Historical Events
1907 – -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 – John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1941 – Germany bans all Catholic publications
1972 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1985 – “Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 – West Indian cricket batsman Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 in a tour match against Warwickshire at Taunton; 42 fours and 8 sixes of 258 balls
Famous Birthdays
1831 – John Bell Hood, General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1915 – John Randolph [Emanuel Hirsch Cohen], American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie), born in NYC, New York (d. 2004)
1956 – Lisa Hartman Black, American singer and actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing), born in Houston, Texas
1979 – Santana Moss, American NFL wide receiver / punt returner (Pro Bowl 2005; New York Jets, Washington Redskins), born in Miami, Florida
1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player (7 x Grand Slam singles titles; Olympic gold 2004; WTA Tour C’ship 2006, 07; 43 x WTA singles titles), born in Liège, Belgium
1986 – Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
Famous Deaths
1434 – Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Lithuania and later also Poland, dies (b.1351)
1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1981 – Carl Vinson, American politician (38th Dean of the United States House of Representatives, 1961-65), dies at 97
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
1999 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer and inventor (Hovercraft), dies at 88
2014 – Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian yachtsman (Olympic gold, USSR, Finn class 1968), dies at 75