Historical Events
1795 – Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1817 – Baltimore becomes the 1st American city lit by gas street lamps with the first turned on at Market and Lemon Streets (currently Baltimore and Holliday Streets)
1857 – French writer Gustave Flaubert is acquitted on a charge of obscenity for his work “Madame Bovary”
1903 – VVV ’03 soccer club is established in the Dutch southeastern city of Venlo
1973 – Iggy Pop and The Stooges release their influential 3rd album “Raw Power”
Famous Birthdays
1809 – Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden), born in Kerteminde, Denmark (d. 1876)
1877 – Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), born in Duisburg, Prussia (d. 1948)
1895 – Irving Aaronson, American jazz pianist and big band bandleader, born in New York City (d. 1963)
1945 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (In the Name of the Father, Inception), born in Warrington, England (d. 2011)
1959 – Sammy Lee, English footballer (Liverpool), born in Liverpool, England
Famous Deaths
1965 – Nance O’Neil, American actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
1970 – Abe Attell, American boxer known as “The Little Hebrew” and World Featherweight Champion (1906-12), dies at 86
1997 – Danil Shafran, Soviet-Russian concert cellist, dies at 74
2020 – Harold Strachan, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and explosives expert, dies of liver disease complications at 94
2020 – Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer ‘the Nightingale of Kosovo’ and actress, dies at 86