Historical Events
1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1879 - Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1927 - Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1981 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1989 - 1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
Famous Birthdays
1829 - Ritta and Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia
1906 - E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
1914 - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service)
1933 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
1947 - Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20)
Famous Deaths
1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies
1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1994 - William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), dies at 84
1995 - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/10mJF6U
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