Historical Events
1890 - Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels
1910 - 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
1956 - 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
1959 - Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1985 - 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1990 - Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
Famous Birthdays
1917 - Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom)
1919 - Gil Langley, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1951-56)
1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
1946 - Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky, Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
1946 - Tim Curry, Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Show)
1946 - Leon Wessels, S Afr lawyer/underminister of Law and Order
Famous Deaths
1567 - Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79
1992 - Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1994 - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
2005 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
2009 - J.G. Ballard, British novelist. (b. 1930)
2010 - Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
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