2015 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
1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
1998 Earthquake kills about 2,300 in northern Afghanistan
1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide
1997 Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1996 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
1995 Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria vs. South Australia
1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
1995 Zimbabwe’s 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Live wins
1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum, Sudan
1994 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
1994 Russian team beats ladies world record 4×800 m indoor (8:18.71)
1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1993 Russian space agency tests a 82′ wide space mirror
1991 Hall of Fame’s board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
1991 Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record
1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1990 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
1990 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
1990 Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
1990 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
1990 Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
