 1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm 1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia 1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes 1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague 1496 English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore 1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
