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2012 Event - 'Science' magazine names Higgs boson, the confirmation of the existence of a subatomic particle, as the 2012 Breakthrough of the Year

2012 Event - The GAA names Karl Lacey of Donegal its All Stars Footballer of the Year

2012 Event - Ahead of his cabinet and his December 1st inauguration, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico names his 'transition team'

2012 Event - The Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney names Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Congressman, as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the November 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - The North Korean Workers party names Kin Jong Un First Secretary, with his father, Kim Jong IL delcared as the party's 'eternal' General Secretary

2011 Event - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers grants private companies the right to create new website domain suffixes

1997 Event - President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"

1997 Event - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO

1997 Event - NHL Nashville, Tennessee names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach

1996 Death - Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36

1993 Event - Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast

1990 Event - Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson

1987 Event - Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica and Matthew)

1983 Event - Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops

1983 Event - Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals

1982 Event - New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans

1979 Event - President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves

1978 Event - Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier

1978 Event - Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female

1974 Event - Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president

1973 Event - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

1973 Event - New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life

1970 Event - Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s

1969 Event - Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal

1968 Event - President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor

1967 Event - Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names

1967 Event - Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's

1967 Event - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals

1967 Event - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

1965 Event - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain

1963 Event - John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen

1961 Event - For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy names Henry Kissinger special advisor

1960 Event - AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies

1960 Event - Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs

1960 Event - White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number

1959 Birthday - Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau

1959 Event - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury

1957 Event - Frick overrules and names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to team

1956 Event - AP names Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year

1955 Event - Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete

1954 Event - Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay

1948 Event - Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine

1944 Event - Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission

1944 Birthday - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, Witling, True Names

1942 Event - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"

1942 Event - Hitler names Field Marshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding

1941 Event - Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier

1941 Birthday - Doris Coley, born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, lead singer of The Shirelles, married names are Doris Coley Kenner and Doris Kenner Jackson, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1940 Event - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names

1938 Event - General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece

1936 Event - Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander

1936 Event - Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece

1935 Event - President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"

1934 Event - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names

1934 Event - Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia

1934 Event - Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament

1933 Event - Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator

1933 Event - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany

1930 Event - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP

1930 Event - Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara

1927 Event - Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president

1926 Event - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium

1926 Event - Greek General Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator

1925 Event - Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government

1924 Event - French government names General Serrail Governor-General of Syria

1917 Event - Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")

1914 Event - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent

1911 Event - Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site

1906 Event - U.S. regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba

1906 Event - Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier

1902 Event - Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt

1893 Event - Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"

1890 Event - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers

1865 Event - President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners

1808 Event - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names

1808 Event - French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names

1792 Event - British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier, Washington

1788 Event - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander

1724 Event - Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Austria / Netherlands

1695 Event - French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III

1695 Event - Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names

1692 Event - Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king

1691 Event - Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands

1682 Event - Sofia names herself regent of Russia

1595 Event - King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands

1582 Event - Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine

1581 Event - Leiden University names Snellius math professor

1578 Death - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies

1569 Event - Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane

1566 Event - Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva

1560 Event - Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht

1545 Event - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma

1540 Event - Emperor Karel names his son Philip, duke of Milan

1540 Event - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"

1534 Event - Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht

1522 Event - Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico

1522 Event - Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-general of Netherlands

1521 Event - Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria

1509 Event - Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands

1498 Event - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands

1494 Event - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago"

1450 Event - Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster

1371 Event - Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht

1364 Event - Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht

1349 Event - Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand

1342 Event - Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht

1322 Event - Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht

1311 Death - Gwijde van Names, Flemish marshal (Golden Track), dies at 35

1235 Event - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names

1213 Event - English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury

1164 Event - Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III

1048 Event - Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX

1046 Event - Benedictus IX and Silvester III and names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II

1027 Event - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France

767 Event - Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II

722 Event - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop

695 Event - Pope Sergius names Willibrord as archbishop Clemens of Friezen













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