Historical Events
1900 – Empress Dowager Cixi orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1986 – California Angels’Don Sutton becomes 19th MLB pitcher to win 300 games
2001 – Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India
2013 – 31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad
2016 – Soyuz capsule returns to Earth 1st British International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Timothy Kopra after 186 days
Famous Birthdays
1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1907), born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
1925 – Herman “Ace” Wallace, American blues guitarist and singer, born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (Frankfurter Schule), born in Düsseldorf, Germany
1980 – David Giuntoli, American actor (Grimm; A Million Little Things), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1986 – Richard Madden, Scottish actor (Games of Thrones, Cinderella), born in Elderslie, Scotland
Famous Deaths
1902 – Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh), dies at 66
1937 – Al Boasberg, American vaudeville, radio and film comedy writer (Jack Benny; Bob Hope; The Marx Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 44
1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, American lieutenant general of the 10th Army, killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa at 58
1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (Tour de France 1930, 32; Olympic gold road race 1924), dies at 76
2023 – (Richard) Stockton Rush [III], American businessman (co-founder and CEO of OceanGate), killed below the North Atlantic Ocean in implosion of his company’s submersible vessel at 61