2013 Event Author J.K. Rowling announces she is producing a play based on the life of her character Harry Potter; the play tells the previously untold story of life before the boy wizard goes to Hogwarts; the play will premiere in London's West End within the next two years 2013 Event The IMF tells Germany now to impose austerity measures that are too harsh, and that they must be prepared to miss their deficit reduction target if Greece needs extra stimulus 2012 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel's identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa 2010 Event In Washington, D.C, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group that 'Jerusalem is not a settlement' and Israel has a 'right' to build there 2009 Event North Korea claims it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, tells the United Nations it is open to dialogue 1991 Event Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel 1990 Event Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait 1990 Event U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute 1989 Event Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 1988 Event Doughnutgate incident: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended 1973 Event Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape 1973 Event President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 1973 Event John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list" 1973 Event Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency" 1962 Event Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more 1953 Event Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply 1952 Event Czechoslovakian government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata 1945 Event Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated 1940 Event General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers 1934 Event Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power 1933 Event League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria 1912 Event AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball 1904 Event Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) 1893 Event English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit 1860 Event 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard 1817 Event Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore 1532 Event Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn 1497 Event John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
