Historical Events
1899 – Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1957 – II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan
1976 – Coldest World Series game; Reds beat NY Yankees, 4-3 in Game 2 at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati; 39 degrees F (until 1997)
1995 – MLB American League Championship: Cleveland Indians beat Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 2
1998 – At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
2010 – Brother André is the first Canadian to be canonized post Federation by Pope Benedict XVI
Famous Birthdays
1704 – William Bentinck, British-born Dutch politician and prominent Orangist (d. 1774)
1734 – Grigori Orlov, Russian military officer and favorite of Catherine the Great (helped her overthrow Peter III), born in Bezhetsky Uyezd, Russia (d. 1783) [NS]
1848 – William “Candy” Cummings, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (credited with creating the curveball), born in Ware, Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer (US Open 1994, 97; British Open 2002, 12), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
1977 – Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter
1989 – Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress
Famous Deaths
1660 – Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1897 – Isidor Dannström, Swedish composer, dies at 84
1979 – Karel Reiner, Czech pianist, composer, and Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor, dies at 69
1993 – Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage), dies at 30
1995 – Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
2019 – Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and founder of the National Ballet of Cuba, dies at 98