Historical Events
1793 – 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Cincinnati
1849 – 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert in Boston
1920 – Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC
1977 – Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1978 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1978 – “Ballroom” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
Famous Birthdays
1881 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (Stranger Than Fiction, The Infidel), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
1917 – June Taylor, American choreographer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
1941 – Ellen Willis, American journalist and feminist, born in NYC, New York (d. 2006)
1968 – Jamie Crysdale, CFL corner (Calgary Stampeders), born in Calgary, Alberta
1984 – Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer, born in Belfast
1985 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese gravure idol and actress, born in Saitama prefecture, Japan
Famous Deaths
1077 – Agnes of Poitou, German Empress and wife of Emperor Henry III, dies at 52
1715 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 79
1760 – Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies at 56
1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1914 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 73
1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (Nobel 1975), dies of a heart attack at 68