Historical Events
1957 – Adone Zoli forms Italian government
1962 – “Bravo, Giovanni” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1994 – Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
1996 – STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
2015 – UK inflation is recorded as a negative for the first time since 1960
2019 – 64th Eurovision Song Contest won by Duncan Laurence of the Netherlands
Famous Birthdays
1815 – John Gross Barnard, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sheffield, Massachusetts (d. 1882)
1880 – Allard R Hulshoff, architect of Amsterdam (1924)
1925 – Malcolm X [Little], African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1965)
1926 – David Jacobs, British broadcaster (Juke Box Jury), born in London (d. 2013)
1955 – Ed Whitson, pitcher (NY Yankees, San Diego Padres)
1992 – Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter (Stay with Me), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1825 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1961 – Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician who virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz, dies at 64
2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2014 – Michael Aldrich, British inventor (Online shopping), dies at 72
2014 – Jack Brabham AO, OBE, Australian auto racer and team owner (World F1 champion 1959-60, 66), dies of liver disease at 88