Historical Events
1513 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1780 - Benedict Arnold joins the British
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1962 - Yankees clinch AL pennant
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1992 - US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
Famous Birthdays
1744 - Frederick Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1897 - William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound and Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)
1929 - John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1944 - Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler (WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets)
Famous Deaths
1808 - Richard Porson, scholar, dies
1876 - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1926 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2006 - Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
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