1994 Death John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47 1988 Event Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities 1988 Event Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ's burial cloth 1983 Event 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio 1979 Event Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab 1971 Event U.S.S.R. Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit 1956 Event U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus 1951 Event E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab 1951 Event U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security 1946 Birthday Kate Hoey, British MP, Lab 1943 Birthday Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT 1943 Birthday Dale Campbell-Savours, MP, Lab 1943 Birthday Tony Banks, English politician, Lab 1937 Death James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1929 Birthday Robert J L Hawke, Lab, Prime Minister Australia, 1983 - 1991 1929 Birthday Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British, Lab, spokesperson on Home Affairs 1929 Birthday Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash 1924 Birthday Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP, Lab, British defense secretary 1919 Birthday Ted Leadbitter, British MP, Lab 1908 Birthday Lab Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell ouchere, local historian 1907 Birthday Margaret Herbison, British minister, Lab 1893 Birthday Johannes T. Thijsse, Dutch founder, Waterloopkundig lab Delft