Historical Events
1918 – US Congress authorizes time zones and approves daylight saving time
1973 – Dean tells Nixon, “There is a cancer growing on the Presidency”
1989 – Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it’s 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
1995 – Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
2001 – The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
2018 – Mississippi signs into law the US’s strictest abortion laws, no termination after 15 weeks
Famous Birthdays
1668 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer (Ambleto; Missa Canonica), born in Camaiore, Lucca (now Italy) (d. 1727)
1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish explorer who was famously found by Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1873)
1914 – Jiang Qing [Madame Mao], Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong, born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China (d. 1991)
1929 – Herman van San, composer
1972 – Nate Quarry, American mixed martial arts fighter (The Ultimate Fighter; co-host MMA Uncensored Live), born in Arcata, California
1979 – Hee-Seop Choi, Korean baseball player
Famous Deaths
1556 – Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1897 – Antoine T. d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1939 – Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1994 – Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
2007 – Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2008 – Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)