2013 Event Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets 2011 Event In efforts to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from floods, the Morganza Spillway is opened on the Mississippi River, deliberately flooding 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana 2011 Event Australia's enormous flood effects 13,000 properties in rural Victoria 1958 Birthday Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England 1955 Event Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County 1925 Birthday Cora Lee Johnson, social activist for rural poor 1916 Birthday Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi 1914 Birthday Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi 1882 Event May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania 1763 Birthday George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes
