Historical Events
1863 - Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
1941 - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1953 - 60th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (8-6 7-5)
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
1977 - Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1989 - Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles
Famous Birthdays
1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
1968 - Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1971 - Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1972 - Steve Giles, St Stephens New Brunswick, canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
Famous Deaths
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
1848 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/NzRygR
No comments:
Post a Comment