2014 Event Strong quarterly earnings cause Facebook stock to rise 16 percent; the company boasts 755 million active users, and its ad revenue increased by 76 percent year over year to $2.34 billion 2013 Event New research on the Shroud of Turin supports that it may actually been used as Jesus Christ's burial cloth; researchers used mechanical and thermal measurements to date the shroud between 300 BC and 400 AD 2012 Event In Bulgaria, remains believed to be John the Baptist, are scientifically dated to be from the first century AD 1997 Death Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66 1995 Death Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59 1995 Death Adrian J "Ad" Kaland, Dutch MP (CDA 1977-93), dies at 72 1994 Death Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 67 1993 Death Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies 1991 Event 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV) 1990 Event 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad 1987 Event Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan 1987 Event Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner 1983 Birthday Kim Smith, born in Houston, Texas, model, featured in Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess ad campaigns, appeared in 'Girls of Summer' Aerosmith video 1980 Event CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields 1979 Event Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time 1976 Death Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident 1969 Event 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) 1967 Death Ad Reinhardt, American Artist 1962 Birthday Michelle Shocked, born in Dallas, Texas, singer, songwriter, political activist, created label, Mighty Sound, song 'When I Grow Up' featured in an ad for Kaiser Permanente 1956 Birthday Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, 1994- 1954 Event Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam 1954 Event Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem 1944 Birthday Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet and critic, On the Droge 1944 Birthday Ad Nijhuis, Dutch MP, VVD 1935 Event Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii 1934 Birthday Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA 1929 Birthday Ad J Hermes, Dutch MP, KVP/CDA 1926 Birthday Stan Freberg, born in Los Angeles, California, satirist/ad executive/cartoon voice, Bertie 1926 Birthday Cynthia Stone, Peoria, Illinois, actress, That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers 1923 Birthday Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary, River Basin 1917 Event Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1914 Event Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity 1913 Birthday Ad Reinhardt, American Artist 1897 Birthday Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter 1886 Event London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad 1743 Event 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal) 1732 Event 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette) 1727 Death Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 1704 Event Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad 1656 Birthday Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet, Gradus ad Parnassum 1526 Event Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition 1291 Death Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 866 Event Pope Nicholas I answers the envoys of Boris (Ad consulta vestra) 126 Birthday Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor, 193 AD 12 Birthday Caligula, Gaius Caesar, 3rd Roman emperor, 37-41 AD
