2015 Event Giant panda Mei Xiang gives birth to twin cubs at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C.; the cubs appear healthy but will alternate between an incubator and nursing time with their mother 2014 Event A 2-year-old girl is the first case of Ebola in Mali; the girl was brought to the country from Guinea after her mother's death 2012 Event In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother's death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy 2012 Event In the U.S. state of Connecticut, a shooter kills 29 people, including 20 children, himself and his mother at Sandy Hook Elementary School 2001 Death Ann Sothern, actress, ", My Mother, the Car, ", dies at 92 2000 Death Michaela Odone, creative mother, ispired the movie Lorenzo's Oil, dies at 60 1998 Event Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement 1997 Death Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74 1997 Death Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 1997 Death Diana, Princess of Wales, first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, mother of Princes William and Harry, noted for philanthropy, dies in Paris, at age 36, killed in a car crash 1997 Death Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa and Eva, dies at 97 1996 Death Raaj Kumar, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', dies at 68 1995 Death Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz, dies at 66 1995 Event Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery 1995 Death Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54 1995 Death Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104 1994 Death Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62 1994 Death Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer 1994 Birthday Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest, 62, mother 1994 Death Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64 1994 Death Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70 1993 Event Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria 1993 Death Gusti Huber, Mother of Bibi Besch, dies of heart failure at 78 1993 Death Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82 1993 Death Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 1992 Death Mother Clare Hale, cared for New York City AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87 1992 Death Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91 1992 Death Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78 1992 Death Queen Mother of Oman, dies 1992 Death Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75 1991 Event Mother of All Parades - New York City welcomes desert storm troops 1988 Death Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 1984 Event Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi 1983 Event Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in New York City 1979 Event Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Birthday Joshua Harris, actor, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage 1975 Event Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint 1975 Birthday Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint 1974 Death Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church 1973 Event Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in California 1973 Event Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal 1972 Event "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 12 performances 1972 Event "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances 1970 Death Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies 1961 Birthday Diana, Princess of Wales, born in Park House, England, first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, mother of Princes William and Harry, noted for philanthropy 1960 Death Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70 1958 Death Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident 1956 Death Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58 1950 Event Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India 1946 Event Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint 1946 Event Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" 1945 Birthday Larry Larden, rocker, Every Mother's Son 1944 Death ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz 1943 Birthday Henri Szeps, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son 1943 Birthday Bruce Milner, rocker, Every Mother's Son 1942 Event Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss 1941 Birthday Chris Augustine, rocker, Every Mother's Son 1939 Death Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53 1938 Birthday David Borden, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, minimalist music, jazz pianist, founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, the world's first synthesizer ensemble, wrote vocal, chamber ensemble, music, style similar to Phillip Glass, Terry Riley 1938 Event America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified 1937 Death Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37 1937 Birthday Joop Admiral, Dutch actor and director, You Are My Mother 1936 Death Maxim Gorki, Alexei M Peshkov, Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68 1935 Birthday Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor, Mother Courage and Her Children 1935 Birthday Avery Schreiber, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian, My Mother the Car 1934 Death Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies 1931 Birthday Jerry Van Dyke, born in Danville, Illinois, actor, My Mother the Car, Coach 1930 Death Mother Jones, American Activist 1930 Death Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 1929 Birthday Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates 1928 Event Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made 1927 Birthday Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern 1927 Birthday Raaj Kumar, born in Balochistan, Pakistan, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', starred in more than 70 Bollywood films, had an iconic, gravelly voice 1922 Birthday Madeleine Sherwood, Montreal, actress, Mother Superior-Flying Nun 1914 Event President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 1914 Event U.S. Congress establishes mother's day 1912 Birthday Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis 1910 Birthday Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979 1910 Birthday Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark 1909 Birthday Helen Giuliani, mother of Rudy, Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002 1908 Event 1st Mother's Day observed 1905 Event Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit 1905 Event Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him 1905 Birthday Clara "Mother" Hale, U.S. social worker, Hale House 1904 Birthday Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist 1902 Event Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria 1901 Birthday Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother 1900 Birthday Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife 1899 Birthday Nikolai Batalov, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Mother 1899 Birthday Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva 1898 Birthday Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 1898 Birthday Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright, Mother Courage, composer 1893 Birthday Alois Haba, Czechoslovakia, opera, composer, Mother 1893 Birthday Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter 1889 Birthday Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer, A Mother 1886 Birthday Ma Rainey, Gertrude Pridgett, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer 1878 Birthday Jozef C. Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, Virgin and Mother of God 1869 Birthday Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher, Mother Earth 1859 Birthday [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator, Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien 1852 Birthday Mary E. W. Freeman, U.S. writer, Revolt of Mother 1850 Birthday Francesca Xavier Cabrini, Mother Cabrini, 1st U.S. saint 1837 Birthday Mother Jones, American Activist 1834 Birthday James A. McNeill Whistler, US/British painter, Whistler's Mother 1830 Birthday Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, activist 1823 Birthday Mother Joseph, Esther Pariseau, religious leader, US capitol 1789 Death Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, dies 1774 Death Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 1774 Event Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 1759 Birthday Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley 1750 Birthday M Laetitia Bonaparte-Ramolino, Madame Mere, mother of Napoleon I 1723 Birthday Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother 1719 Event Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children" 1628 Birthday Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer, Mother Goose 1620 Event Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft 1620 Event Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici 1589 Death Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 1528 Birthday Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV 1476 Birthday Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I 1128 Event Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa 1068 Death Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies 820 Death Abu Abdallah M ibn Idris al-Sjafi'i, islamic (Book of Mother), dies 783 Death Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of Charles the Great, dies
