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2004 Julia Child, French Chef, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, dies at 91

2000 Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37

1999 Dana Plato, child star, Different Strokes, dies at 34

1998 Dr. Mary Calderone, doctor/writer, Talking With Your Child About Sex, dies at 94

1998 Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/writer, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, dies at 94

1997 U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18

1996 Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6

1996 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59

1996 "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater New York City after 77 performances

1996 "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 77 performances

1996 [Elsie] Evelyn Laye, actress and singer (Sun Child), dies at 95

1994 Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81

1994 William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54

1994 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64

1993 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)

1993 Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn, 78

1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65

1993 Marvin Young, producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90

1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys

1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies

1992 "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah

1992 U.S. Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography

1992 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82

1992 Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72

1992 Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67

1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics

1991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies

1991 "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 28 performances

1991 Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary

1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy

1991 "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 28 performances

1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home

1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres

1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h

1989 Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80

1988 Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11

1984 Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child

1981 Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent

1981 Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83

1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"

1979 International Year of the Child begins

1978 Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in New York City

1978 Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child

1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)

1976 U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child

1973 Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens

1971 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31

1970 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in New York City

1968 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71

1968 Supremes release "Love Child"

1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44

1967 Charlotte Lewis, born in Kensington, London, actress, Golden Child, Pirates

1967 John Child, East York Ontario, beach volleyballer 1996 Olympics bronze

1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion

1965 Slash, [Saul Hudson], England, guitarist, Guns and Roses-Sweet Child

1965 Steven Adler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, drummer, Guns and Roses-Sweet Child

1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71

1964 Lisa Elaine Comshaw, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, Scanner Cop, Lukas' Child

1961 Marcy Walker, Paducah, Kentucky, actress, Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara

1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg

1960 Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies

1959 Michael E Knight, Princeton, New Jersey, actor, Date with Angel, All My Child

1957 Pam Tillis, born in Plant City, Florida, country singer, Melancholy Child

1954 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31

1954 Julie Budd, Brooklyn, singer, Child of Plenty

1951 Nick Gilder, born in London, England, singer, Hot Child in the City

1951 Catherine Hicks, born in Scottsdale, Arizona, actress, Star Trek IV, Child's Play

1950 Janis Ian, [Fink], New York City, rock vocalist, At 17, Society's Child

1946 Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published

1945 Roger Lee Jones, West Virginia, child molester, FBI Most Wanted List

1944 Jeremy Child, actor, Privilege, Taffin

1944 Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London

1942 Chris Sarandon, West Virginia, actor, Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick

1942 Claude Miller, director, Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child

1940 Norman [Richard] Spinrad, U.S., sci-fi author, Child of Fortune

1940 William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist

1938 U.S. forbids child labor in factories

1938 Philippe Wynne, U.S. soul singer, Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child

1936 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer

1933 Floyd Ashton, U.S. singer, Tams-What Child of Fool

1931 Kristin Hunter, [Eggleston], U.S. author, God Bless the Child

1930 Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies

1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium

1930 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer

1929 Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator

1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia

1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads

1927 Jack Douglas, comedian, My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show

1926 Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76

1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child

1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland

1923 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer, Burned Child

1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1914 Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales

1913 Frances Tustin, child psychologist

1912 Julia Child, born in Pasadena, California, chef, French Chef

1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies

1905 Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer and conductor, Child of our Time

1902 Georgette Heyer, England, novelist, Friday's Child

1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law

1889 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child

1881 Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care

1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force

1874 1st Chamber accept law against child labor

1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

1866 Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin

1857 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist

1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)

1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

1837 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws

1809 Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus

1802 Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany

1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM

1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies

1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Pigeon

1714 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Bird Cage

1669 Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31

1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)

1637 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet, Friend of Abandoned Child

1624 William, Jamestown, Virginia, 1st black child born in English America

1624 William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America

1588 Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies

1587 1st English child born in New World, Virginia Dare

1308 Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies

1244 Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen, 1256-1308

911 Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies



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