2015 Event The U.S. is allocating $300 million to an HIV reduction program for females ages 15 to 24; the goal is to cut infections by 40% by the end of 2017 in Malawi, Kenya, Swaziland, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho 1988 Event Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages 1964 Birthday Francesca Neri, Trento Italy, actress, Ages of Lulu 1963 Birthday Rick Allen, rock drummer, Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages 1962 Death Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies 1960 Birthday Rick Savage, bass player, Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages 1959 Birthday Joe Elliot, heavy metal vocalist, Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages 1922 Birthday Fyvush Finkel, actor, Middle Ages, Picket Fences 1910 Death Lutzen Wagenaar, Fries writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages), dies 1904 Birthday John Gielgud, born in London, England, actor, Arthur, Ages of Man 1865 Birthday C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages 1855 Birthday Lutzen Wagenaar, Frisian writer and vicar, Tsjerk Ages 1848 Birthday Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, Middle Ages 1778 Death Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
