2015 Event The smaller of twin cubs born to giant panda Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has died; though both cubs appeared to be healthy at birth, the smaller cub failed to gain weight and may have caught a respiratory infection 2013 Event In an effort to curb obesity rates, the United Arab Emirates offers its citizens one gram of gold for every kilogram of weight they lose 2012 Event The weight loss drug lorcaserin is approved by the FDA, the first weight loss drug to be approved since 1999 1987 Event Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title 1983 Event Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg 1973 Birthday Oscar de la Hoya, born in Los Angeles, California, boxer, light middleweight, Mexican-American, nicknamed 'The Golden Boy', defeated 17 world championships, won 10 world titles in six different weight classes 1971 Birthday Doug Weight, Warren, Michigan, NHL center, Edmonton Oilers, Team USA 98 1967 Birthday Naim Suleymanoglu, born in Ptichar, Bulgaria, Turkish weight lifter, Gold Medals 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics 1963 Death David Moore, U.S. feather weight boxer, dies at 29 1956 Event Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB 1954 Event Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania 1948 Birthday Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics, 76 1946 Event Weight Watchers forms 1945 Birthday Aleksey Vakhonin, U.S.S.R., bantam weight, Gold Medal 1964 Olympics 1928 Death Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 1923 Birthday Jean Nidetch, born in Brooklyn, nutritionist founder, Weight Watchers 1907 Event Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada 1890 Event George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight) 1848 Death Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68 1779 Birthday Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist, atomic weight
