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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 1997 Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 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 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 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 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 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 1945 John Lodge, born in Birmingham, England, musician, singer, songwriter, bass guitar player, member of The Moody Blues rock band, created songs 'Candle of Life', 'Eyes of a Child', 'Send Me No Wine' 1945 Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord' 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 1934 Gordon Getty, born in San Francisco, California, fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, sold Getty Oil to Texaco, became classical music composer, contributes to the San Francisco Opera 1933 Floyd Ashton, U.S. singer, Tams-What Child of Fool 1933 John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child' 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 Dika Newlin, born in Portland, Oregon, composer, child prodigy, began composing music at age 7, completed high school at 12, studied with Schoenberg at University of California at Los Angeles 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 1914 Sid Weiss, born in America, musician, jazz double-bassist, played clarinet, violin, tuba as a child, began playing bass as a teenager, worked with Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman 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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