Historical Events
1704 – 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1924 – Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B Mayer Co merged to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
1925 – NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
1945 – Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan
1981 – Isle Potvin’s 3 playoff power-play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers
1997 – John Bell aged 115 receives a new pacemaker
Famous Birthdays
1715 – Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, German composer, born in Ulm, Germany (d. 1786)
1918 – William Holden [Beedle], American actor (The Blue Knight, Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai), born in O’Fallon, Illinois (d. 1981)
1950 – Bruce McNall, American former NHL team owner, born in Arcadia, California
1955 – Rob Bolland, Dutch singer and guitarist (Bolland and Bolland), born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
1968 – Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, eldest son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven, born in Utrecht, Netherlands
1973 – Kenneth Carlsen, Danish tennis star, born in Copenhagen, Denmark
Famous Deaths
1297 – Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St Truiden, dies at about 86
1714 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer, dies at 56
1937 – Yi Sang, Korean author and poet (Dying Words, Wings, Child’s Bone), dies of tuberculosis in a Japanese prison camp at 26
1945 – Hannie Schaft, Dutch communist resistance fighter known as the “Girl with red hair”, executed at 24
1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1987 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher and Christian apologist, dies at 91