Historical Events
1649 - Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone" premieres in Venice
1804 - Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1854 - Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die
1905 - National Association of Audubon Society, a non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation, incorporates
1927 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1968 - Alexander Dubček succeeds Antonín Novotný as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia
Famous Birthdays
1762 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1787 - John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1897 - Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction)
1962 - Joel Wyner, actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club)
1966 - Renaldo Turnbull, NFL defensive end (NO Saints, Carolina Panthers)
1969 - David Dixon, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
Famous Deaths
1856 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67
1939 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)
1974 - Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79
1996 - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84
2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2006 - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
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