Historical Events
1688 – Prince William of Orange’s invasion fleet sails to England
1946 – New York Knicks play their first Basketball Association of America (BAA) home game at Madison Square Garden, losing 78-68 to the Chicago Stags in overtime
1966 – NASA Gemini 12 launches on a four-day flight with Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin
2000 – 12th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College, 28-16 in South Bend
2023 – Icelandic town of Grindavík on Reykjanes peninsula evacuated after thousands of earthquakes and rising magna point to an imminent eruption
Famous Birthdays
1907 – Joseph G. Hamilton, American physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis, born in Waverley, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
1962 – Demi Moore [Guynes], American actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane), born in Roswell, New Mexico
1970 – Lee Parkin Starkey, English fashion designer, and daughter of Ringo Starr and his first wife Maureen, born in London
1976 – Lisa Gleave, American actress and model (The Price is Right), born in Queensland, Australia
1978 – Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer, born in Warkworth, New Zealand
Famous Deaths
1150 – Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish Chemist, 1945 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for inventing AIV silage and a preservation method for butter, dies at 78
1982 – Gösta Törner, Swedish hot jazz and session trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 70
2007 – Delbert Mann, American television and film director (Marty, Separate Tables, A Gathering of Eagles), dies from pneumonia at 87
2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)