2015 | Today in history: Hackers steal personal data on up to 80 million customers of health insurance provider Anthem, Inc.; though free credit monitoring is being offered to victims, such monitoring won’t detect or prevent medical identity theft |
2014 | U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urges Congress to increase the debt ceiling because the U.S government debt is expected to hit $17.2 trillion soon |
2014 | Google and Microsoft report that the National Security Agency ordered them to provide information on 10,000 accounts over a six-month period in 2012 and 2013, and Yahoo reported they complied with government request for information on more than 40,000 accounts |
2013 | At a University of Leicester media conference, it is announced that during a 2012 archeological dig in Leicester, the skeleton they unearthed is confirmed to be the remains of King Richard III of England |
2013 | Officials at the Kremlin announce that the 2014 G8 summit will be held at Sochi, its southern Black Sea resort |
2012 | Iran initiates new military exercises as tensions rise over the country’s nuclear program |
2012 | Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies in the United Kingdom at the age of 110 |
2011 | Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, commented that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of ‘Islamic awareness’ |
2011 | According to the Catholic Church on the island, Cuba plans free to two more dissidents |
2010 | Yahoo! sells HotJobs to Monster.com for a reported $225 million |
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