2015 Event Harper Lee will release her second novel, 'Go Set a Watchman,' after 55 years; Lee wrote this novel first, presenting Scout as an adult, but editors convinced Lee to write instead about Scout as a child, resulting in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 2014 Event Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, announce the birth of their first child, Charlotte, making grandparents of former U.S. presidential couple Bill and Hillary Clinton 2014 Event Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, announce that they are expecting their second child; baby Prince George celebrated his first birthday two months ago 2014 Event Samsung temporarily suspends operations with supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics Co after allegations of child labor; Samsung is conducting an investigation 2014 Event Chelsea Clinton has announced that she and her husband Marc are expecting their first child in the fall; Chelsea is the only child of Bill and Hillary Clinton 2013 Event Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to a son, the third in line to the British throne; the child, named George Alexander Louis, is formally known as His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge 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
