Historical Events
1868 - Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1953 - 41st Australian Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (6-0 6-3 6-4)
1974 - "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
1981 - Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg
1984 - 11th American Music Award: Pat Benatar and Michael Jackson win
1989 - USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
Famous Birthdays
1885 - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40)
1890 - Lloyd Bacon, San Jose CA, actor (Charlie Chaplin)
1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1917 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
1971 - Jukka-Pekka Nummi, WLAF cornerback (Scottish Claymores)
1985 - Jonathan Richter, Danish professional football midfielder
Famous Deaths
1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
1817 - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55
1912 - Georg Heym, writer, dies at 24
1968 - Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84
1987 - Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79
2001 - Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/W6nBeU
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