Historical Events
1274 – Mongol army lands at Hakata Bay in Japan during their first invasion attempt and are defeated; a typhoon destroys most of their fleet as they withdraw
1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first ‘calculator’, an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1932 – Shaft and Thyssen demand Adolf Hitler become German chancellor
1985 – Herb Gardner’s “I’m Not Rappaport” premieres in NYC
1996 – “God Said, Ha!” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
Famous Birthdays
1899 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian influential Shia Islamic scholar, born in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran (d. 1992)
1919 – Angus “Alan” Young, British actor and voice actor (Mister Ed, Scrooge McDuck), born in North Shields, England (d. 2016)
1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Richard Dumbrill, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67)
1975 – Ju-Yeon Choi, Pusan Korea, tennis star (1995 Futures-Seoul-KOR II)
1997 – Nathaniel Roy McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (6)
Famous Deaths
1692 – Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies
1899 – John William Dawson, Canadian geologist, dies at 79
1917 – Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies
1974 – George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
2013 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and publisher of children’s books (When the Wind Stops), dies at 98
2014 – Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky], German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies from cardiac arrest at 83