Historical Events
1970 - Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 - Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1974 - Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 - VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil
2005 - The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
Famous Birthdays
1827 - Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1828 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
1914 - Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer
1949 - Richard Hell, [Richard Myers], Lexington Ky, rock bassist (Television)
1951 - Romina Power, LA CA, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress (Justine)
1979 - Maja Ivarsson, lead singer, The Sounds
Famous Deaths
939 - Gilbert (Giselbert), Duke of Lorraine drowns trying to cross the Rhine at about 49
1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
1995 - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
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