Historical Events 1943 - Meat (784 gram/week‚ 2 kilogram for GI's)‚ butter and cheese rationed in US during WW II 1961 - After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria 1971 - 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre 1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers 1992 - Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland‚ California won by Mishuktienok and Dmitriev (CIS) 1996 - 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle‚ Boyz II Men win More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1869 - AleÅ¡ Hrdlička‚ Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum)‚ born in Humpolec‚ Austria-Hungary (d. 1943) 1927 - Arthur Ravenel Jr‚ American businessman and politician (Rep-R-South Carolina)‚ born in Charleston‚ South Carolina 1927 - John R. Vane‚ English pharmacologist (Nobel 1982)‚ born in Tardebigg‚ Worcestershire (d. 2004) 1938 - Bert de Vries‚ Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA)‚ born in Groningen‚ Netherlands 1946 - Billy Thorpe‚ British-Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs - "I Told The Brook"‚ "Mashed Potato"; solo - "Children of the Sun")‚ born in Manchester‚ England (d. 2007) 1974 - Marc Gené‚ Spanish auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 2009)‚ born in Sabadell‚ Spain More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1058 - Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen]‚ 1st Belgium Pope (1057-58)‚ dies 1578 - Arthur Champernowne‚ English admiral (b. 1524) 1953 - Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein]‚ American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon)‚ dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68 1970 - Lev Kuleshov‚ Russian filmmaker and film theorist (Po Zakonu‚ founder of Moscow film school)‚ dies at 71 1980 - Annunzio Mantovani‚ Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani)‚ dies at 74 2001 - Helge Ingstad‚ Norwegian explorer (b. 1899) More Famous Deaths »