Historical Events
1315 – Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
1887 – British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1901 – 6th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-0 in Tuscaloosa
1945 – The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
1961 – UN bans nuclear arms
2017 – Argentine submarine San Juan goes missing in the Atlantic after reporting mechanical failure
Famous Birthdays
1604 – Davis Mell, English composer, born in Wilton (d. 1662)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher and founder of physiognomics, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1801)
1868 – Ferruccio Giannini, Italian-American operatic tenor (one of the first to be recorded), teacher, and impresario (Verdi Opera House, Philadelphia), born in Barga, Italy (d. 1948)
1928 – John Orchard, British actor (Capone, M*A*S*H), born in Kennington, London (d. 1995)
1930 – Whitman Mayo, American actor (Grady Wilson-“Sanford and Son”), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001)
1954 – Mitch Easter, American record producer (REM), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Famous Deaths
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1863 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), dies at 55
1918 – Georges Antoine, Belgian composer, dies at 26
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2011 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer, dies at 65
2020 – Campbell Forsyth, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (4 caps; St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Southampton), dies at 86