2014 Event The foundation set up by Bill and Melinda Gates will provide funding to research and test various treatments for the Ebola virus, including vaccines and blood plasma therapy 2013 Event An experimental privacy feature on Google's Android mobile software is removed, raising objections from the Electronic Frontier Foundation; the feature allowed users to block apps from collecting personal information such as a user's location and address book data 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 2006 Event Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 1992 Event Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured 1987 Event Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title 1986 Event 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC 1967 Event Foundation Arizona soccer team forms in Alkmaar 1960 Birthday Tony Robbins, born in North Hollywood, California, self-help author, motivational speaker, books include, 'Awaken the Giant Within', founder, 'Anthony Robbins Foundation' 1958 Birthday Steve Case, born in McLean, Virginia, co-founder and chief executive officer of America Online, AOL, founder of Revolution LLC holding, chairman of the Case Foundation 1958 Event Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established 1957 Event Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam 1956 Event Medic Alert Foundation forms 1955 Birthday John Gilmore, born in America, fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, among founders of Cygnus Solutions, Cypherpunks mailing list, Electronic Frontier Foundation 1953 Birthday Richard Stallman, born in New York City, New York, computer programmer, software freedom activist, set up the Free Software Foundation 1945 Event Foundation 1940-45 established 1939 Birthday Jon Appleton, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, pioneer in electro-acoustic music, won Guggenheim, Fulbright Foundation fellowships 1938 Birthday Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists 1938 Event Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid 1936 Event Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates 1933 Birthday Phill Niblock, born in Anderson, Indiana, composer, videographer, filmmaker, director, avente-garde music foundation, Experimental Media 1931 Birthday Joan Clague, director of nursing services, Marie Curie Foundation 1931 Birthday Nigel Vinson, born in England, Baron Vinson, businessman, served in Queen's Royal Regiment, Member of National Parks and Countryside Committee, Member of Foundation of Science and Technology 1930 Birthday Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation 1923 Death Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (H Pierson Foundation), dies at 89 1920 Birthday Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer, I Robot, Foundation Trilogy 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 1913 Event John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 1913 Event Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid 1910 Birthday Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation 1899 Event Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England 1892 Event Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St. John laid (New York City) 1887 Birthday Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation 1882 Birthday Otto Neurath, Australian/British philosopher, Foundation of Social Sciences 1867 Event Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria 1834 Birthday Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist, HP Foundation 1732 Event Foundation laid for Bank of England 1675 Event King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich 1632 Event Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV 1561 Death Menno Simonsz, Dutch priest/vicar (Foundation Book), dies
