Historical Events
1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1926 - Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
Famous Birthdays
1791 - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
1831 - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1921 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)
1934 - Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1965 - Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
Famous Deaths
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1934 - Davidson Black, Paleoanthropologist, dies while working alone during the night, in Beijing, China at 49
1966 - Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer, dies at 94
2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
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