Historical Events
1641 – England and Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1905 – Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of T’ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus (Qing dynasty)
1914 – German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians
1951 – 12th Venice Film Festival: “Rashomon” directed by Akira Kurosawa wins the Golden Lion
1975 – Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1980 – NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
Famous Birthdays
1632 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher, born in Bourges, France (d. 1704)
1710 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), born in Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire (d. 1761)
1922 – Tetsuzo Akutsu, Japanese surgeon who built the first artificial heart, born in Japan (d. 2007)
1955 – Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist (Bob Color)
1962 – Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player, born in Seoul, South Korea
1968 – Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager, born in Ödeshög, Sweden (d. 2014)
Famous Deaths
1572 – Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1643 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher, killed in Native American uprising (b. 1591)
1804 – Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
1971 – Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1986 – Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
2016 – Irving Fields [Yitzhak Schwartz], American lounge pianist and composer (Ilona Massey Show; Bagels and Bongos), dies at 101