Historical Events
1957 - FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1988 - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston
1990 - Around 39 people, among them children, as a storm hits England
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
Famous Birthdays
1750 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)
1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1969 - Nolan Harrison, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Pitt Steelers)
1974 - Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
Famous Deaths
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1992 - Mahmoud Riad, sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), dies
1995 - Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
1996 - Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35
2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
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