Historical Events
1672 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1981 - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
Famous Birthdays
1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1937 - Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)
1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
Famous Deaths
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1940 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49
1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
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