Historical Events
1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord is established in Rotterdam as Wilhelmina; reverts to SC Feijenoord 1912; updated to SC Feyenoord 1974 and to Feyenoord Rotterdam 1978
1920 – Babe Ruth hits his 30th home run of the 1920 baseball season, breaking his own single-season record. He would attain 54 throughout the season, before breaking that record the next year.
1941 – BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (“…-” in Morse code) (opening of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 5th symphony)
1976 – Allman Brother’s roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman’s testimony
2009 – The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashed onto the planet
2009 – British Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: American Stewart Cink wins his only major championship by 6 strokes in a 4-hole playoff with 5-time champion Tom Watson
Famous Birthdays
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Davaux, French classical composer, born in La Côte-Saint-André, France (d. 1822)
1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian Sepoy (soldier) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry (B.N.I.) regiment of the British East India Company, born in Nagwa, Ballia district, India (d. 1857)
1928 – John Bratby, English painter and writer (Breakdown), born in Wimbledon, London (d. 1992)
1972 – Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1977 – Ed Smith, English cricketer
1979 – Luke Young, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1742 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1907 – Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1922 – Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing, Dutch physician, dies on 74th birthday
1955 – Koos [Jacobus Jan] Vorrink, Dutch politician and socialist (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1990 – Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76