2015 Event The U.K. Labor Party elects left-wing Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader; Corbyn promises to address poverty and economic inequality 2011 Event A new census measure claims that a record number of Americans, 49.1 million, are living below the poverty line 2010 Event Poverty rates in the United States hit a 15-year high of 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people 1994 Death Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92 1966 Death Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88 1964 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty 1964 Event President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" 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 1914 Event Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty 1903 Birthday Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer, Temptation of Poverty 1875 Birthday Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist, Poverty 1839 Birthday Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty 1506 Death Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55
