Historical Events
1898 – US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1944 – Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1967 – A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126.
1990 – 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A’s is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
1992 – 100th episode of American sitcom “Murphy Brown” airs
1997 – “Present Laughter” closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
Famous Birthdays
1908 – Lionel Hampton, American jazz vibraphone player and actor, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2002)
1920 – Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2007)
1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor, born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset
1946 – Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1982)
1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor (Gollum in Lord of the Rings), born in London, England
1964 – John Carney, American football placekicker (San Diego Chargers), born in Hartford, Connecticut
Famous Deaths
1314 – Clement V [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) moved papacy to Avignon, dies
1765 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1935 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer, dies at 71
1995 – Tessie O’Shea, Welsh stage and screen entertainer, dies at 81
2003 – Bernard Katz, German-born Australian biophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970), dies at 82
2008 – VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)