Historical Events
1792 – The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen with other French crown jewels from Royal storehouse in Paris during Reign of Terror
1965 – Beatles’ “Help!,” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1967 – WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 – Chilean President Salvador Allende is deposed in a military coup led by general Augusto Pinochet
2001 – Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board
2019 – Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in “Nature Astronomy”
Famous Birthdays
1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (first westerner to travel the central Niger River in Africa), born in Selkirkshire, Scotland (d. 1806)
1813 – Conrad Feger Jackson, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Alsace Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
1885 – D. H. Lawrence, English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley’s Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (d. 1930)
1916 – Ed Sabol, American filmmaker (NFL Films), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2015)
1930 – Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player and 10th president of the Egyptian Al-Ahly Sporting Club, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2002)
1935 – Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer, born in Paide, Järva County
Famous Deaths
1973 – Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
1982 – Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68
1985 – Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1993 – Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered
1999 – Belkis Ayón, Cuban printmaker (collography), commits suicide of at 32
2009 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian and the world’s oldest living person, dies at 115