Historical Events
1958 - Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
1969 - King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts
1986 - Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1988 - Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row
1992 - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
Famous Birthdays
1810 - Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1914 - Skuli Halldorsson, composer
1964 - Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
1966 - John Patrick Daly, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 British Open)
1970 - Richard Fromberg, Australia, tennis star
1974 - Penélope Cruz, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno)
Famous Deaths
1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1936 - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
1977 - Ricardo Cortez, American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), dies at 76
1992 - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
2005 - Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/10KXmC4
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