Historical Events
336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope
1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1949 - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
1956 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling
1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
Famous Birthdays
1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, (d. 1852)
1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
1935 - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
1944 - Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)
1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
Famous Deaths
1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84
1919 - John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13
1967 - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
1982 - Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 20
1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
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