Historical Events
1929 – WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1950 – 1st annual National Book Awards
1957 – 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young win
1969 – Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo’s Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
2003 – 44th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 64-57
2012 – Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
Famous Birthdays
1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1878 – Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), born in Shelby City, Alabama (d. 1936)
1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1920 – Reginald “Leo” McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2002)
1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist, born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (d. 1996)
1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
Famous Deaths
1914 – Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
1933 – Alfred Haar, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1988 – Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2008 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish pop, rock and jazz drummer (ABBA), dies from injuries after a fall at 61
2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (Australian opener of the 30’s and 40’s), dies at 95