Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

530 MILLENNIUM 1 9 8 0 John Lennon, well-known musician and member of The Beatles, is shot outside of his Manhattan, New York, apartment 1980 Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed as the first female on the U.S. Supreme Court 1981 Sir Alec Jeffreys, a British geneticist, develops the technique for genetic (or DNA) fingerprinting 1984 Lech Walesa, a Polish union leader and activist, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1983 Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, publishes "Schindler's Ark," and wins the Booker Prize; the film is later made into a movie, "Schindler's List" 1982