2014 Event The U.S House of Representatives and Senate finalized a long-delayed farm bill designed to cut $19 billion in farm subsidies, and reduce the $8 billion spent on food stamps over the next ten years 2013 Event In efforts to turn its back on nuclear power, Japan announces plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Fukushima Prefecture, near the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant 2011 Event Two South African farm workers begin trial for murdering white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche 1998 Event State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1997 Event Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales 1997 Event Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic 1996 Event Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1995 Event Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1995 Death John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81 1994 Event Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1994 Death Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 1993 Event Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1993 Death Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66 1992 Event Erie Sailors (Florida Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13 1992 Event Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic 1992 Event Farm Aid V 1991 Death Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies 1991 Event Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy 1991 Event Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic 1990 Event Farm Aid IV concert 1990 Death Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92 1988 Death Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96 1987 Event New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY 1985 Event Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert 1983 Event New Jersey Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team 1975 Event Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India 1974 Event Wings release "Junior's Farm" 1972 Event Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm 1972 Birthday Leta Lindley, born in Phoenix, Arizona, LPGA golfer, 1995 State Farm Rail-3rd 1971 Birthday Helen Dobson, Skegness England, golfer, 1993 State Farm Rail Classic 1970 Birthday Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer, 95 State Farm Rail Classic-11 1969 Event Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) 1966 Death Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 1959 Event Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens 1956 Event Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus 1952 Event Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base 1950 Death George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46 1948 Event 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash 1946 Event George Orwell published "Animal Farm" 1945 Event 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm 1945 Death Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm 1938 Death Henry Schultz, U.S. farm commune, dies 1934 Event Electric Home and Farm Authority incorporated 1933 Event Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized 1933 Birthday Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress, Cold Comfort Farm 1933 Event U.S. Farm Credit Administration authorized 1929 Event Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen 1927 Birthday Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers 1923 Event 1st successful chinchilla farm in U.S. (Los Angeles California) 1918 Birthday Dwayne Andreas, born in Worthington, Minnesota, called the 'Soybean King', CEO of Archer Daniels Midland - ADM, largest producer of farm commodities in the U.S. for over 30 years 1914 Birthday Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra 1913 Birthday Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm 1909 Birthday Bukka White, born in Houston, Mississippi, Booker T. Washington White, gave cousin B.B. King his first guitar, celebrated as National steel guitarist, wrote "Parchman Farm Blues" 1909 Birthday Stojan T. Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer, A Farm 1903 Birthday George Orwell, British writer, Animal Farm, 1984 1902 Birthday Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm 1893 Birthday Henry Schultz, U.S., farm commune leader 1880 Birthday Eugene O'Brien, Boulder, Ohio, actor, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1868 Birthday Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm 1867 Event Grange organized to protect farm interests 1864 Event Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church) 1864 Event Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) 1863 Event Battle of Payne's Farm, VA 1862 Event Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm) 1862 Event Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Day 7 of Seven Days US15,249 CS17,583 1862 Event Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia 1862 Event Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp Virginia (Frayser's Farm) 1862 Event Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, Virginia 1856 Birthday Kate Douglas Wiggins, author, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1845 Birthday John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker, 1st Belgian farm gilde 1801 Event Elisha Brown, Jr. pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm 1777 Event Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga 1644 Event Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China and flees Peking
