Historical Events
1920 – AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
1932 – Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll
1970 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 – Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky scores 4 goals, including a natural hat trick in the 1st period and also records an assist as the Oilers win 5-3 over the visiting Quebec Nordiques; his 41st NHL career hat trick
2014 – 103-year-old Gus Andreone records the 8th ace of his career on the 113-yard, 14th hole of the Lakes Course, Palm Aire, Sarasota, FL; oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one
2019 – Young girl’s 5,700 year old DNA extracted from birch tar used as chewing gum, from Lolland Island, southern Denmark
Famous Birthdays
1734 – Georg Peter Weimar, German cantor and composer, born in Stotternheim (d. 1800)
1908 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer
1930 – Julia Meade [Kunz], American actress and TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
1939 – Novella Nelson, American actress (Antwone Fisher, Purlie, Chiefs), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)
1943 – Dave Dee, British musician (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire (d. 2009)
1967 – Pauline Maurice, Welland Ontario, softball outfielder (Olympics 1996)
Famous Deaths
1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell), murdered at 21
1909 – Leopold II, King of Belgium (1865-1909), dies at 74
1917 – Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler, dies at 40
1948 – Edgar Istel, German composer, dies at 68
1961 – Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
2006 – Timmie Rogers, American comedian (The Jackie Gleason Show), actor and singer-songwriter (Back to School Again; I Love Ya, I Love Ya, I Love Ya), dies at 91