Historical Events
1632 – Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency’s rebel army loses to French royalist forces loyal to Louis XIII
1647 – French cardinal Mazarin and the Duke of Modena sign a treaty against Milan
1898 – First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate, North Carolina
1946 – Greece votes in referendum to maintain the monarchy with 68.4% of the vote in support
2012 – US drone strike kills five people in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Famous Birthdays
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian microbiologist and ecologist, made important discoveries of the nitrogen cycle in nature, born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1953)
1931 – Boxcar Willie [Travis Martin], American soldier (USAF) and singer (“King of the Road”), born in Ellis County, Texas (d. 1999)
1934 – Anatoly Yevtushenko, Ukrainian handball coach (Olympic gold USSR 1976, 88; silver 1980), born in Horlivka, Ukraine (d. 2026)
1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio personality (The Phil Hendrie Show) and voice actor (The Unit, Rick and Morty, Futurama), born in Arcadia, California
1996 – Zendaya [Coleman], American actress (Spider-Man, Euphoria, Dune), singer and dancer, born in Oakland, California
Famous Deaths
1780 – Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1778-80), dies at 69
1981 – Albert Speer, German architect and Nazi leader (Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production), dies of a stroke at 76
1993 – Aleksey Vakhonin, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR bantamweight 1964; World C’ship gold 1963, 64, 66), dies at 58
2006 – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2007 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak soccer goalkeeper (39 caps Czechoslovakia; Slovan Bratislava 240 games), dies at 76