2014 Event Demonstrators block Wall Street as they demand action on climate change in advance of a U.N. climate change forum tomorrow 2014 Event Leaders from around the world attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 2013 Event The Arctic Council, an international forum that addresses issues faced by Arctic governments and the Arctic's indigenous people, gives China, India and four other nations observer status 2013 Event Davos, Switzerland hosts its 2013 World Economic Forum 2011 Event The 41st World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland 1973 Birthday Larry Page, born in East Lansing, Michigan, computer scientist, Google co-founder, named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum 1967 Event 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, Los Angeles Lakers beat Houston 147-118 1967 Event Great Western Forum opens in LA 1963 Event 17th Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win 1940 Death Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38 1927 Birthday John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1926 Birthday Earle Brown, born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, composer, known for reviving interest in classical music with musical improvisation, creating formal and notational systems, and open forum style of muscial construction 1924 Event NHL's Montreal Forum opens 1924 Birthday Phyllis Schlafly, St. Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president