- 1041 Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
Goa Surrenders
1510 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim population to the sword
1520 Martin Luther publicly burns Pope Leo X's papal bull 'Exsurge Domine' which demanded that Luther recant his writings
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
Battle of Dungeness
1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: Dutch Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats an English fleet led by Robert Blake
- 1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
Newton's De Motu Corporum in Gyrum
1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper “De motu corporum in gyrum” (On the motion of bodies in an orbit), is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
- 1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes the first American colonial government to issue paper money
Eusden Poet Laureate
1718 Laurence Eusden is appointed British Poet Laureate under George I
- 1768 The first of 100 weekly "numbers" of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which are bound into three volumes in 1771, is published in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1799 The metric system is first adopted in France
- 1810 English bare-knuckle boxer Tom Cribb beats African-American Tom Molineaux in 33rd of 40 round bout at Copthall Common, England; first interracial boxing match
- 1816 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British
- 1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
- 1831 "Spirit of the Times," the premier sports journal of the 19th century, begins publishing in New York City
- 1836 Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia
The Childhood of Christ
1854 Hector Berlioz premieres his oratorio "L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ)", conducting musicians and soloists from the Opéra-Comique, at the Salle Herz, Paris
Sherman Begins Siege of Savannah
1864 US Civil War: General Sherman's Union Army reaches Savannah, Georgia and begins a 12-day siege
- 1869 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
- 1877 Russo-Turkish War: Turkish commander Osman Pasha surrenders the city of Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) to Romanian Col. Mihail Cerchez
Song of the Fates
1882 Johannes Brahms' choir and orchestra piece "Gesang der Parzen" (Song of the Fates) premieres in Basel
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada, publication in the US follows in February 1885 due to a printing error
- 1887 Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
- 1896 Alfred Jarry's play "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
- 1898 The first western pilgrims welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
1898 Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War is signed by US President McKinley; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam
- 1899 -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa
- 1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
- 1899 Delta Sigma Phi fraternity founded at City College of New York, to spread "the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men, without respect to race or creed."
- 1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded, first recipients Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
Röntgen's Nobel for X-Rays
1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
Fischer Awarded Chemistry Nobel
1902 German organic chemist Emil Fischer is award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses
Aswan Low Dam Opens
1902 Opening of the Aswan Low Dam at the first cataract, the first dam across the Nile and the largest masonry dam in the world
- 1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania
Curies Awarded Nobel
1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of spontaneous radiation
- 1904 Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity in Charleston, South Carolina
Pavlov First Russian Nobel
1904 Ivan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize
- 1904 King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
- 1905 Austrian pacifist and writer Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Moissan Nobel for Isolating Fluoride
1906 Frenchman Henri Moissan is presented with the Nobel prize for Chemistry for isolating fluoride
Nervous System Work Awarded Nobel
1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the anatomy of the nervous system" [1]
Roosevelt First US Nobel
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Kipling's Nobel for Literature
1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so
- 1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
First Woman Awarded Literature Nobel
1909 Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Maeterlinck Nobel for Literature
1911 Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1911 Calbraith Rogers completes the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days
- 1911 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
Dalén Awarded Physics Nobel
1912 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
- 1913 Belgium head of the International Peace Bureau Henri La Fontaine becomes the first Socialist to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Tagore Nobel Prize for Literature
1913 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"
- 1913 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
- 1914 French government returns to Paris
- 1918 John Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League for the 2nd time
Ban Johnson Controversy
1919 New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago White Sox, oppose AL resolution accusing league president Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
- 1919 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
- 1919 Pilot Ross Smith and his brother, navigator Ken Smith, land their two-engine Vickers Vimy in Darwin, Australia, winning a £10,000 prize as the first all-Australian crew to complete the first flight from England to Australia [1]
Krog Nobel Prize
1920 August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle [1]
- 1922 Canton Bulldogs' future HOF tackle Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
Nobels to Bohr, Aston and Nansen
1922 Nobel prizes awarded to Danish physicist Niels Bohr for his work on the structure of atoms, Francis William Aston for Chemistry and a Peace Prize to Fridtjof Nansen for his work on behalf of displaced victims of World War I at a ceremony in Copenhagen
- 1922 Spanish playwright Jacinto Benavente is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in absentia in Stockholm, his speech is given by Count de Torata, the Spanish Ambassador
- 1923 Polish government of Grabski forms
- 1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
- 1927 "Grand Ole Opry" first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
Nobel to Eijkman and Hopkins
1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
Nobel Prize in Medicine
1930 Austrian American Karl Landsteiner is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of human blood groups" [1]
Fischer Awarded Chemistry Nobel
1930 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin
1st Science Nobel to Asia
1930 Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel
Nobel to 1st American Woman Nobel
1931 Jane Addams named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize; 1st American woman Nobel laureate [1]
Azaña Spanish PM
1931 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain with Niceto Zamora as President
- 1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
- 1932 The "Great Emu War" ends: Emus' surprising resilience to bullets leads to an emu victory over the Australian military in the Campion district, Western Australia
Dirac and Schrödinger Physics Nobel
1933 Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
- 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
- 1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
- 1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
Neuron Discovery Wins Nobel
1935 James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron
- 1935 MLB Chicago White Sox sell contract of Al Simmons to Detroit Tigers for $75,000
Foxx to the Red Sox
1935 MLB Philadelphia Athletics sell infielder Jimmie Foxx's contract to Boston Red Sox for $150,000 (about $2.8M in 2020 dollars)
Marie Curie Daughter Wins Nobel
1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
- 1936 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson
Ist Latin American Wins Peace Prize
1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win
- 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
- 1937 William Grant Still's Symphony No. 2 ("Song of a New Race") premieres at the Academy of Music by the Philadelphia Orchestra led by conductor Leopold Stokowski
Fermi Awarded Physics Nobel
1938 Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
- 1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
- 1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
Harmon 1st Draft Pick
1940 1941 NFL Draft: Tom Harmon from University of Michigan first pick by Chicago Bears
- 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
- 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die
- 1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
- 1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
- 1942 Adolf Hitler names Anton Mussert "leader of the Dutch people"
Early Report of the Holocaust
1942 An early report of the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states
- 1942 North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
- 1943 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
- 1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis
- 1944 German counterattack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
- 1945 Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
- 1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
- 1945 Wolfgang Pauli is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle"
Hesse Nobel Literature Prize
1946 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
Nobel for Work on Nerve Function
1947 American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944), for research into nerve function
- 1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
Bunche Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel
- 1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
- 1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
Pauling Nobel Chemistry Prize
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its applications
- 1954 National League Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium (Shibe Park), where they had been tenants since 1938, from the American League A's, who head west to Kansas City
- 1954 USAF Lt. Col. John Stapp travels at 632 mph in a rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
- 1956 Establishment of The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, MPLA (from Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), left-wing party that has ruled since independence from Portugal
- 1957 Chinese physicists Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on parity laws, which created a major breakthrough in particle research
- 1958 The first domestic passenger jet flight using a Boeing 707, with National Airlines flying a leased Pan Am 707 from New York to Miami
- 1958 University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the MLB Pirates baseball team
Poet Quasimodo Nobel Prize
1959 Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry
- 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar for work on tissue grafting
Nobel for Carbon-14 Dating
1960 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
Cannon Rush/Receiving Record
1961 Houston Oilers utility back Billy Cannon gains AFL record 373 yards combined rushing/receiving in 48-21 win over NY Titans at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Physics Nobel to Hofstadter, Mössbauer
1961 Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
- 1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
- 1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
- 1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
Donny Osmond Debut
1963 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on "The Andy Williams Show"
Chemistry Nobel to Ziegler and Natta
1963 Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers
Kaddish
1963 Leonard Bernstein premieres his Third Symphony "Kaddish" with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Israel
- 1963 Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain
First Nobel to British Woman
1964 Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12
- 1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
- 1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
- 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
- 1966 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken
The Ed Sullivan Theater
1967 CBS officially renames CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York (built in 1927 as Hammerstein's Theatre), as "The Ed Sullivan Theater" in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his program
Asturias Nobel Literature Prize
1967 Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm
- 1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo
Frazier vs. Bonavena
1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
Solzhenitsyn Doesn't Claim Nobel
1970 Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.
Lucasfilm Ltd. Founded
1971 Lucasfilm Ltd. is founded as a film and television production company by George Lucas in San Francisco, California
Brandt Noble Peace Prize
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
- 1974 Helios 1 launched by US and Germany; later makes closest flyby of the Sun
MacBride, Satō Win Peace Prize
1974 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Irishman Seán MacBride for his human rights work and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Satō for signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nobel to Soviet Dissident
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner accepts the Soviet dissident's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo - Sakharov not allowed to leave the country
Funk vs. Brisco
1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, Florida to become NWA wrestling champ
First Nobel Lecture in Mandarin
1976 Samuel C. C. Ting is the first person to deliver a Nobel Prize lecture in Mandarin, during the ceremony to award him and Burton Richter the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the J/ψ particle
- 1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
- 1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
Peace Negotiators Receive Nobel
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel
- 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
- 1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
- 1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1981 -13] El Salvador army kills 900
- 1981 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
- 1982 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms
Doakes vs. Weaver
1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
- 1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
- 1983 American cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock, aged 81, is the first woman to be solely awarded Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition in maize [1]
Nobel Prize for Wałęsa
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Wałęsa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
- 1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
- 1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
- 1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
Nobel to Archbishop Tutu
1984 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
- 1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
- 1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress
- 1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
- 1986 France performs nuclear test
Holocaust Spokesman Awarded Nobel
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for being a leading spokesman on the Holocaust
- 1987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
Drug Developers Awarded Nobel
1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine presented to Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings and James W. Black "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
- 1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Montreal Canadiens
- 1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
- 1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
- 1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
- 1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
Rock and Roll Museum
1991 Architect I. M. Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum to be built in Cleveland, Ohio
Spira Sentenced
1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
- 1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
- 1992 NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim for 1994-95
- 1992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
- 1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
- 1993 "Doom" pioneering first-person shooter video game is uploaded onto the internet by id Software
- 1993 Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 3740.67
- 1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
- 1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
- 1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
- 1995 Australian cricket opening batsman Michael Slater scores career high 219 (15 x 4, 5 x 6) in innings and 36 run, 1st Test win v Sri Lanka in Perth
- 1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
Cricket Debut
1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
- 1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
- 1996 Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril military advisor to the UN Secretary-General and head of the UN Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations recommends the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down
- 1997 Environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill begins living in a California redwood tree in Humboldt County to protest deforestation by the Pacific Lumber Company [1]
Sen Awarded Economics Nobel
1998 Indian Professor Amartya Sen is awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to welfare economics
- 2001 67th Heisman Trophy Award: Eric Crouch, Nebraska (QB)
- 2005 71st Heisman Trophy Award: Reggie Bush, USC (RB); Bush later forfeits trophy
Borg BBC Award
2006 British Broadcasting Corporation gives Swedish tennis icon Björn Borg a Lifetime Achievement Award; presented by Boris Becker
- 2006 One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.
Obama's Nobel Prize
2009 US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Imprisoned Xiaobo Awarded Nobel
2010 Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, while imprisoned in China
Sports History
2011 Kawhi Leonard signs a multi-year deal with the San Antonio Spurs following the conclusion of the NBA lockout
- 2012 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China
- 2012 78th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M (QB); first freshman to win the award
- 2012 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
- 2012 Google begins selling US$99 laptops
- 2012 Japan is again in recession as the GDP figures for the second quarter of 2012 are revised to show a contraction of 0.03% and the third quarter figures fall by a further 0.9%
- 2013 Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company
- 2013 Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana
- 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their discoveries of nerve cells in the brain that enable a sense of place and navigation [1]
- 2015 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: Team Europe retains title for 6th consecutive year with an 11-7 win over US; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands - 3rd straight year)
- 2015 Scientists at Cornell University announce world's first IVF puppies successfully born from a surrogate dog
Rogue One
2016 "Rogue One", 1st of the Star Wars Anthology films, directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Felicity Jones, premieres in Los Angeles
2016 82nd Heisman Trophy Award: Lamar Jackson, Louisville Cardinals (QB), youngest player to win at 19
Dylan Awarded Nobel
2016 Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden; he does not attend
- 2016 Terrorist bomb attacks outside a stadium in Istanbul kill 38 and injure 166
The New Normal
2017 Governor of California Jerry Brown tours Southern Californian wildfires and declares them "the new normal"
Civil Unrest
2018 Emmanuel Macron announces in TV address rise in minimum wage and tax concessions after weeks of civil unrest
- 2018 Russia's most prolific mass murderer Mikhail Popkov sentenced to second life sentence for total of 56 murders
May Cancels Brexit Vote
2018 Theresa May cancels UK parliament vote on Brexit bill in face of certain defeat
- 2019 A retrofitted DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver seaplane completes the world's first test flight of a fully electric commercial aircraft over Richmond, British Columbia
- 2019 Australian car maker Holden announces an end to Commodore production after 41 years
- 2019 Shooting at a New Jersey cemetery and a kosher supermarket leaves six dead, including the two shooters, in suspected anti-Semitic attack
- 2019 Sydney, Australia, blanketed in smoke from nearby bush fires pushing air quality to 11 times hazardous levels
- 2021 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Europe retains trophy with an 11-6 win over US; MVP: Jayson Shaw (Scotland)
- 2021 Rare December tornadoes strike four American states, with a 'Quad-State Tornado' across Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky, completely destroying some towns and leaving at least 70 dead
- 2022 88th Heisman Trophy Award: Caleb Williams, USC (QB)
Event of Interest
2022 Tens of thousands of people protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against the government demanding resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and new elections amid cost of living crisis [1]
- 2023 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: German Joshua Filler takes MVP award as Europe complete an 11-3 whitewash of the US
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