Historical Events
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yanks
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1979 - Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
1991 - "Good and Evil" and "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
1993 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
Famous Birthdays
1904 - Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]
1921 - Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1966 - Atul Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman 1994- )
1967 - Roland Jansen, soccer player (Willem II)
1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1536 - Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24
1815 - John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70
1919 - Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies
1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1960 - Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1968 - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/UJX5sA
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