Historical Events
1908 - 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
1943 - RAF bombs Essen Germany
1949 - Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30
1960 - Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1960 - Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
2014 - A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15
Famous Birthdays
1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1916 - Horace Ian Parrott, composer
1922 - Ebrahim Maka, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests 1952)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 - Anthony Headges, composer
1952 - Alan Clark, keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
Famous Deaths
1605 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1991 - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/12qNv4C
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