Historical Events
1934 – St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1942 – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1973 – German FR and German DR admitted to UN
1976 – Dom Mintoff’s Labour Party wins Malta election
2018 – Amnesty International says 400 civilians have been killed in conflicts between Cameroon soldiers and Anglophone separatists in 2018
2018 – China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods
Famous Birthdays
1818 – Marcellus Augustus Stovall, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Sparta, Georgia (d. 1895)
1923 – Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], wife of Michael I King of Romania, born in Paris (d. 2016)
1939 – Naresh Sohal, Indian composer, born in Punjab, India
1955 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor, born in San Diego, California (d. 2006)
1969 – Johanna Doderer, Austrian contemporary classical composer, born in Bregenz, Austria
1980 – Charles Hedger, British musician (Cradle of Filth)
Famous Deaths
1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1944 – Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
1960 – John Evans, English cricket batsman (1 Test) and author (‘The Escaping Club’), dies at 71
1968 – Francis McDonald, American actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77
1985 – Gerald Holtom, British artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), dies at 71
1998 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian actor (Casablanca, Duck Soup), dies at 95