Historical Events
1858 – Regular US mail to the Pacific coast begins
1964 – WEWS-TV in Cleveland, Ohio first airs “The Big 5 Show”, a teen dance and music program later syndicated as “Upbeat”
1968 – Pirate Radio Free London begins transmitting
1974 – Hurricane and floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1975 – Army officers in Bangladesh stage a military coup d’état, assassinate elected President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most members of his family and install Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad as President
1979 – Andrew Young resigns as US ambassador to the United Nations
Famous Birthdays
1780 – Marie-Anne Gaboury, French-Canadian settler (first white woman to settle in Western Canada), born in Maskinongé, Quebec (d. 1875)
1879 – Ethel Barrymore [Blythe], American classic film and stage actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
1934 – Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer, born in Moscow, USSR (d. 2010)
1943 – Eni Faleomavaega, American-Samoan politician (3rd Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa), born in Vailoatai, American Samoa (d. 2017)
1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
1969 – James Black, Canadian NHL center, 1989-2001 (Chicago Blackhawks, Washington Capitals, and 4 other teams), born in Regina, Saskatchewan
Famous Deaths
423 – Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Republic emperor (395-423), dies at 38
1118 – Alexius I Comnenus [Alexios I Komnenos], Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
1552 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1967 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (This is Not a Pipe), dies at 68
1971 – Thomas Wayne, American rockabilly singer (“Tragedy”), dies in a car accident at 31
1991 – Marietta Tree, American diplomat and ambassador (1st woman to serve as chief U.S. delegate to the UN in 1961), dies at 74