2013 Event The world's first plastic gun, produced by a 3-D printer by Defense Distributed fires successfully in Austin, Texas. Security officials fear plastic weapons would not be detected at airport screenings 2011 Event Exiled Tibetans are banned from celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday; Nepalese authorities fear the gatherings would become anti-Chinese 2011 Event Over 200,000 people are evacuated from Japan as fear of nuclear contamination from the power plants grows 2011 Event Voters in Uganda participate in the Ugandan general election; voters fear the election is rigged to extend the 30-year rule of rebel Yoweri Museveni 1993 Death Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80 1992 Death Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies 1992 Death Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies 1991 Death Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 1991 Death Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70 1984 Death Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66 1973 Birthday Juliette Lewis, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear 1969 Birthday Edward Norton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, appeared in films, 'Primal Fear', 'Rounder', 'Fight Club', 'Red Dragon', 'The Illusionist' 1960 Birthday Chuck D, born in Roosevelt, New York, rapper, author, leader, Public Enemy, created politically, socially conscious rap music, focused on hip hop genre, albums include, 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'Fear of a Black Planet' 1959 Birthday Barrie Chase, actress, Mardi Gras, Cape Fear 1952 Birthday Ray Sharkey, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Wise Guys, Wired, Caged Fear 1952 Birthday Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey 1949 Birthday Bill Wallace, rocker/actor, Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate 1948 Death Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53 1942 Birthday Erica Jong, born in New York City, author, Fear of Flying 1941 Event FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) 1940 Birthday Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor, Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas 1939 Birthday Hunter Thompson, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1933 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." 1933 Birthday Mary Ure, England, model/actress, Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way 1932 Birthday Anthony Perkins, born in New York City, actor, Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison 1927 Birthday Karlheinz Boehm, born in Germany, actor, Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural 1923 Birthday Michael V. Gazzo, born in Hillside, New Jersey, actor, Cookie, Fear City 1917 Birthday Kurt Kreuger, born in St. Moritz, Switzerland, actor, Fear, Unfaithfully Yours 1913 Birthday Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor, Brain, Wages of Fear 1913 Birthday William Prince, Nichols, New York, actor, City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac 1908 Birthday Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer, Reade Runen 1908 Birthday Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor, director and writer, Fear 1905 Birthday Nestor Paiva, born in Fresno, California, actor, Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape 1902 Birthday Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist, Of Fear and Freedom 1892 Birthday Charles Vanel, Rennes France, actor, Wages of Fear 1888 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" 1882 Birthday Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel, theologist, Fear and Religion 1797 Event Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil! 1385 Event John without Fear marries Margaretha of Brabant
