Historical Events
1846 – Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
1918 – 1″ of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
1966 – Mexican record temperature of 52.5 °C (126.5 °F) in the shade is recorded in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora
1974 – Novelty song “The Streak” by Ray Stevens hits #1 on UK pop chart
1991 – Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
Famous Birthdays
1763 – Franz Danzi, German composer and cellist, born in Schwetzingen, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1826)
1870 – Maud Barger-Wallach, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1908), born at New York, NY (d. 1954)
1890 – Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer (provided first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean), born in Posen, Germany (d. 1977)
1935 – Belinda Lee, English actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus), born in Devon, England (d. 1961)
1981 – Billy Martin, American guitarist and songwriter (Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless), born in Annapolis, Maryland,
Famous Deaths
1246 – Frederick II “the Warlike”, duke of Austria and Styria (1230-46), dies at the Battle of Leitha at 35
1962 – Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and teacher, dies at 84
1990 – George Nakashima, American furniture maker and architect (American Craft Movement), dies at 85
2016 – Lois Duncan, American young adult novelist (I Know What You Did Last Summer), dies at 82
2018 – Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist and television weatherman (KDKA and WTAE in Pittsburgh, 1957-2009), dies at 87