Historical Events
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle, the location where he would formulate his ideas later written in The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
1932 – Walt Disney Art School created
1955 – Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1972 – Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1993 – Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
Famous Birthdays
1498 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France, born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1558)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
1925 – Jurriaan Andriessen [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
1933 – Barbara Carson, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1941 – Daniel Manus Pinkwater, American sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
1955 – Oliver Conant, American actor (Summer of ’42), born in NYC, New York
Famous Deaths
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1928 – Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American Geologist and educator, dies at 85
1983 – Dai Rees, Scottish golfer (British Open runner-up 1953-54, 61), dies of car accident injuries at 70
1990 – Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2004 – Ben Cami, Flemish writer and poet (Rose from Mud), dies at 84