Historical Events
1887 – 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25
1927 – England’s football team beat Belgium 9-1
1956 – Pinky Lee Show last airs on NBC-TV
1975 – Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
2013 – English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (86,254): Wigan Athletic upsets Manchester City, 1-0; Ben Watson scores 90+1′ winner
2022 – First ever US government report into Indian boarding school deaths released (not complete), documents more than 500 deaths across 400 schools and 50 gravesites over 150 years
Famous Birthdays
1731 – Johann Gottfried Seyfert, German composer and violinist, born in Augsburg, Electorate of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1772)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1954 – Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
1967 – Eric Young, infielder (Colorado Rockies), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
1987 – Louis Murphy, American college football player
1997 – Coi Leray [Collins], American rapper (No More Parties), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Famous Deaths
1778 – William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister (Whig, 1756-61, 66-68) known as the `Great Commoner’, dies at 69
1881 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
1907 – John Albert Delany, Australian composer, dies at 54
1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect), dies on the Eastern front at 42, mere months after working out a solution to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
2019 – Harold Lederman, American boxing judge and analyst (HBO), dies of cancer at 79
2022 – Henk Groot, Dutch soccer attacking midfielder/forward (39 caps; Ajax, Feyenoord), dies at 84