Historical Events
1925 - Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1986 - 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
1991 - Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
2000 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges
Famous Birthdays
1938 - Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire
1940 - Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman (S Afr Prog Fed Party, 1979-86)
1950 - Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
1955 - Steve Small, cricketer (stalwart NSW opening batsman)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)
1983 - Glen Perkins, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1316 - Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)
1589 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)
1880 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
1986 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62
2003 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/ZM7bKS
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