Historical Events
1964 – Sporting Portugal win 4th European Cup Winner’s Cup against MTK Budapest of Hungry 1-0 at Antwerp (replay)
1971 – Irish Republican Army member William ‘Billy’ Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast
1973 – California Angel Nolan Ryan’s 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1992 – Colombo ’92 opens in Genoa Italy
1993 – Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
2019 – US birthrate in 2018 the lowest for 32 years (total fertility rate 1,728 births per 1,000 women), with record lows for teen births
Famous Birthdays
1810 – Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), (d. 1885)
1893 – Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes), born in London (d. 1942)
1907 – Josef Alexander, composer
1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann)
1959 – Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1970 – Artie Smith, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
Famous Deaths
1157 – Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1933 – Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies from complications following surgery for gall stones at 54
1937 – Phillip Snowden, British politician first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 72
1992 – Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1995 – Edouard Dermithe, Italian actor (Orpheus, Thomas the Impostor), dies at 70
1995 – Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52