Historical Events
1573 - Polish Parliament selects Duke of Anjou as king
1862 - Battle of Farmington, MS
1946 - 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco
1984 - White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
1987 - 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
Famous Birthdays
1800 - John Brown, Torrington, Connecticut, American revolutionary abolitionist (d. 1859)
1917 - George Fleming, cyclist
1924 - Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
1953 - Ron Jackson, baseball player
1962 - Dave Gahan, Essex, rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me)
1970 - Doug Christie, NBA guard/forward (Toronto Raptors)
Famous Deaths
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1805 - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45
1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
1966 - Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies
1968 - Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
2011 - Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/17NRBTd
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