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2009 Event - U.S. Army officer William Calley publicly apologizes for the mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai

2006 Death - Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland

1996 Death - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65

1996 Death - Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58

1994 Death - Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76

1993 Event - 12 member European Economic Community sets up vast free trade zone

1991 Event - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community

1990 Event - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq

1988 Event - European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992

1986 Event - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500

1986 Event - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade

1986 Event - Spain and Portugal are 11th and 12th to join European Economic Community

1981 Event - Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community

1978 Event - Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois

1974 Event - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament

1973 Event - CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms

1973 Event - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

1966 Event - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching

1965 Event - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

1965 Event - Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues

1965 Event - Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan, founded

1965 Event - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms

1959 Event - Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community

1958 Event - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)

1958 Event - Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community

1958 Event - Central African Republic made autonomous member of French Community (National Day)

1958 Event - Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community

1958 Event - Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community

1958 Event - Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community

1958 Event - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community

1958 Event - Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community

1958 Event - European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation

1957 Event - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market

1952 Event - European Defense Community forms

1951 Event - France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community

1950 Event - French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS

1941 Event - Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated

1937 Birthday - Oscar Abrams, community organizer

1931 Birthday - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader

1925 Birthday - Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community

1923 Birthday - Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist

1918 Event - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)

1917 Birthday - Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries

1917 Birthday - Peter Caddy, founder, Findhorn Community

1916 Birthday - Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi

1914 Birthday - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi

1913 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine

1905 Event - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania

1863 Death - Frederick William Faber, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham, dies

1839 Death - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies

1838 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed

1825 Event - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community

1814 Birthday - Frederick William Faber, born in Calverley, England, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham

1811 Birthday - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community, Perfectionists

1800 Event - Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave

1619 Death - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies

1563 Event - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled

1524 Event - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome

1407 Event - Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow

1349 Event - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated

1298 Event - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated

1267 Event - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem

1241 Event - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany

1147 Event - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence


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