2015 Event World leaders at the latest G7 meeting reinforce their commitments to reduce carbon-based emissions, reaffirm support for sanctions against Russia in light of the Ukraine conflict, and discuss issues related to Greece's debt load 2014 Event In light of recent separatist elections, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko seeks to nullify a law that gave greater autonomy to rebel regions; Ukraine does not recognize the election results and will hold national elections as planned in December 2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescents and mercury-containing fluorescents 2014 Event A shipwreck off of Haiti may be that of the Santa Maria, one of the three ships led by Christopher Columbus; the wreck was discovered about 10 years ago, but has only now been tentatively identified in light of Columbus' writings and other evidence 2014 Event HealthCare.gov, the ObamaCare registration website is taking precautions in light of the Heartbleed security bug; all user passwords have been reset 2014 Event Scientists from Australian National University observe the oldest star in the universe for the first time. The star, located 6,000 light years from Earth, serves as a fingerprint of the first stars in the universe; it is believed to be 13.7 billion years old 2012 Event Scientists discover the closest known rogue planet to Earth, known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the planet is about 100+ light years away 2012 Event Light from the first stars in the universe is detected by astronomers studying high-energy radiation data; the data suggests these stars existed as early as 500 million years after the 'big bang' 2012 Event Scientists at Stanford University invent a working bionic eye the is powered only by focused light; the eye could eventually restore the sight of millions of people suffering from macular degeneration and retinal pigmentosa 2011 Event In a Schrodinger's cat experiment, researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light; this is the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another 2009 Death Kelly Groucutt, bass player, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, musician, pop, rock, rock and roll genres, dies in Worcester, England, at age 63 1998 Death Michael Zaslow, actor, The Guiding Light, dies at 56 1997 Event Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic 1997 Event ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen 1997 Death Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39 1996 Event Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic 1996 Event ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel 1995 Death William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83 1995 Event ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby 1995 Event Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) 1992 Event Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows and Light" 1991 Death Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies 1990 Death Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76 1986 Event "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 6 performances 1986 Event "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 6 performances 1986 Event Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title 1984 Birthday Ashley Peldon, born in Staten Island, New York, actress, Marsha-Guilding Light, Deceived 1983 Event Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io 1980 Birthday Bryan Buffinton, born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, actor, Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light 1978 Death Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70 1978 Event Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic 1977 Event Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks 1976 Birthday David Diaz, born in Chicago, Illinois, light welterweight boxer 1996 Olympics 1975 Event University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance 1974 Event 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away 1973 Birthday David Reid, Philadelphia, light middleweight boxer, 1996 Olympics gold 1973 Birthday Oscar de la Hoya, born in Los Angeles, California, boxer, light middleweight, Mexican-American, nicknamed 'The Golden Boy', defeated 17 world championships, won 10 world titles in six different weight classes 1971 Event "Light, Lively and Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 87 performances 1970 Birthday Nia Long, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Guiding Light, Made in America, Soul Food 1970 Event "Light, Lively and Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 87 performances 1969 Birthday Paige Turco, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Melanie-Guiding Light 1968 Birthday Antonio Tarver, Orlando, Florida, light heavyweight boxer, Olympics-br-96 1968 Death Conrad Richter, U.S. writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 1968 Event Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame 1968 Birthday Suzy Cote, born in Santa Barbara, California, actress, Samantha-Guiding Light 1968 Birthday Beth Ehlers, born in Queens, New York, actress, Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger 1968 Birthday Jeff Phillips, born in Westwood, New Jersey, actor, Hart Jessup-Guiding Light 1967 Event Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1 1967 Death Henry C Rumke, psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74 1967 Birthday Melina Kanakaredes, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, Eleni Andros-Guiding Light 1966 Birthday Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist, See the Light 1965 Birthday Allison Daughtry, actress, Guilding Light 1964 Birthday Morgan Englund, actor, Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light 1964 Birthday Leonard Stabb, actor, Hunter Guthrie-One Life to Live, Guiding Light 1963 Birthday Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress, Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light 1961 Event 1st black light is sold 1960 Birthday Mark Derwin, Park Forest, Illinois, actor, AC Mallet-Guiding Light 1960 Event Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal 1960 Birthday Fiona Hutchison, born in Miami, Florida, actress, One Life to Live, Guiding Light 1959 Birthday Vincent Irizarry, Queens, New York, actor, Guiding Light, Santa Barbara 1959 Death John H Kliegl, developer of Klieg light, dies at 89 1959 Birthday Grant Aleksander, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Guiding Light, All My Children 1959 Death Billy Mayerl, composer, pianist, master of light music, composed works for piano and orchestra, developed syncopated novelty piano solos, 300 piano pieces, most named after flowers and trees, dies at 56 1958 Birthday Mark King, bass/vocalist, Level 42-Standing in the Light, Love Games 1958 Birthday Robert Newman, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light 1958 Birthday Tony Sibson, born in Leicester, England, professional boxer, Middleweight, Light heavyweight, during the 1970's and 1980's 1958 Birthday Alexandra Neil, born in Boston, actress, Rose-Guiding Light 1958 Event Last Municipal arc light, Mission and 25th removed (installed in 1913) 1958 Event After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion 1957 Birthday Vince Williams, actor, Hamp-Guiding Light 1957 Birthday Frank Dicopoulos, born in Akron, Ohio, actor, Frank Cooper-Guiding Light 1956 Birthday Debby Boone, born in Hackensack, New Jersey, singer, You Light Up My Life 1955 Birthday Ellen Dolan, Monticello IO, actress, Guiding Light, Margo Hughes-ATWT 1954 Birthday Lisa Brown, KC, Missouri, actress, Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns 1953 Birthday Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, One Life to Live, Guiding Light 1953 Birthday Gregory Beecroft, Chorpus Christi, Texas, actor, Guiding Light 1952 Event "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV 1952 Birthday Melvyn Gale, born in London, England, musician, classical musician, cellist, member, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, runs CD factory 1951 Birthday Kim Zimmer, Michigan, actress, Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live 1949 Birthday Bonnie Raitt, born in Burbank, California, country singer, Green Light, The Glow 1949 Birthday John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer 1968 Olympics bronze 1949 Event 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct) 1949 Birthday Judith Light, Trenton, New Jersey, Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live 1948 Event "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss) 1948 Birthday Vincent Schiavelli, actor, Playroom, Waiting for the Light 1948 Birthday Michael Tylo, Detroit, actor, Guiding Light, Blade-Young and Restless 1948 Birthday Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love' 1948 Birthday Enrique Basilio, hurler, 1st lady to light Olympic flame, Mexico-1968 1948 Event A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon 1947 Birthday Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics 1947 Birthday Cindy Pickett, born in Norman, Oklahoma, actress, Guiding Light, St. Elsewhere 1946 Birthday Robbie Kreiger, born in Los Angeles, California, guitarist, Doors-Come on Baby Light My Fire 1945 Birthday John Densmore, Louisiana, drummer, Doors-C'mon Light My Fire 1945 Birthday Kelly Groucutt, born in Coseley, England, bass player, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, musician, pop, rock, rock and roll genres 1944 Birthday Bev Bevan, born in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England, born Beverley Bevan, rocker musician, played drums, percussion, original member of ELO, founded Electric Light Orchestra Part II, toured as a drummer for band Black Sabbath 1944 Event Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen 1944 Birthday Charles Jay Hammer, actor, Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light 1944 Birthday Rick Price, born in Birmingham, England, bassist, rock music, bass player, played with Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, The Move 1943 Birthday Tina Sloan, New York, actress, Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow 1942 Birthday Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, Roger Thorpe-Guiding Light 1942 Birthday Marie Cheatham, Oklahoma, actress, Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light 1940 Birthday Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics 1940 Birthday Beverlee McKinsey, Oklahoma, actress, Iris-Another World, Guiding Light 1940 Birthday Christopher Bernau, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Guiding Light 1939 Birthday Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer 1960 Olympics silver 1939 Birthday Jason Miller, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, actor and writer, Exorcist, Light of Day 1937 Event 1st broadcast of Soap Opera "Guiding Light" on NBC radio 1935 Birthday Don Stewart, actor, Guiding Light 1933 Birthday Reynolds Price, U.S. writer, Strengthened by a Pale Green Light 1932 Birthday Paul Anderson, U.S., light super heavyweight lifter 1956 Olympics gold 1932 Birthday Charles Adkins, U.S., light welterweight boxer 1952 Olympics gold 1932 Event William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" 1930 Birthday James Felton Boyd, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, light HW boxer 1956 Olympics gold 1929 Event SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system 1929 Event 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light 1928 Birthday Rudolph Plukfelder, U.S.S.R., light heavyweight 1964 Olympic gold 1928 Death Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 1927 Birthday George Hunter, born in South Africa, light heavyweight boxer, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics 1926 Birthday Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Seed of Light, All Fool's Day 1924 Event Light Brigade forms 1922 Birthday Charita Bauer, Newark, New Jersey, actress, Guiding Light, Aldrich Family 1915 Birthday Larry Gates, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Guiding Light, Body Snatchers 1915 Birthday Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ, 1947 fight of year 1914 Event 1st traffic light installed, Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland 1912 Birthday Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles, 1938 1911 Birthday William Roerick, actor, Guiding Light 1908 Event Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light 1908 Birthday Louis Hostin, born in France, Light Heavyweight, Gold Medals 1932, 1936 Olympics 1907 Birthday Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader, Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith 1904 Birthday Maxie Rosenbloom, born in New York City, light heavyweight boxing champ, 1930-34 1904 Birthday Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light 1902 Birthday Billy Mayerl, born in London, England, composer, pianist, master of light music, composed works for piano and orchestra, developed syncopated novelty piano solos, 300 piano pieces, most named after flowers and trees 1901 Birthday Irna Phillips, born in Chicago, created 6 soap operas, Guiding Light 1896 Event Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain 1895 Event Anaheim completes it's new electric light system 1892 Event U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp 1890 Birthday Conrad Richter, writer, Light in the Forest 1882 Birthday Anton H Blaauw, Dutch botanist, Perception of Light 1879 Event Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park 1879 Death James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48 1879 Event Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb 1879 Event Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light 1879 Event 1st electric arc light used in the California Theater 1879 Event Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow 1878 Event Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1877 Event Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop 1876 Event 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco 1876 Birthday Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion 1870 Birthday Georges Claude, inventor, neon light 1868 Birthday Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity 1854 Event Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published 1854 Event Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die 1832 Birthday Edwin Arnold, English writer, Light of India 1827 Birthday William Holdman Hunt, English painter, Light of the World 1819 Birthday Franz von Suppe, Spalato Dalmatia, composer, Light Cavalry Over 1816 Event Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded 1773 Birthday Thomas Young, British philologist/physician, light interference 1756 Birthday Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, general 1644 Birthday Olaus Romer, Denmark, 1st to accurately measured speed of light 1618 Birthday Francesco M. Grimaldi, mathematician and physicist, light defraction 1596 Event David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
