Historical Events
1945 – Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
1960 – George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1987 – Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1990 – Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1994 – Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
2008 – 79th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium, New York
Famous Birthdays
1910 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricket batsman (39 Tests, batting av. 48.21, top score 232), born in Grenfell, New South Wales (d. 1968)
1921 – Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1996)
1928 – Ray Thornton, American politician (Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas), born in Conway, Arkansas (d. 2016)
1959 – Gary Anderson, NFL placekicker (Philadelphia Eagles), born in Parys, Orange Free State, South Africa
1970 – William Van Landingham, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Columbia, Tennessee
1974 – Michelle Chandler, Australian basketball point guard (Olymp-bronze-96), born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Famous Deaths
276 – Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
1647 – Masaniello [Tommaso Aniello], Italian fisherman and leader of the 1647 Naples revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain, assassinated by a group of grain merchants at 27
1686 – John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1976 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1984 – Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
2017 – George A. Romero, American Canadian filmmaker “Father of the Zombie Film” (Night of the Living Dead), dies at 77