1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1966 - "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1987 - Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1990 - Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1910 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (exciting NSW and Australian batsman of 30's)
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1973 - Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1978 - Stephanie Lee Hamilton, Williston ND, Miss America-ND (1997)
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor
1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1886 - Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1916 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
1916 - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies
In 1993 a Missouri man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.
