Historical Events
1852 - 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1946 - U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
1970 - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1984 - Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
1986 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1997 - Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
Famous Birthdays
1900 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
1908 - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine)
1916 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
1933 - Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989- )
1958 - Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979)
1971 - Steve Stenstrom, quarterback (Chicago Bears)
Famous Deaths
1569 - St Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1982 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer, dies at 45
1994 - Nora Dunfree, US actress (Grass Harp), dies at 78
1995 - Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles, actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84
1997 - Stanley Cortez, cinematographer (Magnificent Ambersons), dies at 89
2009 - Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1914)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/Tf1xzH
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