Historical Events
1960 – San Francisco Giants hire Tom Sheehan to replace Bill Rigney; baseball’s oldest debuting manager (66) goes 46-50-2 for remainder of season
1963 – 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school to protest de facto segregation
2006 – US Open Men’s Golf, Winged Foot GC: Geoff Ogilvy of Australia makes clutch pars on the final 2 holes to win by 1, as runners-up Jim Furyk, Colin Montgomerie and Phil Mickelson all fail to par the 72nd hole
2014 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates the Spanish throne to make way for his son Felipe VI
2019 – England cricket captain Eoin Morgan smashes a ODI world record 17 sixes against Afghanistan in his side’s 150-run World Cup victory at Old Trafford; Morgan, 148 from 71 balls
Famous Birthdays
1919 – Ted Leadbitter, British politician (Labour), born in Easington, England (d. 1996)
1929 – James Bishop, English editor (deputy editor of The Times), born in London, England (d. 2017)
1946 – Russell Ash, British author (‘the human Google’), born in Surrey, England
1947 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor (L’Annee des Meduses), screenwriter, and director, born in La Rochelle, France (d. 2010)
1971 – Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby union referee (record holder for most Test matches refereed 100), born in Mynyddcerrig, Wales
Famous Deaths
1580 – Juliana van Stolberg, German countess, mother of William of Orange and Jan Nassau, dies at 74
1911 – Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, Croatian composer who collected and published 1,600 folk songs, dies at 76
1959 – Ethel Barrymore [Blythe], American classic film and stage actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green), dies at 79
1961 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball pinch-hitter (shortest player in MLB history 3′ 7″; St. Louis Browns), dies after mugging at 36
1981 – Richard Goolden, British actor (Two Days to Live, School for Husbands), dies at 86