Historical Events
1869 - Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1974 - Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau
1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1997 - Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
Famous Birthdays
1916 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
1939 - Greg Mullavey, Buffalo NY, actor (Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals)
1944 - Thomas Allen, British opera singer
1950 - Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade)
1957 - Kate Burton, Geneva Switzerland, actress (Ice Storm, August)
1979 - Jacob Young, American actor and singer
Famous Deaths
1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1931 - Alfonso Randano, composer, dies at 78
1942 - Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
1972 - Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading S Afr prior to WWI), dies
1995 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer, dies at 81
2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
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