Historical Events
1421 – Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1424 – Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1964 – J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as “most notorious liar”
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
2002 – “Up!” 4th studio album by Shania Twain is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2003)
Famous Birthdays
1856 – Nicholas Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and general in World War I (1914-18), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1929)
1877 – Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1959)
1900 – Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American artist (Ditters and Jitters), born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1987)
1972 – Jessica “Jessi” Alexander, American country music singer and songwriter (“The Climb”), born in Jackson, Tennessee
1975 – Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1983 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
Famous Deaths
1965 – Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1977 – Davey O’Brien, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1938, Texas Christian University; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles), dies from cancer at 60
1997 – Joyce Wethered, British golfer (English Ladies’ champion 1920–24), dies at 96
2009 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55
2015 – Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86