2015 Actor, director, photographer and writer Leonard Nimoy, most popularly known as Dr. Spock on 'Star Trek,' dies at age 83 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Nimoy had been suffering from the illness for about a year 2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to revise food labels by providing realistic serving sizes, emphasizing calories and sugar amounts, and breaking down fat listings into 'good' and 'bad' fats 2014 GE is focusing on development of wind power in Japan, seeing an opportunity for the nation to expand its renewable energy portfolio after Fukushima; GE has designed a wind turbine capable of weathering the country's distinct weather challenges 2013 JPMorgan reveals it plans to cut 17,000 jobs, mostly from its mortgage department, in the next two years 2013 At Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his farewell address 2012 Following an engine room fire, the cruise ship costa Allegra is left adrift in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles 2012 Wikileaks begins releasing 5 million emails from Stratfor, a private intelligence company 2011 Wisconsin AFL-CIO assemble hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building 2011 Resolution 1970 is adopted by the U.N. Security Council; the resolution imposes sanctions on the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi 2010 A tsunami warning went into effect for Chile and Peru after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Conception, Chile 2002 44th Grammy Awards, U2, Alicia Keyes, Nelly Furtado and James Taylor win major awards 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards 1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati 1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges 1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City 1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop 1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) 1994 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway 1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr 1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL 1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years 1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London 1991 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated 1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison 1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez) 1990 No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years 1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1988 Bonnie Blair (U.S.) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1 1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34 1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating 1987 "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS 1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff 1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m) 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published 1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m) 1984 WRC-AM in Washington D.C. changes call letters to WWRC 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa 1983 Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78 1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw 1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million 1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 1981 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony and Ivory" 1980 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet 1980 Israel and Egypt exchange ambassadors 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe 1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota 1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung and Richard Nixon 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin 1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill 1974 "People" magazine begins sales 1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox 1973 Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee 1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius 1973 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract 1972 President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1970 New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup 1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin 1967 Antigua and St. Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK 1967 Dominica gains independence from England 1967 Pink Floyd finishes recordin the single, 'Arnold Layne" at London's EMI Studios 1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB 1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of URS 1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of U.S. 1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT 1965 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 375 performances 1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1964 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 540 performances 1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st U.S. killed 1960 Oil pipeline from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens 1960 U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats U.S.S.R. 3-2 en route to gold medal 1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players 1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers 1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1957 Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files) 1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel" 1956 Female suffrage in Egypt 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized 1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York City) 1945 Battle of U.S. 94 Infantry 1942 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 U.S. warships sunk - 2 Japanese 1942 J. S. Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls 1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire 1939 France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes 1938 Britain and France recognize Franco government in Spain 1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs. England in 223 minutes 1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6) 1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris 1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists 1932 38 die in coal mine explosion Boissevain, Virginia, USA 1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency 1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact 1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath 1925 Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich 1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 and 6-37 vs. England 1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls 1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference 1922 G. B. Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in New York City 1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1921 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard 1921 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets" 1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (New York City) 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) 1908 Star #46 was added to U.S. flag for Oklahoma 1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides 1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes 1900 Battle at Pietershoogte 1900 Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa 1900 British Labour Party forms 1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin the artificial sweetener 1877 U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election 1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds 1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission 1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri 1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) 1864 Near Andersonville Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter" 1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland 1861 U.S. Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing 1861 Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia 1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine 1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) 1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans 1816 Dutch regain Suriname 1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres 1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted 1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail 1803 Great fire in Bombay, India 1801 Washington D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao 1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered 1696 English / Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Assn 1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower 1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I 1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname 1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English 1594 Henri IV crowned king of France 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.S. sign trade agreement 1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union 1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) 837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
