Historical Events
1639 – 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1957 – John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
1959 – Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
1967 – 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
1985 – Coca Cola announces they’re bringing back their 99-year-old formula
1986 – A. Bartlett Giamatti succeeds Chub Feeney as President of baseball’s National League
Famous Birthdays
1832 – Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (gas motor, otto motor), born in Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau (d. 1891)
1861 – Joseph Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem), born in Roermond, the Netherlands (d. 1949)
1925 – Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1959 – Timothy Van Patten, American actor (White Shadow, Master), born in Brooklyn, New York
1961 – Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1976 – Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
Famous Deaths
1560 – Mary of Guise [Mary of Lorraine], pro-French Queen of Scots (1538-42) and Regent of Scotland (1554-60), dies of dropsy at 44
1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1944 – Johan Limpers, Dutch sculptor and resistance fighter, executed at 28
1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1994 – Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a ’38 Dodge), dies at 66
1998 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)