Historical Events
1896 - Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford
1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1961 - Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1962 - Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
1974 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
Famous Birthdays
1845 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1853 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1893 - Josef Huttel, composer
1908 - Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim (d. 1981)
1918 - Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993)
1929 - Michael Medwin, English actor (Four in a Jeep, Scrooge, Checkpoint)
Famous Deaths
715 - Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1970 - Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86
1991 - Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/NVKgbs
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