Historical Events
1906 – Baker Street and Waterloo Railway opens, constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. The contraction Bakerloo became the official name in July 1906.
1931 – Oswald Mosley leaves British Labour party and founds the “New Party”
1940 – 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC: Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci”
1996 – 37th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Kentucky, 84-73
2010 – Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican and person from an emerging economy to top Forbes Richest Person list, with net worth of US$53.5 billion
2020 – Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths
Famous Birthdays
1863 – E J Ratcliffe [Edward], British stage and screen actor, born in London (d. 1948)
1928 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., born in Alton, Illinois (d. 1998)
1943 – Angelique Pettyjohn, [Dorothy Lee Perrins], American actress (Clambake; Repo Man), and burlesque queen, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino), born in Meadville, Pennsylvania
1965 – Rod Woodson, American NFL cornerback/kick returner (11 Pro Bowl; Super Bowl 2000, Baltimore Ravens), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1977 – Robin Thicke, Canadian-American singer (“Blurred Lines”), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
37 – Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14 AD-37 AD), dies at 78
1391 – Tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1940 – Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald [née Sayre], American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 47
2012 – Heinz Wunderlich, German organist and composer, dies at 92
2023 – Jesús Alou, Dominican MLB baseball outfielder, 1963-79 (World Series 1973, 74 Oakland A’s; Houston Astros, and 2 other teams), dies at 80