2015 Event NASA's New Horizons probe reestablishes contact to transmit the first close photos of Pluto and its moons; the probe launched in 2006 and has traveled over 3 billion miles; it will continue transmitting data for the next 16 months 2014 Event A court has ruled that Kaci Hickox, the Maine nurse who has fought against requirements to quarantine herself due to her contact in West Africa with Ebola patients, will not have to restrict her movements; Hickox has shown no signs of the virus 2014 Event A total of 111 people have been identified as having had contact with an Ebola-infected 2-year-old girl before her death in Mali, raising concerns of a potential new epidemic; the girl was the first confirmed Ebola case in the nation 2014 Event Three U.S. states have now established quarantine rules for travelers arriving from West Africa who have had contact with Ebola victims; Illinois is the latest to implement the policy, following the lead of New York and New Jersey 2014 Event Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient hospitalized for Ebola in the U.S., slips from serious to critical condition in a Dallas hospital; 10 people who had been in close contact with the patient have been placed in isolation 2014 Event JPMorgan Chase discloses that a July data breach resulted in exposure of contact information for 83 million households; the bank states that security information, such as passwords and birth dates, did not appear to have been compromised 2014 Event A 21-year-old man is the first reported case of Ebola in Senegal; the man had recent contact with Ebola victims from Guinea 2014 Event A case of bubonic plague in the Chinese province of Gansu prompts quarantines in parts of the city of Yumen; while outbreaks are rare, the disease can be contracted by contact with fleas from wild rodents 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 2013 Event Footage of the previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is released; the Kawahiva is an indigenous tribe living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and is thought to have had very little contact with the outside world 2013 Event The World Health Organization announces that the Novel coronavirus 2012, the newly discovered coronavirus, also referred to as Saudi SARS, can be transmitted from person-to-person contact 2011 Event The European Space Agency makes contact with the Fobos-Grunt probe 48 hours after the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars closes 2010 Event In Chile, 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface make contact with their families for the first time in three weeks since the incidentally 2000 Event Tony Awards, Copenhagen, Contact, The Real Thing revival, and Kiss Me Kate revival won major awards 1996 Death Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 1994 Event Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken 1993 Event NASA loses contact with Mars Observer 1969 Birthday Matthew McConaughey, actor, Contact, A Time to Kill 1962 Event U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars 1959 Event U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body 1959 Event 1st known radar contact is made with Venus 1946 Event U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, New Jersey 1945 Event Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army 1944 Event Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany 1944 Event Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London 1943 Event Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 1943 Event British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1943 Event Chile breaks contact with Germany and Japan 1934 Birthday Mark Kingston, actor, Intimate Contact 1920 Event Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slavia 1865 Birthday Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator, Contact with Plants
