1890 - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later)
1999 - Canadian Robert Mundell is named the winner of the 1999 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
2012 - "I Won't Give Up," a single by Jason Mraz, is certified 4x multi-platinum
2012 - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest-selling artwork by a living artist

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1955 - Frans van Oostrom, Dutch jazz and blues guitarist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1956 - Anura Ranasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman in 3 Tests 1982), born in Kalatura, Sri Lanka