2011 Event The Ames Straw Poll for 2012 Presidential election candidates is taken; Michele Bachmann is the winner 2011 Event Michelle Bachmann announces she will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States 1973 Death Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47 1930 Birthday Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1926 Birthday Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author and poet
