Historical Events
1776 – British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx
1854 – Lincoln University founded in Pennsylvania as Ashmun Institute
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins
1944 – German army retreats from Athens
1976 – Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party
2008 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Baltimore CC: D. A. Weibring wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Fred Funk
Famous Birthdays
1832 – Walter T Watts-Dunton, English lawyer, poet and writer (Aylwin), born in St. Ives, England (d. 1914)
1884 – Godfrey Tearle, English-American actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), born in NYC, New York (d. 1953)
1895 – Alfred “Tubby” Hall, American jazz drummer (King Oliver; Louis Armstrong), born in Sellers, Louisiana (d. 1945)
1905 – Rick Ferrell, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (8 x MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators), born in Durham, North Carolina (d. 1995)
1916 – Alice Childress, American playwright, actress and writer, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1994)
1981 – Brian Kerr, Scottish football manager, born in Dublin, Ireland
Famous Deaths
1565 – Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
1914 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (flat-bottomed paper bag), described as a “female Thomas Edison”, dies at 76
1924 – Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault], French writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921), dies at 80
1979 – Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (Man of a Thousand Faces), dies from natural causes at 82
2008 – Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
2013 – Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), dies from a heart attack at 62