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100 years anniversary | ||||
29 Jun 1924 | Ezra Laderman: NYC, New York -- Composer (Jacob & the Indians) | |||
29 Jun 1924 | Ezra Laderman, American composer and educator (d. 2015) | |||
29 Jun 1924 | Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006) | |||
29 Jun 1924 | Roy Walford, American pathologist and gerontologist (d. 2004) | |||
29 Jun 1924 | Ezra Laderman NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians) | |||
29 Jun 1924 |
birth Roy Walford Born 29 Jun 1924; died 27 Apr 2004 at age 79. Roy Lee Wolford, Jr. was an American pathologist and gerontologist who pioneered, and wrote books on, the idea of restricting food intake to extend life span. He practiced the concept rigorously personally with a diet limited to 1,600 calories per day, hoping to reach age 120. During his research in the 1960's at the University of California, he found that mice fed on a regimen restricting their caloric intake by about 40 percent resulted in nearly doubling their life span. He is also known as one of the eight people that lived from 1991 in Biosphere 2, in an experiment to see if humans could live for two years in the sealed, self-contained environment. He died at age 79 of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease, perhaps a result of low oxygen, high nitrous oxide levels in the Biosphere, causing loss of brain cells. |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
29 Jun 1949 | Dan Dierdorf: NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football) | |||
29 Jun 1949 | South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages | |||
29 Jun 1949 | US troops withdraw from Korea after WWII | |||
29 Jun 1949 | Greg Burson, American voice actor (d. 2008) | |||
29 Jun 1949 | Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona | |||
29 Jun 1949 | Ann Veneman, American politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture | |||
29 Jun 1949 | Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860) | |||
29 Jun 1949 | Dan Dierdorf NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football) | |||
29 Jun 1949 | South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages | |||
29 Jun 1949 | US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
29 Jun 1974 | Ted Giannous: San Diego, California -- Actor (KGB Chicken) | |||
29 Jun 1974 | Military coup in Ethiopia | |||
29 Jun 1974 | Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Perón, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later. | |||
29 Jun 1974 | Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet. | |||
29 Jun 1974 | Charles Aznavour was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'She', the French singers only UK No.1. At the time it made Aznavour the oldest living male chart-topper in the UK charts (at fifty years old). | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
29 Jun 1999 | Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950) | |||
29 Jun 1999 | Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937) | |||
29 Jun 1999 | Michael Jackson suffered severe bruising after falling over 50 feet when a bridge collapsed during a concert at Munich's Olympic stadium. Jacko was singing 'Earth Song' at the time of the accident. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
29 Jun 2004 | Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (b. 1935) | |||
29 Jun 2004 | Courtney Love was reprimanded by Los Angeles Judge Melissa Jackson for turning up five hours late to a hearing. Love pleaded guilty to a single charge of disorderly conduct and was given a discharge, on condition she paid the victim's medical bills, joins a drug programme and stayed out of trouble. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
29 Jun 2014 | Damian D'Oliveira, South African cricketer (b. 1960) | |||
29 Jun 2014 | Dermot Healy, Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1947) | |||
29 Jun 2014 | Paul Horn, American flute player (b. 1930) | |||
29 Jun 2014 | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq. |