2015 Event The Ezadeen, an abandoned ship carrying 450 Syrians, is rescued from choppy waters and brought safely to shore in Italy; the ship is the second to be abandoned by human traffickers off the nation's coast in the last four days 2014 Event A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast 2009 Birthday Brittany Murphy, actress, appeared in films, 'Sin City', 'Happy Feet', 'Clueless', 'Riding in Cars with Boys', 'Abandoned', dies in Los Angeles, California at age 32 1997 Event An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St, no one hurt 1987 Event Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro 1977 Birthday Brittany Murphy, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actress, appeared in films, 'Sin City', 'Happy Feet', 'Clueless', 'Riding in Cars with Boys', 'Abandoned' 1968 Death Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71 1934 Event U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned 1890 Event President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned 1889 Birthday Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child 1872 Event U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month 1865 Event Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established 1829 Event German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser 1669 Death Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31 1637 Birthday Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet, Friend of Abandoned Child