Historical Events
1933 – 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia’s Baker Bowl – sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
1936 – St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
1966 – 18-year-old US High schooler Robert Smith kills 5 people at Arizona’s Rose-Mar Beauty College for fame
1970 – Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
1981 – Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1996 – Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide in midair over Charkhi Dadri in India, killing 349 people, the third-deadliest aviation disaster in history
Famous Birthdays
1853 – Oskar Panizza, German writer (Das Liebeskonzil), born in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria (d. 1921)
1865 – Frans “Sas” van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), (d. 1939)
1921 – Robert Fleming, Canadian composer, born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (d. 1976)
1931 – Bob Crewe, songwriter and producer (“Big Girls Don’t Cry”; “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)”), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2014)
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride), born in England, United Kingdom
1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-German actress, born in Bucharest, Romania
Famous Deaths
1720 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero, dies at 30
1739 – Ludwig Ernst, German composer, dies at 71
1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, dies of a stroke at 61
1969 – Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77
1976 – Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1994 – Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88