CoM Moderators Posted September 30 Posted September 30 Historical Events 1520 - Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father, Selim I, as Ottoman Sultan and rules until 1566 1965 - LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins his 13th straight game, 7 of which are shutouts 1984 - The Kansas City Chiefs set a team record by registering 11 sacks against the Cleveland Browns in a 10-6 victory 1986 - US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov 2012 - Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (Hyde Park, Palm House Kew Gardens), born in London, England (d. 1881) 1917 - Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, Soviet director (Taganka Theatre), born in Yaroslavl, Russia (d. 2014) 1933 - Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard), American Grammy Award-winning soul and gospel singer, and Whitney's mother, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2024) 1943 - Jody Powell, American White House press secretary for Jimmy Carter, born in Cordele, Georgia (d. 2009) 1963 - Cristina Marsillach, Spanish actress (Barocco), born in Madrid, Spain More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518) 1986 - Storm Jameson, English writer and critic, dies at 95 2004 - Justin Strzelczyk, American NFL football offensive tackle, 1990-98 (Pittsburgh Steelers), dies in high speed car crash while being pursued by police at 36; autopsy revealed brain damage due to chronic concussion injuries 2014 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), dies from a heart attack at 87 2017 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (homotopy theory, motivic cohomology), dies of an aneurysm at 51 More Famous Deaths »
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