Historical Events
1048 – Battle of Kapetron: night battle between invading Seljuk Turks and Byzantine-Georgian forces of Constantine IX, Byzantines drive back Turks but unable to stop huge plunder
1916 – WWI flying ace The Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France
1927 – Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1949 – 3rd Cannes Film Festival: “The Third Man” directed by Carol Reed wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1963 – “The Fugitive” starring David Janssen premieres on ABC TV
1993 – Last Russian troops leave Poland.
Famous Birthdays
1854 – Hans Müller, German music historian and writer, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1897)
1859 – Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1942)
1890 – Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator famous for his WWII sign-on “There’s good news tonight”, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1972)
1940 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (Zorba the Greek), born in Limassol, Cyprus (d. 2007)
1968 – Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
1968 – Valeri Zelepukin, NHL forward (NJ Devils, Team Russia Olympic silver 1998)
Famous Deaths
1727 – Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1944 – Friedrich Kussin, German Major-General and commander in Arnhem during Operation Market Garden, dies in battle at 49
1966 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle [Tachito], President of Nicaragua (1967-72 and 1974-79), assassinated in Paraguay at 54
1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis, Lithuanian/American tennis player (Australian Open 1977; Wimbledon doubles 1975), dies of carbon monoxide poisoning at 40
2015 – Peter Heatly, Scottish diver and Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation, dies at 91