Historical Events
1920 – The “Wall Street bombing” occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143
1940 – FDR signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1954 – CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
1960 – Milwaukee Braves’ future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 at County Stadium
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1999 – 1st ever season of “Big Brother” reality show begins on the Veronica channel in The Netherlands
Famous Birthdays
1875 – James Cash Penney, American department store founder (J C Penney), born in Hamilton, Missouri (d. 1971)
1916 – M.S. [Madurai Shanmukhavadivu] Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (1st singer to be awarded the Bharat Ratna), born in Madurai, Madras Presidency (d. 2004)
1968 – Marc Anthony [Marco Antonio Muñiz], American sala singer-songwriter, born in NYC, New York
1969 – Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica), born in Kensington, London
1973 – Clint Peay, American soccer defender (Olympic gold 1996), born in Columbia, Maryland
1978 – Nick Cordero, Canadian Broadway actor (Bullets Over Broadway), born in Hamilton, Canada (d. 2020)
Famous Deaths
1916 – Basil W. Duke, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
1925 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1926 – Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
1932 – Ronald Ross, British pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies at 75
1996 – Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73
2005 – Harry Freedman (Henryk Frydmann), Canadian composer, dies at 83