2013 Event The Hunger Games: Catching Fire grosses $161 million in the U.S. and Canada, becoming the most successful film ever released in November 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 2012 Event Imprisoned Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is moved to a hospital after a political compromise, ending her hunger strike 2010 Event The World Food Programme reports that 4.3 million people suffer from hunger in Sudan, the number has quadrupled since 2009 1996 Death Patrick McGeown, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981, dies at 40 from a heart attack 1989 Event Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China 1981 Event Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike 1981 Death Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike 1981 Death Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike 1981 Event Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament 1981 Event Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison 1980 Event IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike 1968 Birthday Beth Ehlers, born in Queens, New York, actress, Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger 1967 Death Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies 1956 Birthday Patrick McGeown, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981 1956 Birthday Ann Magnuson, Charleston, West Virginia, actress, Anything But Love, Hunger 1954 Birthday Jeffrey Sachs, born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffrey David Sachs, economist, founder, co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance to end extreme poverty and hunger, Senior Advisor to the Global Poverty Project 1945 Birthday Cliff De Young, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment 1943 Birthday Stephen Wallace, director, For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride 1943 Birthday Catherine Deneuve, born in Paris, actress, Repulsion, Hunger 1936 Birthday Mischa de Vreede, poet, Our Eternal Hunger 1932 Event Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables 1932 Birthday Ivan Davis, Electra, Texas, pianist/writer, Hunger, Corn is Green 1931 Birthday Gunnel Lindblom, Goeteborg Sweden, actor, Hunger, Virgin Spring 1922 Event Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London 1900 Birthday Howard Thurman, theologian/author, Deep River, Deep in the Hunger 1849 Event Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike 1845 Event Hunger strike in Hague 1740 Event Hunger strike in Rotterdam 1522 Event Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
