2012 Event Ahead of court martial, suspect U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged with turning over a massive cache of classified documents to Wikileaks 2001 Death Herbert Ross, director, The Turning Point, dies at 74 1971 Birthday Tim Jones, born in America, composer, musician, composer of film scores including, 'Chuck', 'Vampires: The Turning', 'Wicked Little Things' 1958 Birthday Leslie Browne, born in New York City, ballerina, Turning Point 1949 Death Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies 1949 Birthday Starr Danias, born in New York City, ballerina, Turning Point 1943 Event German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II 1939 Birthday Antoinette Sibley, ballerina, Turning Point 1911 Event Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S., not ratified 1911 Event Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified) 1905 Event Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US 1904 Birthday Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina, Turning Point