Historical Events
1770 – Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1885 – Battle of Abu Kru (Battle of Gubat), Sudan: British Desert Column defeat Mahdist forces: 121 British and untold Mahdists killed
1915 – Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1941 – British offensive in Eritrea
1992 – Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
2006 – Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously
Famous Birthdays
1747 – Johann Bode, German astronomer (Titius–Bode Law), born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1826)
1935 – [Augustus] Owsley Stanley III, American audio engineer and LSD cook who worked with the Grateful Dead, born in Kentucky (d. 2011)
1947 – Roderic “Rod” Evans, English rocker (The Maze, Deep Purple), born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England
1971 – Jeff Juden, American baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants), born in Salem, Massachusetts
1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver, born in Chennai, India
1991 – Tommy Fleetwood, British golfer (US Open runner-up 2018; Ryder Cup 2018), born in Southport, England
Famous Deaths
1576 – Hans Sachs, German composer, dies at 81
1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1893 – Julius Eichberg, German composer, dies at 68
1962 – Harry “Snub” Pollard, Australian actor (Don’t Shove, Arizona Days), dies of cancer at 72
1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
2020 – Kazım Ayvaz, Turkish wrestler (Olympic gold lightweight, 1964; World C’ship gold welterweight, 1958; lightweight, 1962), dies at 81