Historical Events
1930 - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid
1932 - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1935 - Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
1956 - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
1971 - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
1992 - US President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair
Famous Birthdays
1745 - Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician/general/signer (Decl of Indep)
1829 - Benjamin Ipavec, composer
1900 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)
1904 - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.
1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - Robert Carmine, American singer
Famous Deaths
1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
1994 - John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65
1994 - Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57
1996 - Nguyen Huu Tho, Pres of Vietnam (1980-81), dies
2009 - Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (b. 1916)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/UoJtEl
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