Historical Events
1621 - Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
1943 - U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1967 - The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1973 - Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
Famous Birthdays
1835 - Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
1956 - Scott Jacoby, Chicago Ill, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High)
1960 - "Lovely" Elizabeth, Frankfurt Ky, WWF's 1st lady of wrestling
1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
1979 - John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1472 - Joannes/Basilius Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea, dies
1924 - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
1942 - Edouard Combe, composer, dies at 76
1984 - George D Aiken, (Sen-R-Vt, 1941-75), dies at 92
1992 - Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91
2011 - Michael Hastings, British playwright, dies at 74
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