Historical Events
1960 – Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1967 – Brendan Behan’s “Borstal Boy” premieres in Dublin
1976 – Giant’s Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens with the NY Giants going down 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in from of 76,042 fans
1978 – Yanks and Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1995 – Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
2010 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC Potomac: Mark O’Meara wins his lone Champions Tour major title with par on first playoff hole against Michael Allen
Famous Birthdays
1819 – Zebulon York, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Avon, Maine (d. 1900)
1919 – Gerry Gomez, West Indian cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder), born in Trinidad (d. 1996)
1946 – Naoto Kan, Japanese politician (61st Prime Minister of Japan), born in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
1968 – Nancy Brookhart, American WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-1994), born in Elmhurst, Illinois
1972 – Yinka Dare, Nigerian NBA center (NJ Nets), born in Kano, Nigeria (d. 2004)
1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentine footballer (Internazionale), born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, dies at 77
1797 – Carter Braxton, American plantation owner and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 61
1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player, dies at 48
1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1996 – Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), dies of an adverse reaction to an antibiotic at 52