2014 Event Prominent Chinese legal activist, Xu Zhiyong, is sentenced to four years in prison; convicted of 'gathering a crowd to disturb public order,' the case is seen as evidence that Communist Party leaders wish to expunge any challenges to the power or leadership 2014 Event Hillary Clinton has rented out her 2008 campaign email list to a prominent group of supporters urging her to run for President in 2016 2013 Event Russian politician Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition figure, registers as candidate for Mayor in Moscow's September's election 2011 Event China releases two prominent human rights lawyers, Liu Xiaoyuan and Jiang Tianyong 2009 Event Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico 1989 Death Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria 1988 Event Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden 1966 Birthday Salma Hayek, born in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, actress, Mexican national, most prominent Mexican figure in Hollywood, fights discrimination against immigrants 1958 Birthday Lea DeLaria, born in Belleville, Illinois, actress, jazz musician, comedienne, prominent lesbian stand-up comic, known for her raunchy persona 1942 Event German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages 1942 Event German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages 1940 Event Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald 1931 Birthday Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist 1886 Birthday Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement 1884 Death John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies 1830 Birthday Julius Caesar, cricketer, prominent batsman for Surrey
