Historical Events
1846 - Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C premieres
1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R)
1916 - Emperors Wilhelm II (Germany) and Franz Jozef I (Austria-Hungary) establish the kingdom of Poland
1956 - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1975 - British government sends troops to Belize
1985 - "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
Famous Birthdays
1832 - William Woods Averell, Major General (Union Army), died in 1900
1854 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
1885 - Will Durant, US, author/historian (Story of Civilization)
1905 - Joel McCrea, South Pasadena California, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1951 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist
1972 - Tracy Greene, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Famous Deaths
1737 - Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke, dies at 55
1942 - George M Cohan, father of musical comedy, dies of cancer at 64
1964 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer, dies at 57
1971 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1995 - Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer, dies from natural causes at 103
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