CoM Moderators Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago Historical Events 518 - Former peasant Justin I proclaimed Byzantine emperor in the Hippodrome, Constantinople 1775 - Horatio Gates issues order excluding Blacks from Continental Army 1971 - National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women, including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and Gloria Steinem 1992 - Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup 2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer, born in La Rochefoucauld, France (d. 1703) 1888 - Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter (founded the scuola metafisica art movement), born in Volos, Greece (d. 1978) 1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-American cartoonist (co-creator, with Jerry Siegel, of "Superman"), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1992) 1933 - Ivan Passer, Czech film director (Born to Win, Cutter's Way), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2020) 1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (The Shaky Hands), born in Hood River, Oregon More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1594 - Paulo Bellasio, Italian organist and late Renaissance composer, dies at 40 1868 - Carlo Conti, Italian composer, dies at 71 1970 - Félix Gaillard, French Radical Party politician (Prime Minister, 1957-58), dies in a yacht accident at 50 2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975) 2020 - Corra Dirksen, South African rugby union winger (10 caps; Northern Transvaal), dies from COVID-19 complications at 82 More Famous Deaths »
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