2015 Event The U.S. Internal Revenue Service reveals that hackers who stole taxpayer data in May had accessed additional databases, adding 220,000 to the previous estimate of 114,000 taxpayers who have had their information compromised 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 49 hostages of the Islamic State are freed and returned to Turkey after an operation enacted by the Turkish government after the June kidnapping in Mosul, Iraq; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not give information regarding its actions 2014 Event Former Egyptian President President Mohamed Mursi and nine others have been charged with giving confidential state security information to the government of Qatar; if convicted of treason, Mursi could face the death penalty 2014 Event Google and Microsoft report that the National Security Agency ordered them to provide information on 10,000 accounts over a six-month period in 2012 and 2013, and Yahoo reported they complied with government request for information on more than 40,000 accounts 2013 Event An experimental privacy feature on Google's Android mobile software is removed, raising objections from the Electronic Frontier Foundation; the feature allowed users to block apps from collecting personal information such as a user's location and address book data 2013 Event In an effort to hunt for terrorists 'hiding in plain sight' online, spies at U.S. surveillance agencies may have spent time playing online games such as 'World of Warcraft', 'Second Life', and may have gathered information on the gaming network, Xbox Live 2013 Event Credit card information, among other data of 2.9 million Adobe consumers was stolen during a cyber attack on the company's website 2013 Event In a report sent to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Syria claims it has fully disclosed information regarding its chemical weapons program 2013 Event Declassified CIA documents reveal that during the Iran-Iraq War, top Reagan administration officials gave Iraq information on the location of Iranian troops 2013 Event In North Carolina, a neuroscientist at Duke University announces he has successfully connected the brains of two rats in such a way that they share information 2013 Event In the wake of several anti-Semitic and racist posts on Twitter, a French court orders the company to reveal personal information about its users 2012 Event Data from the 1940 U.S. census is released including information on 132 million people 2011 Event An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981 2011 Event In a Schrodinger's cat experiment, researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light; this is the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another 2011 Event The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China 2010 Event Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure 1995 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song 1990 Death Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 1984 Event Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes 1981 Death John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89 1979 Event CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service 1979 Event "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1977 Event NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio 1975 Event NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio 1974 Event Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto 1974 Event President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in 1966 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act 1964 Death W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, English Minister of Information, dies at 85 1964 Event Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency 1960 Death Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78 1947 Birthday Bill Fontana, born in Cleveland, Ohio, composer, sound art pioneer, created sounds sculptures in 1976, using urban surroundings as a source of musical information, to evoke visual imagery 1939 Birthday GAI Schuijt, Dutch jurist, information law 1938 Event Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network 1934 Event U.S. Information Service opens 1933 Event Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda 1916 Birthday Claude Shannon, information theorist 1912 Birthday Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information 1904 Birthday Clifton Fadiman, born in Brooklyn, New York, TV host, Information Please, Quiz Kids 1881 Birthday Franklin P Adams, born in Chicago, Illinois, columnist, Information Please
