Historical Events
1943 - Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1951 - NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1957 - "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
1981 - Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial and Aaron)
1986 - 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1999 - The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
Famous Birthdays
1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1845 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
1896 - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
1929 - Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Brooklyn New York, American soprano
1980 - David Navarro, Spanish footballer
Famous Deaths
946 - Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1986 - Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/175oGxd
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