Historical Events
1471 – Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI
1907 – New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame backstop Roger Bresnahan becomes first catcher to wear shin guards
1926 – Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1939 – Hungary leaves League of Nations
1957 – Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Famous Birthdays
1919 – Raymond Carr, English historian and warden (St Antony’s College Oxford), born in Bath, Somerset, England (d. 2015)
1930 – Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1937 – Jill Gascoine, British stage and pioneering TV actress (The Gentle Touch – “Maggie Forbes”), and novelist, born in Lambeth, London, England (d. 2020)
1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer (“Around the World”), born in Manchester, England
1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein), born in Schwerin, Germany
1974 – Alex Corretja, Spanish tennis player (Tour Finals 1998; Davis Cup 2000), born in Barcelona, Spain
Famous Deaths
1240 – Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1626 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1810 – Jakob Zupan, Slovenian composer, dies at 75
1853 – Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, French pianist, music director, and composer, dies at 84
2007 – Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2010 – Jean Boiteux, French swimmer (Olympic gold 400m freestyle, bronze 4×200m freestyle 1952), dies after falling off a tree at 76