Historical Events
1946 – US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1973 – 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1982 – 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1987 – WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN’s country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1996 – WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
2016 – Islamic militants storm a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 20 hostages and 2 police, country’s worse terror attack
Famous Birthdays
1844 – Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
1899 – Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr., American fictional film character (Indiana Jones films)
1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, British actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase), born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1979)
1906 – Estée Lauder [Josephine Esther Mentzer], American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), born in Corona, Queens, New York City (d. 2004)
1925 – Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, England (d. 1984)
1948 – Wang Qishan, Chinese Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, born in Qingdao, Shandong
Famous Deaths
1627 – Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1681 – Oliver Plunkett, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and last Catholic martyr (later beatified) to die in England, hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Tyburn at 55
1877 – William Henry Davenport, American stage magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, dies at 36
1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of a heart attack at 78
2014 – Walter Dean Myers, African-American author, dies at 76
2022 – Richard Taruskin, American musicologist (Oxford History of Western Music), and educator, dies of esophageal cancer at 77