Historical Events
1943 – Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
1949 – 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1970 – Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
1984 – A British 1-2 in the 1,500m at the Los Angeles Olympics with Sebastian Coe edging teammate Steve Cram to become the only man to successfully defend his Olympic 1,500m title
1988 – Al-Qaeda formed at a meeting between Osama Bin Laden, Zawahiri and Dr Fadl in Peshawar, Pakistan
1993 – NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
Famous Birthdays
1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scotland, poet (Scots Unbound)
1907 – Ted a’Beckett, cricketer (Australian Test player)
1928 – Bill Bartholomay, American businessman and MLB owner (Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves 1962-76), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
1933 – Jerry Falwell, American TV evangelist (Moral Majority)
1949 – Eric Carmen, rocker (All by Myself), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1961 – Frederick W Sturckow, USMC capt/astronaut (sk: STS 88), born in La Mesa, California
Famous Deaths
1774 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1901 – Francesco Crispi, Italian statesman, dies at 82
1988 – Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach, dies in a car accident at 66
2016 – Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer “Little Master” (1952-69), played the longest test innings – 16 hours, dies at 81