1979 Event Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan 1955 Death Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79 1941 Birthday Jennifer Helen McLeod, composer 1908 Event 14th U.S. Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass 1904 Event Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School 1900 Birthday Edwin McLeod, cricketer, played in New Zealand's 2nd-ever Test 1930 1875 Birthday Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College