Historical Events
1916 – Boston Brave’s Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
1944 – George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America
1975 – Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1991 – With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game winning streak 6-5
2008 – US Open Men’s Golf, Torrey Pines GC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd US Open and 14th major title, beating Rocco Mediate on the 1st hole of sudden-death, following a Monday 18-hole playoff
2012 – A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
Famous Birthdays
1914 – Stewart Cathie “Billy” Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer
1921 – Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1969 – L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1971 – Chris Gomez, American baseball infielder (San Diego Padres), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1831 – Josef Schnabel, German composer, dies at 64
1858 – John Snow, English English epidemiologist, ‘Father of modern epidemiology’ studied cholera, dies of a stroke at 45
1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 – Garfield Wood, American inventor, motorboat builder and racer (world water speed record x 5; first to travel over 100 mph on water), dies at 90
2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (La Llamarada), dies at 99