Historical Events
1504 – Battle of Knockdoe in Galway Ireland.
1911 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1969 – Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
1979 – “My Sharonna” by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait
2016 – A 6-way tie for first place in the final of the equestrian individual jumping competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Nick Skelton of Great Britain wins gold medal jump-off
Famous Birthdays
1893 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1974)
1918 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian politician, ninth President of India (1992-97), born in Bhopal, British India (d. 1999)
1942 – Fred Thompson, US senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire), born in Sheffield, Alabama (d. 2015)
1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
1980 – Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa), born in Seoul, South Korea
1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress and singer, born in Johannesburg, South Africa
Famous Deaths
1765 – Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Swedish Chemist who discovered nickel and tungsten, dies at 42
1872 – Eugene-Prosper Prevost, French composer, dies at 63
1909 – Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1944 – Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
2001 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)