Historical Events
1803 – Peace of Amiens between French Republic and Great Britain ends
1977 – TV drama “Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn”, starring Leigh McCloskey, follow up to “Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway” premieres on US network NBC, focusing on what happened to him after Dawn left L.A. to return to her hometown
1985 – Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1996 – Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
2004 – Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine where during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians
2019 – Last episode of TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” starring Jim Parson, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco after 12 seasons
Famous Birthdays
1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball 2nd baseman (MLB All Star 1956; World Series 1951, 52, 53, 56; NY Yankees) and manager (World Series 1977 NY Yankees), born in Berekeley, California (d. 1989)
1931 – Denise Filiatrault, French-Canadian actress and director (The Plouffe Family), born in Montreal, Quebec
1936 – Philippe de Montebello, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut), born in Paris, France
1937 – Yvonne Craig, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin), born in Taylorville, Illinois (d. 2015)
1940 – Gareth Roberts, chancellor (Sheffield University)
1980 – Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player and coach (Springfield Thunderbirds), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Famous Deaths
1667 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1777 – Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1835 – Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
1891 – Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
2012 – Doug Dillard, American country rock musician (The Dillards, Gene Clark, Dillard and Clark) and actor (Clem-Popeye), dies of a lung infection caused by a collapsed lung at 75