Historical Events
1918 - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1923 - Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1942 - Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
1949 - Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovernment
1962 - Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
1975 - Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
Famous Birthdays
1870 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
1909 - Jean Lancaster, director (WRNS)
1929 - Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen)
1950 - Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor
1954 - Lina Polito, Naples Italy, actress (Love and Anarchy)
1976 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1180 - Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
1183 - Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies
1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
1820 - Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
1994 - Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
1995 - Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83
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