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1999_Pulitzer_Prize | The Pulitzer Prizes for 1999 were announced on April 12 , 1999 . |
1838_San_Andreas_earthquake | The 1838 San Andreas earthquake is believed to be a rupture along the northern part of the San Andreas Fault in June 1838 . It affected approximately 100 km ( 62 miles ) of the fault , from the San Francisco Peninsula to the Santa Cruz Mountains . It was a strong earthquake , with an estimated moment magnitude of 6.8 to 7.2 , making it one of the largest known earthquakes in California . The region was lightly populated at the time , although structural damage was reported in San Francisco , Oakland , and Monterey . It is unknown whether there were fatalities . Based on geological sampling , the fault created approximately 1.5 meters ( 3.3 feet ) of slip . For years , another large earthquake was said to have occurred two years earlier in June 1836 along the Hayward fault , however this is now believed to be referring to the 1838 San Andreas earthquake . There is no evidence a large earthquake hit the region in 1836 . |
102_Dalmatians | 102 Dalmatians is a 2000 American family comedy film directed by Kevin Lima in his live-action directorial debut and produced by Edward S. Feldman and Walt Disney Pictures . It is the sequel to the 1996 film 101 Dalmatians and stars Glenn Close reprising her role as Cruella de Vil as she attempts to steal puppies for her `` grandest '' fur coat yet . Close and Tim McInnerny were the only two actors from the first film to return for the sequel , however . The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design , but lost to Gladiator . |
'A'_Is_for_A-l-i-v-e | '' ` A ' Is for A-l-i-v-e '' is the first episode , and the premiere of the fourth season of the American mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars , and is the 72nd episode overall , which aired on ABC Family on June 11 , 2013 . The episode was written and directed by showrunner I. Marlene King , marking the second episode King has directed for the TV series . In the episode , Aria , Emily , Hanna and Spencer tries to find answers by questioning Mona about her knowledge of `` A '' , in addition to the Liars dealing with different personal problems which they are facing . As they try to find out if Alison really is alive , Wilden 's body is discovered which leads the new police officer Holbrook to investigate the case . to Meanwhile , Jessica DiLaurentis moves back to Rosewood , which begins to concern the girls . '' ` A ' is for A-l-i-v-e '' was watched by 2.97 million viewers and garnered a 1.3 rating , up from the previous episode , the third-season finale , and up 15 percent from the third-season premiere a year ago . The episode was met with positive reviews from television critics as many was pleased with the improvement of the show and the answers of questions which many was wondering about . Many also agreed that the premiere reminded critics about the first season . |
1981_NCAA_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament | The 1981 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men 's NCAA Division I college basketball . It began on March 12 , 1981 , and ended with the championship game on March 30 in Philadelphia . A total of 48 games were played , including a national third place game ( the last in the NCAA Tournament ) . It was also the last tournament to be televised on NBC , before CBS took over the following year . Additionally , it was the last season in which the NCAA sponsored championships only in men 's sports ; the first Division I Women 's Tournament would be played the following year . Indiana , coached by Bob Knight , won the national title with a 63 -- 50 victory over North Carolina , coached by Dean Smith . Isiah Thomas of Indiana was named the Tournament 's Most Outstanding Player . |
1977_Houston_Anita_Bryant_protests | In 1977 , the Texas State Bar Association invited country singer Anita Bryant to perform at a meeting in Houston , Texas . In response to Bryant 's outspoken anti-gay views and her Save Our Children campaign , thousands of members of the Houston LGBT community and their supporters marched through the city to the venue in protest on June 16 , 1977 . The protests have been called `` Houston 's Stonewall '' and set into motion the major push for LGBT rights in Houston . |
1912_State_of_the_Union_Address | The 1912 State of the Union Address was given on December 3 , 1912 . It was written by William H. Taft , the 27th President of the United States . He stated , `` The position of the United States in the moral , intellectual , and material relations of the family of nations should be a matter of vital interest to every patriotic citizen . '' He said , `` Our small Army now consists of 83,809 men , excluding the 5,000 Philippine scouts . Leaving out of consideration the Coast Artillery force , whose position is fixed in our various seacoast defenses , and the present garrisons of our various insular possessions , we have to-day within the continental United States a mobile Army of only about 35,000 men . This little force must be still further drawn upon to supply the new garrisons for the great naval base which is being established at Pearl Harbor , in the Hawaiian Islands , and to protect the locks now rapidly approaching completion at Panama . '' |
(444004)_2004_AS1 | ( also written 2004 AS1 ) , also known by the temporary name AL00667 , is an Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid , first discovered on January 13 , 2004 , by the LINEAR project . Based on the asteroids brightness and assumed proximity to Earth , the asteroid was originally estimated to be only 30 meters in diameter . Although rather ordinary , it caused some controversy in astronomical circles due to initial projections posted on the web by the Minor Planet Center ( MPC ) suggesting an imminent collision with Earth on or about January 15 with a likelihood of 1:4 . These projections came from very early observations , and turned out to be inaccurate ( which is an ordinary occurrence in astronomy , as new observations refine the projected path of an object ) . In fact , the poster at the MPC had not realised that the data he had posted was essentially an impact prediction . The general media did not get hold of the story at the time . The asteroid passed Earth on 16 February 2004 at a distance of 0.08539 AU ( or 33 times the distance from Earth to the Moon ) , posing no threat . It is an Apollo asteroid , with perihelion at 0.88 AU , a rather low eccentricity of 0.17 , an inclination of 17 ° and an orbital period of 1.11 years . With an absolute magnitude ( H ) of 20.5 , the asteroid is now known to be around 210 - 470 m in diameter , depending on the albedo ( the amount of light it reflects ) . |
106_Dione | 106 Dione is a large main-belt asteroid . It probably has a composition similar to 1 Ceres . It was discovered by J. C. Watson on October 10 , 1868 , and named after Dione , a Titaness in Greek mythology who was sometimes said to have been the mother of Aphrodite , the Greek goddess of love and beauty . It is listed as a member of the Hecuba group of asteroids that orbit near the 2:1 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter . Dione was observed to occult a dim star on January 19 , 1983 , by observers in Denmark , Germany and the Netherlands . A diameter of 147 ± 3 km was deduced , closely matching the value acquired by the IRAS satellite . Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 169.92 ± 7.86 km and a geometric albedo of 0.07 ± 0.01 . By comparison , the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a diameter of 168.72 ± 8.89 km and a geometric albedo of 0.07 ± 0.01 . When the asteroid was observed occulting a star , the results showed a diameter of 176.7 ± 0.4 km . Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2004 -- 2005 show a rotation period of 16.26 ± 0.02 hours with a brightness variation of 0.08 ± 0.02 magnitude . One of Saturn 's satellites is also named Dione . |
1951_NBA_Playoffs | The 1951 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 1950 -- 51 season . The tournament concluded with the Western Division champion Rochester Royals defeating the Eastern Division champion New York Knicks 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals . The eight qualified teams began tournament play on Tuesday and Wednesday , March 20 and 21 , and the Finals concluded on Saturday , April 21 . Rochester and New York played 14 games in a span of 33 days ; their seven final games in fifteen days . The Rochester Royals ( now the Sacramento Kings ) were `` royalty '' in their first nine seasons , from 1945 -- 46 to 1954 -- 54 always one of the strong teams in their league . Rochester had played three seasons in the National Basketball League , winning the 1946 NBL championship and losing the Finals in 1947 and 1948 . In one BAA and one NBA season , the team had won 75 % of its games before losing in the second round , then first round , of the 1949 and 1950 playoffs . The 1950 -- 51 team won more than 60 % of its games , as the Royals would do for three more seasons , and participated in the club 's only NBA Finals . That remains true more than 60 years later , covering stints in Rochester , Cincinnati , Kansas City , and Sacramento . The New York Knicks were an original Basketball Association of America franchise , now in its sixth season and participating in the BAA or NBA Finals for the first time . It would be the first three consecutive years as losing finalist . Another six-year-old , original BAA team , the Boston Celtics had qualified only for the 1948 BAA Playoffs . Now the second-place Eastern Division team , Boston had earned home-court advantage for a first-round series with third-place New York . It was the first playoff meeting in the Celtics -- Knicks rivalry and it would be the first of 19 consecutive years in the playoffs . |
1976_ABA_Dispersal_Draft | On August 5 , 1976 , as a result of the ABA -- NBA merger , the NBA hosted a dispersal draft to select players from the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis , the two American Basketball Association ( ABA ) franchises that were not included in the ABA -- NBA merger . The eighteen NBA teams and the four ABA teams that joined the NBA , the Denver Nuggets , Indiana Pacers , New York Nets and San Antonio Spurs , were allowed to participate in the draft . The teams selected in reverse order of their win -- loss percentage in the previous NBA and ABA seasons . The team that made a selection paid for the signing rights to the player , which were set by the league 's committee . The money from the draft was used to help the four ABA teams that merged with the NBA to pay off some of their obligations to the two folded ABA franchises , the Colonels and Spirits . The team that made a selection was obligated to assume the player 's ABA contract . The players who were not selected would become free agents . Twenty players from the Colonels and the Spirits were available for the draft . Eleven were selected in the first round and the twelfth player was selected in the second round . Eight players were not selected and thus became a free agent . The Chicago Bulls used the first pick to select five-time ABA All-Star Artis Gilmore with a signing price of $ 1,100,000 . The Portland Trail Blazers , who acquired the Atlanta Hawks ' second pick , selected Maurice Lucas and Moses Malone with signing price of $ 300,000 and $ 350,000 respectively . Marvin Barnes , who was selected fourth by the Detroit Pistons was the second most expensive player in the draft with a signing price of $ 500,000 . Several teams elected to pass their first-round picks and only the Kansas City Kings used the second-round pick . The draft continued until the third round , but no other players were selected . |
1984_NBA_Playoffs | The 1984 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 's 1983 -- 84 season . The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals . Larry Bird was named NBA Finals MVP . This was the first postseason allowing 16 teams to qualify , a format still in use . The first round format was also changed from best-of-3 to best-of 5 . It was the first NBA Finals meeting between the Celtics and Lakers since 1969 ; they met 7 times in the Finals from 1959 -- 69 , with Boston coming out on top each year . Going into the 1984 playoffs , the Lakers had already won 2 titles in the 1980s and the Celtics 1 , making the revival of the Celtics -- Lakers rivalry arguably inevitable and certainly highly anticipated . Two teams made their playoff debuts and won their first playoff series : the Utah Jazz ( who joined the NBA for the 1974 -- 75 season as the New Orleans Jazz ) and Dallas Mavericks , a 1981 expansion team . The Jazz did not miss the playoffs again until 2004 . The Detroit Pistons made the playoffs for the first time since 1977 ; they did not miss the playoffs again until 1993 . The New Jersey Nets won a playoff series for the first time in their NBA history , upsetting the defending champion Philadelphia 76ers in 5 . This was also the only time the road team won every game in a five-game playoff series . The Nets would not win a playoff series again until 2002 . This was the final postseason appearance for the Kansas City Kings , as the team moved to Sacramento , California two seasons later . Kemper Arena hosted its final NBA playoff game . The Kingdome also hosted its final NBA playoff game , as the Seattle SuperSonics moved back full-time to the Seattle Center Coliseum two years later . However , the Kingdome continued to host Sonics regular season games on occasion until . The 1984 Playoffs also involved two of the hottest games in NBA history . Game 5 of the First Round between the Knicks and Pistons was played at Joe Louis Arena , as the Pontiac Silverdome was unavailable , with temperatures reaching as high as 120 ° . Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Lakers at Boston Garden reached temperatures as high as 100 ° , as the Garden lacked air-conditioning , coupled with the sweltering outdoors conditions in Boston . |
(7348)_1993_FJ22 | is a carbonaceous , Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt , about 10 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered on 21 March 1993 , by the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets ( UESAC ) at ESO 's La Silla Observatory site in northern Chile . The dark C-type asteroid is a member of the Themis family , a dynamical family of outer-belt asteroids with nearly coplanar ecliptical orbits . It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8 -- 3.4 AU once every 5 years and 5 months ( 1,986 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 1 ° with respect to the ecliptic . It was first identified as at Heidelberg in 1933 , extending the body 's observation arc by 60 years prior to its official discovery observation at La Silla . In 2014 , two rotational lightcurves of this asteroid were obtained from photometric observations in the R-band at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory in California . Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.4735 and 3.470 hours with a brightness variation of 0.10 and 0.13 in magnitude , respectively . The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link ( CALL ) assumes a low albedo of 0.08 for the asteroid 's surface and calculates a diameter of 9.9 kilometers , based on an absolute magnitude of 13.38 . |
(78799)_2002_XW93 | is an unnamed minor planet in the outer Solar System , classified as a trans-Neptunian object , approximately 550 -- 600 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered by and at the U.S Palomar Observatory , California , on 10 December 2002 . According to American astronomer Michael Brown , the minor planet is a likely dwarf planet . The minor planet orbits the Sun at a distance of 28.1 -- 46.8 AU once every 229 years and 2 months ( 83,708 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.25 and an inclination of 14 ° with respect to the ecliptic . The first precovery was taken at Palomar 's Digitized Sky Survey in 1989 , extending the asteroid 's observation arc by 13 years prior to its discovery . As of 2016 , after a total of 29 observations , its orbital uncertainty parameter is at 3 . Its last observation was made by the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2008 . On 10 August 1926 , it most recently reached perihelion , when it was nearest to the Sun . It is a near 5:7 resonant trans-Neptunian object . |
100_Federal_Street | 100 Federal Street , formerly known as the First National Bank Building and nicknamed the Pregnant Building , is a skyscraper located in the Financial District of Boston , Massachusetts , USA . The skyscraper , rising 591 ft and 37 floors , is Boston 's seventh-tallest building . The building was completed in 1971 , and formerly served as the world headquarters of FleetBoston Financial ( and the Bank of Boston even earlier ) . The building now houses Bank of America offices . Formerly owned by First National Bank , an affiliate of Bank of America , the building was purchased by Boston Properties , Inc. in March 2012 for $ 615 million ( USD ) . As part of the sale , Bank of America will continue to occupy office space in the building with a long-term lease . The name of the building was also officially changed to its street address , 100 Federal Street . |
1967_in_film | The year 1967 in film involved some significant events . It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film , with `` revolutionary '' films highlighting the change , including : Bonnie and Clyde ; The Graduate ; Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner ; Cool Hand Luke , The Dirty Dozen , and In the Heat of the Night . |
1992–93_Indiana_Pacers_season | The 1992 -- 93 NBA season was the Pacers ' 17th season in the National Basketball Association , and 26th season as a franchise . In the offseason , the Pacers acquired Pooh Richardson and Sam Mitchell from the Minnesota Timberwolves . The team played mediocre basketball once again losing six straight games after a 13 -- 10 start . After playing around .500 in late January , they went on a 7-game losing streak in February . However , on the final day of the regular season , they defeated the Miami Heat 94 -- 88 , finishing fifth in the Central Division with a 41 -- 41 record , and winning a tie-breaker over the Orlando Magic for the # 8 seed in the Eastern Conference . Reggie Miller tied in first place in the league with 167 three-point field goals , and Detlef Schrempf averaged 19.1 points per game while being selected for the 1993 NBA All-Star Game . However , in the first round of the playoffs , the Pacers would lose in four games to the New York Knicks . This was the fourth consecutive year that the Pacers lost in the opening round of the playoffs . Following the season , Schrempf was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics , and head coach Bob Hill was fired . |
1997_NBA_Playoffs | The 1997 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 's 1996 -- 97 season . The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 . This was the Bulls ' second straight title , and fifth overall ( They completed the 3-peat by beating Utah again in 1998 ) . Michael Jordan was named NBA Finals MVP for the fifth time . This was the first Western Conference title for the Jazz in their 23-year history . The Heat 's run to the Eastern Conference Finals marked the farthest they had reached in the playoffs up to that point ; they did not return until 2005 , and won the NBA Finals in 2006 . The Minnesota Timberwolves made their playoff debut after failing to win more than 30 games in their first 7 seasons . It was also the first of 7 straight years in which they made the playoffs only to lose in the first round . This was the first ( and so far , only ) time since the ABA -- NBA merger that the 4 former ABA teams ( Spurs , Nuggets , Pacers , and Nets ) missed the playoffs , even more remarkable considering the rarity with which San Antonio has missed the playoffs at all ( only 4 times since the merger ) . All four 1988/89 expansion teams ( Minnesota , Miami , Orlando and Charlotte ) made the playoffs for the first time . This would happen again in 2001 . The two # 8 seeds in this tournament ( the Bullets and Clippers ) broke long playoff droughts ( Bullets eight years , Clippers only just three ) with their appearances in the 1997 Playoffs . ( The Bullets ' last playoff appearance was in 1988 ; the Clippers in 1993 ) . Unfortunately for both teams , it would be a long time before they made the playoffs again ; the renamed Wizards made their return in 2005 ; the Clippers in 2006 . The Bullets qualified by defeating the Cavs in a regular season finale that saw both teams fighting for the # 8 seed . Game 4 of the Bulls -- Hawks series was the last game ever played at The Omni . The Hawks ' home playoff games for 1998 and 1999 were played at the Georgia Dome while the Omni was demolished to make way for Philips Arena , which would open in September 1999 . The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena hosted its final NBA playoff game in Game 3 of the Clippers -- Jazz series . When the Clippers returned to the playoffs in 2006 , they had moved to the Staples Center , their home since the 1999 -- 2000 season . The Sports Arena remained active until its closure and demolition in 2016 . Game 3 of the Bulls -- Bullets series was the last playoff game ever played at the Capital Centre ( named USAir Arena at the time ) . They moved into a new arena the next season . In addition , the Bullets changed their team name to the Wizards on May 15 , making it the last time the team was officially named the `` Bullets '' . After losing in the Western Conference Finals , the Houston Rockets would not win a playoff series until 2009 and would not return to the Conference Finals until 2015 . |
1968–69_Indiana_Pacers_season | The 1968-69 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana 's 2nd season in the ABA and 2nd as a team . |
111_Eighth_Avenue | 111 Eighth Avenue is a full-block Art Deco multi-use building located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues , and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City . At 2.9 e6sqft , it is currently the city 's fourth largest building in terms of floor area . It was the largest building until 1963 when the 3.14 e6sqft MetLife Building opened . The World Trade Center ( which opened in 1970 -- 71 ) and 55 Water Street 3.5 e6sqft , which opened in 1972 , were also larger but the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001 . When the 3.5 e6sqft One World Trade Center opened in 2014 , 111 became the city 's fourth largest building . The building , which has been owned by Google since 2010 , is one of the largest technology-owned office buildings in the world . It is also larger than Apple Inc. 's new circular `` spaceship '' ( 2.8 e6sqft ) headquarters being built in Cupertino , California . |
10_(New_Kids_on_the_Block_album) | 10 is the sixth and final studio album by New Kids on the Block . It was released on April 2 , 2013 . This is the band 's first studio album since 2008 's The Block , as well as their first album released independently after departing from Interscope Records . The album title refers to it being their tenth album release in the US ( including compilation albums ) . The album made its debut on the Billboard 200 at number 6 and number 1 on the Top Independent Albums . |
1999_XS35 | is a near-earth object discovered in 1999 having a comet-like orbit . Its semi-major axis is 17.8 AU . Its orbital eccentricity is 0.94 , which means that at the perihelion comes as close as 0.9 AU to the Sun , while at the aphelion it reaches beyond the orbit of Neptune . is a damocloid . is a small object with an absolute magnitude ( H ) of 17.2 , which implies a size of about 1 km . came to perihelion on 21 October 1999 , passed 0.0453 AU from Earth on 5 November 1999 , and was discovered on 2 December 1999 at about apparent magnitude 16.9 . |
1998_KY26 | ( also written 1998 KY26 ) is a small near-Earth asteroid . It was discovered on June 2 , 1998 , by Spacewatch and observed until June 8 , when it passed 800,000 kilometers ( half a million miles ) away from Earth ( a little more than twice the Earth -- Moon distance ) . It is roughly spherical and is only about 30 m in diameter . With a rotation period of 10.7 minutes it has one of the shortest sidereal days of any known object in the Solar System , and can not possibly be a rubble pile . It is also one of the most easily accessible objects in the Solar System , and its orbit frequently brings it on a path very similar to the optimum Earth -- Mars transfer orbit . This , coupled with the fact that it is water rich , makes it an attractive target for further study and a potential source of water for future missions to Mars . |
1950_NBA_Finals | The 1950 NBA Finals was the championship round of the inaugural National Basketball Association 1949 -- 50 season . Central Division champion Minneapolis faced Eastern Division champion Syracuse in a best-of-seven series with Syracuse having home-court advantage . The NBA recognizes three preceding Basketball Association of America ( BAA ) seasons as part of its own history , and thus presents the 1950 Finals as its fourth championship series . Minneapolis had won the 1949 BAA Finals and its 1950 win over Syracuse is officially the Lakers second of five titles in Minneapolis . In the event , six games were played in sixteen days , beginning Saturday and Sunday , April 8 and 9 , in Syracuse and incorporating two subsequent Sunday games in Minneapolis . Counting a Central Division tiebreaker played on Monday , March 20 , the entire postseason tournament spanned five full weeks to Sunday , April 23 . The NBA was arranged in three divisions ( for its first season only ) and the first two rounds of the 1950 NBA Playoffs generated three Division champions . With the league 's best regular season record , Syracuse had earned a place in the Finals by winning the Eastern Division title on the preceding Sunday , and had been five days idle while the Central and Western champions had played a best-of-three series mid-week . In Game 1 , The Lakers won on a buzzer beating shot by sub Bob `` Tiger '' Harrison , the first known case of a buzzer beater in the Finals . 6 ' 8 '' Dolph Schayes of Syracuse led his team out to the finals after a 16.8 ppg average during the regular season . George Mikan , however , averaged 27.4 ppg and led the league . Mikan would lead the Lakers past Syracuse in six games . |
1975–76_ABA_season | The 1975 -- 76 American Basketball Association season was its ninth and final season . The shot clock was changed from 30 to 24 seconds to match the NBA . Dave DeBusschere was the league 's new commissioner , its seventh and last . Prior to the start of the season , the Memphis Sounds relocated to Baltimore , Maryland , and briefly became the Baltimore Hustlers , then the Baltimore Claws . The Claws folded during the preseason in October after playing three exhibition games . The San Diego Conquistadors were replaced for the 1975-76 season by the San Diego Sails , but folded in November , followed by the Utah Stars in early December . The Virginia Squires folded in May following the end of the season , unable to make a $ 75,000 league assessment . The 1976 ABA All-Star Game saw the first place Denver Nuggets come from behind to defeat the ABA All Stars 144-138 in Denver . The game saw the first ever Slam Dunk Contest , won by Julius Erving . With the conclusion of the season , the June 1976 ABA-NBA merger saw the Denver Nuggets , Indiana Pacers , New York Nets , and San Antonio Spurs join the NBA , while the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis accepted deals to fold . |
(68950)_2002_QF15 | is a stony asteroid , classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group , that measures approximately 2 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered on 27 August 2002 , by the U.S. LINEAR project at Lincoln Laboratory 's Experimental Test Site in Socorro , New Mexico . |
1996–97_Indiana_Pacers_season | The 1996 -- 97 NBA season was the Pacers ' 21st season in the National Basketball Association , and 30th season as a franchise . During the offseason , the Pacers acquired Jalen Rose from the Denver Nuggets . Injuries and sluggish play would hamper the Pacers all season long as Rik Smits only played just 52 games , and Derrick McKey appeared in just 50 games . They missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years with a disappointing 39 -- 43 record , sixth in the Central Division . Reggie Miller averaged 21.6 points per game and led the league with 229 three-point field goals . At midseason , the Pacers brought back playmaker Mark Jackson in exchange for Eddie Johnson after a brief stint with the Denver Nuggets . Jackson would remain with the Pacers until 2000 , where the team reached the NBA Finals . He also led the league with 11.4 assists per game . Following the season , head coach Larry Brown , who won his 600th game during the season was forced to resign . He would later on take a coaching job with the Philadelphia 76ers . Also following the season , top draft pick Erick Dampier was traded to the Golden State Warriors . |
1916_in_baseball | right | thumb | 300px | Woodrow Wilson throws out the ball on opening day . |
(225088)_2007_OR10 | is a trans-Neptunian object ( TNO ) orbiting the Sun in the scattered disc , approximately 1500 kilometers in diameter . It is the third-largest known body in the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune , and continues to be the largest known body in the Solar System without a name . According to estimates as of May 2016 , it is slightly larger than or , and is hence almost certainly a dwarf planet . It has one known moon . |
(416151)_2002_RQ25 | is a carbonaceous asteroid of the Apollo group , classified as near-Earth object , approximately 0.2 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered on 3 September 2002 , by the Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey ( CINEOS ) at the Italian Campo Imperatore Observatory , located in the Abruzzo region , east of Rome . The C-type asteroid is also classified as a C/X-type body according to the survey carried out by NASA 's Spitzer Space Telescope . It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.8 -- 1.5 AU once every 14 months ( 428 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.31 and an inclination of 5 ° with respect to the ecliptic.The asteroid 's minimum orbit intersection distance with Earth is 0.0503 AU , which is slightly above the threshold limit of 0.05 AU ( or about 19.5 lunar distances ) to make it a potentially hazardous object . A rotational light-curve was obtained for this asteroid from photometric observations made by American astronomer Brian Warner at the U.S. Palmer Divide Observatory , Colorado , in February 2015 . The ambiguous light-curve rendered a rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of 0.72 in magnitude , while a second solution gave 6.096 hours ( or half of the first period ) with an amplitude of 0.43 . The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates diameter of 225 meters , based on an absolute magnitude of 20.6 . |
1993_NBA_Playoffs | The 1993 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 's 1992 -- 93 season . The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls defeating the Western Conference champion Phoenix Suns 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals . Michael Jordan was named NBA Finals MVP for the third straight year . This was the Suns ' second Western Conference title ; they made their first NBA Finals appearance since 1976 , losing to the Boston Celtics . The Knicks -- Pacers rivalry started in their first-round encounter , which New York won , 3 -- 1 . But it was n't until the next two meetings ( 1994 and 1995 ) that the rivalry became even more intense , particularly due to Reggie Miller 's heroics in the Garden that made him a household name and Indiana legitimate contenders in the East . The Charlotte Hornets made their playoff debut . Their opening-round series versus Boston was also last time the Celtics made the playoffs with Kevin McHale , who retired after the series , and Robert Parish , who left as a free agent . Game 1 of the series was the final game in Reggie Lewis ' career , as he collapsed during the first quarter and did not play for the rest of the series ; he died in July of a heart attack . Sportswriter Bill Simmons has called the 1993 post-season the best in NBA history . |
(394130)_2006_HY51 | is an outstandingly eccentric asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group , approximately 1.2 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered by LINEAR at Lincoln Lab 's ETS on 26 April 2006 . The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.1 -- 5.1 AU once every 4 years and 2 months ( 1,529 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.97 and an inclination of 31 ° with respect to the ecliptic . It is the asteroid with the third-smallest known perihelion of any known object orbiting the Sun . Its extreme orbital eccentricity brings it within 0.081 AU of the Sun ( 26 % of Mercury 's perihelion ) and as far as 5.118 AU from the Sun ( making it a Jupiter-grazer ) . It has a minimum orbit intersection distance with Earth of 0.0930 AU , equivalent to 35 lunar distances . As of 2016 , the asteroid 's effective size , its composition and albedo , as well as its rotation period and shape remain unknown . |
1962_United_States_Tri-Service_aircraft_designation_system | The Tri-Service aircraft designation system is a unified system introduced in 1962 by the United States Department of Defense for designating all U.S. military aircraft . Prior to then , the U.S. armed services used separate nomenclature systems . Under the tri-service designation system , officially introduced on 18 September 1962 , almost all aircraft receive a unified designation , whether they are operated by the United States Air Force ( USAF ) , United States Navy ( USN ) , United States Marine Corps ( USMC ) , United States Army , or United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) . Experimental aircraft operated by manufacturers or by NASA are also often assigned designations from the X-series of the tri-service system . The 1962 system was based on the one used by the USAF between 1948 and 1962 , which was in turn based on the Type , Model , Series USAAS/USAAC/USAAF system used from 1924 to 1948 . The 1962 system has been modified and updated since introduction . |
1918_State_of_the_Union_Address | The 1918 State of the Union Address was given by the 28th President of the United States , Woodrow Wilson , on December 2 , 1918 , to the houses of Congress . He gave these war statistics , `` A year ago we had sent 145,918 men overseas . Since then we have sent 1,950,513 , an average of 162,542 each month , the number in fact rising , in May last , to 245,951 , in June to 278,760 , in July to 307,182 , and continuing to reach similar figures in August and September , in August 289,570 and in September 257,438 . '' By the end of 1918 , America had won the peace , and World War I was over . He said , `` And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was : what unity of purpose , what untiring zeal ! '' He ended with , `` I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assurance that it has been possible to translate into action the great ideals for which America has striven . '' |
1211_Avenue_of_the_Americas | 1211 Avenue of the Americas ( also known as the News Corp. . Building ) is an International style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan , New York City . Formerly called the Celanese Building , it was completed in 1973 as part of the Rockefeller Center extension , that started in the late 1950s with the Time-Life Building . The Celanese Corporation would later move to Dallas , Texas . 1211 is owned by an affiliate of Beacon Capital Partners , and leasing is managed by Cushman & Wakefield , Inc. , of which the Rockefeller Group was once a major shareholder . The building serves as the global headquarters for Australian-born businessman Rupert Murdoch 's media companies , 21st Century Fox and News Corp. . It served as the world headquarters for the original News Corporation before its 2013 split into 21st Century Fox and ( new ) News Corp. . The building is well known for housing the main studios of the Fox News Channel , part of 21st Century Fox 's Fox Entertainment Group . News Corp divisions housed there include Dow Jones & Company , The Wall Street Journal , and the New York Post . |
14_regions_of_Augustan_Rome | In 7 BC , Augustus divided the city of Rome into 14 administrative regions ( Latin regiones , sing . regio ) . These replaced the four regiones or `` quarters '' traditionally attributed to Servius Tullius , sixth King of Rome . They were further divided into official neighborhoods ( vici ) . Originally designated by number , the regions acquired nicknames from major landmarks or topographical features within them . |
1964_New_York_World's_Fair | The 1964/1965 New York World 's Fair held over 140 pavilions , 110 restaurants , for 80 nations ( hosted by 37 ) , 24 U.S. states , and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens , NY . The immense fair covered on half the park , with numerous pools or fountains , and an amusement park with rides near the lake . However , the fair did not receive official sanctioning from the Bureau of International Expositions ( BIE ) . Hailing itself as a `` universal and international '' exposition , the fair 's theme was `` Peace Through Understanding '' , dedicated to `` Man 's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe '' . American companies dominated the exposition as exhibitors . The theme was symbolized by a 12-story-high , stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere , built on the foundation of the Perisphere from the 1939 NYC fair . The fair ran for two six-month seasons , April 22 -- October 18 , 1964 , and April 21 -- October 17 , 1965 . Admission price for adults ( 13 and older ) was $ 2 in 1964 but $ 2.50 in 1965 , and $ 1 for children ( 2 -- 12 ) both years . The fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology . The nascent Space Age , with its vista of promise , was well represented . More than 51 million people attended the fair , though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million . It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers , who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War , cultural changes , and increasing domestic violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement . In many ways the fair symbolized a grand consumer show covering many products produced in America at the time for transportation , living , and consumer electronic needs in a way that would never be repeated at future world 's fairs in North America . Many major American manufacturing companies from pen manufacturers , to chemical companies , to computers , to automobiles had a major presence . This fair gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment . Corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers , computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays , teletype machines , punch cards , and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public , decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone 's disposal . |
1972_ABA_Playoffs | The 1972 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association 's 1971 -- 1972 season . The tournament concluded with the Western Division champion Indiana Pacers defeating the Eastern Division champion New York Nets , four games to two in the 1972 ABA Finals . |
(185851)_2000_DP107 | is a near-Earth asteroid that is notable because it provided evidence for binary asteroids in the near-Earth population . |
1_Wall_Street | One Wall Street ( originally the Irving Trust Company Building , then the Bank of New York Building after 1988 , and now known as the BNY Mellon Building since 2007 ) , is an Art-Deco-style skyscraper in Lower Manhattan , New York City . It is located in Manhattan 's Financial District on the corner of Wall Street and Broadway . Up until September 30 , 2015 , it served as the global headquarters of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation . In May , 2014 it was announced that the corporation agreed to sell its headquarters tower to a joint venture led by Harry B. Macklowe 's Macklowe Properties for $ 585 million . |
1962_NCAA_Men's_Basketball_All-Americans | The consensus 1962 College Basketball All-American team , as determined by aggregating the results of six major All-American teams . To earn `` consensus '' status , a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams : the Associated Press , the USBWA , The United Press International , the National Association of Basketball Coaches , the Newspaper Enterprise Association ( NEA ) , and The Sporting News . 1962 was the last year that The Sporting News teams were used , although they would once again be used to determine consensus teams , starting in 1998 . |
1190s_in_England | Events from the 1190s in England . |
(53319)_1999_JM8 | ( also written ( 53319 ) 1999 JM8 ) is a Potentially hazardous asteroid , near-Earth asteroid and Mars-crosser asteroid discovered by LINEAR . Radar imaging by Goldstone and Arecibo has revealed the asteroid to have an effective diameter of 6.4 km . Like the asteroid 4179 Toutatis , its rotation speed is unusually slow and possibly chaotic . It is the largest Potentially hazardous object known . It passed closer than 0.20 AU to the Earth five times in the last century ( 0.033 AU in 1990 ) , but its closest approach in the 21st century will be in 2075 at 0.256 AU . |
1992_NBA_Finals | The 1992 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1991 -- 92 NBA season . The Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls took on the Western Conference champion Portland Trail Blazers for the title , with Chicago having home court advantage , as they had the best record in the NBA that season . The two teams appeared headed to face each other for most of the season and comparisons were made between Clyde Drexler and Michael Jordan throughout the season . A month earlier Sports Illustrated had even listed Drexler as Jordan 's `` No. 1 rival '' on a cover the two appeared on together before the playoffs . The media , hoping to recreate a Magic Johnson -- Larry Bird type rivalry in Jordan-Drexler , compared the two throughout the pre-Finals hype . The Bulls would go on to win the series in six games . Michael Jordan was named Finals Most Valuable Player for the second year in a row , to go with his sixth straight regular season scoring titles . NBC Sports used commentator Ahmad Rashād ( both teams ' sidelines ) . |
1985_NBA_Playoffs | The 1985 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 's 1984 -- 85 season . The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals . Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named NBA Finals MVP for the second time ( he had won the award under his birth name , Lew Alcindor , as a Buck in 1971 ) . The Lakers had been unsuccessful in their previous eight attempts to defeat the Celtics in the NBA Finals , losing 7 times from 1959 -- 1969 and 1984 . The Lakers , moreover , won the title in Boston , something no other NBA team has ever accomplished . The Cavaliers made the playoffs for the first time since 1978 . It was also the first time that all three teams from Texas made the playoffs in the same year . The Denver Nuggets advanced to the conference finals for the first time since 1978 and would not advance that far again until 2009 . The Philadelphia 76ers , on the other hand , advanced to the conference finals for the fifth time in six years , but would not reach that level again until 2001 . |
1999_AO10 | is an Aten near-Earth object . It is orbiting with a semi-major axis of 0.9112417 AU with an eccentricity of 0.1122073 and a period of 0.87 years . The initial orbital elements were determined based on 16 observations made between January 13 -- 15 , 1999 . |
1967–68_Pittsburgh_Pipers_season | The 1967 -- 68 Pittsburgh Pipers season was the 1st season of the ABA . The Pipers finished first in the Eastern Division and won their first and only ABA title . In the Eastern Division semifinals , the Pipers swept the Indiana Pacers in three games . In the Eastern Division Finals , the Pipers eliminated the Minnesota Muskies , in five games . The Western Division champion New Orleans Buccaneers appeared in the ABA Championships for the first time and were defeated by the Pipers in seven games . Sadly , the Pipers would soon move to Minnesota for the next season , only to return a year later . Plaguing injuries nagged the team for the rest of their brief tenure in Pittsburgh , as they would disband in 1972 , only four years after winning the title . The Pipers hold a legacy as the first ABA champion . |
1996_NCAA_Men's_Basketball_All-Americans | The Consensus 1996 College Basketball All-American team , as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams . To earn `` consensus '' status , a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams : the Associated Press , the USBWA , The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches . 1996 was the last year that the UPI teams were named . After being considered a part of consensus selections since 1949 , they would be replaced in 1998 by the Sporting News All-American team . |
1951_NBA_All-Star_Game | The 1951 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on March 2 , 1951 , at Boston Garden in Boston , Massachusetts , home of the Boston Celtics . The game was the first edition of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) All-Star Game and was played during the 1950 -- 51 NBA season . The idea of holding an All-Star Game was conceived during a meeting between NBA President Maurice Podoloff , NBA publicity director Haskell Cohen and Boston Celtics owner Walter A. Brown . At that time , the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal . In order to regain public attention to the league , Cohen suggested the league to host an exhibition game featuring the league 's best players , similar to the Major League Baseball 's All-Star Game . Although most people , including Podoloff , were pessimistic about the idea , Brown remained confident that it would be a success . He even offered to host the game and to cover all the expenses or potential losses incurred from the game . The Eastern All-Stars team defeated the Western All-Stars team 111 -- 94 . Boston Celtics ' Ed Macauley was named as the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award . The game became a success , drawing an attendance of 10,094 , much higher than that season 's average attendance of 3,500 . |
(277475)_2005_WK4 | is a near-Earth asteroid that passed within 8.2 Lunar distances on August 8 , 2013 . It was radar-imaged by the Deep Space Network dish at Goldstone , USA . The asteroid is between 660 and 980 feet ( 200 and 300 meters ) in diameter , and rotated 2.5 times in 6.5 hours . It had been observed by the Arecibo radar in July 2012 ( this was not a close approach though ) , and is also classified as a Potentially Hazardous Object ( PHA ) . The asteroid was discovered November 27 , 2005 by the Siding Spring Survey . |
(153201)_2000_WO107 | is a small asteroid that is a Near-Earth object and an Aten asteroid . |
163693_Atira | 163693 Atira , provisional designation , is an eccentric , stony asteroid , dwelling in the interior of Earth 's orbit . It is classified as a near-Earth object . Atira is a binary asteroid , a system of two asteroids orbiting their common barycenter . The primary component with a diameter of approximately 4.8 kilometers is orbited by a smaller object that measures about 1 kilometer . Atira was discovered on 11 February 2003 , by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research ( LINEAR ) team at Lincoln Laboratory 's Experimental Test Site in Socorro , New Mexico , United States . It is the namesake and the first numbered body of the Atira asteroids , a new subclass of near-Earth asteroids , which have their orbits entirely within that of Earth and are therefore alternatively called Interior-Earth Objects ( IEO ) . As of 2017 , there are only 16 known members of the Atira group of asteroids . Atiras are similar to the larger group of Aten asteroids , as both are near-Earth objects and both have a semi-major axis smaller than that of Earth ( < 1.0 AU ) . However , and contrary to Aten asteroids , the aphelion for Atiras is always smaller than Earth 's perihelion ( < 0.983 AU ) , which means that they do not approach Earth as close as Atens do in general . Atira has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.2059 AU or approximately 80.1 lunar distances . |
1957_NBA_Playoffs | The 1957 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 's 1956-57 season . The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Division champion St. Louis Hawks 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals . It was the first title in Celtics history ; as of 2016 , they led the NBA in titles won with 17 . The Celtics and Hawks met in 4 out of 5 NBA Finals from 1957 -- 1961 , with the Celtics winning 3 out of 4 . While the Hawks ' dominance of the Western Division was succeeded by the Los Angeles Lakers afterward , Boston missed the NBA Finals just once between 1957 -- 1969 , and win the NBA title in every year but two . In the division semifinals , the Philadelphia Warriors were swept by the Syracuse Nationals 2 -- 0 . This was the first time in NBA history that the defending champions were swept in the opening round . The next time the defending champions were swept in the opening round was in 2007 . It was also the only time in which the playoff series leading to the Final resulted in sweeps . |
14th_Street_(Manhattan) | 14th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan . Presently primarily a shopping street , in the earlier history of New York City 14th Street was an upscale location , but it lost its glamor and status as the city grew northward . At Broadway , 14th Street forms the southern border of Union Square . It is also considered the northern boundary of Greenwich Village , Alphabet City , and the East Village , and the southern boundary of Chelsea , Flatiron/Lower Midtown , and Gramercy . 14th Street marks the southern terminus of Manhattan 's grid system . North of 14th Street , the streets make up a near-perfect grid that runs in numerical order . South of 14th , the grid continues in the East Village almost perfectly , but not so in Greenwich Village , where an older and less uniform grid plan applies . |
1969–70_ABA_season | The 1969 -- 70 ABA season was the third season of the American Basketball Association . Prior to the start of the season , the Minnesota Pipers moved back to Pittsburgh , the Oakland Oaks moved to Washington , D.C. and became the Washington Caps and the Houston Mavericks moved to North Carolina and became the Carolina Cougars . For the regular-season , the schedule was increased from 78 to 84 games per team . The season ended with the Indiana Pacers capturing their first ABA Championship . Spencer Haywood , a rookie from the University of Detroit , led the ABA in scoring ( 30.0 ppg ) and rebounding ( 19.5 rpg ) for the Denver Rockets . Haywood was professional basketball 's first `` hardship case '' , leaving college after his sophomore season . The NBA prohibited him from declaring for its draft , and he signed with the Rockets instead , leading them to the Western Division championship . |
1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake | The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at local time . The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park approximately 10 mi northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains . With a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ) , the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries . The Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ( to the degree that it was designated a seismic gap ) until two moderate foreshocks occurred in June 1988 and again in August 1989 . Damage was heavy in Santa Cruz County and less so to the south in Monterey County , but effects extended well to the north into the San Francisco Bay Area , both on the San Francisco Peninsula and across the bay in Oakland . No surface faulting occurred , though a large number of other ground failures and landslides were present , especially in the Summit area of the Santa Cruz Mountains . Liquefaction was also a significant issue , especially in the heavily damaged Marina District of San Francisco , but its effects were also seen in the East Bay , and near the shore of Monterey Bay , where a non-destructive tsunami was also observed . Due to the sports coverage of the 1989 World Series , it became the first major earthquake in the United States that was broadcast live on national television ( and is sometimes referred to as the `` World Series earthquake '' as a result ) . Rush-hour traffic on the Bay Area freeways was lighter than normal because the game was about to begin , and this may have prevented a larger loss of life , as several of the Bay Area 's major transportation structures suffered catastrophic failures . The collapse of a section of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway in Oakland was the site of the single largest number of casualties for the event , but the collapse of man-made structures and other related accidents contributed to casualties occurring in San Francisco , Los Altos , and Santa Cruz . |
2013_TV135 | is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid estimated to have a diameter of 450 m. On September 16 , 2013 , it passed about 0.0448 AU from Earth . On September 20 , 2013 , it came to perihelion ( closest approach to the Sun ) . The asteroid was discovered on October 12 , 2013 by the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory using images dating back to October 8 , 2013 . It was discovered by Ukrainian astronomer Gennady Borisov with a custom 0.2 m telescope . It was rated level 1 on the Torino Scale from October 16 , 2013 until JPL solution 26 on November 3 , 2013 . It was removed from the JPL Sentry Risk Table on November 8 , 2013 using JPL solution 32 with an observation arc of 27 days . |
2009_DD45 | is a small Apollo asteroid that passed near Earth at an altitude of 63,500 km on 2 March 2009 at 13:44 UTC . It was discovered by Australian astronomers at the Siding Spring Observatory on 27 February 2009 , only three days before its closest approach to the Earth . Its estimated diameter is between 15 and 23 metres . This is about the same size as a hypothetical object that could have caused the Tunguska event in 1908 . BBC News Online cites the minimum distance as 72,000 km ( about 1/5 lunar distances ) . passed farther away ( 40 thousand miles versus 4 thousand miles ) but was substantially larger than 2004 FU162 , a small asteroid about 6 m ( 20 ft ) across which came within about 6,500 km in 2004 , and is more similar in size to 2004 FH . With an uncertainty parameter of 3 , the asteroid is predicted to make its next close encounters with Earth on 2056-Feb-29 and 2067-Mar-03 . |
2000_Pulitzer_Prize | The Pulitzer Prizes for 2000 were announced on April 10 , 2000 . |
2nd_European_Film_Awards | The 2nd Annual European Film Awards were given in 1989 . |
2008–09_Indiana_Pacers_season | The 2008 -- 09 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana 's 42nd season as a franchise and 33rd season in the NBA . |
2012_Teen_Choice_Awards | The 2012 Teen Choice Awards ceremony , hosted by Demi Lovato and Kevin McHale , was held on July 22 , 2012 and broadcast on Fox . The awards celebrated the year 's achievements in music , film , television , sports , fashion , comedy , and the Internet , and were voted on by teenage viewers aged 13 through 19 . Over 134 million votes were cast . Taylor Swift had the most individual wins with five , including Choice Female Artist and Female Country Artist . Kristen Stewart obtained three awards , including the `` Ultimate Choice '' award which she shared with Twilight co-stars Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson . Although the actors received most awards , The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 won four out of 11 nominations as a whole , including the `` Ultimate Choice '' , bringing the entire series ' Teen Choice Award totals to 41 . The Hunger Games won seven of its eight nominations , including Choice Book , Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie , and Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie Actor , for Josh Hutcherson 's work . The Vampire Diaries won six of its eight nominations , including Choice Fantasy/Sci-Fi TV Show , Actor : Fantasy/Sci-Fi TV Show and Male Hottie for its star , Ian Somerhalder . Pretty Little Liars won all five of their nominations , including Choice TV Drama . |
2Pacalypse_Now | 2Pacalypse Now is the debut studio album by American rapper 2Pac . It was released on November 12 , 1991 , by Interscope Records and EastWest Records America . Less polished than it later proceed with his studio album , 2Pacalypse Now , which is 2Pac 's commentary on contemporary social issues facing American society such as racism , police brutality , poverty , black on black crime , and teenage pregnancy , some issues giving a lyrical glimpse into the world of a young black man on the urban streets of the United States . It featured three singles ; `` Brenda 's Got a Baby '' , `` Trapped '' , and `` If My Homie Calls '' . 2Pacalypse Now was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) . On MTV 's Greatest Rappers of All Time list , 2Pacalypse Now was listed as one of 2Pac 's `` certified classic '' albums , along with Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. . . , Me Against the World , All Eyez On Me , and The Don Killuminati : The 7 Day Theory . In commemoration of its 25th anniversary , it was released on vinyl and cassette on November 11 , 2016 . |
2012_Caribbean_Cup_squads | The 2012 Caribbean Cup is an international football tournament that was held in Antigua and Barbuda from 7 -- 16 December . |
2013_MZ5 | is an asteroid discovered in 2013 with the Pan-STARRS telescope . It is classified as a Near-Earth Object and happens to be the 10,000 th one ever discovered . This asteroid is approximately 1,000 feet ( 300 meters ) across . Its orbit is well understood and will not approach close enough to Earth to be considered potentially hazardous . |
2007_TU24 | is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid that was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on October 11 , 2007 . Imaging radar has estimated that it is 250 m in diameter . The asteroid passed 554,209 kilometer ( 344,370 mile or 1.4-lunar distance ) from Earth on January 29 , 2008 , at 08:33 UTC . ( At the time of the passage it was believed the closest for any known potentially hazardous asteroid ( PHA ) of this size before 2027 , but in 2010 was measured to be 400 meters in diameter . ) At closest approach the asteroid had an apparent magnitude of 10.3 and was about 50 times fainter than the naked eye can see . It required about a 3 in telescope to be seen . |
2007_WWE_draft | The 2007 World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) draft lottery took place at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania on June 11 , 2007 . The first half of the draft was televised live for three hours on World Wrestling Entertainment 's flagship program , Raw on USA Network . The second half of the draft , or the `` supplemental draft '' , was conducted over WWE 's website , WWE.com , for four hours on June 17 , 2007 as draft picks were announced at twenty-minute intervals . There were twenty-three draft picks , with twenty-seven wrestlers drafted overall , between the promotion 's three brands : Raw , SmackDown ! , and ECW . For the televised half of the draft , each brand 's draft pick was determined by nine matches , one being a battle royal for two draft picks , where wrestlers from their respective brands wrestled to earn a draft pick . The supplemental draft , however , was conducted randomly , with each brand receiving random draft selections . Raw and SmackDown ! received five random draft picks , while ECW received three random draft picks . The televised draft picks were randomly selected by a computer that was shown on the Raw titantron . Every WWE wrestler from Raw , SmackDown ! , and ECW was eligible to be drafted . |
2_Champions_of_Shaolin | 2 Champions of Shaolin ( 少林與武當 Shàolín Yǔ Wǔdāng ) is a 1980 Shaw Brothers film directed by Chang Cheh . Starring the Venoms , it continues the then-popular theme of feuds between Shaolin and Wudang . Rumors suggest that a rift was occurring between Kuo Chui and Lu Feng over choreography credits in previous films thus they came to an agreement that Kuo Chui would sit out 2 Champions of Shaolin and Lu Feng will sit out a later film , thus giving the role usually filled by Kuo to Lo Mang . The film was digitally enhanced by Joseph Kahn for the Chemical Brothers ' music video `` Get Yourself High '' . |
2015_MTV_Video_Music_Awards | The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards was held on August 30 , 2015 . The 32nd installment of the event was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles , California , and hosted by Miley Cyrus . Taylor Swift led the nominations with a total of ten , followed by Ed Sheeran , who had six. , bringing his total number of mentions to 13 . Swift 's `` Wildest Dreams '' music video premiered during the pre-show . Cyrus also announced and released her studio album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz , right after her performance at the end of the show . During his acceptance speech , Kanye West announced that he would be running for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election . Taylor Swift won the most awards with four , including Video of the Year and Best Female Video . The VMA trophies were redesigned by Jeremy Scott . This edition of the MTV VMA were followed by 9.8 million people in the United States through the various channels MTV for broadcast use . Due to a simulcast across ten Viacom networks , the 2015 ceremony 's airing on the flagship MTV network alone had one of the lowest audience in the ceremony 's 31-year history and the next year 's ceremony being the lowest of all time . According to Nielsen , it logged 5.03 million viewers only on MTV , 39 % less than last year , while cumulative viewers drew 9.8 million with the nine other simulcasting networks . The lowest viewed one was in 1996 , since Nielsen began tracking in 1994 , with 5.07 million viewers . However , the show broke the `` US Twitter record '' , being the most tweeted about non-sports program , with 21.4 million tweets delivered by 2.2 million people . It was also streamed live through the MTV app for authenticated users on mobile devices and television sets via iOS , Android and Chromecast . Through its website , viewers could also get to see un-aired audience shots and backstage coverage . mtvU aired a behind-the-scenes feed and MTV Hits went dark . |
2008_in_basketball | Tournaments include international ( FIBA ) , professional ( club ) and amateur and collegiate levels . |
2004_TN1 | is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object discovered on 5 October 2004 by NEAT at Mount Palomar . It has the fourth smallest geocentric Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance of any asteroid , after 2008 TC3 which exploded in Earth 's atmosphere in 2008 , 1994 GV , and 2014 AA which also impacted the Earth in 2014 . The asteroid , however , will not make any significant close approaches to Earth in at least the next century . However , its orbit is poorly determined , with only 58 observations over 30 days between October 5 and November 4 , 2004 , yielding an orbital certainty of 6 , with 0 being a well-determined orbit and 9 being an extremely poorly determined orbit . More observations would be needed to determine whether the asteroid may impact the earth in the next several hundred years . Absolute magnitude estimates guess the asteroid to be approximately 115 -- 260 meters ( 380 -- 850 feet ) in diameter . A theoretical impact into porous rock at 45 degrees , assuming the asteroid to have a density of 2 g/cm3 , would yield a crater between 1.7 and 3.2 kilometers wide , slightly larger than Meteor Crater in Arizona . |
2010–11_Indiana_Pacers_season | The 2010 -- 11 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana 's 44th season as a franchise and 35th season in the NBA . With a victory over the Washington Wizards on April 6 , 2011 , the Pacers clinched their first playoff berth since 2006 . However , a first round loss to Derrick Rose and the top-seeded Chicago Bulls ended the season for the Pacers . On January 30 , head coach Jim O'Brien was fired . Replacing him was interim head coach Frank Vogel , who would be named as permanent during the lockout following the season . |
2017–18_United_States_network_television_schedule | The 2017 -- 18 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 2017 to August 2018 . The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series , new series , and series canceled after the 2016 -- 17 season . NBC was the first to announce its fall schedule , on May 14 , 2017 , followed by Fox on May 15 , ABC on May 16 , CBS on May 17 , and The CW on May 18 , 2017 . NBC adjusted its schedule on May 30 , 2017 . PBS is not included ; member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary . Ion Television and MyNetworkTV are also not included since the majority of both networks ' schedule comprise syndicated reruns ( with limited original programming on the former ) . The CW is not included on the weekends since it does not carry network programming . |
2016_PQ | 2016 PQ is an approximately 30-meter sized asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group , with a very small minimum orbit intersection distance ( MOID ) to the Earth -- only around 3720 km , or 0.584 Earth radii . It has the 19th lowest MOID of any known asteroid , as well as the 7th lowest MOID of any object larger than it ( after , , ( 85236 ) 1993 KH , , 2014 DA , and 2004 FH ) . The asteroid was discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope on August 2 , when it had reached magnitude 20.5 , and it had brightened by magnitude 19.0 by August 5 , after which it became too close to the Sun to spot with ground-based telescopes . It reached its closest approach to the Earth on August 7 , 2016 , at 0.025 AU , or 9.8 lunar distances . Despite its very low MOID , 2016 PQ is not on the Sentry Risk Table , as it is not going to make any nearby close approaches to Earth in the near future . The asteroid 's orbit is near that of a 3:8 resonance with Earth , meaning that for every 8 orbits the Earth makes , 2016 PQ makes roughly 3 , contributing to the fact that it makes no significant close approaches in the next few decades . |
2014_MT69 | ( formerly labeled 0720090F in the context of the Hubble Space Telescope , and 7 in the context of the New Horizons mission ) is a Kuiper belt object ( KBO ) and formerly a potential flyby target for the New Horizons probe . |
2017_NBA_All-Star_Game | The 2017 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 19 , 2017 in New Orleans , Louisiana at the Smoothie King Center . It was the 66th edition of the event . The West won the game 192-182 . The MVP of the game was Anthony Davis , who scored 52 points , the most ever scored by a player in an All-Star Game . It was initially planned to be held at Spectrum Center in Charlotte , home of the Charlotte Hornets . If the game had remained in Charlotte , it would have been the second time that Charlotte hosted the All-Star Game . The city previously hosted in 1991 at the now-demolished Charlotte Coliseum . On August 19 , 2016 , the NBA chose the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans , Louisiana , home of the New Orleans Pelicans , to host the All-Star Game after it was pulled from Charlotte because of the controversy surrounding North Carolina 's `` bathroom bill '' , commonly known as HB2 . The 2017 All-Star Game became the first major sporting event in the United States to be relocated for political reasons since 1990 . In that instance , the National Football League ( NFL ) relocated Super Bowl XXVII out of Tempe , Arizona , because the state did not recognize Martin Luther King Jr. . Day . TNT and TBS televised the game . |
2000_NBA_Playoffs | The 2000 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association 's 1999-2000 season . The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2 . Shaquille O'Neal was named NBA Finals MVP . The San Antonio Spurs were the champions going into the playoffs , but were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round , marking the first time since 1987 that a title-winning team did not repeat . They were also the first defending champion to be eliminated in the first round since the Philadelphia 76ers in 1984 . The Lakers ' win was the first title for Shaq and Kobe Bryant , both considered future first-ballot Hall of Famers , and first in the post-Magic Johnson -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- James Worthy era . A. C. Green , the only player left from the Lakers ' Showtime era , was in the starting lineup for this team as well . For the Pacers , it was their first Eastern Conference title after four previous appearances in the Eastern Conference Finals ; however , after this season , the team was radically altered with key players Antonio Davis , Derrick McKey and Mark Jackson moving to other teams and Rik Smits retiring . Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals was the last game Patrick Ewing ever played as a Knick . The 2000 playoffs was the last involving the Ewing-led Knicks , and New York would not win another playoff series until 2013 . The Trail Blazers defeated the Timberwolves and the Jazz in the first two rounds before falling to the Lakers in the conference final . The Trail Blazers would not win another playoff series until 2014 . This season 's playoffs also marked the debut of the 5-year-old expansion Toronto Raptors . For the 3rd straight year , New York eliminated Miami ; it was their fourth consecutive postseason meeting . |
2015–16_Indiana_Hoosiers_men's_basketball_team | The 2015 -- 16 Indiana Hoosiers men 's basketball team represented Indiana University in the 2015 -- 16 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . Their head coach was Tom Crean , who was in his eighth season with the Hoosiers . The team played its home games at Assembly Hall in Bloomington , Indiana , as a member of the Big Ten Conference . This season marked the 40th Anniversary of the 32 -- 0 and National Championship 1975 -- 76 Hoosiers team , a feat still unrivaled . To commemorate the anniversary , players ' jerseys featured a commemorative patch on the back of the jersey . The Hoosiers also held a public recognition of the undefeated team during halftime of the home game against Wisconsin on January 5th , during which the announcement was made that a statue of the seniors and starters will be erected outside the south entrance of Assembly Hall . A new banner was also revealed honoring the '76 team as NCAA 's # 1 All-Time March Madness Team . Tom Abernethy and Bobby Wilkerson , two players from the team , were inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame . IU 's season-opener victory against Eastern Illinois was a milestone game , as it marked 1,000 home wins in Indiana basketball history . IU finished the regular season by winning their 22nd conference title , tying them with in-state rival , Purdue , for the most conference titles . Indiana finished the season 27 -- 8 overall , 15 -- 3 in the Big Ten to win the Big Ten regular season title outright . They received the # 1 seed in the 2016 Big Ten Conference Men 's Basketball Tournament , where they made an early Quarterfinals exit by losing to Michigan . The Hoosiers received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament . Indiana defeated Chattanooga and Kentucky to advance to the Sweet Sixteen for the third time in five years ; however , in the Sweet Sixteen they fell to the North Carolina Tar Heels , 86 -- 101 . |
2013_FY27 | , also written 2013 FY27 , is a trans-Neptunian object that belongs to the scattered disc ( like Eris ) . Its discovery was announced on 31 March 2014 . It has an absolute magnitude ( H ) of 2.9 , which makes it very likely to be a dwarf planet . Assuming an albedo of 0.15 , it would be approximately 850 km in diameter . It is the ninth-intrinsically-brightest known trans-Neptunian object , and is the largest unnumbered minor planet as of May 2017 . will come to perihelion around 2198 , at a distance of about 36 AU . It is currently near aphelion , 80 AU from the Sun , and , as a result , it has an apparent magnitude of 22 . Its orbit has a significant inclination of 33 ° . First observed on 17 March 2013 , it has an observation arc of about one year . It came to opposition in early March 2014 . The sednoid and the scattered-disc object were discovered by the same survey as and were announced within about a week of one another . |
2011_in_UFC | The year 2011 is the 19th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) , a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States . In 2011 the UFC held 27 events beginning with , UFC 125 : Resolution . |
2014_FC69 | is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc . It was discovered on 25 March 2014 . Because of its great distance and short observation arc of 302 days , 's orbit is too poorly determined to know whether it is in an orbital resonance with Neptune . |
21_(Omarion_album) | 21 is the second studio album by American R&B singer Omarion . It was released on December 26 , 2006 , by Epic Records and Sony Urban Music . The album was produced by Timbaland , The Neptunes , Eric Hudson and Bryan-Michael Cox and saw Omarion co-write every song on the album . The album 's title was inspired from when Omarion turned 21 years old months before the album 's release . 21 received mildly positive reviews from critics , who saw it as an improvement over his debut album O ( 2005 ) . The album debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 , selling 119,000 copies in its first week of sales , making it his second album to debut at number 1 , although selling 60,000 less than his debut album . It has sold over 390,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008 . The album spawned two singles : `` Entourage '' and `` Ice Box '' . |
42_(Doctor_Who) | `` 42 '' is the seventh episode of the third series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It was first broadcast on BBC One on 19 May 2007 . It was the first episode written by future showrunner Chris Chibnall . A spaceship hurtles out of control towards an alien star and the Doctor has 42 minutes to save the ship , but as the star possesses and murders the ship 's crew , the Doctor and Martha are running out of time . According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.41 million viewers and was the third most popular non-soap-opera broadcast on British television in that week . |
2006_Cannes_Film_Festival | The 2006 Cannes Film Festival ran from 17 May 2006 to 28 May 2006 . Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or . The President of the Official Jury was Wong Kar-wai , the first Chinese director to preside over the jury . English director Ken Loach won Palme d'Or , with his movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley . Other winners were Pedro Almodóvar ( Best Screenplay , Volver ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu ( Best Director , Babel ) . This also marked the first time in three years that no American film , actor , actress , or filmmaker won any awards in Cannes . The festival opened with the premiere screening of The Da Vinci Code , based on the novel by Dan Brown . Journalists gave the film a cool reception at its first press screening , with loud laughter breaking out at one of the pivotal scenes . Transylvania by Tony Gatlif closed the festival . Paris , je t ` aime opened the Un Certain Regard section of the festival . |
2016–17_Indiana_Hoosiers_men's_basketball_team | The 2016 -- 17 Indiana Hoosiers men 's basketball team represented Indiana University in the 2016 -- 17 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . Their head coach was Tom Crean . The team played its home games at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington , Indiana , as a member of the Big Ten Conference . Despite the highs of the previous season and being ranked as high as No. 3 in the nation , the Hoosiers faced a troubling and disappointing year ; they finished 18 -- 16 overall and 7 -- 11 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for 10th place . At the Big Ten Tournament they defeated Iowa in the second round to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to Wisconsin . The Hoosiers missed out on the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first round of the NIT , their first appearance since 2005 , to Georgia Tech . The game was played at Georgia Tech 's McCamish Pavilion because Indiana Athletic Director Fred Glass declined to host a home game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall citing concern it would `` devalue '' the Hoosiers ' home court . On March 16 , 2017 , Indiana fired Crean after nine years as head coach . On March 25 , 2017 , the school hired Archie Miller as head coach . |
2012_Republican_National_Convention | The 2012 Republican National Convention was a gathering held by the U.S. Republican Party during which delegates officially nominated former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin for President and Vice President , respectively , for the 2012 election . Prominent members of the party delivered speeches and discussed the convention theme , `` A Better Future . '' The convention was held during the week of August 27 , 2012 , in Tampa , Florida at the Tampa Bay Times Forum . The city , which expected demonstrations and possible vandalism , used a federal grant to bolster its police force in preparation . Due to the approach of Hurricane Isaac , convention officials changed the convention schedule on August 26 , 2012 ; the convention came to order on August 27 , 2012 and then immediately recessed until the following afternoon because of the risk of Isaac hitting Tampa . |
2002_AY1 | 2002 AY1 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid that is expected to make a close approach to Earth on January 8 , 2035 , at 0.0651435 AU . ( 9,745,338.331 km ) There are many near-Earth unusual objects that may gather a higher relevance . Nevertheless , the ability of today 's observatories constant analyses is giving away all possible information so far intelligible for what is really relevant or not - and so far - accessible to public ( as the data provided by their databases ) . |
2005_Pulitzer_Prize | The Pulitzer Prizes for 2005 were announced on 2005-04-04 . |
2201_Oljato | 2201 Oljato , provisional designation , is stony and extremely eccentric asteroid , classified as near-Earth object . It measures approximately 2 kilometers in diameter and is a sizable member of the Apollo asteroids , a subgroup of near-Earth asteroids which cross the orbit of Earth . It was discovered by American astronomer Henry L. Giclas at the U.S Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff , Arizona , on 12 December 1947 . After its discovery , the body became a lost asteroid for 32 years and was recovered under the provisional designation , by the American astronomers Passey and Bus at the Californian Palomar Observatory in 1979 . Due to its size and its Earth minimum orbit intersection distance ( MOID ) of 0.0031 AU , which is only about 1.2 lunar distances , the near-Earth Apollo asteroid is also a potentially hazardous object . It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.6 -- 3.7 AU once every 3 years and 3 months ( 1,172 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.71 and an inclination of 3 ° with respect to the ecliptic . It has a rotation period of 26 hours . The stony asteroid is classified as a Sq-subtype in the SMASS taxonomic scheme , with a geometric albedo of 0.24 . An alternative and exceptionally high albedo of 0.43 was determined by 11 observations from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . It was a target of Hubble search for transition comets , a spectroscopic study involving amateur astronomers and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope . The asteroid belongs to the Taurid Complex ( also see Taurids ) , a group of near-Earth asteroids thought to be extinct cometary nuclei , that are associated with four meteor showers on Earth , due to their disintegration . The Taurid Complex includes several other Apollo asteroids such as 4183 Cuno , 4341 Poseidon , 5143 Heracles , and 5731 Zeus . The minor planet was named after the Oljato -- Monument Valley in Utah , on the Navajo Indian Reservation . Naming citation was published on 28 March 1983 . |
2009_Scream_Awards | The Scream Awards is an award show dedicated to the horror , sci-fi , and fantasy genres of feature films , hosted and sponsored by Spike TV . The show was created by executive producers Michael Levitt , Cindy Levitt , and Casey Patterson . Billed simply as Scream 2009 , the 2009 ceremony was held at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on October 17 and was broadcast on October 27 , 2009 . Instead of hosts and musical acts , the show concentrated on the films , showing outtakes from Star Trek , a behind the scenes video from the upcoming New Moon , a new trailer for Shutter Island , among others . Notable appearances included William Shatner accepting the Ultimate Scream award for J.J. Abrams ' reboot of the Star Trek franchise . This was the first year that the show did not have any musical performances . |
2010_GA6 | is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on April 5 , 2010 , four days before a close approach to Earth . It is a relatively small space rock about 22 m wide . With a 1-day observation arc , the asteroid had a 1 in 6 million chance of impacting in 2074 . It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on April 8 , 2010 . The asteroid passed Earth at a distance of about 0.0029 AU at 02:07 UT on April 9 , 2010 ( 7:06 pm EST on April 8 ) . A stony asteroid 22 meters in diameter can be expected to create an air burst with the equivalent of 300 kilotons of TNT at an altitude of 21 km . Generally only asteroids larger than 35 meters across pose a threat to a town or city . |
2011_NCAA_Men's_Basketball_All-Americans | An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position -- who in turn are given the honorific `` All-America '' and typically referred to as `` All-American athletes '' , or simply `` All-Americans '' . Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit , the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media . Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889 . The 2011 NCAA Men 's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press ( AP ) , the United States Basketball Writers Association ( USBWA ) , the Sporting News ( TSN ) , and the National Association of Basketball Coaches ( NABC ) for the 2010 -- 11 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team . The NABC , TSN and AP choose third teams , while AP also lists honorable mention selections . The Consensus 2011 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) . Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997 , the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones . AP has been a selector since 1948 , NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960 . To earn `` consensus '' status , a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams . The point system consists of three points for first team , two points for second team and one point for third team . No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation . The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team . Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors , there are numerous other All-American lists . The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans . The ten finalists for the Lowe 's Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans . Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports , and Yahoo! Sports . The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America ( CoSIDA ) are termed Academic All-Americans . |
2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season | The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history , shattering numerous records . The impact of the season was widespread and ruinous with an estimated 3,913 deaths and record damage of about $ 159.2 billion . Of the storms that made landfall , five of the season 's seven major hurricanes -- Dennis , Emily , Katrina , Rita , and Wilma -- were responsible for most of the destruction . The Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán and the US states of Florida and Louisiana were each struck twice by major hurricanes ; Cuba , the Bahamas , Haiti , Mississippi , Texas , Alabama , and Tamaulipas were each struck once and in each case brushed by at least one more . The most catastrophic effects of the season were felt on the United States ' Gulf Coast , where a 30 ft ( 10 m ) storm surge from Hurricane Katrina caused devastating flooding that destroyed most structures on the Mississippi coastline ; subsequent levee failures in New Orleans , Louisiana caused by the storm crippled the city . Furthermore , Hurricane Stan combined with an extratropical system to cause deadly mudslides across Central America , with Guatemala being hardest-hit . The 2005 season was the first to observe more tropical cyclones in the Atlantic than the West Pacific ; on average , the latter experiences 26 while the Atlantic only averages 12 . This event was repeated in the 2010 season ; however , the 2010 typhoon season broke the record for the fewest storms observed in a single year , while the 2005 typhoon season featured near average activity . The season officially began on June 1 , 2005 , and lasted until November 30 , although it effectively persisted into January 2006 due to continued storm activity . A record twenty-eight tropical and subtropical storms formed , of which a record fifteen became hurricanes . Of these , a record seven strengthened into major hurricanes , a record-tying five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength , the highest categorization for hurricanes on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale . Among these Category 5 storms were hurricanes Katrina and Wilma , respectively the costliest and the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record . This year was also notable because the list of storm names was used up and six Greek letter names had to be used . |
303d_Aeronautical_Systems_Wing | The 303d Aeronautical Systems Wing ( 303 ASW ) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Material Command Aeronautical Systems Center . It is stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio as a tenant unit . The wing is the successor organization to the World War II Eighth Air Force 303d Bombardment Group . The group was one of the first VIII Bomber Command B-17 Flying Fortress units in England . The `` Hell 's Angels '' were the first B-17 group to complete 25 combat missions in June 1943 , going on to fly more than 300 combat missions , more than any other group . The 359th BS B-17F 41-24605 `` Knock-out Dropper '' was the first aircraft in Eighth Air Force to complete 50 , then 75 missions . During the Cold War , the Strategic Air Command 303d Bombardment Wing was a B-47 Stratojet medium bomber wing in the 1950s , and later became a Tactical Missile Wing assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe during the 1980s . |
2003_SQ317 | is a trans-Neptunian object ( TNO ) that resides in the Kuiper belt that was discovered on September 23 , 2005 , by the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey ( CFEPS ) . The surface of is made of water ice . |
24Kitchen_(Portugal) | 24Kitchen is a Portuguese digital cable and satellite television channel that features programs about food and cooking . It is owned by Fox International Channels Portugal . The Portuguese 24Kitchen is modeled out of the Dutch version . It has original Portuguese productions with Portuguese cuisine and local chefs , including Ljubomir Stanisic and Rodrigo Meneses , who were contestants in the Portuguese version of MasterChef . Filipa Gomes with her 1950 's rockabilly and pin-up style presents the daily show , Prato do Dia . The remaining is imported programming related to international cuisine . |
2015_in_spaceflight | In 2015 , the maiden spaceflights of the Chinese Long March 6 and Long March 11 launch vehicles took place . In February 2015 , the European Space Agency 's experimental lifting body spacecraft , the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle , successfully conducted its first test flight . In March 2015 , Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft when Dawn entered orbit . In July 2015 , New Horizons visited the Pluto-Charon system after a 9-year voyage , returning a trove of pictures and information about the former `` ninth planet '' ( now classified as a dwarf planet ) . Meanwhile , the MESSENGER probe was deliberately crashed into Mercury after 4 years of in-orbit observations . On 23 November 2015 , the Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital rocket achieved its first powered soft landing near the launch site , paving the way for full reuse of its propulsion stage . On 21 December , the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust took place , ending with a successful landing of its first stage . Two old weather satellites , NOAA-16 and DMSP 5D-2 / F13 , broke up in 2015 , creating several hundred pieces of space debris . In both cases , a battery explosion is suspected as the root cause . |
2006_Idomeneo_controversy | On September 26 , 2006 , the Deutsche Oper Berlin announced the cancellation of four performances of Mozart 's opera Idomeneo , re di Creta , planned for November 2006 , citing concerns that the production 's depictions of the severed head of the Islamic prophet Muhammad raised an `` incalculable security risk . '' `` To avoid endangering its audience and employees , the management has decided against repeating Idomeneo in November 2006 , '' the opera house said in a press release . The Idomeneo production , directed by Hans Neuenfels , shows King Idomeneo staggering on stage carrying a bag of the severed heads of Neptune , Jesus , Buddha and Muhammad and placing each on chairs ; a departure from the libretto , in which the action is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War . Only Neptune features in the plot , and his power is never destroyed . The scene was intended to symbolize the people 's release into freedom without gods or idols . According to the BBC , the German press agency DPA said Berlin police have so far recorded no direct threat to the opera house . However , The New York Times reported that there was an anonymous threat in August against the theatre . The cancellation sparked a great deal of debate in Europe on the issue of self-censorship and the nature of free speech in a multicultural community that includes potentially violent Muslims . On September 27 , 2006 , Germany 's Chancellor Angela Merkel stated : `` I think the cancellation was a mistake . I think self-censorship does not help us against people who want to practise violence in the name of Islam ... It makes no sense to retreat . '' Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble , after a government-sponsored conference with Muslim representatives held independently of the incident , told reporters that '' -LSB- t -RSB- o send a signal , we could all go to the performance together , '' and the Muslim representatives agreed that the performance should not be cancelled . The severed-heads ending scene is a recent addition by director Neuenfels to the original , 225-year-old opera , which was last performed by the company in March 2004 . On December 18 , 2006 , the Berlin Opera staged Mozart 's work with the newly added controversial ending scene amid mixed reactions , but no incidents ( with a small security force and large foreign media contingent ) . Demonstrators were present outside , as well , including supporters of religious tolerance and Christian protesters ( presumably relating to the inclusion of the severed head of Jesus ) . Various members of German government attended with German Muslim groups , with the notable exception of the central Muslim Council 's general secretary , Iman Mazyek , who was quoted by Al Jazeera English as saying , `` It 's part of the concept of freedom of opinion and thought that you also have the right to say you are not going . '' . , director of the Deutsche Opera , said that the public 's reaction to the scene was `` very civilized '' . |
30_Trips_Around_the_Sun:_The_Definitive_Live_Story_1965–1995 | 30 Trips Around the Sun : The Definitive Live Story 1965 -- 1995 is a four-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead . It contains 30 songs recorded in concert -- one from each of the years 1966 through 1995 -- plus one song recorded in a 1965 studio session . All of the tracks are selected from the 80-CD box set 30 Trips Around the Sun , which contains 30 previously unreleased complete shows . The album was released on September 18 , 2015 . A chronological sampling format was also used for the 5-disc set So Many Roads ( 1965 -- 1995 ) . |
2003_invasion_of_Iraq | The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signalled the start of the Iraq War , which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States ( prior to 19 March , the mission in Iraq was called Operation Enduring Freedom , a carryover from the War in Afghanistan ) . The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations , in which a combined force of troops from the United States , the United Kingdom , Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein . The invasion phase consisted primarily of a conventionally fought war which included the capture of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad by American forces with the implicit assistance of the United Kingdom alongside Australia and Poland . 160,000 troops were sent by the Coalition into Iraq , during the initial invasion phase , which lasted from 19 March to 9 April 2003 . About 130,000 were sent from the USA alone , with about 28,000 British soldiers , Australia ( 2,000 ) , and Poland ( 194 ) . 36 other countries were involved in its aftermath . In preparation for the invasion , 100,000 U.S. troops were assembled in Kuwait by 18 February . The coalition forces also received support from Kurdish irregulars in Iraqi Kurdistan . According to U.S. President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair , the coalition mission was `` to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction , to end Saddam Hussein 's support for terrorism , and to free the Iraqi people . '' Others place a much greater emphasis on the impact of the September 11 attacks , and the role this played in changing U.S. strategic calculations , and the rise of the freedom agenda . According to Blair , the trigger was Iraq 's failure to take a `` final opportunity '' to disarm itself of alleged nuclear , chemical , and biological weapons that U.S. and British officials called an immediate and intolerable threat to world peace . In a January 2003 CBS poll , 64 % of Americans had approved of military action against Iraq ; however , 63 % wanted Bush to find a diplomatic solution rather than go to war , and 62 % believed the threat of terrorism directed against the U.S. would increase due to war . The invasion of Iraq was strongly opposed by some long-standing U.S. allies , including the governments of France , Germany , and New Zealand . Their leaders argued that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that invading the country was not justified in the context of UNMOVIC 's 12 February 2003 report . On 15 February 2003 , a month before the invasion , there were worldwide protests against the Iraq War , including a rally of three million people in Rome , which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest ever anti-war rally . According to the French academic Dominique Reynié , between 3 January and 12 April 2003 , 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war . The invasion was preceded by an airstrike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on 20 March 2003 . The following day , coalition forces launched an incursion into Basra Province from their massing point close to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border . While the special forces launched an amphibious assault from the Persian Gulf to secure Basra and the surrounding petroleum fields , the main invasion army moved into southern Iraq , occupying the region and engaging in the Battle of Nasiriyah on 23 March . Massive air strikes across the country and against Iraqi command and control threw the defending army into chaos and prevented an effective resistance . On 26 March , the 173rd Airborne Brigade was airdropped near the northern city of Kirkuk , where they joined forces with Kurdish rebels and fought several actions against the Iraqi Army to secure the northern part of the country . The main body of coalition forces continued their drive into the heart of Iraq and met with little resistance . Most of the Iraqi military was quickly defeated and Baghdad was occupied on 9 April . Other operations occurred against pockets of the Iraqi army , including the capture and occupation of Kirkuk on 10 April , and the attack and capture of Tikrit on 15 April . Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the central leadership went into hiding as the coalition forces completed the occupation of the country . On 1 May , an end of major combat operations was declared , ending the invasion period and beginning the military occupation period . |