Historical Events
1938 – Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
1966 – 16th NBA All-Star Game, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, OH: East beats West, 137-94; MVP: Adrian Smith, Cincinnati Royals, PG
1984 – NASA space shuttle STS 41-B moves to launch pad
1993 – British Airways ends one of the longest libel actions in its history
2014 – During a concert in Maui, Mick Fleetwood announces that Christine McVie would be rejoining Fleetwood Mac
2016 – College Football National Championship, University of Phoenix Stadium: #2 Alabama beats #1 Clemson, 45-40
Famous Birthdays
1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens, born in London, England
1872 – George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
1886 – George Zucco, British actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury), born in Manchester, England (d. 1960)
1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets; NBA breaking a backboard rule), born in Orlando, Florida (d. 2015)
1968 – Ben Rivera, Dominican-American baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
Famous Deaths
802 – St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
1641 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 76
1983 – Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79
2005 – Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2010 – Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (b. 1905)