Historical Events
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1941 - President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour
1959 - President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1965 - Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC
1983 - Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
1991 - "Nick and Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
Famous Birthdays
1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
1915 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist
1943 - Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1966 - Matthew Laborteaux, Los Angeles California, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
1979 - Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
Famous Deaths
1859 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1896 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75
1923 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88
1954 - Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
1991 - Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
2013 - John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 96
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/Rh1jtj
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