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2012 Event - After a strike over working conditions, the world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo Platinum Limited, fires 12,000 people in South Africa

2012 Event - The Pakistani government accuses the Save the Children NGO as being linked to a fake vaccination program used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan orders foreign nationals working for the organization to leave the country within four weeks

2012 Event - Scientists at Stanford University invent a working bionic eye the is powered only by focused light; the eye could eventually restore the sight of millions of people suffering from macular degeneration and retinal pigmentosa

2011 Event - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Iran to respond to the IAEA report stating Iran is working on nuclear bomb technology

2011 Event - Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship

2011 Event - Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan

2010 Event - Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old

1989 Event - 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl

1981 Event - Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired and working again

1978 Event - "Working" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 25 performances

1978 Event - "Working" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 25 performances

1957 Birthday - Melanie Griffith, actress, Working Girl, Milk Money, Now and Then

1954 Birthday - Keven Wade, born in Chappaqua, New York, screen writer, Working Girls

1953 Death - Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67

1952 Birthday - Nora Dunn, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedienne, SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl

1950 Birthday - Lizzie Borden, director and writer, Love Crimes, Working Girls

1949 Birthday - Sigourney [Susan Alexandra] Weaver, Louisiana, actress, Alien, Working Girl

1943 Event - New York Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game

1942 Birthday - Gunter Wallraff, born in Burscheid, Germany, writer, undercover journalist, wrote on tabloid journalism, lower working class conditions

1940 Event - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis

1933 Event - Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor

1926 Birthday - Cranley Onslow, born in England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking, called for lower middle class taxes, life peer as Baron Onslow of Working in Surrey County

1924 Birthday - [Irving] Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist, Working in the Coal Mines

1923 Event - Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied

1920 Event - Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day

1913 Event - Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished

1910 Event - British miners strike for 8 hour working day

1906 Death - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57

1891 Birthday - Josef Hora, Czechoslovakian writer/poet, Working Day

1889 Birthday - Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter

1867 Event - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days

1842 Event - 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

1836 Event - London Working Men's Association forms

1791 Event - John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat

1743 Birthday - John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton

1741 Event - George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days

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