Historical Events
800 - Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor
1843 - 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
1894 - 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football
1936 - Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4,865
1990 - The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
1991 - Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
Famous Birthdays
1698 - Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator
1711 - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer
1717 - Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italy, Pope (1775-99)
1721 - William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
1959 - Ton Lokhoff, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1962 - Mary Ellen Clark, Abington Pa, diver (Olympics-2 bronze-92, 96)
Famous Deaths
1925 - Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30
1954 - Johnny Ace, Memphis rhythm and blues singer, accidentally shoots himself in the head at 25
1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (Real McCoys), dies of leukemia at 73
1980 - Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43
1992 - Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies
2007 - Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/UkcIqM
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