Historical Events
1510 – Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim population to the sword
1904 – King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
1956 – Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1966 – Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken
1988 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Montreal Canadiens
2012 – Google begins selling US$99 laptops
Famous Birthdays
1821 – Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny), born in Nemyriv, Russian Empire (d. 1877)
1872 – Johann Babtist Thaller, German composer, born in Röhrmoos, Germany (d. 1952)
1906 – Walter Zinn, Canadian-American nuclear physicist (invented the breeder reactor), born in Kitchener, Ontario (d. 2000)
1937 – Don Sebesky, American orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show), born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
1961 – Mark McKoy, Canadian track star (world record 50m indoor, Olympic gold 1992), born in Georgetown, British Guiana
1963 – Doug Henry, American baseball pitcher (NY Mets), born in Sacramento, California
Famous Deaths
1890 – Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1861-66), dies at 84
1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
1982 – Freeman Gosden, American writer and actor (The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show, Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 83
1986 – Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
1993 – Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42
1995 – John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85