2013 Event Sigmundur Davio Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister elect of Iceland, announces he will indefinitely extend January's freeze on European Union membership talks 1987 Event 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze 1983 Event House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. 1971 Event President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents 1960 Birthday John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze 1952 Event Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery 1946 Event President Truman ends wage/price freeze 1946 Event Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over 1946 Birthday Peter Wolf, rock singer, J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame 1941 Event Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures, Penicillin 1923 Event Salary and price freeze in Germany 1476 Event 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy