Historical Events
1740 – Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne
1906 – The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy”
1930 – Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1974 – World Football League plays 1st games
1984 – All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) awarded for 2nd time
2001 – Iraq resumes oil exports, ending a 5-week halt in protest of a US and British-sponsored UN Security Council resolution
Famous Birthdays
1914 – Ahti Sonninen, Finnish composer (Pessi and Illusia, Rauhaa, vain rauhaa), born in Kuopio, Finland (d. 1984)
1939 – Larry Laoretti, American golfer (US Senior Open 1992), born in Mahopac, New Jersey
1953 – Peter Bergman, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, actor (Eat or Be Eaten)
1965 – Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
1970 – Pubudu Dissanayake, Sri Lanka cricket wicket-keeper (1993)
1973 – Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
Famous Deaths
1686 – Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75
1774 – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1929 – Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1959 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test), dies at 76
1993 – Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
2015 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese CEO of Nintendo (Nintendo DS and Wii), dies of cancer at 55