2015 A small treasure of 2,300-year-old coins and jewelry is found in a cave in the Galilee region of Israel; the items date from the time of Alexander the Great 2014 The Barbie doll celebrates its 55th anniversary 2014 NCAA basketball team Wichita State Shockers wins the Missouri Valley Conference championship undefeated 2013 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars 2013 Anti-apartheid leader and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, age 94 is hospitalized for, what sources say, was a routine checkup 2012 Author JK Rowling announces that the Pottermore website, her version of the Harry Potter universe will launch in early April, 2012 2012 The world's oldest Charles Dickens film, dating from 1901, featuring a depiction of a Bleak House character, is rediscovered by the British Film Institute 2011 National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigns after a scandal involving NPR executives 2011 A 7.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan prompts the release of tsunami alert 2010 Alphalara itadori, a Japanese insect that combats invasive Japanese knotweed, is the first biocontrol agent approved by the European Union 1997 Senior Golf Slam 1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open 1996 Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India 1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF 1996 STS-75 (Columbia 19), lands 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record) 1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns 1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport 1993 19th People's Choice Awards 1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak 1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs 1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane 1991 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games 1991 U.S. 70th manned space mission STS-39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit 1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) 1989 Senate rejects George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion 1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000 1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts 1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR) 1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed 1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections 1984 John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time" 1984 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record 1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London 1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana 1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News 1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament 1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters 1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov 1978 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) 1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR) 1978 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA) 1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th 1977 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche 1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy 1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain 1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt. Pepper's wins 4 1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced 1964 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla 1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians 1962 U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight 1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit 1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again" 1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 16 performances 1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus 1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold 1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England 1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators) 1954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy on 'See it Now' 1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, New Hampshire (ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia 1947 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1947 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang 1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses 1945 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China 1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown 1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player 1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin 1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days" 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland 1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria 1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended 1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City 1923 NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2 1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City 1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed) 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co 1914 U.S. Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico" 1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana 1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin 1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna 1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin) 1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot 1897 Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official) 1895 Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs 1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV 1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S. 1882 False teeth patented 1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded 1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1862 "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads 1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000 1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington 1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox 1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres 1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice 1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan 1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours 1822 Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth 1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die 1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House 1798 Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena 1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower 1701 France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe 1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris 1617 Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa 1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne 1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation, 1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria 1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor
