2012 Event U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed 1988 Death Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38 1962 Event Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds 1942 Birthday Fred Ward, SD California, actor, Chain Reaction, Thunderheart, Equinox 1942 Event 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago 1942 Event 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago 1897 Birthday Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 1874 Birthday Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician, Reaction of Pirquet 1826 Birthday Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, Reaction of Cannizzaro
