Longtime Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was indicted for allegedly paying for sex with an underage nightclub dancer, and ordered to stand trial. Berlusconi resigned in November and Mario Monti was appointed Prime Minister and held the office until 2013.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Fact 8
The relevance of Sector ZZ9 is the fact that in the UK if a person has NFA (No fixed Abode (No place to live)) then the POSTCODE is recorded as ZZ99 3VZ, thus Both Trillian and Arthur come from Sector ZZ9 and thanks to the Vogons they are both of NFA.
Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015
The PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly of Venezuela to the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable, marking the first time since 1999 that the PSUV lost its majority.
1671 AD
German mathematician-philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, recognised as one of the founding fathers of calculus, designs a calculating machine called the Step Reckoner.
844 AD
The Picts are defeated by Kenneth MacAlpine (King of the Scots) and a new unified Scotland is established.
Predictions and Events for the 2020s #6
In 2008, futurist Ray Kurzweil put 2029 as the year most likely for a breakthrough in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He expects that around this time, computers will reach human intelligence levels, and shortly thereafter surpass the capabilities of the human brain.