Historical Events
1923 - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1959 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 and injures 265
1969 - LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
2007 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 31-28
Famous Birthdays
1827 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder
1870 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
1893 - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
1904 - John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island)
1945 - John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)
1974 - Elizabeth Banks, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, American actress (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Man on a Ledge)
Famous Deaths
1822 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83
1912 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies
1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1992 - Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/VNaWMY
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