CoM Moderators Posted August 19 Posted August 19 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 »
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