Historical Events
1828 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory" premieres in Paris
1958 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1978 - Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1986 - Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma
1989 - Dredger "Bow Belle" collides with pleasure boat "Marchioness" on the River Thames in central London; the "Marchioness" sinks in 30 seconds, drowning 51
1995 - "The Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 performances
Famous Birthdays
1847 - Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968)
1949 - Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1974 - Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer
1975 - Marcus Mastin, American author
1981 - Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
Famous Deaths
1679 - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1804 - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
1978 - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
2008 - Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/PyjwN8
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