Historical Events
1926 - White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
1926 - -22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos
1927 - 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
1983 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1986 - Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
1994 - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
Famous Birthdays
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1806 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1913 - Victor Rosow, writer
1933 - Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
1966 - John Wetteland, San Mateo CA, pitcher (NY Yanks, Rangers, Expos)
Famous Deaths
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1911 - W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
1963 - John Gunn, cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies
1971 - George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/OLkO5y
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