2012 Event Scientists create a 'magic carpet' using optical fibers to help prevent elderly people from falling by detecting when unusual footsteps are taken 2011 Event In Bordeaux, France, and elderly woman becomes the first person to die from the recent e.coli outbreak 1999 Event International Year of Elderly 1975 Event Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 1941 Event All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS 1741 Birthday Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer, For the Elderly and Children
