Historical Events
1657 – Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1934 – Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit
1985 – Doctors at Bethesda Naval hospital remove two small benign polyps from US President Ronald Reagan’s colon
2003 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Craig Stadler wins his first of two Champions Tour major titles by three strokes over Tom Kite, Jim Thorpe, and Tom Watson
2021 – Violent protests and looting following the jailing of Jacob Zuma leave 337 dead in South Africa, with more than 200 shopping malls set on fire
Famous Birthdays
1770 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman, born in Moscow (d. 1837)
1946 – Andrew Pryce Jackman, British progressive rock keyboardist, arranger, and composer (The Syn), born in England (d. 2003)
1949 – Helena Fibingerová, Czech athlete (World C’ship gold shot put 1983; Olympic bronze 1976; 3 x WR), born in Víceměřice, Czechoslovakia
1953 – Violeta Dinescu, Romanian pianist, composer (Tabar), and music professor, born in Bucharest, Romania
1994 – Ridge Canipe, American actor (Walk the Line; A Single Man; Music Within), born in Laguna Beach, California
Famous Deaths
1842 – Jesse Bennett, American physician who performed 1st successful US Caesarean (1794), dies at 72
1860 – John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
1863 – John S. Bowen, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1955 – Beulah Ecton Woodard, African-American sculptor, dies at 59
1960 – Joy Davidman, American poet, writer and wife of C. S. Lewis, dies at 45