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 an effort to hunt for terrorists 'hiding in plain sight' online, spies at U.S. surveillance agencies may have spent time playing online games such as 'World of Warcraft', 'Second Life', and may have gathered information on the gaming network, Xbox Live 2010 Event Scientists announce the discovery of three new animal species that spent their entire lives without oxygen; the species are phylum Loricifera 2000 Death Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies 1987 Event Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart 1985 Event William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky 1984 Event Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) 1984 Death David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12 1963 Event President Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland 1956 Birthday Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail 1931 Birthday Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood 1915 Birthday John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1815 Birthday Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
