2015 Event The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology, wins this year's RoboCup, a robotic football (soccer) tournament started 18 years ago to encourage new developments in the robotics field 2013 Event European Bioinformatics Institute scientists have successfully stored audio and text on fragments of DNA, and retrieved them with 99.99% accuracy - the first time in history DNA has been used for data storage 2013 Event Germany, France, and nine other countries within the EU await approval from EU Finance Ministers to institute the Tobin tax, a tax on financial transactions 2012 Event A poll by the British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound' magazine lists Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller 'Vertigo' as the greatest film of all time 2012 Event The world's oldest Charles Dickens film, dating from 1901, featuring a depiction of a Bleak House character, is rediscovered by the British Film Institute 2011 Event A report claiming nearly all research on chimpanzees is scientifically unjustified causes the U.S. National Institute of Health to place a moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees 2010 Event Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell 1993 Event Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40 1991 Event Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 1986 Event Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary 1967 Death Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75 1957 Birthday Steve Buscemi, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, studied at Lee Strasberg Institute, known for role of Carl Showalter in 'Fargo', Mr. Pink in 'Reservoir Dogs', cast member of 'The Sopranos' 1954 Birthday Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1953 Birthday Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center 1947 Event Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute 1947 Birthday Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute 1947 Birthday MJ Ainsworth, CEO, Institute of Chartered Secretaries 1945 Death Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies 1943 Event WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters 1942 Birthday Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1940 Birthday RA Weiss, director, Institute of Cancer Research 1931 Birthday Martin Rogers, director, Farmington Institute for Christian Studies 1931 Birthday Denis Lawton, director, London University Institute of Educ 1930 Birthday Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham 1929 Birthday Dennis Farr, director, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1928 Birthday James Porter, CEO, Commonwealth Institute 1927 Birthday John Hoskyns, director-general, Institute of Directors 1927 Birthday James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1921 Birthday Harry Knutton, Major-General/director-general, London City and Guilds Institute 1913 Event National Institute of Arts and Letters founded 1910 Event National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress 1909 Birthday Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director, Warburg Institute 1906 Event Archaeological Institute of America forms 1902 Event Carnegie Institute founded in Washington D.C. 1896 Birthday Catherine Filene Shouse, philanthropist, Wolf Trap Institute 1893 Event Imperial Institute in London opens 1892 Birthday Ruth Fuller Sasaki, U.S., Zen teacher, 1st Zen Institute of America 1891 Event Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered 1884 Event Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms 1881 Event Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute in Alabama 1873 Event 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute 1873 Birthday Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect, GM Tech Institute, Michigan 1868 Event Hampton Institute opens 1861 Event Hampton Institute forms 1854 Event Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute 1854 Event Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute) 1852 Event Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College 1837 Event Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) 1837 Event Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth 1829 Death James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute 1797 Birthday Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder, Institute of Charity 1753 Birthday Benjamin Thompson, physicist, Royal Institute of Great Britain
