Historical Events
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1871 – 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1899 – 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1990 – Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
1991 – NY Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
2013 – Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title
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Famous Birthdays
1776 – Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist
1925 – Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
1939 – Amos Oz, Jerusalem, Israel, author (My Michael)
1946 – Renee Powell, LPGA golfer
1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress
1981 – Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
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Famous Deaths
1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
1811 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 – Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1891 – Sherlock Holmes, “dies” at Reichenbach Falls
1953 – Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
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