2015 Event E-commerce company eBay announces that it will lay off 2,400 employees in advance of its plans to spin off its PayPal unit; the split is expected to take place in mid-2015 2013 Event After measuring its spin and parity, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider firmly believe the particle discovered in July 2012 is a Higgs boson 1992 Event Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka 1985 Event Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin 1985 Event "Spin Magazine" begins publishing 1968 Death Vardis A Fisher, U.S. writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73 1968 Birthday Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder, completed the first 2.5-revolution aerial spin, the 900, licensed the 'Tony Hawk' videogame series 1964 Birthday Ajay Sharma, cricketer, Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988 1963 Event Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia vs. England 1961 Birthday Tim Lever, keyboard/sax, Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round 1951 Death Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54 1929 Birthday Sonny Ramadhin, cricket spin bowler, great WI 1922 Birthday Alan Scott, Haddonfield, New Jersey, TV host/songwriter, Spin the Picture 1912 Event 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin 1892 Event Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass) 1790 Event 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
