Historical Events
404 – Last gladiator competition in Rome
1941 – 27th Rose Bowl: #2 Stanford beats #7 Nebraska, 21-13
1959 – 25th Orange Bowl: #5 Oklahoma beats #9 Syracuse, 21-6
1960 – Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs
1964 – 30th Sugar Bowl: #8 Alabama beats #7 Mississippi, 12-7
1967 – Tonga revises constitution
Famous Birthdays
1729 – Edmund Burke, British statesman, philosopher and author (A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution in France), born in Dublin, Ireland [NS=Jan 12]
1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
1938 – Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1943 – Jimmy Hart, American pro wrestling manager (WWF, WCW; Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Ted DiBiase and Jim Neidhart), born in Jackson, Mississippi
1959 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6)
1983 – Park Sung-hyun, South Korean archer (Olympics gold individual/team 2004, team 2008; women’s WR in a FITA Round 1,405 points), born in Gunsan, South Korea
Famous Deaths
1753 – Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, French composer, dies at 55
1850 – Raphael G. Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music), dies at 76
1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer, dies of suicide at 74
1982 – Victor Buono, American actor and comic (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43
2015 – Donna Douglas, American actress (Elly May Clampett-The Beverly Hillbillies), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
2020 – Don Larsen, American MLB pitcher (only perfect game in World Series history, Game 5 1956; World Series MVP 1956; NY Yankees), dies from esophageal cancer at 90