Historical Events
1912 – Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
1920 – Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1960 – Charles Ives’ “Lincoln, the Great Commoner” premieres
1968 – “Spooky” by Classics IV hits #3
1989 – Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
1990 – Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
Famous Birthdays
1862 – W H “Gobo” Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
1906 – Henry Phelps Brown, British historian and economist, born in Calne (d. 1994)
1927 – Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1951 – Bob [Robert] Iger, American entertainment executive (CEO of The Walt Disney Company), born in NYC, New York
1971 – Louie Spicolli [Louis Mucciolo Jr.], American wrestler, born in San Pedro, California (d. 1998)
1976 – Kev Brown, American rapper and hip hop producer, born in Landover, Maryland
Famous Deaths
1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet, dies at 54
1774 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
1822 – Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
1997 – Milton Cato, 1st Prime Minister of San Vincent and the Grenadines (1979-84), dies at 82
2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricket all-rounder, writer and broadcaster (61 Tests, top score 134, 132 wickets; BBC), dies in a fire in his retirement flat at 87
2013 – Eugenio Trias, Spanish philosopher, dies at 70