2015 Event The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has banned 11 people after an ethics investigation; the banned officials have recently or previously been indicted for corruption by the U.S. Justice Department 2014 Event Sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to Microsoft ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has gone through, despite attempts by former owner Donald Sterling to stop the transaction; Sterling was forced to sell after being banned from the NBA for his racist remarks 2014 Event Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez is thrown out of the World Cup for biting Italian player Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder; Suarez has also been banned from nine international matches and a four-month suspension from playing 2014 Event Donald Sterling, the owner of the L.A. Clippers who was banned from the NBA after racist remarks, has changed his mind on allowing sale of the team to Microsoft ex-CEO Steve Balmer; instead, Sterling has revived his $1 billion lawsuit agains the NBA 2014 Event Donald Sterling, the L.A. Clippers owner banned from the NBA after making racist remarks, has dropped a lawsuit fighting the forced sale of the team; the pending sale to former Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer must now be approved by the NBA 2014 Event The NBA names business executive Dick Parsons as acting CEO of the L.A. Clippers; owner Donald Sterling was banned for life from contact with the Clippers or the NBA after he made racist remarks; the NBA plans to attempt a forced sale of the team 2014 Event Donald Sterling, L.A. Clippers owner, is banned for life after reports of his racist comments; a new CEO will be appointed, and other team owners are encouraged to pressure Sterling into selling; many parties have already expressed interest 2013 Event Angola's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights deny the country has banned Islam and is dismantling mosques in an effort to stop the spread of Muslim extremism; they claim mosques are closed because Islam has not gone through the process of approval or legalization 2013 Event The use of plastic bags is banned in Mauritania 2012 Event Former award-winning cyclist, American Lance Armstrong, is banned for life from participating in International Cycling Union-sanctioned events and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles based on the findings of a systematic doping investigation 2012 Event After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles 2012 Event At the London Book Fair, Ma Jian, Chinese author of the banned novel 'Beijing Coma,' puts red paint over his face and calls Chinese publishers, 'the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party' 2011 Event Exiled Tibetans are banned from celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday; Nepalese authorities fear the gatherings would become anti-Chinese 2011 Event In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road 2010 Death Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols manager/notorious for the banned "God Save the Queen" single, dies in New York. 2006 Event Smoking is banned in restaurants and bars in Scotland 1997 Event Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear 1994 Event Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases 1993 Event Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority 1992 Event Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports 1992 Event New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time 1991 Event Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement 1990 Event 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address 1989 Event Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose 1987 Event LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse 1980 Event Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa 1978 Event NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms 1977 Event Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa 1971 Event Cigarette advertisements banned on television 1969 Event Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV 1965 Event Cigarette Ads banned on British TV 1965 Event Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy 1964 Event South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies 1962 Event Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands 1943 Event Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team 1943 Event Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts 1941 Event British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1937 Event Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio 1933 Event Austrian Communist Party banned 1933 Event Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin 1917 Event 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin, banned 41 years 1916 Event Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) 1912 Event AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball 1904 Event Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen 1902 Birthday Marian Anderson, born in Philadelphia, operatic contralto, banned by D.A.R. 1901 Event Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 1883 Event Slavery banned throughout British Empire 1783 Event Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states 1678 Event Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 1562 Event Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1439 Event Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
