Historical Events
1776 – Brigadier-General Arnold’s Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British during the Battle of Valcour Island (American Revolutionary War)
1863 – Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson’s Mill, Tennessee
1906 – White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
1960 – Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
1985 – President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA
1997 – Dennis Rodman returns from second longest NBA suspension (11 games)
Famous Birthdays
1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and theologian, born in Norwich, England (d. 1729)
1835 – Hunter McGuire, American physician and Med Director (Confederate Army), born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1900)
1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical Brunstad Christian Church, born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 1943)
1884 – Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1967)
1956 – Nicanor Frutos, 47th President of Paraguay (2003-08), born in Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay
1961 – Amr Diab, Egyptian singer (Leily Nehary), born in Port Said, Egypt
Famous Deaths
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder’s Stand
1962 – Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on the laws of genetics, dies at 90
1984 – K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies at 67
1988 – Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame), dies of AIDS at 48
2002 – Dina Pathak [Ghandi], Indian Gujarati theatre actress, director and activist (President-National Federation of Indian Women), dies of a heart attack at 80
2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)