Historical Events
1817 - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau" premieres in Vienna
1851 - Gail Borden announces invention of condensed milk
1862 - Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark makes first observation of Sirius B (first known white dwarf star) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts while testing his new telescope
1964 - US report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
1968 - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
1983 - In an effort to reduce driving deaths, a new law in UK requires drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seatbelts
Famous Birthdays
1911 - A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford)
1919 - Jackie Robinson, Ga, 1st African American major league baseball player (Dodgers)
1944 - Eugene Terre Blanche, S Afr leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
1964 - Oto Hascak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1966 - Jamie Taras, CFL guard (BC Lions)
Famous Deaths
1606 - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35
1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1919 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1995 - James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
2008 - Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)
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