Historical Events
1911 – Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A’s, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1931 – 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1956 – Charles Ives’ overture “Robert Browning” premieres in NYC
1966 – 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1979 – 1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
1987 – MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3
Famous Birthdays
1827 – James Sidney Robinson, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1892)
1888 – Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 1923)
1943 – Lance Rentzel, American NFL receiver (Minn, LA) and ex-husband of Joey Heatherton, born in Flushing, New York
1977 – Tina Dico [Dickow], Danish singer-songwriter, born in Åbyhøj, Aarhus, Denmark
1980 – Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1981 – Ingemar Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 74
2006 – Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2019 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic, ‘the most notorious literary critic in America’ dies at 89