Historical Events
1798 – Peasants’ War begins in the Southern Netherlands against French Republican occupation
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1976 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 0
1992 – Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave Observing Project search for occupied planets
2023 – Roman scrolls burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum are read for the first time after a computer science student develops a machine-learning algorithm; the first word deciphered is “purple”
Famous Birthdays
1903 – Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (Story of Louis Pasteur), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1998)
1928 – Al Held, American painter and sculptor (hard edge-style), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2005)
1934 – Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician, known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics, born in Shchyolkovo, Russia
1950 – Kaga Takeshi [Shigekatsu Katsuta], Japanese actor, born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
1983 – Alex Brosque, Australian footballer (Sydney FC), born in Sydney, Australia
Famous Deaths
1320 – Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Byzantine Emperor (1295-1320), eldest son of Andronikos II Palaiologos and Anna of Hungary, dies at 43
1590 – Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter during the Azuchi–Momoyama period (Views in and around Kyoto), dies at 47
1915 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, executed by German firing squad in Belgium during World War I at 49
1945 – Jesse James Payne, a sharecropper, lynched in Madison County, Florida
2009 – Ian Wallace, British buffo bass-baritone opera and concert singer (“Gendarmes’ Duet”), and broadcaster (BBC’s My Music, 1964-97), dies at 90