Historical Events
1910 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
1929 – “Buck Rogers” sci-fi comic strip’s 1st appearance in a newspaper
1942 – WW II siege of Bataan starts
1948 – US President Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan
1986 – STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
1990 – Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
Famous Birthdays
1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1916 – Bobo Jenkins [John Pickens Jenkins], American blues singer-songwriter (Democrat Blues), born in Forkland, Alabama (d. 1984)
1922 – Robert De Cormier, American conductor and musical director (The Belafonte Folk Singers), born in Long Island, New York (d. 2017)
1929 – Mario Bergamaschi, Italian soccer midfielder (5 caps; Calcio Como, A.C. Milan, U.C. Sampdoria), born in Crema, Italy (d. 2020)
1935 – Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35), born in Vyazniki, Russia (d. 2014)
1970 – Paul McCallum, Canadian football punter and placekicker (Claymores, Sask Roughriders), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1590 – Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1830 – Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter, dies at 60
1907 – Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
1981 – Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)