Historical Events
1956 – Commencement of the Irish Republican Army’s Border Campaign.
1957 – Willem J Kolff and his team at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic removed the heart from a dog and replaced it with a pneumatic pump which kept the dog alive for 90 minutes, proving the viability of the artificial heart
1979 – President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
1992 – Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1997 – Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
2017 – Democrat Doug Jones defeats Republican Roy Moore for Alabama Senate seat in upset win marked by allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore
Famous Birthdays
1937 – Philip Ledger, British organist, composer, conductor, and academic (King’s College Cambridge), born in Bexhill-on-Sea, England (d. 2012)
1949 – Ricardo Luis Carreras, American bantamweight boxer (Olympic bronze 1972), born in NYC, New York
1970 – Mädchen Amick, American actress (Shelly Johnson-Twin Peaks), born in Reno, Nevada
1971 – Toni Hodgkinson, 800m (Olympics 1996), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1976 – Lloyd Owusu, English-Ghanaian football player, born in Slough, England
1990 – Victor Moses, Nigerian footballer, born in Lagos, Nigeria
Famous Deaths
1858 – Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (1833-36), dies at 71
1933 – Theodore Moses Tobani, German composer, dies at 78
1968 – Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies
1977 – Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill (nee Hozier), widow of Sir Winston, dies at 92
1995 – James Altgens, JFK assassination photographer, dies at 76
2007 – Ike Turner, American musician (“Rocket 88”; Ike and Tina Turner – “A Fool in Love”; “Proud Mary”), dies of cocaine overdose at 76