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1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle after promising to abdicate if his life was spared 1493 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria on the death of his father and co-ruler Frederick III 1931 - Lefty Grove wins an AL record-tying 16th consecutive game 1990 - Dodger José Offerman hits a home run in his first at-bat 1991 - Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état 2016 - A six-way tie for first place occurs in the final of the equestrian individual jumping competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Nick Skelton of Great Britain wins the gold medal jump-off 2018 - Monsoon rains finally ease in Kerala State, India, with flooding taking 350 lives and 200,000 in relief camps 2023 - MLB Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner hits two solo home runs in the same inning in a 12-3 win over the Nationals in Washington More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1493 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria on the death of his father and co-ruler Frederick III 1912 - Percy Grainger's orchestral piece "Shepherd's Hey" premieres 1981 - Two US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down two Soviet-built Libyan SU-22s 1987 - Hungerford Massacre, England: Michael Ryan kills 16 people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide 1993 - Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record high of 3612.13 More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedic actor (Tit for Tat, A Chump at Oxford), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1959) 1902 - Ogden Nash, American humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Masquerade Party), born in Rye, New York (d. 1971) 1971 - Mary Joe Fernández, American tennis player, broadcaster (Olympic gold 1992, 96), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1971 - João Pinto, Portuguese football player, born in Porto, Portugal 1987 - Patrick Chung, Jamaican-American NFL player (New England Patriots), born in Kingston, Jamaica More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia and Moldovia (Romanian national hero), assassinated at 42 or 43 1856 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist, dies at 39 1892 - František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, dies at 62 1957 - David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66 2023 - Gloria Coates, American post-minimalist composer ("Music on Open Strings"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 89 More Famous Deaths »

1217 - First historical record of Scottish scholar Michael Scot, signs and dates his translation of al-Bitruji's "On the Sphere" in Toledo, Spain 1587 - Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland (according to legend) 1605 - Spanish army under of general Spinola conquers Lingen 1931 - Lou Gehrig is hitless in Detroit in his 1,000th consecutive game 1934 - US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats fellow American Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6-1, 6-3 for her third straight US singles title 1981 - Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend telethons 2008 - Emulating the Chinese women, the men win the team table tennis gold medal at the Beijing Olympics without losing a match, winning all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches 2021 - MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani becomes the fastest player in team history to reach 40 home runs in a season and also pitches 8 innings in a 3-1 win at Detroit More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1418 - Competition is announced to design the dome of Florence Cathedral, with main competitors Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi (supported by Cosimo de' Medici) 1858 - Netherlands and Japan sign a trade agreement 1965 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his third career triple play, tying George Sisler, Deacon McGuire, and Joe Start 1989 - ArenaBowl III takes place at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit: Detroit Drive defeats Pittsburgh Gladiators 39-26, with George LaFrance as MVP 2019 - 1.7 million people participate in a peaceful pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong, representing a quarter of the population More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and designer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1743) 1954 - Umberto Guidoni, Italian astrophysicist and writer (STS 75), born in Rome, Italy 1964 - Andi Deris, German heavy metal vocalist (Helloween, 1994-present), born in Karlsruhe, West Germany 1966 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress (The Surrogate Woman, Come Come Come Upward), born in Seoul, South Korea (d. 2022) 1981 - Jon Schneck, American rock guitarist (Relient K, 2005-present), born in Eustis, Florida More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 440 - Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies 1652 - Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech-Russian composer and pianist (Ogelala), dies of tuberculosis at 48 in a German concentration camp in Wülzburg, Bavaria 1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright, dies at 88 2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934) More Famous Deaths »

1819 - The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand's second mission station at Kerikeri 1835 - Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patents the first wrench 1908 - Projection in Paris of the first animated cartoon, "Fantasmagorie," created by Émile Cohl 1984 - Pete Rose returns to the Cincinnati Reds as a player-manager and gets two hits in the game 1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for the first time (2,700.57) 2008 - Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia wins the 3,000 m steeplechase gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a world record time of 8:58.81 2022 - Possible second smaller impact crater that wiped out the dinosaurs, the "Nadir Crater," 8.5 km across, is identified off the coast of Guinea, West Africa 2023 - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit begins in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1870 - First ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington, by Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump 1945 - Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands 1977 - USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 1988 - First case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in NYC (9-year-old Bronx boy) 1991 - Royals' Warren Cromartie's first major league home run since 1983 More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author "A Girl of the Limberlost," and naturalist, born in Lagro, Indiana (d. 1924) 1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish pioneering aviator, first flight in independent Poland, born in Ulanów, Poland (d. 1920) 1942 - Tommy West [Picardo], American record producer (Jim Croce; Anne Murray), and singer-songwriter, born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 2021) 1953 - Robert Thirsk, Canadian astronaut (STS 78), born in New Westminster, British Columbia 1970 - Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer, born in Kristiansund, Norway More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1916 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space), dies in a military training mishap at 33 1955 - Fernand Léger, French painter, sculptor and filmmaker, dies at 74 1969 - Philip Blaiberg, South African dentist, third person to receive an artificial heart, dies after 19 days at 59 1987 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (Claro Enigma), dies at 84 2021 - Sheila Bromberg, British orchestral and session harpist (The Beatles - "She's Leaving Home"; Heatwave -"Boogie Nights"), dies at 92 More Famous Deaths »

1920 - Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays and dies the next day in the only MLB game-related fatality 1942 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow 1992 - Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs a world 3,000 m record of 7:28.96 in Cologne, Germany 2008 - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the 100 m gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics 2015 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Australian Jason Day wins, setting major championship record of 20-under-par; beats Jordan Spieth by 3 shots 2018 - World's first floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven Harbour, Rotterdam, Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots 2018 - International Tennis Federation votes to change the format of the Davis Cup to a high prize money, season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site; a 24-team qualifying tournament starts in February 2019 2020 - At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a beach resort in Mogadishu, Somalia, by the al-Shabab group More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1691 - Yorktown, Virginia founded 1959 - LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Rainier GandCC: Betsy Rawls wins her second WO by 6 strokes over JoAnne Gunderson and Patty Berg 1969 - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young perform their first public show at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell as their opening act 1990 - South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto 2021 - First official water shortage declared at Lake Mead, a major reservoir on the Colorado River supplying 40 million people, with cuts mandated mainly for Arizona More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver, born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 2003) 1945 - Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina (Don Quioxote), born in Cincinnati, Ohio 1952 - Reginald Veljohnson, actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard), born in New York City 1962 - Steve Carell, American actor and comedian (The Office), born in Concord, Massachusetts 1978 - Eddie Gill, American basketball player, born in Aurora, Colorado More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1945 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies 1993 - Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83 1996 - Robert Lynn, Scottish anarchist, dies at 72 2006 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (Dissection), dies at 31 2021 - Sean Lock, British comedian (British Comedy Award, 2000), and television personality, dies of cancer at 58 More Famous Deaths »

1483 - Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption in Vatican City is consecrated with a Mass by Pope Sixtus IV [some sources cite August 9] 1931 - Roy Wilkins joins the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Assistant Secretary 1949 - WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1970 - Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman professional football player (Orlando) 1992 - Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy 1997 - Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners' 3,000th home run 2013 - 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut 2023 - Young activists win a landmark case, Held v Montana, with a judge ruling that the state of Montana must consider climate change when deciding to approve or renew fossil fuel projects More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1461 - Empire of Trebizond surrenders to forces of Sultan Mehmed II, the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to fall; Emperor David is exiled and later executed 1653 - Dutch ship "Sperwer" strands on Jeju, Korea 1905 - Philadelphia A's future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell no-hits the St. Louis Browns, 2-0, in 5 innings 1950 - Indians make their first triple play at Cleveland Stadium 1990 - Phillies' Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no-hitter of 1990) More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1785 - Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), born in Manchester (d. 1859) 1949 - Kate Taylor, American singer and songwriter ("It's In His Kiss"), born in Boston, Massachusetts 1951 - Bobby Caldwell, American jazz and pop singer ("What You Won't Do for Love"), and songwriter ("The Next Time I Fall"), born in New York City (d. 2023) 1951 - Ann Biderman, American television writer and producer (Ray Donovan, Southland), born in Miami, Florida 1985 - Nipsey Hussle [Ermias Asghedom], American rapper and activist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2019) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1974 - Edmund Cobb, American silent and sound screen actor, specializing in western film (A Final Reckoning; Motorcycle Gang; Comanche Territory), dies of a heart attack at 82 2006 - Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand Māori Queen for 40 years, dies at 75 2012 - Bob Birch, American session and touring bassist (Elton John), commits suicide at 56 2015 - Julian Bond, American civil rights leader and politician (D-Ga), dies at 75 2016 - Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player ("Little B's Poem"; SFJAZZ Collective), dies of emphysema at 75 More Famous Deaths »

554 - Ravenna becomes the seat of the Byzantine military governor in Italy 1782 - Suriname forbids selling enslaved mothers without their babies 1900 - First electric tram in Netherlands (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) 1964 - LA Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after a hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer 1965 - Continental Football League plays first games 1967 - Pirate radio station, Wonderful Radio London, closes down 1988 - Detroit beats Sox 18-6 at Fenway, ending Boston's winning streak at 24 2007 - Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1642 - Abel Tasman's ships, Heemskerck and Zeehaen, depart from Batavia to search for Terra Australis, becoming the first Europeans to reach Tasmania and New Zealand 1782 - Suriname forbids selling enslaved mothers without their babies 1962 - A US mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is robbed of more than $1.5 million 1997 - Revival of Sherman Edwards' historical musical "1776," featuring Brent Spiner, opens at the Criterion Theatre, NYC, and runs for 333 performances 2010 - First Summer Youth Olympic Games open in Singapore More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1727 - Louise Élisabeth of France, twin daughter of king Louis XV, born in Palace of Versailles, France (d. 1759) 1938 - Niara Sudarkasa [Gloria Albertha Marshall], American educator and anthropologist (Lincoln College), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (d. 2019) 1946 - Alexander Curly [Harm Breemer], Dutch artist, born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 2012) 1969 - DJ Uncle Al, American hip-hop DJ, born in Miami, Florida (d. 2001) 1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer, born in Giannouli, Greece More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1794 - George Colman the Elder, English playwright, dies at 62 1863 - Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 1888 - Charles Crocker, American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad), dies at 65 1955 - Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress, dies at 93 1994 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 89 More Famous Deaths »

1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days submitted for publication 1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore 1948 - Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of three consecutive Olympic gold medals, defeating British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games 1954 - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470 attendees) 1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut kills 175 1988 - Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit opens 1995 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Riviera CC: Steve Elkington of Australia wins his first major title in a playoff with Scotsman Colin Montgomerie 2016 - Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins the women's 100 m gold in 10.71 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; American Tori Bowie finishes second in 10.83, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica finishes third in 10.86 More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1889 - William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut patents the coin-operated telephone 1907 - First taxicabs, imported by Harry N. Allen, operate in New York City 1981 - Test cricket debut of Mike Whitney for Australia against England at Old Trafford 1985 - South African Defence Force soldiers, traveling in a convoy of more than ten armored vehicles, surround the Thaba-Jabula High School in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts 1989 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Kemper Lakes GC: Payne Stewart wins first of 3 major titles by 1 from Andy Bean, Mike Reid, and Curtis Strange More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1887 - Julius Freed [Fried], American namesake and co-founder of Orange Julius fast food chain, born in Montana (d. 1952) 1898 - Regis Toomey, American actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991) 1902 - Bartoes [Albertus J. Wijstma], Dutch singer and cabaret performer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1976) 1913 - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1996) 1955 - Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver (first Japanese to compete in NASCAR's top series), born in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1637 - Dirck Bas, Dutch merchant, regent, government leader (OIC), dies 1896 - John Everett Millais, English painter (Order of Release), dies at 67 1986 - Helen Mack, American actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies of cancer at 72 1992 - Jan Elburg, Dutch poet (Through the Night), dies at 72 2024 - George Leotsakos, Greek composer and musicologist, dies at 89 More Famous Deaths »

1905 - King Leopold II opens Antwerp Central Station in Belgium 1914 - France and Great Britain declare war on Austria-Hungary 1960 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to an altitude of 41,600 meters 1977 - For the second consecutive day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid 1980 - Warner Bros. Records releases "One-Trick Pony," the fifth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon; it features the song "Late in the Evening" and is accompanied by a dramatic film of the same name, written by and starring Simon 1990 - 12th Annual Macy's Tap-o-mania 1994 - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike, leading to the cancellation of the World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904) due to a labor dispute 2005 - Civil unrest is provoked in the Maldives More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1922 - Dedication of Frederick Douglass' home in Washington, D.C. as a national shrine 1955 - US President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour 1958 - Art Kane photographs a group portrait of 57 leading jazz musicians assembled in front of a brownstone on 126th Street in NYC for Esquire magazine; originally titled "Harlem, 1958," it appears as the centerfold of Esquire's January 1959 issue celebrating the "Golden Age of Jazz" 1960 - American Ralph Boston sets a long jump world record of 8.21 m at the US Olympic trials, surpassing Jesse Owens' record 1969 - Battle of the Bogside: RUC officers, backed by loyalists, enter the nationalist Bogside in armored cars and try to suppress the riot by using CS gas, water cannon, and eventually firearms; the almost continuous rioting lasts for two days More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1762 - George IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover (1820-30), born in St James's Palace, London (d. 1830) 1917 - Marjorie Reynolds [Goodspeed], American actress and dancer (Holiday Inn: The Life of Riley), born in Buhl, Idaho (d. 1997) 1939 - Roy Romanow, Canadian politician (Premier of Saskatchewan 1991-2001), born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1967 - Andrew Glover, American NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings), born in Gonzales, Louisiana 1973 - Latasha Byears, American WNBA player (Sacramento Monarchs), born in Memphis, Tennessee More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1638 - Johannes Althusius [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81 1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer and mineralogist (Vega Expedition), dies at 68 1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (Schottky's theorem), dies at 84 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (Gray, SAMO), dies of a drug overdose at 27 1990 - Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76 More Famous Deaths »

1963 - Kingston Trio are the mystery guests on "What's My Line?" 1970 - Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by the Irish Republican Army when they set off a booby trap bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh 1973 - The birth of hip-hop: DJ Kool Herc uses two turntables, playing the same record simultaneously to create the “merry-go-round” technique, at a party in the Bronx 1977 - Geoff Boycott scores his 100th first-class century against Australia at Headingley 1978 - Funeral of Pope Paul VI is held in Vatican 1982 - The South African Defence Force (SADF) raids Southern Angola 2011 - Rock group "The Go-Go's" receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the former nightclub called "The Masque" 2024 - Thousands of people evacuate near the Greek capital of Athens as large wildfires threaten the city after the hottest June and July on record More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform 1984 - A British 1-2 in the 1,500 m at the Los Angeles Olympics with Sebastian Coe edging teammate Steve Cram to become the only man to successfully defend his Olympic 1,500m title 1991 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: John Daly wins by 3 strokes from fellow American Bruce Lietzke 1997 - Benin legalizes January 10 as a Voodoo holiday 2005 - American Justin Gatlin becomes only the second athlete to achieve the sprint double, winning the 200 m in 20.04 at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1911 - Henry Kulky [Kulakowich], American actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Love Nest), born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York (d. 1965) 1949 - Tim Hutchinson, American politician (Rep-R-Arkansas 1997-2003), born in Bentonville, Arkansas 1953 - Hulk Hogan [Terry Bollea], American pro wrestler (WWF heavyweight champion 1984-89; WWE HOF) and actor (Suburban Commando, Thunder in Paradise), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 2025) 1970 - Andy Bell, Welsh guitarist, bassist (Ride; Oasis; Hurricane #1), singer-songwriter,a nd record producer, born in Cardiff, Wales 1983 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor (Thor, Avengers), born in Melbourne, Victoria More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1937 - Edith Wharton, American Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), dies at 75 1982 - Tom Drake [Alfred Sinclair Alderdice], American actor (Meet Me In St. Louis; Warlock), dies of lung cancer at 63 1994 - Mark "Red" Mitchell, American actor (JFK; 8 Seconds; Want to Live), dies when his car is struck by a train at 33 2021 - Dick Huddart, English rugby league second rower (16 Tests Great Britain; St. Helens, St. George), dies at 85 2023 - Alexandru Penciu, Romanian rugby union fullback, centre (34 caps; Locomotiva PTT, CSA Steaua București, Rugby Rovigo), dies at 90 More Famous Deaths »

1885 - Leo Daft opens America's first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore 1920 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania 1940 - Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms 1942 - General Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the British 8th Army in North Africa 1965 - USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches an altitude of 51.3 miles (82.6 km) and a top speed of 3,550 mph (5,713 km/h) (Mach 5.20) 1969 - Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to the Cubs with a 4-2 win 1988 - Alan Ayckbourn's play "Man of the Moment" premieres at Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough 2021 - Forest fires kill 65 people, including 25 soldiers, in Algeria's Kabylie region during heatwave conditions More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1511 - Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca 1664 - Austria and the Ottoman Empire sign the Peace of Vásvár 1936 - First time Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the team gold medal 1980 - Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Richelieu Valley GC: Pat Bradley wins by one from JoAnn Carner for her first of six major titles 2017 - 100-year-old fruitcake by Huntley and Palmers is deemed "almost eatable" after being discovered in a hut used by Captain Scott's expedition in Antarctica More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1874 - Tod Sloan, American thoroughbred jockey (1,000 Guineas 1899 [Sibola], Ascot Gold Cup 1900 [Merman]; created monkey crouch riding style), born in Bunker Hill, Indiana (d. 1933) 1913 - Noah Beery Jr, American actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot, Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), born in New York City (d. 1994) 1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress (Babylon 5), and author, born in Glendale, California 1966 - Hansi Kürsch, German heavy metal singer-songwriter, band bassist (Blind Guardian), born in Lank-Latum, West Germany 1967 - Philippe Albert, Belgian soccer defender (41 caps; Charleroi, KV Mechelen, Anderlecht, Newcastle United), born in Bouillon, Belgium More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 258 - Saint Lawrence, Christian martyr, dies in Rome during persecutions by Emperor Valerian, burned to death 1862 - Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese professional Go player, dies at 33 1976 - Jerry Gray [Generoso Graziano], American violinist, arranger (Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller). and composer("Pennsylvania 6-5000","A String of Pearls"), dies at 61 1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899) 2008 - Isaac Hayes, American Southern soul musician, singer-songwriter, Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer ("Theme from Shaft"), and actor (The Rockford Files - "Gandolf Fitch"; South Park -"Chef"), dies of a likely stroke at 65 More Famous Deaths »

1855 - Battle of Acapulco during the Mexican Liberal Uprising 1936 - Helen Stephens claims the women's sprint double at the Berlin Olympics, winning the 100 m and participating as part of the victorious American 4 x 100 m relay team 1976 - Clive Lloyd scores a double century in 120 minutes, WI vs. Glamorgan 1978 - USSR performs an underground nuclear test 1987 - LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London (NFL expo) 1992 - XXV Summer Olympic Games close at Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain 1992 - Cuban boxer Félix Savón wins the first of three consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when he dominates Nigerian David Izonritei on points at the Barcelona Games 2024 - Passenger plane crashes in the Brazilian city of Vinhedo, killing all 61 people on board on a flight to São Paulo More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1930 - 113°F (45°C) recorded in Perryville, Tennessee (state record) 1987 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National Palm Beach: Larry Nelson wins the second PGA C'ship in a playoff with fellow American Lanny Wadkins 2016 - Hungary's Katinka Hosszú swims an Olympic record of 2:06.58 in the women's 200 m individual medley, winning her third gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2018 - Saudi-led air coalition strikes a school bus in Saada Province, Yemen, killing 43 people, many of whom are children 2023 - Ecuadorian opposition presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio is assassinated at a campaign rally in Quito More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1869 - Randle Ayrton, British actor (The Manxman, Nell Gwyn), born in Chester, Cheshire, England (d. 1940) 1903 - Tom Tyler [Vincent Markowski], American actor (Stagecoach; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), born in Port Henry, New York (d. 1954) 1938 - Rod Laver, Australian tennis player (1962, 1969 Grand Slam; 11 x Grand Slam singles titles; 8 x Pro major titles), born in Rockhampton, Queensland 1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress (Body Double, Working Girl), born in New York City 1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer ("I Will Always Love You"; "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"), actress (The Bodyguard), and film producer (The Princess Diaries), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2012) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1420 - Pierre d'ailly [Peter de Alliaco], French theologist and cardinal, dies 1806 - Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 33 1888 - Charles Cros, French inventor and poet (Le Hareng Saur), dies at 45 1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league fullback (37 Tests; NSW 27 games; South Sydney; RL "Immortal") and coach (Australia 29 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 58 2021 - Alex Cord [Alexander Viespi], American actor (Brotherhood; Fire; Street Asylum; Airwolf), dies at 88 More Famous Deaths »

1984 - Carl Lewis wins his third gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics, joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200 m 1988 - Rap group N.W.A releases their debut studio album "Straight Outta Compton" 1992 - Spanish center forward Kiko scores twice as the home team wins the Olympic football gold medal with a 3-2 victory over Poland in front of 95,000 at Camp Nou, Barcelona 2008 - XXIX Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, China 2013 - Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama 2021 - Taliban forces capture three regional Afghan cities, including the key northern city of Kunduz 2022 - Beyoncé’s single "Break My Soul" is her first solo #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 14 years, the same week her "Renaissance" album reaches No. 1 on Billboard's 200 chart 2023 - Storm Hans brings widespread destruction to Scandinavia, with Norway warning of its highest rainfall in 25 years More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1829 - French government of Polignac forms 1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 and comes into effect in 1913 1913 - Richard Corfield's "Camel Corps" opens against the "Mad Mullah" in Burao, Somalia 2013 - Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama 2018 - US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve agent attack in Britain More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1852 - Barend Barendse, Dutch actor and director (Heilig recht), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1935) 1950 - Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee 1960 - Cheyne Horan, Australian surfer (World C'ship runner-up 1978, 79, 81, 82), born in Sydney, Australia 1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress (Harry Potter love interest), born in Dundee, Scotland 1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian NBA basketball player (NY Knicks, Denver Nuggets), born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1824 - Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (Prolegomena), dies at 65 1911 - William P. Frye, American congressman and senator (1881-1911), dies at 80 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, dies at 83 1993 - Lou van Rees, Dutch jazz and pop music impresario, dies at 77 1996 - Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on amorphous semiconductors), dies at 90 More Famous Deaths »

1914 - Russia invades East Prussia 1926 - George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin's musical "The Cocoanuts," starring the Marx Brothers, closes at the Lyric Theatre, NYC, after 276 performances and is later adapted as a film 1936 - Twenty-two nations line up as the first basketball competition in the Olympic Games begins in Berlin; Estonia beats France 34-29 in the first game 1944 - Anton de Kom is arrested as a Surinamese resistance fighter 1960 - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches 1992 - Taking advantage of six months of training on their hometown Terrassa pitch, Spain wins its first hockey gold medal by beating Germany 2-1 in the women's final at the Barcelona Olympics 1992 - The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O'Neal 2021 - Kevin Durant, with 29 points, leads the USA to his third and the team's fourth consecutive Olympic men's basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo More Historical Events »