Historical Events
615 – Pope Deusdedit [Adeodatus I] elected to succeed Boniface IV as Catholic Pope
1864 – Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, Vermont
1946 – Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
1988 – 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1999 – “Believe” single released by Cher (Billboard Song of the Year, 1999; Grammy Award Best Dance Recording, 2000)
2006 – MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Mets, 4 games to 3
Famous Birthdays
1911 – Hilde Spiel, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1990)
1936 – Johnetta Betsch Cole, educator/president (Spellman College)/(Sen-D-KY)
1940 – Jerzy Kulej, Polish light welterweight boxer (Olympic gold 1964, 68), (d. 2012)
1955 – Nino DeFranco, Canadian musician (The DeFranco Family)
1979 – José Luis “Parejita” López, Mexican footballer
1982 – Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer (British Open 2010; runner-up in all 4 major events), born in Mossel Bay, South Africa
Famous Deaths
1216 – King John of England (1199-1216), agreed to the Magna Carta, dies at 49
1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1937 – Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies
1955 – John Hodiak, American actor (Battleground, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat), dies from coronary thrombosis at 41
1964 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Henry Handel Richardson: A Study), dies at 79
2013 – Ronald Shannon Jackson, American avant-garde jazz and funk drummer, and composer (Cecil Taylor; Last Exit; Decoding Society), dies of leukemia at 73