Historical Events
1573 - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1799 - Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast.
1976 - Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
1989 - 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1997 - NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
2012 - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
Famous Birthdays
1890 - Janis Medins, composer
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1927 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1945 - Naftali Bon, Kapsabet Kenya, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1973 - Brandon Pollard, Richmond VA, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
Famous Deaths
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1797 - Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77
1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1983 - Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/Rc97r5
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