Historical Events
1921 – Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1936 – Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 – St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
1970 – Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
1977 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Famous Birthdays
1916 – Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor (My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride), born in NYC, New York
1945 – Michael Bishop, American sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces)
1964 – Gerald Perry, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride), born in England, United Kingdom
1984 – Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver, born in Harare, Zimbabwe
Famous Deaths
1567 – Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74
1960 – John Trim, cricketer (occasional WI quick 1948-52, 18 wkts), dies
1981 – William Holden [Beedle], American actor (The Blue Knight, Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai), slips on a rug and bleeds to death at 63
1995 – Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85
1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV), commits suicide at 27