2012 Event Top executive Marissa Mayer, leaves Google after being appointed Yahoo! Inc.'s new CEO 2003 Event 45th Grammy Awards, Norah Jones and John Mayer win major awards 1996 Death Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 1982 Event Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives 1978 Death Jean Amery, Johannes Mayer, Austr writer (Mind's Limits), dies at 65 1977 Birthday John Mayer, American Musician 1957 Death Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 1957 Death Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1957 Event 57th U.S. Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo 1953 Event French government of Mayer resigns 1953 Event Rene Mayer forms French government 1946 Birthday Anthony Mayer, chief executive, Housing Corporation 1944 Death Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49 1940 Birthday Augie Mayer, rocker, Sir Douglas Quintet 1932 Birthday Mayer Joel Mandelbaum, composer 1930 Birthday John Henry Mayer, composer 1930 Birthday David Mayer Epstein, composer 1930 Event Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in New York City 1927 Event Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1925 Birthday William Robert Mayer, composer 1924 Event Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM 1922 Birthday Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association 1920 Birthday Marian McPartland, jazz pianist, Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland 1912 Birthday Jean Amery, Johannes Mayer, Austrian writer, At the Minds Limit 1910 Birthday Irene Mayer Selznick, producer, Street Car Named Desire 1909 Birthday Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader 1906 Birthday Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963 1900 Death Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 1894 Birthday Carl Mayer, Graz, actor, Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise 1885 Birthday Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive, MGM 1882 Birthday Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1878 Death Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1819 Birthday Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi and founder American Hebrew Congregations 1814 Birthday Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1812 Death Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Businessman 1744 Birthday Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder, House of Rothschild 1723 Birthday Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination 1696 Death Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60 1636 Birthday Johann David Mayer, composer
