2013 Event A winter storm earlier in the week leaves thousands without power in Southern Ontario, Maine, Michigan and Vermont; below-freezing temperatures sent many to shelters for warmth 2013 Event In the U.S., record snowfall leaves hundreds of thousands without power; Dallas-Fort Worth experiences an ice storm causing traffic accidents, power outages and airport delays 2013 Event When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaves office, U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellin to take his place 2013 Event Russia grants NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden one year of temporary political asylum; Snowden leaves Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport 2012 Event Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leaves the hospital after undergoing minor surgery to remove a tumor 2012 Event Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge leaves the hospital after suffering from severe morning sickness 2012 Event In the U.S., over 60 people die in the Mid-Atlantic states as the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy leaves millions without electricity and cripples its mass transportation system 2012 Event Top executive Marissa Mayer, leaves Google after being appointed Yahoo! Inc.'s new CEO 2011 Event The last convoy of U.S. Army soldiers leaves Iraq, formally marking the end of the Iraq War 2011 Event A landslide in Malaysia leaves one person killed and six missing 2011 Event In China, a fire in a coal mine in Shandong Province leaves at least 36 people trapped underground 2011 Event Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship 2011 Event The most expensive painting ever auctioned, 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust', by Pablo Picasso, goes on display in London's Tate Gallery 2011 Event Under pressure from conservationists and diplomats, Japan's whaling fleet leaves the Antarctic 2011 Event Protesters stage the largest demonstration ever against the Mubarak regime; two million people gather in Tahir Square, vowing to stay until Mubarak leaves his post 2010 Event An auction at Christie's in New York sets a record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction when it sells Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' for $106 million 1997 Event For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) 1994 Event Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center 1993 Event Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed 1990 Event U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait 1990 Event East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact 1989 Event Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia 1988 Event Fish leaves rock group Marillion 1986 Event Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country 1984 Event U.S. leaves UNESCO 1983 Event 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R. 1982 Event Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon 1982 Event PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut 1979 Event Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama 1976 Event Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves 1975 Event Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders 1972 Event Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party 1972 Event President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China 1971 Event John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return 1971 Event John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in New York City 1970 Event Luna 16 leaves Moon 1970 Event Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11 1970 Event U.S. leaves Wheelus AFB Libya 1969 Event Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins Rolling Stones 1969 Event Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones 1969 Event British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York 1969 Event "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 4 performances 1969 Event "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances 1968 Event Albania leaves Warsaw pact 1967 Event NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen 1967 Event Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves 1965 Event Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation 1964 Event Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement 1962 Event Angolin leaves Comecon 1962 Event French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria 1961 Event Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1961 Event South Africa leaves British Commonwealth 1958 Event Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 1956 Event Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal 1955 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul 1955 Event John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) 1954 Event Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio 1951 Event Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands 1950 Event French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta 1949 Event Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa 1947 Event 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City 1945 Event Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb 1944 Event Kurita's Vice-Admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo 1944 Event 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 1944 Event Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz 1943 Event Japan leaves Aleutian Islands 1943 Event 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1942 Event Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Netherlands) 1942 Event Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet 1942 Event PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk 1942 Event U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor 1942 Event David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine 1942 Event 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 Event General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1941 Event New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland 1941 Event King Peter leaves Yugoslavia 1940 Event General-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken 1939 Event Hungary leaves League of Nations 1938 Event British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich 1938 Event Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland 1936 Event RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage 1936 Event Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades 1936 Event 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground 1935 Event Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game 1933 Event Japan leaves League of Nations 1932 Event Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1931 Event Japan leaves the Golden Standard 1928 Event 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que 1928 Event Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1927 Event KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Netherlands-Indies after 1st regular flight 1926 Event Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining 1926 Event Brazil leaves League of Nations 1926 Event Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean 1925 Event Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 1924 Event Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves 2nd Chamber 1923 Event British occuping army leaves Constantinople 1923 Event Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations 1922 Event Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed 1922 Event U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras 1921 Event British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse 1917 Event Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd 1917 Event English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch 1915 Event British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 1914 Event Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party 1914 Event Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania 1914 Event Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina 1914 Event British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover 1912 Event Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York 1911 Event Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1908 Event Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay 1905 Event Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville 1904 Event Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet 1902 Event Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets 1900 Event Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1898 Event SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed 1898 Event 1st U.S. troop transport to Manila leaves San Francisco 1897 Event Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole 1896 Event George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic 1893 Event British fleet under Vice-Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut 1891 Event Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti 1889 Event 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east 1882 Event 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin 1882 Event SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand with 1st frozen meat to England 1879 Event Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods 1878 Event Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia 1876 Event Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe 1876 Event Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda 1876 Event 7th U.S. Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft. Lincoln 1870 Event British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed 1865 Event Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington 1863 Event 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) 1863 Event 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1861 Event On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration 1855 Event Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy 1854 Event SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again 1853 Event John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans 1853 Event Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance 1850 Event Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) 1850 Event Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1843 Event Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist 1841 Event 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California 1836 Event HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin leaves Australia 1835 Event HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand 1835 Event HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti 1830 Event Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed 1826 Event USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1819 Birthday Walt Whitman, West Hills, New York, poet, Leaves of Grass 1819 Event 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1817 Event 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage 1815 Event King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France 1811 Event 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans 1810 Event Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France 1809 Event English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen 1809 Event 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Philadelphia 1804 Event Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River 1802 Event Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros 1799 Event Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition 1795 Event Joseph Haydn leaves England forever 1787 Event Spanish governor leaves Philippines 1787 Event 1st U.S. voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston 1777 Event Captain Cook leaves Society Islands 1776 Event Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission 1753 Event Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia 1752 Event East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, 1744 Event French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon 1741 Event Captain Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America 1714 Event King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden 1689 Event Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan 1686 Event Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe) 1669 Event LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River 1627 Event English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rhe 1616 Event English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen 1599 Event Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java 1599 Event Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove and muskaat 1597 Event At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands 1596 Event Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya 1587 Event Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands 1579 Event Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean 1574 Event Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland 1571 Event Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland 1567 Event Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1524 Event Duke of Albany leaves Scotland 1509 Event Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy 1497 Event Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World 1495 Event French King Charles VIII leaves Naples 1492 Event Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion 1492 Event Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands 1434 Event Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon 1415 Event Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 1290 Event Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves 1192 Event Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise 1156 Event Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria 1120 Event English royal yacht "White Ship" leaves in storm
