2014 Event Almost 200 nations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Peru join an emissions reduction accord requiring each nation to post its plan online in 2015; the public can then pressure noncompliant nations to keep and strengthen their commitments 2014 Event U.S.-Iranian citizen Jason Rezaian, the head of the 'Washington Post' bureau in Iran, has been accused of unknown charges and is being held without bail; Iran has denied requests from Switzerland to check on Rezaian's condition on behalf of the U.S. 2014 Event Frustrated with the lack of progress in resolving the Syrian conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi resigns from his post as United Nations mediator 2014 Event 'The Washington Post' and 'The Guardian' win the Pulitzer Prize for reporting of surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA); the investigations relied on thousands of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor 2014 Event Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to hold the post of chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve 2013 Event 'The Washington Post', a privately held newspaper, is purchased by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos 2013 Event U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry 2013 Event Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announces he will leave his post at the end of March, 2013 2013 Event U.S. President announces the nomination of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, to replace Timothy Geithner, who is stepping down from his post 2012 Event In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan 2012 Event The Libyan parliament passes a vote of no confidence for Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Prime Minister of Libya; Abdurrahim El-Keib again takes over the post 2012 Event Only two days after being named to his new post, Shinichi Nishimiya, the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China is hospitalized after collapsing in Tokyo 2011 Event AOL purchases the liberal website, The Huffington Post, for $315 million 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 President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council 2005 Event The Huffington Post weblog makes it's debut 2004 Death Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85 2001 Death Herblock, political cartoonist, The Washington Post, dies at 91 2001 Death Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84 2000 Death Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57 1999 Death Meg Greenfield, journalist, Washington Post, dies at 68 1997 Event 1st time 3 cons home runs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (New York Yankees) 1997 Event Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yankees beat Indians 8-6) 1997 Event Yankees clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive 1996 Death Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 1996 Event Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yankees win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses) 1996 Event New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season home run, as Yankees tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8) 1996 Event New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game 1995 Event Houston Post folds after 116 years 1994 Death Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85 1992 Event Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women 1992 Death Max Lerner, U.S. writer/columnist (New York Post), dies at 88 1991 Event 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania 1990 Event Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing 1988 Event Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes 1988 Death John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56 1988 Event Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million 1986 Event Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 and win NL pennant 1981 Death William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 1981 Event Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic 1981 Event Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story 1981 Event Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1980 Event Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic 1980 Event Post It Notes, introduced 1979 Event Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic 1979 Event Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament 1979 Event 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post 1978 Death Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1978 Event Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open 1978 Event 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post 1977 Event U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C. 1977 Event Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb 1974 Event Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open 1974 Death Stewart Alsop, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek, dies 1973 Death Marjorie Post, U.S. philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86 1973 Birthday Whitney Post, born in Wayland, Massachusetts, rower 1996 Olympics 1969 Event Last edition of Saturday Evening Post 1968 Birthday James Brady, born in Brooklyn, New York, columnist, New York Post 1968 Event 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post 1967 Event Sling-shot goal post and 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL 1965 Event London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England 1965 Event Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1962 Death Morris Louis, U.S. painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49 1961 Event Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black 1960 Event 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 1960 Death Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86 1960 Birthday Benoat van Innis, Belgian cartoonist/painter/cartoonist, New York Post 1959 Event Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0) 1957 Event Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery 1956 Event Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad 1951 Event FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner 1950 Birthday Markie Post, Marjorie, Palo Alto Cal, actress, Christine-Night Court 1948 Birthday Tom Shales, TV critic, Washington Post 1948 Birthday Sandra Post, born in Oakville, Ontario, professional golfer, won LPGA Championship 1968, LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year Award 1968 1948 Event Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed 1944 Birthday Mike Post, composer, Rockford Files, Hill St. Blues, Magnum PI 1944 Death John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 Event Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested 1944 Event Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer 1944 Birthday Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate 1944 Birthday Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post 1942 Birthday Peter Kalikow, Queens New York City, real estate developer/publisher, New York Post 1941 Event 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA 1935 Death Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 1935 Birthday Pete Hamill, born in Brooklyn, New York, journalist, New York Post 1934 Event Wiley Post discovers jet stream 1934 Birthday Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight 1933 Birthday Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist, 8x European Champion at Derny-drive 1933 Event Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight 1933 Event Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world 1931 Birthday Raoul Pleskow, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, studied with Otto Luenig, served on music faculty at C.W. Post College, Long Island University 1931 Event Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world 1931 Birthday Rupert Murdoch, born in Australia, publisher, New York Post and CEO of FOX 1930 Birthday Jimmy Breslin, born in New York City, columnist, New York Post, News, Newsday 1930 Birthday Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 1930 Birthday Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post 1927 Birthday Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post 1925 Birthday Art Buchwald, born in New York City, wrote political satire and commentary, had column in The Washington Post 1925 Birthday Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist, Washington Post 1925 Birthday Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 Event Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1924 Birthday Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office 1923 Event Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike 1922 Birthday Jack Anderson, born in Long Beach, California, journalist, Washington Post 1921 Event U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency 1921 Birthday Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive, Washington Post 1918 Death George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies 1918 Birthday Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1917 Birthday Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post 1916 Event Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting 1916 Event Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin 1914 Event U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail 1914 Event New York Post Office Building opens to public 1914 Birthday Stewart Alsop, born in Avon, Connecticut, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek 1914 Event 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published 1913 Event Cleveland Call and Post forms 1913 Event Post office begins parcel post deliveries 1912 Event 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued 1912 Birthday Morris Louis, U.S. painter, post abstract 1911 Event Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital 1911 Birthday Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office 1907 Event 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) 1906 Birthday Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist 1906 Birthday Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight 1905 Event Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa 1905 Birthday Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO, Houston Post 1904 Birthday W. Sterling Cole, born in Painted Post, New York, Representative-R-New York 1935 - 1957 1903 Birthday Dorothy Schiff, publisher, New York Post 1903 Event President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1902 Birthday Max Lerner, U.S., columnist, New York Post 1900 Event U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps 1899 Birthday Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer 1899 Event Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 1899 Event British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 Event Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa 1898 Birthday Wiley Post, Grand Plain, Texas, aviator/parachutist, crashed in Alaska 1898 Event Post Office authorizes use of postcards 1894 Birthday Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers 1889 Birthday Bert Collins, cricketer, Aussie batsman in the post WW I years 1885 Event U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail 1883 Event John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) 1883 Event John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi 1881 Event Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens 1877 Event Washington Post publishes 1st edition 1874 Event Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 1872 Birthday Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer, Etiquette 1872 Event Congress endorses penny post card 1863 Event Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas 1861 Event British Post Office Savings Banks opens 1861 Event Anaheim Post Office established 1856 Event Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens 1855 Birthday Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals, Post Cereals 1850 Event Hawaiian post office established 1848 Event Post office at Clay and Pike opens 1847 Event Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps 1840 Event Penny Post mail system is starts 1839 Event 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) 1821 Event 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) 1813 Event "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York) 1811 Event Russian settlers establish Ft. Ross trading post, north of SF 1801 Event 1st edition of New York Evening Post 1794 Event U.S. Post Office established 1789 Event Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname 1789 Event Congress creates Post Office 1789 Event U.S. Post Office established 1781 Event 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published 1764 Event St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue 1749 Event English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post 1735 Event Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass) 1701 Event Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit 1669 Death Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 1639 Event 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
