Historical Events
1774 – Captain James Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1945 – Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold 1st post-World War II meeting
1958 – Peter Shaffer’s musical “Five Finger Exercise” premieres in London
1974 – John Lennon is (again) ordered to leave US in 60 days, due to a 1968 marijuana charge in the UK
1975 – Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
1987 – Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
Famous Birthdays
1897 – Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1948 – Phillip Harris, rocker
1948 – Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director, born in Zurich Switzerland (d. 2015)
1949 – Mike Vale, American rock bassist (Tommy James and The Shondells)
1975 – Elena Anaya, Spanish actress, born in Palencia, Spain
1978 – Émilie Simon, French singer, born in Montpellier, France
Famous Deaths
521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
1766 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit brother and missionary to China, dies at 77
1943 – Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72
1989 – Heinz Risse, German writer, dies at 91
2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2020 – Derek Ho, American surfer (World C’ship 1993; Hawaiian Triple Crown 1984, 86, 88, 90), dies from a heart attack at 55