2012 Event Italian voters select center-left candidate Pier Luigi Bersani as their new Prime Minister 1983 Death Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia 1981 Death Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies 1977 Event Pier 39 opens in San Francisco 1975 Death Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 1971 Death Pier Angeli, actress (Octaman), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39 1963 Event Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park 1961 Event New pier opens in Scheveningen 1955 Event Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum 1932 Birthday Pier Angeli, born in Italy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge 1925 Birthday Pier Tania, Meinte Piet, radio/TV host, ANP, De Bezetting 1922 Birthday Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna, Italy, director, Teorema, Pigsty 1898 Event 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey 1891 Birthday Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect, Nuove Struttura 1882 Event 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C. 1676 Death Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73 1676 Death Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73 1630 Event Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno 1602 Birthday Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer 1571 Death Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68 1502 Birthday Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
