1991 Event Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame 1971 Birthday Mitchel van der Gaag, Dutch soccer player, PSV, Motherwell 1950 Birthday Mitchel Laurance, actor, LA Law, Not Necessarily the News 1940 Event U.S. Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York 1875 Death John Mitchel, Irish Journalist 1862 Death Ormsby Mcknight Mitchel, U.S. astronomer/Union-general-major, dies at 53 1815 Birthday John Mitchel, Irish Journalist 1809 Birthday Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers
