Historical Events
1853 – Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1928 – Boston Garden officially opens
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1973 – Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1980 – WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station
1982 – Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
Famous Birthdays
1917 – Jack Lescoulie, American TV host (Jackie Gleason Show), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1987)
1963 – Pedro Luis Estrada, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Brooklyn, New York
1965 – Grant Connell, Canadian tennis player who was the world’s #1 doubles player in the 1990s, born in Regina Saskatchewan
1966 – Daisy Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America’s Funniest Videos)
1966 – Jeff Buckley, American musician and singer (“Hallelujah”), Anaheim, California (d. 1997)
1980 – [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, American pop singer and guitarist (Hanson – “MMMbop”), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Famous Deaths
1512 – Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1770 – Gian Francesco de Majo, Italian composer, dies at 38
1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), dies at 75
1986 – Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2017 – Earle Hyman, American stage and screen actor (The Cosby Show – “Russell Huxtable”; ThunderCats; Coriolanus), dies at 91