Historical Events
1864 – Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1890 – Alexander Clark, journalist and lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1921 – Members of the Dail (parliament) swear allegiance to the Irish Republic at their first meeting, held at Dublin House
1993 – The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the “Debian Linux Release”)
2017 – Philippine police kill 32 in raids near Manilia, most deadly night in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs
2023 – The Northwest Territories in Canada declare a state of emergency due to wildfires and order an evacuation of the city of Yellowknife, affecting 22,000 people
Famous Birthdays
1860 – Lord Hawke [Martin Hawke], English cricket batsman (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC, Cambridge Uni CC, MCC), born in Willingham by Stow, England (d. 1938)
1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American athlete and American football pioneer, born in West Orange, New Jersey (d. 1965)
1937 – David Behrman, American composer (On The Other Ocean), born in Salzburg, Austria
1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible), born in New York City
1952 – Mahes Goonatillake, cricketer (Sri Lankan keeper in their 1st 5 Tests)
1985 – Agnes Bruckner, American actress, born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1445 – Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
1938 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic priest, dies at 1938
1952 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1991 – Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
2015 – Jacob Bekenstein, American-Israeli theoretical physicist (Bekenstein-Hawking radiation), dies of a heart attack at 68
2017 – David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British aristocrat, art dealer, and peer, dies at 89