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2013 Event - The U.N. Human Rights Office determine it is a violation of international law to force-feed hunger strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison

2013 Event - Scientist in China discover an ancient human fossil in a cave near Beijing; the 40,000 year-old leg bone shows it was related to the ancestors of present-day Asians and Native Americans

2013 Event - In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills

2013 Event - The air pollution in Beijing reaches levels deemed hazardous to human health

2012 Event - Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American philosopher, linguist and human rights activist, visits Gaza for the first time, attending a seminar with Gazan thinkers and intellectuals

2012 Event - Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for human ascent by balloon by space diving 128,100 feet out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico

2012 Event - The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe'

2012 Event - The U.S. Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary, release a new U.S. national strategy to prevent suicides; the strategy uses Facebook as a tactic

2012 Event - For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date, are made available to the public in the 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements'

2012 Event - Curiosity, the Mars rover, broadcasts its first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet

2012 Event - Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones

2012 Event - Ending an extensive study on the wooly mammoth, scientists conclude that they were wiped out by multiple things, including climate change, human hunters, and shifting habitats

2011 Event - The Government of Syria is under investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council for alleged human rights violations during the 2011 Syrian uprising

2011 Event - The U.S. National Football League ratifies a new collective bargaining agreement which includes provisions for human growth hormone tests

2011 Event - The first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - The U.S. intends to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian Uprising

2011 Event - China releases two prominent human rights lawyers, Liu Xiaoyuan and Jiang Tianyong

2011 Event - Reports claim that China has successfully modified cows to produce 'human milk'

2011 Event - Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - Human Rights Watch reports 24 people were killed in Libya's 'Day of Rage' anti-regime protest

2011 Event - The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record

2011 Event - China places new controls on text messages sent on mobile phones containing references to democracy, human rights and corruption

2010 Event - Remains of a human that lived 400,000 years ago are discovered in Israel, challenging the theory that humans originated in Africa

2010 Event - A construction site in London reveals a Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains

2010 Event - Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old

2010 Event - An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act

2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

2005 Event - First human face transplant is performed in France

2001 Death - Anthony Storr, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression', dies

1997 Death - Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89

1997 Event - Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil

1997 Event - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

1996 Death - Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61

1996 Death - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86

1992 Event - Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town"

1991 Death - Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74

1990 Event - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)

1990 Death - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies

1988 Event - South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

1988 Event - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley

1987 Event - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads

1985 Death - James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74

1984 Death - Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack

1984 Event - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.

1984 Event - "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 13 performances

1984 Event - "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances

1983 Event - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1983 Event - Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England

1982 Event - Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)

1980 Event - Department of Health and Human Services begins operation

1979 Death - John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91

1979 Death - Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84

1977 Death - Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75

1977 Event - President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

1977 Event - Czechoslovakian intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77

1975 Death - Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70

1974 Event - Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old

1973 Birthday - Ato Boldon, born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, athlete, world's fastest human sprinter, 4-time World Champion and Olympic medalist

1973 Death - Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45

1972 Event - U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

1970 Event - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee

1969 Death - Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65

1969 Event - 1st human eye transplant performed

1968 Event - Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited

1967 Event - 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa)

1967 Birthday - Human Beatbox, Darren Robinson, rocker, Fat Boys-Jail House Rock

1967 Event - 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF

1963 Death - John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54

1963 Event - Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant

1963 Birthday - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker, Human Leauge-Human

1962 Birthday - Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist, Human League

1960 Birthday - Django Bates, born in Beckenham, England, jazz musician, founder, Human Chain, plays tenor horn, keyboards, piano

1959 Event - Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)

1957 Birthday - Ian Burden, S Yorks England, rock bassist, Human League-Only Human

1957 Birthday - Amy Goodman, born in Bay Shore, New York, journalist, author, host of 'Democracy Now!' public radio news program, focusing on peace, human rights movements

1956 Birthday - Adrian Wright, rocker, Human League-Only Human

1956 Birthday - Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human League-Only Human

1955 Birthday - Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human Leauge-Only Human

1955 Birthday - Phillip Oakey, rocker, Human League

1954 Event - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1952 Event - 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colorado)

1948 Event - U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948 Event - U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights

1948 Birthday - Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist

1947 Event - Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)

1946 Birthday - Dan Millman, born in America, author, wrote, published 14 self-help books focusing on human potential, wrote 'The Life You Were Born to Live'

1944 Death - Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79

1941 Birthday - Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate

1940 Event - British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1939 Birthday - Nanette Newman, writer/actress, Endless Game, Of Human Bondage

1939 Event - Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort

1933 Event - Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania

1933 Birthday - Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989 - 1993

1933 Birthday - Kim Novak, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Vertigo, Of Human Bondage

1931 Birthday - Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85

1930 Birthday - Darryl Hickman, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Human Comedy, Tea and Sympathy

1928 Birthday - Desmond Morris, English zoologist, Human Ape, Body Language

1926 Birthday - Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human, 486 kg

1924 Birthday - Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP

1921 Birthday - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75

1921 Birthday - Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture

1920 Birthday - Anthony Storr, born in London, England, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression'

1918 Birthday - Otis R Bowen, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1985 - 1989

1918 Birthday - Robert Wadlow, Alton, Illinois, tallest known human, 2.72 m, 8' 11.1"

1918 Birthday - Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker

1915 Birthday - Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey

1915 Event - "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

1912 Event - China votes for universal human rights

1909 Birthday - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist

1909 Birthday - Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human

1908 Birthday - Bette Davis, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, famous eyes, Of Human Bondage, Jezebel

1908 Birthday - Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate

1907 Birthday - Frances Dee, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Of Human Bondage

1904 Birthday - Kay Johnson, Mount Vernon, New York, actress, Real Glory, Of Human Bondage

1902 Birthday - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor, Star is Born, Human Jungle

1897 Birthday - Morris Ankrum, Illinois, actor, Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers

1887 Birthday - John Cromwell, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor and director, Spitfire, Of Human Bondage

1877 Event - 1st human cannonball act performed in London

1874 Birthday - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage

1871 Event - The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot

1870 Event - Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum

1864 Birthday - Robert E Park, U.S., sociologist, human ecology, marginal man

1863 Birthday - Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human, 2.1 kg at 17

1799 Birthday - Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy

1792 Birthday - Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist, discovered human ovum

1747 Death - Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris

1715 Birthday - Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives

1711 Birthday - David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature

1710 Birthday - Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet, Human Life

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