Historical Events
1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1940 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 - KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1979 - UK Football club Nottingham Forest makes £1m transfer deal
1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
Famous Birthdays
1887 - Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
1909 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
1914 - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
1929 - James Mulcro Drew, composer
1958 - Sandy Lyle, British golfer
1968 - Derek Strong, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Orlando Magic)
Famous Deaths
1670 - Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
1977 - Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
1993 - Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
1995 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1998 - Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
2013 - Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist, dies at 99
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/TXXlWB
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