2013 Event The body of former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is flown from Pretoria to the leader's ancestral village of Qunu, his final resting place 2013 Event Guinness World Records records the largest flag ever made, by a village in Romania; the flag of Romania weighs five tons and used 44 miles of thread 1998 Event U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan 1997 Event Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par 1997 Event Tea Leoni and David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village 1993 Death Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40 1992 Event Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die 1987 Event 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 15-13 at Muirfield Village Golf Club, Ohio 1986 Event Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village 1984 Death Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 1982 Death David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41 1979 Event "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 1979 Event "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart 1979 Event YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song 1975 Event Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens 1973 Event Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open 1972 Event Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open 1969 Event U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 1969 Event Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days 1969 Death Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58 1967 Birthday Rachel Williams, born in Greenwich Village, New York, model, Absolut Vodka, Elle 1967 Birthday Billy Corgan, born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, member of The Smashing Pumpkins band 1963 Event Germany FR annexes Elten village 1961 Event Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village 1958 Death Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61 1956 Birthday Eric Roberts, born in Mississippi, actor, Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies 1955 Event 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published 1945 Death Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65 1943 Birthday Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, New York, singer, Midnight at the Oasis 1943 Birthday Eni Faleomavaega, born in Vailoatai Village, American Samoa, Representative-D-American Samoa 1989 1943 Birthday Ray Buktenica, born in Greenwich Village, New York City, actor, Rhoda, House Calls 1943 Event -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record) 1942 Event Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich 1939 Birthday Tom Johnson, born in Greely, Colorado, composer, minimalist style, new music critic for the Village Voice, wrote music based on tiling, involving mathematical and logical processes 1929 Birthday Mies Bouman, Dutch TV hostess, Open the Village 1928 Birthday Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice 1925 Birthday Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society 1922 Birthday Jack Narz, born in Louisville, Kentucky, TV gameshow host, Dotto, Video Village 1922 Birthday Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village 1916 Birthday Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor, Village of Damned, Question 7 1916 Birthday Penny Santon, Greenwich Village, New York, actress, Roll Out, Matt Houston 1915 Birthday Dick Thomas, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, TV host, Village Barn 1915 Birthday Dick Dudley, TV host, Village Barn 1914 Event German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice 1911 Birthday Pete Piute, Morris Kaufman, born in New York City, comedian, Village Barn 1906 Birthday John Carradine, Greenwich Village, New York, actor, Grapes of Wrath, Howling 1897 Birthday Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author, Village by the River 1887 Birthday Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village 1882 Event British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger 1882 Event British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger 1879 Birthday Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer, Weggevagde Village 1876 Birthday Maurice de Vlaminck, born in Paris, Fauvist painter, Village in the Snow 1872 Event "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village 1833 Event Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 1832 Death Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies 1832 Event U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy 1817 Event U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War 1813 Event U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala 1790 Event Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village 1752 Event Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" 1752 Birthday Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village 1630 Event Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
