Historical Events
1912 – Helen Hayes Theater (Little Theatre) opens at 240W 44th St, NYC
1963 – Beatles perform as a trio, at Granada Cinema, in Bedford, England, as John Lennon is ill with a cold
1969 – 120 cannabis joints found at George and Patti Harrison’s home
1987 – Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
1993 – Entertainment Tonight’s 3,000th show
2018 – Civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta passes 1,000 in three weeks as Syrian government forces capture the town of Mesraba
Famous Birthdays
1800 – Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1821 – John Abbott, 3rd Canadian Prime Minister (1891-92), born in Saint-Andre, Quebec (d. 1893)
1838 – William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
1929 – Francisco Pulgar Vidal, Peruvian musicologist and composer, born in Huánuco, Peru (d. 2012)
1952 – Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
Famous Deaths
1889 – John Archibald Campbell, American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853–61), dies at 77
1936 – David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet during World War I (Battle of Jutland), dies of heart failure at 65
1982 – Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90
1994 – Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2010 – Lesley Duncan (Cox), British session singer (Pink Floyd; Jesus Christ Superstar), and singer-songwriter (“Love Song”; “Sing Children Sing”), dies of cerebrovascular disease at 66