Historical Events
1875 – William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1965 – Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1973 – US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline
1974 – ABBA begin their first tour of Europe – their first tour outside of Sweden
1976 – Rick Barry (San Francisco), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1989 – 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
Famous Birthdays
1888 – Clinton Golden, Penn, founder (United Steelworkers of America)
1942 – Joanna Pettet, British actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent), born in London
1952 – Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist (Biblioteca Marciana), born in Venice, Italy
1955 – Pierre Larouche, Canadian National Hockey League player
1977 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater (Olympic gold 1994), born in
1981 – Allison Crowe, Canadian singer-songwriter, born in Nanaimo, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1603 – Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies
1779 – Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
1802 – André Michaux, French botanist, dies at 56
1965 – William Thomas Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State, dies at 85
1996 – Jack Popplewell, British composer and playwright (If I Should Fall In Love Again), dies at 87
2016 – Jay Forrester, American engineer, invented random-access magnetic core memory, dies at 98