Historical Events
1785 – Mozart’s string quartet opus 10 premieres
1910 – Constructions ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming
1962 – 50th Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Jan Lehane O’Neill in the final for 3rd straight year 6-0, 6-2
1974 – TV sitcom “Happy Days” begins an 11 year run on ABC, starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross and Ton Bosley
1975 – Space Mountain opens at Disneyland
2005 – An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system
Famous Birthdays
1795 – Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1829)
1877 – Lewis Terman, American psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test), born in Johnson County, Indiana (d. 1956)
1929 – Eva Badura-Skoda, German-Austrian composer, born in Munich, Germany
1966 – Betsy Mitchell, American 100m backstroke swimmer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1975 – Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter, born in Anstruther, United Kingdom
1979 – Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ, born in Taiwan
Famous Deaths
1804 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1909 – Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1967 – Albert Szirmai, Hungarian operetta composer, dies at 86
2000 – Arkan [Željko Ražnatović], Serbian paramilitary leader, dies at 47
2005 – Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (Citizen Kane, All My Children), dies of complications from pneumonia at 88
2020 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian pro wrestler (father of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; with Tony Atlas first black champions in WWE history), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 75