2015 Event Pope Francis continues Catholic reforms by changing the marriage annulment process to make it faster and less expensive; earlier this month, the pope also declared that priests may forgive the sin of abortion during next year's Year of Mercy 2015 Event 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 Event Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, American aid workers who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia and returned to the U.S. for treatment, have been released and declared fully recovered 2014 Event Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani agree to an election vote recount to settle allegations of fraud after Ghani was declared the winner; the process could take weeks, requiring the inauguration ceremony to be postponed 2014 Event Rebekah Brooks has been declared not guilty, and Editor Andy Coulson has been pronounced guilty in the 'News of the World' phone hacking case 2014 Event Researchers announce a new orally-administered drug that may cure Hepatitis C; 90 percent of patients in trials were declared free of the virus after 12 weeks 2014 Event A measles outbreak is declared in Metro Manila; the Philippine Department of Health reports 1,724 cases as of December 14, and 71 people in one hospital alone died in 2013 2013 Event Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of Kenya's Presidential election by the Supreme Court of Kenya 2013 Event Zillur Rahman, age 84, the President of Bangladesh, dies in office after a long illness at a hospital in Singapore; the government declared three days of mourning 2012 Event U.S. Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, emboldened by the passage of a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution last month, declared marijuana legal for recreational use 2012 Event The 'immediate and severe' fiscal emergency declared by the U.S. city San Bernardino, California, allows it to declare bankruptcy without negotiating with creditors 2012 Event A drought spreading through the United States leads to over 1,000 counties declared natural disaster areas 2012 Event Former Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency, John Edwards, is cleared on one count of corruption, with a mistrial declared on the other five counts 2012 Event German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.' 2011 Event Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris 2011 Event Sonya Thomas is declared the winner of the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship after consuming 183 Buffalo wings in 12 minutes 2011 Event A state of emergency is declared by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal after Tropical Storm Lee in the northern Gulf of Mexico 2011 Event In Borneo a previously extinct rainbow toad is rediscovered by scientists; the sighting is the first since its extinction was declared in 1924 2011 Event After days of protests, martial law is declared in Xilinhot, a city located in Inner Mongolia 2011 Event Tornadoes hit Joplin, Missouri, and a state of emergency is declared; more tornadoes hit Minneapolis, Minnesota and warnings are announced in states from Texas to Michigan 2011 Event Analysts report a nuclear meltdown may be occurring at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant; a state of emergency is declared at five plants 2011 Event A state of emergency due to snow is declared in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota 2011 Event Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods 2010 Event A Japanese salmon subspecies, the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae) is discovered after being declared extinct in 1940 2010 Event In Guatemala, heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people and a state of emergency is declared 2010 Event Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election 2007 Death Art Buchwald, dies at 74, posts his video obituary in which he declared, "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." 2005 Event London is declared the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics 1994 Event Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham 1988 Event New York City's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark 1982 Death Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead 1981 Event Due to strike, Yankees, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs 1972 Event Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified 1971 Event British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt 1970 Event Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank 1967 Event 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified 1966 Event Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared 1964 Event San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark 1963 Event Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas 1954 Event Egyptian President Naguib fired/state of emergency declared 1950 Event Independent republic of South Molukkas declared 1949 Event Philadelphia fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners 1949 Event Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand 1945 Event All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid 1943 Event Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) 1941 Event Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" 1941 Event German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality) 1939 Event In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany 1939 Event New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead 1938 Event Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens 1936 Event Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track 1933 Event Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks 1930 Event Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency 1921 Event Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire 1918 Event Hungarian People's Republic declared 1918 Event Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1917 Event Ukrainian Republic declared 1913 Event 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 1912 Event Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA 1909 Event Joan of Arc declared a saint 1895 Event French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1889 Event Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France 1877 Event Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory 1867 Event Midway Islands formally declared a U.S. possession 1862 Event Confederate Constitution and presidency are declared permanent 1861 Event Abraham Lincoln declared president 1859 Event South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth" 1849 Event Roman Republic declared 1848 Event King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared 1824 Event Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president 1815 Event Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic 1802 Event Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life" 1789 Event 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly 1766 Event Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia 1676 Event Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians 1622 Event Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint 1614 Event French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult 1563 Event King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult 1556 Event Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic 1536 Event Pope's authority declared void in England 1533 Event King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void
