Historical Events
1676 - Battle at Öland: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1816 - Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1977 - "Dance and Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1983 - Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
1990 - UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
1992 - Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
Famous Birthdays
1723 - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1892 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1947 - Henry Cisneros, first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration
1951 - Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1955 - Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower
Famous Deaths
1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1674 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
1764 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
1900 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1995 - Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/11cPV0U
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