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2013 Event - Born without a trachea, a 2-year-old Korean-Canadian child is the youngest patient in history to receive a bioengineered organ made from stem cells; she received the transplanted organ at the Children's Hospital of Illinois

2012 Event - All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch

2012 Event - U.S. researchers report that preventable infections are the leading cause of the world's child mortality rate, where out of 7.6 million children who died before the age of 5 in 21010, 60% died of infections like pneumonia

2011 Event - Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska, discover remains of a 3-year old child from the Ice Age and named it Xaasaa Cheege Ts'eniin, 'Upper Sun River Mouth Child'

2011 Event - A 450 year-old painting by Titian of the Madonna and Child sets a record at Sotheby's, selling for $16.9 million

2010 Event - A professor searching into medical records of playwright Bertolt Brecht discovers he may have died after contracting undiagnosed rheumatic fever as a child

2010 Event - In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

1997 Death - 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 Death - Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6

1996 Death - Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59

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

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

1996 Death - Evelyn Laye, actress and singer 'Sun Child', dies at 95

1994 Death - Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81

1994 Death - William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1992 Event - "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 Death - Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82

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

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

1991 Event - Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics

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

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

1991 Event - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary

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

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

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

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

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

1988 Birthday - Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

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

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

1981 Death - Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent

1981 Birthday - Kelly Rowland, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, actress, founding member of group, Destiny's Child, sold more than 50 million albums, collaborated with Nelly on 'Dilemma' single

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

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

1979 Event - International Year of the Child begins

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

1978 Birthday - Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child

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

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

1973 Event - Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens

1972 Birthday - Amanda Marshall, born in Toronto, Canada, singer, multi-platinum album, 'Tuesday's Child', others include, 'Everybody's Got a Story'

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

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

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

1968 Event - Supremes release "Love Child"

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

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

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

1966 Event - 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion

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

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

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

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

1961 Event - 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 Death - Melanie Klein, Reizes, child psycho-analyst, dies

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

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

1954 Birthday - Julie Budd, Brooklyn, singer, Child of Plenty

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

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

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

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

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

1945 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord'

1944 Birthday - Jeremy Child, actor, Privilege, Taffin

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

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

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

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

1940 Birthday - William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist

1938 Event - U.S. forbids child labor in factories

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

1936 Birthday - Michael Jinks, child care pioneer

1934 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Floyd Ashton, U.S. singer, Tams-What Child of Fool

1933 Birthday - John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child'

1931 Birthday - Kristin Hunter, Eggleston, U.S. author, God Bless the Child

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

1930 Event - Child labor laws established in Belgium

1930 Birthday - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer

1929 Birthday - Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator

1928 Event - Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia

1927 Event - Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads

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

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

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

1924 Event - Child labor laws strengthened in Holland

1923 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer, Burned Child

1922 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

1918 Event - Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

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

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

1914 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Frances Tustin, child psychologist

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

1911 Death - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies

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

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

1889 Event - Belgium rules on women/child labor law

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

1881 Birthday - Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care

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

1874 Event - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor

1874 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

1873 Event - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

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

1857 Birthday - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1637 Birthday - Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet, Friend of Abandoned Child

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

1624 Birthday - William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America

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

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

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

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

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













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