1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1943 - 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1944 - Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1965 - 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
1976 - 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
2004 - 75th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Minute Maid Park, Houston
1888 - Jean Murat, Pergneux France, actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders)
1927 - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor
1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
1950 - George D "Pinky" Nelson, Iowa, PhD/astro (STS 41C, STS 61-C, STS-26)
1973 - Gavin Hassett, Saint John New Brunswick, rower (Olympics-96)
1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor
1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
1863 - John S Bowen, US architect/Confederate gen-major, dies at 32
1958 - Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday
1973 - Martian Negrea, composer, dies at 80
1982 - Edith Heerdegen, dies at 69
2008 - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
In 1946, a four year old Australian boy was flown to San Francisco to receive cancer treatment. Instead, he got caught in a Manhattan Project experiment and was injected with plutonium. He died one year later.
Some German cities have public “art libraries” where you pay up to five Euros to borrow paintings and sculptures from local artists to put into your own home for several months.
After his success in the Harry Potter films Rupert Grint bought a 1974 Mr Whippy Bedford van to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an ice cream man. He drives around local villages giving free ice cream and lollipops to children.
Psychologist B. F. Skinner got pigeons to repeat strange “rituals” by dropping food into their cage at random intervals — the birds associated their actions before the treats with reward, and demonstrated superstitious repetition of those actions.
