Historical Events
1638 – 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massachusetts
1880 – The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut
1918 – Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico
1923 – New York Giants rout Philadelphia Phillies, 22-5 at the Baker Bowl; first time in 20th century a MLB team has scored in every inning
1940 – Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London
Famous Birthdays
1844 – Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1916)
1890 – Frank Morgan [Francis P Wupperman], American actor (The Wizard of Oz), born in NYC, New York (d. 1949)
1909 – Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber Orchestra)
1940 – Kip Thorne, American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2017, LIGO), born in Logan, Utah
1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh stage and film actor (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Two Popes), born in Carmel, Flintshire, Wales
1987 – Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter (World C’ship gold 2015; Olympic silver 2012), born in San Luis, Cuba
Famous Deaths
1699 – Jean Rousseau, French composer and viol player, dies at 54
1846 – Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari], Pope (1831-1846), dies at 80
1872 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76
1941 – Hugh S Walpole, British novelist and playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40), dies at 57
1942 – Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, dies at 53
1991 – David Ruffin, American soul musician and early lead singer for The Temptations (My Girl, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg), dies of drug overdose at 50