Historical Events
1861 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith
1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1956 - Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1969 - Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY
1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
Famous Birthdays
1922 - Louis E Lomax, author
1934 - Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
1957 - Laura Innes, Pontiac, Michigan, American actress and director (ER, The Event)
1970 - Dena Head, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1976 - Dave Ockun, American concert producer
1978 - Fu Mingxia, Chinese female diver
Famous Deaths
1508 - Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1831 - Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
1973 - Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1984 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87
1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/Q2yYiN
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