Historical Events
1932 – Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game
1952 – PGA approves allowing black participants
1958 – Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1967 – Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will “Vse Zene” (All to wife)
1987 – Guy Hunt becomes Alabama’s 1st Republican governor since 1874
1991 – 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves, Jeremy Irons, and Kathy Bates wins
Famous Birthdays
1816 – Henry Gray, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
1837 – William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
1952 – Dewey Bunell, British-American musician (America-Daisy Jane), born in Borough of Harrogate, United Kingdom
1967 – Christine Tucci, American actress (Amanda Cory-Another World), born in Katonah, New York
1979 – Wiley, English Rapper (Grime), born in Bow, London
1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1795 – Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74
1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann, German writer, dies at 75
1901 – Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (1873-74, 1977), dies at 79
1993 – William LeMassena, actor (All that Jazz), dies of lung cancer at 76
2013 – Earl Weaver, American hall of fame MLB manager, dies from a heart attack at 82
2018 – Olivia Cole, American actress (Roots, Backstairs at the White House), dies of a heart attack at 75