Historical Events
1409 - Council of Pisa opens
1863 - 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1888 - Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1960 - Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
1961 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1971 - European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
Famous Birthdays
1770 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1865 - Pierre Weiss, Mulhouse, France, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1942 - Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy)
1965 - Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton, DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100)
1973 - Anthony Barness, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1766 - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1852 - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1973 - Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1979 - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1980 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/Ysgh3p
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