Historical Events
1903 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles, 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep
1922 – WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1941 – Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1960 – 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California
1986 – European Space Agency’s Giotto flies by Halley’s Comet (605 km)
2016 – President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria
Famous Birthdays
1815 – Josephine Lang, German composer, born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1880)
1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1918)
1869 – Algernon Blackwood, English novelist (The Willows), born in Shooter’s Hill, Kent, England (d. 1951)
1961 – Greg Anderson, American NHRA stock car driver, born in Duluth, Minnesota
1963 – Pedro Duque, Spanish engineer and astronaut (STS 78 alt, sk:95, first Spanish person in space), born in Madrid, Spain
1984 – Antoni Porowski, Canadian chef and TV personality (Queer Eye), born in Montreal, Quebec
Famous Deaths
840 – Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
1902 – Daniel H. Reynolds, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
1976 – Martha Saalfeldt German writer and poet, dies at 78
1994 – Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska, Polish pianist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 82
1995 – William Fowler, American nuclear scientist and astrophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983), dies at 83
2015 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (To Live and Remember), dies at 77