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2013 Event - In Beijing, China, a seven-year old girl is confirmed as the first person in the country to catch the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 bird flu

2013 Event - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake named Nantou, strikes near Taipei, Taiwan; one person is killed and 19 injured

2012 Event - At 115 years old and 266 days, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest living person

2012 Death - Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93

2012 Event - Medical textbooks require rewriting after 39-year-old Canadian Scott Routley becomes the first person believed to be in a vegetative state to tell scientists he isn't in any pain

2012 Event - Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person on the Moon, dies at age 82

2012 Event - At least one person is killed from an explosion in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya

2011 Event - During the 40th anniversary of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, a bomb kills one person and clashes break out between security and opposition protesters

2011 Event - A landslide in Malaysia leaves one person killed and six missing

2011 Event - In Bordeaux, France, and elderly woman becomes the first person to die from the recent e.coli outbreak

2011 Event - In Canada, Kathryn Gray becomes the youngest person to ever discover a supernova; she is ten years old

2010 Event - Italy's plan to ban plastic bags goes into effect; the country was using 20 billion plastic bags a year - about 300 per person

2010 Event - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, China, destroys at least 100 homes, injures 11 and kills one person

2009 Event - One person out of 183 passengers and crew survives the crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Moroni, Comoros

2004 Death - Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, formerly world's oldest person in 2004, dies at 114

2004 Death - Charlotte Benkner, the world's second oldest person for a few years, dies at 114

2003 Death - Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97

2003 Event - China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

2003 Death - "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed

2002 Death - Ted Williams, athlete, last person to hit .400 for a season as a major leaguer, dies at 83

2000 Death - Eva Morris, really old woman, Oldest person in 2000, dies at 114

1999 Death - Sarah Clark Knauss, oldest person 1999, dies at 119

1998 Death - Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, oldest person in 1998, dies at 117

1997 Death - Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122

1996 Death - Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific

1993 Death - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111

1993 Event - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street

1993 Death - Mike Templeton, 2nd person to receive a heart pump, dies at 34

1991 Death - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109

1990 Event - BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies

1989 Event - U.S. Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York City Board of Estimate

1986 Death - Sydney J. Harris, journalist, wrote, syndicated column, 'Strictly Personal', wrote for Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, political positions placed him on the list of Nixon political opponents, wrote, 'The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma', dies in Chicago, Illinois

1986 Death - Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78

1985 Event - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)

1979 Event - Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel

1978 Event - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person

1977 Event - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball

1973 Event - Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London

1972 Birthday - Yureck Person, soccer player, NAC

1971 Event - Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon

1971 Birthday - Wesley Person, NBA guard, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers

1969 Birthday - Robert Person, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pitcher for the New York Mets

1968 Event - Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so

1968 Event - Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds

1965 Death - Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57

1964 Birthday - Chuck Person, NBA forward for the San Antonio Spurs

1962 Birthday - Zulqarnain, cricketer, last person in alphabetical order to play Test

1962 Event - Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach

1961 Event - Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1

1960 Birthday - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker, Skids-Scared to Dance

1952 Event - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation

1952 Birthday - Philip Green, born in Croyden, England, businessman, owns large retail stores including Arcadia Group, 9th richest person in Britain, worth over $4 billion

1951 Event - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao

1947 Birthday - John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow'

1947 Birthday - Peter Bird, born in Britain, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days

1943 Event - 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched

1938 Event - New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"

1933 Birthday - Sheldon Adelson, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, property developer, billionaire businessman, investing in gambling and leisure businesses, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., Forbes' third riches person in the U.S. in 2008

1932 Birthday - David Scott, born in San Antonio, Texas, astronaut, commander of Apollo 15 mission, seventh person to walk on the Moon, first person to drive on the Moon

1929 Birthday - Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person, British Broadcast Standards

1922 Event - 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar

1917 Birthday - Sydney J. Harris, born in London, England, journalist, wrote, syndicated column, 'Strictly Personal', wrote for Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, political positions placed him on the list of Nixon political opponents, wrote, 'The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma'

1912 Event - 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person

1908 Birthday - Edward R. Murrow, Pole Creek, North Carolina, newscaster, Person to Person

1906 Birthday - Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho

1904 Birthday - John J. Sirica, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Joseph Sirica, judge, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Watergate scandal, Time magazine Person of the Year, 1973

1902 Event - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft

1889 Birthday - F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands

1883 Death - Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44

1882 Birthday - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland

1882 Birthday - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland

1877 Birthday - Charlotte Hughes, 1990, oldest person in Great Britain

1864 Event - Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person

1838 Birthday - Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb, famous short person

1803 Death - Edward Despard, last person drawn and quartered in England

1692 Event - Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in U.S. (Salem Mass)

3 Birthday - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer, Blind Person Owl

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