Historical Events
1873 – Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football
1924 – Harold “Red” Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1944 – Allied generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery confer in Brussels, Belgium
1962 – James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA
1973 – Nobel prize for Economic Sciences awarded to American Wassily Leontief
2000 – Zack de la Rocha announces he is leaving rock band Rage Against the Machine
Famous Birthdays
1894 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
1931 – Catharina I “Ien” Dales, Dutch Internal minister (1989-94)
1965 – Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist (I Wonder Why), born in Bloise, Idaho
1973 – Demetrious Maxie, CFL defensive end (Toronto Argonauts)
1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
Famous Deaths
1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain, dies at 84
1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1830 – Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies
1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies of renal failure at 79
1977 – Rolph Grant, West Indian cricketer (West Indian captain on 1939 England tour), dies at 67
1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (Voyagers!, Cover-up), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26