Historical Events
518 – Former peasant Justin I proclaimed Byzantine emperor in the Hippodrome, Constantinople
1775 – Horatio Gates issues order excluding Blacks from Continental Army
1971 – National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women, including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and Gloria Steinem
1992 – Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
2006 – Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board
Famous Birthdays
1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer, born in La Rochefoucauld, France (d. 1703)
1888 – Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter (founded the scuola metafisica art movement), born in Volos, Greece (d. 1978)
1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American cartoonist (co-creator, with Jerry Siegel, of “Superman”), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1992)
1933 – Ivan Passer, Czech film director (Born to Win, Cutter’s Way), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2020)
1982 – Alex Arrowsmith, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (The Shaky Hands), born in Hood River, Oregon
Famous Deaths
1594 – Paulo Bellasio, Italian organist and late Renaissance composer, dies at 40
1868 – Carlo Conti, Italian composer, dies at 71
1970 – Félix Gaillard, French Radical Party politician (Prime Minister, 1957-58), dies in a yacht accident at 50
2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2020 – Corra Dirksen, South African rugby union winger (10 caps; Northern Transvaal), dies from COVID-19 complications at 82