2015 Event 90-year-old Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president, announces that he has an unspecified cancer that has spread throughout his body; the cancer was discovered during a recent liver surgery 2015 Event France has outlawed the hiring of models who do not meet new Body Mass Index (BMI) minimums for a certain period of time before and during a modeling job; the law aims to prevent promotion of anorexia among models and people who emulate them 2014 Event Ford Motor Company begins using aluminum instead of steel in the body of its most popular truck, the F-150; the change has cost the company time and money in conversion of production lines but will make the vehicle more fuel efficient 2014 Event Hospitals are beginning to use genetic profiling of tumors in order to identify the most effective treatments for various cancers; tumor genetics is thought to be of greater significance than the place of origin in the body 2014 Event The London police force begins a pilot program using body cameras to record behavior and document evidence during responses to incidents 2013 Event The body of former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is flown from Pretoria to the leader's ancestral village of Qunu, his final resting place 2013 Event Palestinian investigators claim their former leader, Yasser Arafat, did not die of old age or ill health; they believe Israel killed him because his exhumed body contained high levels of the radioactive element polonium-210 2013 Event In Lagos, a funeral processional greets the body of Nigerian Chinua Achebe, author of the novel, 'Things Fall Apart' 2012 Event Palestinian officials plan to exhume the body of former leader Yasser Arafat to determine whether his death in Paris, 2004, was caused by poisoning 1997 Event Dr. Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test 1995 Death Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84 1995 Death Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84 1994 Death Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37 1993 Death Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40 1992 Death Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49 1992 Death Johnny [Jan] Meijer, Dutch king of accordians (Body and Soul), dies 1991 Event President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died 1990 Death Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59 1988 Death Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies 1986 Death Paul Tournier, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings, dies from carcinoma, Troinex, Switzerland 1986 Event Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking 1986 Event Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver 1985 Event Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed 1985 Event Mexican authorities find body of U.S. drug agent Enrique C. Salaazar 1984 Event Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated 1982 Event Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic 1978 Event Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI 1974 Death John C Ransom, U.S. poet (World's Body), dies 1972 Death Charles Atlas, Angelo Siciliano, body builder, dies at 79 1970 Birthday Gabrielle Anwar, Laleham England, actress, Body Snatchers 1967 Event John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1963 Event John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House 1963 Death Henry Daniell, actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69 1963 Death Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies 1962 Birthday Barbara Crampton, Levittown, New York, actress, Body Double, Young and Restless 1962 Birthday Lenda Murray, born in Detroit, Michigan, body builder, 4X Ms Olympia 1961 Event Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square 1961 Birthday David Leavitt, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, gay literature, professor at Princeton, author of, 'The Lost Language of Cranes', 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'The Indian Clerk' 1960 Birthday Cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder, 6X Ms Olympia 1959 Event U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body 1958 Event "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 60 performances 1958 Birthday Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert, Body by Jake 1958 Event "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 60 performances 1957 Death Dorothy Sayers, Atherton Fleming, author (Whose body), dies at 64 1957 Birthday Lee John, English singer and actor, Body Talk 1956 Birthday Nick Banton, founder, Body Positive 1954 Event Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania 1954 Birthday Craig Wasson, born in Oregon, actor, Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club 1952 Birthday Deborah Shelton, Washington D.C., actress, Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double 1951 Birthday Jayne Kennedy, Washington D.C., sportscaster, CBS, actress, Body and Soul 1951 Birthday Lou Ferrigno, born in Brooklyn, New York, body builder/actor, Incredible Hulk 1951 Birthday Diana Dennis, born in Portland, Oregon, body builder, Women Physique World 1949 Birthday Brooke Adams, New York City, actress, Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers 1948 Event CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece 1948 Event George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found 1947 Birthday Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, body builder, Commando, Terminator 1943 Event Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ) 1943 Birthday Angelique Pettyjohn, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Body Talk, Star Trek 1942 Birthday Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer, Body Shop 1942 Birthday Gordon Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer, Body Shop 1940 Birthday Brian DePalma, born in Newark, New Jersey, film director, Body Double, Dressed to Kill 1936 Event United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant 1934 Birthday Donald Sutherland, St. John NB, actor, M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers 1934 Event 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York 1932 Event Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey 1930 Birthday Dana Wynter, London, actress, Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1928 Birthday Desmond Morris, English zoologist, Human Ape, Body Language 1927 Birthday Gwen Watford, British actress, Body in the Library, Ghoul 1927 Birthday Richard Body, born in England, Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body, politician, Member of Parliament for Billericay from 1955 to 1959 1927 Birthday Galway Kinnell, born in Providence, Rhode Island, author, Body Rags, Book of Nightmares 1926 Birthday Tony Bennett, born in Queens, New York, singer, Left a body part in SF 1919 Event 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) 1915 Birthday Larry Gates, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Guiding Light, Body Snatchers 1914 Birthday Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, actor, Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling 1912 Event Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica 1908 Birthday John Waldo Green, New York City, composer, Body and Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger 1898 Birthday Paul Tournier, born in Geneva, Switzerland, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings 1894 Birthday Henry Daniell, born in London, actor, Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers 1892 Birthday Cyril Ring, Massachusetts, actor, Body and Soul 1884 Birthday Bela Lugosi, born in Lugos, Hungary, horror actor, Dracula, Body Snatcher 1880 Death Ole Bull, famous violinist, virtuoso, compared to Niccolo Paganini, co-founder, Den Nationale Scene theater, dies of cancer, at home on Lysoen island, extensive funeral procession had 15 steamers, other vessels, transporting his body 1880 Event Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England 1871 Birthday Walter B Cannon, U.S. physiologist, Wisdom of the Body 1829 Death William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh 1799 Event George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon 1737 Event Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 1619 Event House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body 1064 Event Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
