Historical Events
1942 - U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
1954 - Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1961 - 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
1965 - Cigarette advertsing banned on British TV
1983 - B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
Famous Birthdays
1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1880 - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1929 - Don Murray, California, actor (Bus Stop, Advise and Consent, Endless Love)
1953 - Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)
1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
Famous Deaths
1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1953 - Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) "Mr Republican", dies in NY at 63
1981 - Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1992 - G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
1994 - Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
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