Historical Events
1862 – Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan
1939 – British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1953 – Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1956 – IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
2020 – Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks
Famous Birthdays
1656 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian, born in Lanchester, Durham (d. 1746)
1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, New York (d. 1966)
1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress (All My Children), born in Manhattan, New York
1971 – Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons)
1978 – Carmen Kass, Estonian model (estimated to have been the second-highest-paid model in the world in 2002), born in Talinn, Estonia
1981 – Ashley Roberts, American singer (Pussycat Dolls), born in Phoenix, Arizona
Famous Deaths
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
1974 – Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1981 – Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81
1996 – Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
2003 – Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2008 – Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)