Historical Events
1935 – Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
1957 – Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
1960 – Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1972 – “Hard Job Being God” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
1997 – ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
2020 – Germany, Europe’s largest economy, officially in recession due to COVID-19, as figures show economy shrank 2.2% 1st 3 months of 2020
Famous Birthdays
1891 – Fritz Feigl, Austrian Brazilian chemist (spot tests), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1971)
1914 – Walter “Turk” Broda, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, 5x Stanley Cup, 2x Vezina Trophy (Toronto Maple Leafs, 1935-51), born in Brandon, Manitoba (d. 1972)
1926 – [Jean-Josephat] Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist and composer (Implosion Symphony), born in Saint-Georges, Quebec (d. 2006)
1937 – Joe Tait, American sports broadcaster (Cleveland Cavaliers [radio], Cleveland Indians [TV and radio]), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2021)
1949 – Wendy Pritchard, Australian women’s field hockey team manager (Olympics 1996)
1969 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese-American NPB and MLB baseball pitcher, 1988-2004 (New York Yankees, 1997-2002), born in Okinawa, Japan (d. 2011)
Famous Deaths
1591 – Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
1801 – Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
1823 – Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1937 – Phillip Snowden, British politician first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 72
1984 – Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
2009 – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)