2015 Event Google, Inc. restructures, placing its search business and its various research ventures into a holding company called Alphabet; Google will begin reporting under the new company with the fourth quarter of this year 2015 Event Animal rights activists lose a case to free two chimpanzees being held for research purposes; the activists argued that the animals are highly intelligent and should be treated as humans with similar legal rights 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama speaks out in defense of the recent nuclear agreement between Iran and Western nations; the deal removes economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for reductions in its technological research and its nuclear fuel 2014 Event The foundation set up by Bill and Melinda Gates will provide funding to research and test various treatments for the Ebola virus, including vaccines and blood plasma therapy 2014 Event The International Court of Justice at the U.N. agrees that Japanese whaling is conducted for commercial purposes, not scientific research; Japan accepts the order to cease all whaling activities in the Antarctic 2014 Event The cryogenic engine built India's Space Research Organisation engineers powers the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5), which successfully placed a 1,982-kg GSAT-14 communications satellite into orbit in 17 minutes 2013 Event The PSLV-XL rocket carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission probe is launched by India's Space Research Organization; the will eventually be sent to Mars 2013 Event New research on the Shroud of Turin supports that it may actually been used as Jesus Christ's burial cloth; researchers used mechanical and thermal measurements to date the shroud between 300 BC and 400 AD 2013 Event Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf 2013 Event Research In Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of wireless devices, releases the Blackberry 10, its newest operating system for Blackberrys; the company also announces two smartphones, the Z10 and Q10 2012 Event Scientists reveal new research identifying a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is pulled deep into the Southern Ocean, and locked away; scientists claim this process may be threatened by global warming 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 2011 Event A Chinese scientist conducting research on the Tibetan Plateau is reported missing from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's Muztagh Ata glacier 2010 Event A Southampton University research fellow discovers a lost Antonio Vivaldi flute concerto at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh 2010 Event The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research 2010 Event After five years of research by the Dresden Historians' Commission, a report stated a reduced figure of 25,000 people died in the 1945 Dresden bombing 2004 Death Alexandra Scott, young philanthropist, raised over $700,000 for cancer research in 4 years by selling lemonade, dies at 8 1997 Event President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research 1996 Death Julian Hill, research chemist, dies at 91 1989 Event NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz 1988 Event Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities 1988 Event Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon 1988 Event 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research 1982 Death Hans Selye, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs, dies in Montreal, Canada 1972 Event President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle 1971 Event 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research 1970 Event Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 1968 Event European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite 1964 Event ESRO established, European Space Research Organization 1962 Event 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 1960 Event 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa 1960 Event Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH 1959 Birthday Brett Bodine, born in Chemung, New York, auto racer, former NASCAR Winston Cup driver, current Sprint Cup, pace car driver, employed as Director of Cost and Research by NASCAR 1956 Event 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois 1955 Death Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany 1955 Event 1st microgravity research begins 1953 Event Congress cites research of New York City librarian Robert Henderson in proving 1952 Event Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 1949 Birthday Paul Nurse, dr/director-general elect, Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1943 Birthday Clarice Elaine Gaylord, director of research grants, EPA 1941 Event Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center 1940 Birthday RA Weiss, director, Institute of Cancer Research 1938 Event Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1937 Event U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio 1934 Birthday David de Peyer, cancer research campaigner 1933 Birthday Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research 1932 Birthday David Plastow, CEO, Medical Research Council 1931 Birthday Mark Richmond, CEO, Science and Engineering Research Council 1930 Event University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention and cure of athlete's foot 1929 Birthday Alexander Fenton, CEO, Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh 1926 Event Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history 1926 Death Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 1914 Event Philips installs research department in Eindhoven 1907 Birthday Hans Selye, born in Vienna, Austria, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs 1904 Birthday Julian Hill, research chemist 1904 Birthday Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research 1900 Event Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever 1879 Birthday Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi, Maharshi Research Inst 1879 Birthday Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1857 Birthday Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research 1857 Birthday Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author, 52 Years of Research 1812 Birthday Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
