Historical Events
1776 - Austria ends interregation torture
1800 - Free African American community of Philadelphia petitions US Congress to abolish the slave trade
1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1949 - KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
1983 - Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"
Famous Birthdays
1857 - Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
1908 - Janis Kepitis, composer
1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
1967 - Tia Carrere [Althea Janairo], Honolulu, Hawaii, American actress (Wayne's World, True Lies)
1968 - Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
Famous Deaths
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1971 - Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, South African trade unionist, dies at 62
1980 - Larry Williams, rocker, dies at 44
1983 - Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66
2011 - Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
2013 - Ned Wertimer, American actor, dies from complications from a fall at 89
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