Historical Events
1925 – Alban Berg’s first opera “Wozzeck” premieres with the Berlin State Opera in Berlin, Germany
1944 – Beginning of Liese-Aktion: Germany tries to recruit Dutch men for the Germany labor force
1969 – “Leaving on a Jet Plane” single sung by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by John Denver, hits #1 on US Billboard’s Hot Top 100
1975 – WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1988 – Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
Famous Birthdays
1895 – George VI, King of the United Kingdom (1936-52), born in Norfolk, England (d. 1952)
1901 – Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64), born at Tatoi Palace in Parnitha, Kingdom of Greece (d. 1964)
1927 – Koss Rietkerk, Dutch internal minister (VVD) (1982-86), born in Boskoop, Netherlands (d. 1986)
1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1998)
1975 – Tamecka Dixon, American WNBA guard (LA Sparks), born in Linden, New Jersey
Famous Deaths
1417 – John Oldcastle, English nobleman and pro-protestant Lollard leader, whom Shakespeare based his Falstaff character on, hanged for heresy at 39
1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist, dies at 74
2012 – Kenneth Kendall, British broadcaster (BBC News, Treasure Hunt), dies from a stroke at 88
2017 – Lones Wigger, American competitive rifle shooter (Olympic gold/silver-1964, 72), dies at 80
2017 – Yú Guāngzhōng [Yu Kwang-chung], Taiwanese poet, essayist, and translator (Nostalgia), dies from respiratory failure at 89