J. Palmer

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

Cynthiana Police Chief Ray Johnson told city commissioners Tuesday that police officers have selected areas that will be their specific beat and first and second shift officers will begin meeting residents and allowing the community to put faces to the names of officers. Third shift officers won’t be walking through their neighborhoods to show a police presence until the time changes and the weather improves. Johnson confirmed that the areas where most crimes occur had been adopted by officers.

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Heard Karen Angelucci request stories and photos for The Harrison County Historical Society is requesting stories and photos to be included in their family history book. To date, over 100 families have submitted their stories. Anyone interested in including their stories have through the end of February to make their submissions. Contact Angelucci at Karenangelucci67@gmail.com or call 859-338-7857. All submissions can be mailed to Harrison County History Book at PO Box 411, Cynthiana, KY 41031.

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Warrants were issued Monday afternoon for the arrest of a Harrison County man after an apparent car-jacking incident last week. According to a report by law enforcement, Henry D. Hogg, 45, of South Church Street allegedly forced his girlfriend, Kathy Dawson of Rankin Mill Road in Falmouth, out of her car at knife point at the intersection of U.S. 27 North and Ky. 1284 West.

In the report, Dawson said that Hogg threatened her at knife point, and injured her hand while taking the keys from her at the intersection and continued driving down Sunrise-Richland Road, Ky. 1284. Dawson said that Hogg intended to commit suicide by “taking a large quantity of pills and wrecking her car into a tree.”

Hogg was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 4 by Kentucky State Police in Breathitt County on a misdemeanor charge of carrying a concealed deadly weapon. Hogg was later released on bond from Three Forks Detention Center in Lee County on Tuesday, Feb. 10. A warrant from the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department was subsequently issued for Hogg’s arrest on charges of first degree felony robbery and fourth degree assault.

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The Cynthiana-Harrison County Chamber of Commerce Award Banquet is next Tuesday, 17 February, @ 6 pm at the Cynthiana Christian Church. Tickets are $25. Reservations are necessary.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153052720407604&id=399609392603

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KENTUCKY

Kentucky voters in local communities would have the option to pay for specific projects with a temporary one percent sales tax increase under legislation passed by the House Thursday. The local option sales tax, championed by Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, requires that Kentucky voters approve a constitutional amendment. Advocates, including House Speaker Greg Stumbo, argued the bill put more control in the hands of citizens.

Rep. Jim Wayne countered that local option disproportionately affects low-income Kentuckians.

“I certainly commend those who are pushing this idea because they really want to help their communities, but this is not the right proposal. It’s a regressive tax on top of a very regressive tax system in our state,” the Louisville Democrat said.

The measure cleared the chamber 62 to 35 and now moves to the Senate.

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House members debated and ultimately lent their unanimous support to House Bill 8, which makes civil protective orders available to dating couples and streamlines the process for other victims of domestic violence. Under the bill, victims could invoke a single interpersonal protector order that inform the offender that any further violation could lead to arrest.

While the measure has been unsuccessful in previous years, bipartisan support has grown up around the issue during this short 30-day session.

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House Bill 70, a constitutional amendment granting non-violent felons the right to vote met House approval. An estimated 186,000 Kentuckians could be impacted were the amendment to become law.

http://wuky.org/post/local-option-domestic-violence-protections-felon-voting-rights-advance-house

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Right-to-work legislation approved in the Senate in the opening days of the 2015 session has died in a House committee. The bill permitting employees who don’t pay union dues to work for union businesses drew scores of labor groups to the Capitol Annex, who cheered in it’s defeat. With the defeat of the right-to-work, the focus now shifts back to a number of counties that are taking action on their own. This week alone, 23 counties have voted on local right-to-work initiatives. Labor groups have also mounted legal challenges to the ordinances.

http://wuky.org/post/house-committee-kills-right-work-momentum-shifts-counties

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Public libraries across Kentucky are reporting unprecedented usage as technology continues to change the way Kentuckians use their libraries.

Statistics compiled from Kentucky’s 119 public libraries show that Kentuckians checked out 30,664,564 items during the 2013-2014 fiscal year, setting a record which was an increase of 2 percent over the previous year. The driving factor in this increase was the circulation of more than two million e-books. For the first time, the number of e-books checked out from public libraries in the state surpassed the number of items checked out from bookmobiles.

In addition to the dramatic increase in usage of electronic materials, Kentucky’s public libraries provided 4,858 computers for public use. In a world where technology is necessary for so many activities, the library is the only place where many Kentuckians have access to a computer to search for employment, access government services, prepare school assignments, and take tests among many other tasks.

Kentucky’s residents have also taken advantage of public library Internet access. Many Kentuckians brought their own devices to use at the library as every library system offered wireless access. More than 1.25 million wireless sessions were counted at library locations. Many other Kentuckians visited their public libraries from home, school or office through library websites and the Kentucky Virtual Library as the libraries play an increasing role in the education of Kentuckians at every level of the educational process.

The number of people registered for library cards in public libraries increased to 2,664,920 or 60 percent of Kentucky’s population.

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID=%7b922DB572-9CD0-45A2-8B09-9B0B5613B577%7d&activityType=PressRelease

https://web.archive.org/web/20201027154227/https://www.kyforward.com/technology-such-as-e-books-wi-fi-bringing-people-back-to-kentuckys-public-libraries/

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A bill to reform telecommunication regulations to reflect the declining use of landlines in favor of new technologies has passed the Senate Committee on State and Local Government. Known as Senate Bill 3, the legislation would remove requirements that telephone companies offer basic landline service to everyone so the money used to maintain that old technology can be used to increase Internet and mobile phone access, said Sen. Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville. He sponsored the bill along with Majority Floor Leader Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown.

SB 3 now returns to the full Senate for consideration where it has already received two readings.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210514104301/https://www.kyforward.com/senate-panel-answers-call-for-telecom-reform-sends-att-bill-to-full-senate-for-review/

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Kentucky’s decision to expand the Medicaid program is paying dividends in terms of jobs, economic growth, and improved health for the more than 375,000 Kentuckians who signed up last year, Gov. Steve Beshear announced at a press conference today. And according to a new study, those benefits will continue to accrue, he said.

Medicaid expansion will add 40,000 jobs and $30 billion to the state’s economy through 2021, according to the study released by Deloitte Consulting LLC and the University of Louisville’s Urban Studies Institute. Expansion will also generate a net positive impact of nearly $820 million to state and local government budgets.

A press release from the governor’s office said the report concludes that the estimated costs of expansion in the current and upcoming biennial budget would be more than offset by savings and new revenues generated from economic activity resulting from new health care spending. Conversely, choosing not to expand would have been expensive as well, incurring $100 million in costs.

The report, commissioned by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, reviewed Kentucky’s first full year of Medicaid expansion, and found the expansion generated positive results for the state’s economy, local governments, medical providers and Medicaid recipients. A supplemental report on Medicaid reimbursements also noted positive fiscal impacts, particularly for hospitals.

In May 2013, Beshear announced his decision to expand Medicaid eligibility in Kentucky pursuant to the Affordable Care Act, allowing individuals and families earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line to enroll in the federal health insurance program. The first enrollment period added more than 310,000 Kentuckians to the Medicaid program, nearly double the expected number. Another 17,000 Kentuckians who were eligible but not enrolled under the traditional Medicaid criteria also signed up. By the end of 2014, more than 375,000 Kentuckians were enrolled in Medicaid through the expansion.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150808172241/http://www.kyforward.com/kentuckys-medicaid-expansion-40000-jobs-30-billion-economic-impact-report-shows/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170211131513/http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/governor/20150212expansion.htm

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
1978 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided “smart bombs” destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
2000 – The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star “Lucy” after The Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

The Cynthiana-Harrison County Parks and Recreation office is now accepting signups for youth baseball and softball; notices should be coming home with students from the Harrison County elementary schools detailing changes in a few of the leagues. The deadline for signups is February 28th. Signups can be done from 2-5 Monday thru Friday and 10-noon on Saturday at the Cynthiana City Hall gymnasium.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1710985315794518&id=1435907653302287

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The First Church of God in Cynthiana recently donated 18 blankets to Harrison Memorial Hospital for the Project Linus project. Project Linus is a group of individuals who provide blankets to children through local fire departments, hospitals, health departments and more. Since 2009, the group has donated more than 500 blankets for pediatric patients at HMH. The project is named after the adorable security blanket-toting character from the Peanuts comic strip. The mission of Project Linus is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need through the gifts of handmade blankets and afghans created by volunteer blanketeers.

For more information about Project Linus, contact Christy Hall (administration) at chall@hmhosp.org or 235-3554

https://www.facebook.com/163143847064829/photos/a.169092956469918.33867.163143847064829/839235789455628/?type=1

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KENTUCKY

A threatening message kept many Eastern Kentucky University students and staff members home on Wednesday; but in the end, it ended up being a quiet day at EKU with lots of extra security on hand.

Even as the day came to a close, wrapping up nine days of tension following the discovery of the threat, many still are trying to figure out why someone would make the threat in the first place.

Police have not yet identified who wrote the threat in the bathroom stall.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150913071034/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Strong-police-presence-sees-EKU-through–291609061.html

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A state Senate panel has approved a proposal to move Kentucky’s election for governor to even-numbered years.

Kentucky is one of the few states that elects its governor and other statewide constitutional officers in odd-numbered years. State Sen. Chris McDaniel, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in November, said moving the election would save local taxpayers $3.5 million every four years.

But Democratic state Sen. Dorsey Ridley of Henderson said the added expense of the elections is the cost of democracy. He said having the election for governor separate from a presidential or congressional campaigns gives the race more attention and prestige.

The Senate State and Local Government Committee has passed similar bills the past two years that ultimately failed.

http://wuky.org/post/bill-move-governors-election-advances-senate

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The Republican state Senate has advanced a bill that would likely accelerate the death of Kentucky’s traditional landline service after a similar proposal seemed to falter in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.

Supporters were optimistic the bill would get a vote in the House after it easily cleared a committee last week. But since then House members piled on eight amendments, a sign the body is far from a consensus.

The bill wouldn’t require telephone companies to maintain traditional landline service in areas that have more than 15,000 households. AT&T of Kentucky President Hood Harris vowed no one with an existing landline would lose service.

Opponents say the state is moving too fast, arguing alternative services are not reliable for home security systems and medical monitoring devices.

http://wuky.org/post/senate-advances-phone-deregulation-bill

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NATION

Tickets in North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas matched all six numbers last night, to split a $564.1 million Powerball jackpot. Should the winners select the lump sum option, each would get a one-third share of $381,138,450.16 before taxes. The jackpot was the third-largest in Powerball history and the fifth-largest U.S. lottery prize. The jackpot now goes back to $40 million. The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing were: 11, 13, 25, 39, 54 and the Powerball 19.

Sue Dooley, senior drawing manager for the Multi-State Lottery Association, says the Puerto Rico ticket was the first Powerball jackpot winner ever sold outside the continental United States. Puerto Rico joined Powerball less than a year ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150730140656/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/North-Carolina-Puerto-Rico-Texas-tickets-win-Powerball-291620791.html

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ENTERTAINMENT

60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car crash in New York City on Wednesday evening. Simon was travelling in a livery cab that sideswiped a Mercedes-Benz that had come to a stop at a red light on 12th Avenue near West 30th Street around 6:45pm, and then slammed into the median. The CBS reporter, 73, was unconscious with head and torso injuries when he was rushed to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in the city where he was later pronounced dead. Police on the scene had to cut off the top of the Lincoln to free Simon and the driver. The driver of the Lincoln, a 44-year-old man, suffered two broken legs and a broken arm and was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he is in stable condition. The driver of the Mercedes claims the accident was the fault of the livery cab driver. The accident is under investigation.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950159/60-Minutes-correspondent-Bob-Simon-killed-car-crash-New-York-City.html

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
• 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
• 1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
• 1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
• 1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
• 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
• 1855 – Michigan State University is established.
• 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• 1924 – George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music,” in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
• 1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
• 1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
• 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
• 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles’ film Touch of Evil.
• 1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
• 1947 – Christian Dior unveils a “New Look”, helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
• 1961 – Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
• 1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
• 1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
• 1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
• 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
• 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
• 2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
• 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
• 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

The Rohs Opera House has announced that there will be no films showing this weekend. A post to Facebook states that the previously scheduled movie, American Sniper, will not be available and that the late notice does not allow for scheduling a replacement feature.

https://www.facebook.com/rohs.operahouse/posts/734083366711839

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KENTUCKY

Stamping Ground’s city commission has appointed Josh Cook as interim chief of the volunteer fire department, while it continues to seek out a new fire chief after Billy McIntosh and assistant chief Jacob Pasley abruptly resigned last week. McIntosh and Pasley resigned last Friday, amid investigations into numerous complaints and allegations. The city commission also is working with the fire department to develop new standard operating procedures. A city commission meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss those procedures.

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The Kentucky House has approved a bill that would raise the wage to $10.10 incrementally over a period of three years; the bill also includes language guaranteeing pay equity between male and female workers. The bill will be heading to the Senate, where it is doubtful to receive positive attention. This is the second year that the House has approved a measure to attempt a minimum wage increase.

http://wuky.org/post/minimum-wage-redux-house-oks-increase-second-year

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State Senator Reggie Thomas wants the state to guarantee a woman’s right to breastfeed in any location she is otherwise allowed to be. Under Thomas’ bill, businesses that violate the law could be fined $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent violation – penalties the lawmaker argues are not too onerous. A separate bill would establish workplace standards for nursing. Thomas says he will begin seeking a committee hearing on the issue Wednesday.

http://wuky.org/post/bill-would-guarantee-breastfeeding-rights

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A proposal that would allow dating couples to seek civil protective orders in cases of domestic violence, abuse, sex abuse or stalking has passed the House Judiciary Committee. House Bill 8, sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman John Tilley, D-Hopkinsville, and Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Shively, now goes to the full House for consideration. Tilley said much of HB 8 is identical to his domestic violence protection bill that was considered but not passed into law last session. Should HB 8 become law, it would take effect on Jan. 1, 2016.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210517132432/https://www.kyforward.com/dating-violence-bill-passes-house-committee-common-sense-legislation-goes-to-full-house/

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Gov. Steve Beshear announced that the Commonwealth exported a state-record $27.5 billion in 2014. It’s the fourth-straight year Kentucky has broken the previous mark. The record represents a 9 percent growth in exports since 2013. Leading Kentucky’s export growth is aerospace. Last year, the state shipped out $7.8 billion in aerospace parts and products, a 38 percent increase from 2013. Kentucky’s other top exports include motor vehicles, parts, and bodies and trailers ($5.9 billion), synthetic rubber and resin ($1.4 billion) and pharmaceuticals ($1.3 billion).

In 2014, the Commonwealth exported to 191 nations. Kentucky’s top trading partner is Canada, with $7.6 billion in products and services. Mexico ($2.3 billion), United Kingdom ($2.3 billion), France ($2 billion) and China ($1.7 billion) round out the top five.

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID=%7bF8F2D919-40D9-4724-822F-06649C6DD304%7d&activityType=PressRelease

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Attorney General Jack Conway and nine other state attorneys general from across the country joined in a letter sent to Anthem’s president and chief executive officer yesterday, expressing concern that the company’s delay in notifying those impacted by the data breach is causing unnecessary added concern to Anthem customers. The attorneys general of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, led by the state of Connecticut, have joined the letter.

A copy of yesterday’s letter to Anthem is available here: http://tinyurl.com/letn9pt

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID=%7b4E9660ED-8039-4626-B3D0-C26307E190E5%7d&activityType=PressRelease

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The 2015 KHSAA State Bowling Championships visit Collins Eastland in Lexington this week (Feb. 12-13), with the singles championship slated for Thursday and the team competition set for Friday. The team championship matches will be streamed live at KHSAA.tv, with the girls’ team finals scheduled for 12:15 p.m., followed by the boys’ team championship at 5:15 p.m.

Thursday’s boys’ and girls’ singles competition begins with qualifying games at 10:10 a.m., as the field is trimmed to the top eight individuals. The top eight will roll three additional games, with the top four boys’ and girls’ singles advancing to the step ladder bracket, which will continue through its completion. Awards for the singles competition are tentatively scheduled for 2:30 p.m.

The girls’ team championship opens Friday’s action, with team introductions slated for 7:30 a.m. and qualifying games starting at 7:50 a.m. Following two qualifying games, each team will be seeded in a 16-team bracket with the state champion determined through baker matches. Team introductions for the boys’ championship get underway at 1:15 p.m., with qualifying games scheduled for a 1:35 p.m. start time.

Lane Assignments for Thursday’s singles competition can be found at:

• http://khsaa.org/bowling/2015/2015singleslaneassignments.pdf

Lane Assignments for Friday’s team competition are available at:

• http://khsaa.org/bowling/2015/2015teamlaneassignments.pdf

The official championship program can be viewed here:

• http://khsaa.org/Publications/Programs/20142015/Bowling/issue1/index.html

Championship results will be posted to KHSAA.org as they become available.

02/10/15 – KHSAA State Bowling Championships This Week In Lexington

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jon Stewart announced yesterday that he will be resigning from his position as anchor for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”.

“In my heart I know it is time for someone else to have that opportunity,” he said on Tuesday night’s show as his studio audience gasped. It isn’t clear when Stewart will sign off; his contract expires in September, but he may leave as soon as July, or as late as December, he said.

Stewart has been hosting the satirical news program since 1999.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150214063702/http://abcnews.go.com:80/US/wireStory/jon-stewarts-exit-phony-newsman-loss-real-news-28879996?

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/10/media/jon-stewart-leaving-daily-show/

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
• 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
• 244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
• 1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
• 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
• 1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
• 1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
• 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry “gerrymanders” for the first time.
• 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
• 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
• 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
• 1929 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
• 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
• 1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
• 1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
• 1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
• 1968 – Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage.
• 1968 – The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins.
• 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
• 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
• 1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
• 1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
• 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
• 1990 – Buster Douglas, a 40:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing’s world Heavyweight title and cause one of the largest upsets in sports history.
• 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
• 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium.