Historical Events
1772 – Marion du Fresne is killed at Tacoury’s Cove, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, by local Māori
1933 – Financial and Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1950 – 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1963 – “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton premieres in NYC, then most expensive film ever made
2002 – 1st CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride, and Kenny Chesney win
2020 – African American Rayshard Brooks shot dead in drive-through carpark in Atlanta leading to further protests at police violence and the resignation of city’s police chief
Famous Birthdays
1835 – George Atzerodt, American conspirator who failed to attempt an assassination of Vice President Andrew Johnson on the night Abraham Lincoln was murdered, born in Dorna, German Confederation (d. 1865)
1878 – James Oliver Curwood, American journalist and writer (Kazan the wolfdog), born in Owosso, Michigan (d. 1927)
1942 – Bert Sakmann, German cell physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1991), born in Stuttgart, Germany
1945 – Alfred Gell, British social anthropologist (d. 1997)
1963 – Philippa Baker, New Zealand rower (World C’ship gold LW1x 1991; W2x 1993, 94), born in Wanganui, New Zealand
1973 – Jason Caffey, American NBA forward (Chicago Bulls), born in Mobile, Alabama
Famous Deaths
1687 – Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1761 – Meinrad Spiess, German composer, dies at 77
1888 – Carel Vosmaer, Dutch poet and art critic (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62
1994 – Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of O.J. Simpson at 27
1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian classical pianist, dies at 75
2022 – Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby union fly-half (29 Tests Wales, 8 British and Irish Lions; Barbarians FC; Llanelli RFC 414 games and 2,535 points), dies at 73