2015 Walmart announces that in April it will raise wages of 500,000 Sam's Club and Walmart workers to $9/hour, exceeding the current minimum wage by $1.75, with a further raise to $10/hour by next February 2014 Chinese automaker Dongfeng and the French government have each invested in PSA Peugeot Citroen, which ranked as the European car company with the lowest sales of new vehicles last year As part of its increasing move into mobile presence, Facebook announces that it will purchase WhatsApp for $19 billion; younger users seem to prefer communicating with mobile apps, which allow them to avoid cell phone texting charges 2013 NASA loses communication with the International Space Station's for three hours as a result of updating the station's command and control software During a U.N. conference on disarmament, North Korea threatens to destroy South Korea 2012 In Rio de Janeiro, a record 2.2 million people attend the Bola Preta street party during Rio's carnival In a retaliatory move against E.U. sanctions, Iran stops all exports to France and the United Kingdom 2011 In the People's Republic of China, the call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' spreads online as authorities hunt down political activists 2010 The Vatican approves of Australian Mary MacKillop as their first saint for canonization 2003 Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275 1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan 1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York, Pennsylvania on WQXA 105.7 FM 1995 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec) Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres 1994 Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA 1992 "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 1622 performances Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You," premieres in New York City Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal Soyuz TM-9 lands 1989 "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 64 performances Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize 1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) 1987 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 102 performances Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland 1986 Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station into Earth orbit 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy Canned and bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola Mickey Mouse welcomed in China William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky 1984 "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 104 performances 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom) 1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million Vladimir Salnikov (U.S.S.R.) sets 400 m free style swimming record 1982 Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine" 1980 Botham a century and 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18 1978 "On the 20th Century" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 460 performances Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) Coleman, Comden and Green's musical premieres in New York City 1977 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 Doug Walters scores 250 vs. New Zealand, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner 1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* vs. WI at Kingston 1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 52 and Molniya 1-13 communications satellite 1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1968 1st U.S. Teachers strike in Florida 1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater 1965 NFL adds 6th official 1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize U.S.S.R. informs John F. Kennedy it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champ all-round skater 1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland 1959 Britain, Turkey and Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence Gabon adopts its constitution USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open 1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect 1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast 1953 Georgia approves U.S. 1st literature censorship board Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in New York City 1952 French offensive at Hanoi 1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater New York City after 339 performances 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound Mass arrests of communists in India 1947 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3" 1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League 1945 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days Brotherhood Day 1st celebrated 1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin U-264 sinks off Ireland 1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin Bill Longson beats Managoff and Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber Franklin D. Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans Japanese troops land on Timor Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" New York Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games 1941 Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam by young Jews Nazi raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1936 Manuel Azana becomes Spanish premier 1935 Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," premieres in New York City 1934 Bob and Dolores Hope marry U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months 1933 Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers 1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" 1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal 1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres Philip Barry's "You and I," premieres in New York City 1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paris) 1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast 1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin 1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support 1910 English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" 1906 Will Keith Kellogg found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal 1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people 1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) 1869 U.S. Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized 1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington D.C. (12 members) 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used 1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio 1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin 1831 1st practical U.S. coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania 1825 Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna 1807 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 1797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France 1771 Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis and Hydra and galaxy in Virgo) 1736 Georg F Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres 1700 Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark 1674 Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (New York City becomes English) 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague 1582 Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant 1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Netherlands 1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava, Czechoslovakia), expelled 1537 Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia 842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches 607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
