Historical Events
1737 – First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
1958 – Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
2008 – Belarus weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks 3 world records, for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total, on the way to winning the men’s 105kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
2013 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Colorado GC: Europe retain Cup for the first time in record winning margin 18-12; Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall becomes first player to win 5 matches in a single competition
2017 – Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis 18,000 feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes
Famous Birthdays
1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician, discoverer of Taylor’s Theorem, born in Edmonton, Middlesex, England (d. 1731)
1964 – Edith Frost, American singer and songwriter, born in San Antonio, Texas
1964 – Kenny Walker, American basketball player, born in Roberta, Georgia
1971 – Kevin Bouie, American football running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Ariz Cardinals), born in Pahokee, Florida
1974 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer (WI left-handed batsman 1994-), born in Unity Village, Guyana
1994 – Jessie Flower [Michaela Murphy], American actress (Avatar: The Last Airbender), born in Southern Indiana
Famous Deaths
1227 – Genghis Khan [Temüjin Borjigin], Mongolian warlord who founded the Mongol Empire, dies at around 65
1858 – William Austin Burt, American scientist, surveyor and inventor who patented America’s first typographer (typewriter) and the equatorial sextant, dies at 66
1942 – Erwin Schulhoff, Czech-Russian composer and pianist (Ogelala), dies of tuberculosis at 48 in a German concentration camp in Wülzburg, Bavaria
1980 – Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
2003 – Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers), dies at 63
2010 – Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931)