Thursday, 21 August 2014

Today in History for 21st August 2014

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


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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)


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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)


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