Historical Events
1842 - 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1898 - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1912 - Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt.
1964 - Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1971 - Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1994 - Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
Famous Birthdays
1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
1799 - Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer
1906 - Jaap Wagemaker, [Adrian B], Dutch sculptor
1911 - Yannis Andreou Papaioannou, composer
1962 - Michael Houser, Boone North Carolina, American guitarist (Widespread Panic)
1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
Famous Deaths
1884 - Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Ital/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75
1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
1959 - Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54
1964 - Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67
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