Historical Events
1597 – 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East
1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1944 – French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France
1955 – Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria
1994 – Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
2018 – Pope Francis releases letter to all Catholics condemning sexual abuse atrocities and clerical cover-ups “We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them”
Famous Birthdays
1936 – Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist (Nobel Prize 2000 – discovery and development of conductive polymers), born in Tokyo
1949 – Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter, born in Staveley, Derbyshire, England
1971 – Oronde Gadsden, American NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1974 – Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End), born in Adelaide, Australia
1977 – Ívar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer, born in Reykjavík, Iceland
1978 – Sanna Lankosaari, Finnish ice hockey right wing (Finland, Olympics 1998), born in Kemi, Finland
Famous Deaths
1648 – Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65
1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
1993 – Sydney Arnold, British comic actor (The Meaning of Life, Top Secret!, Miss Jones and Son), dies at 93
1995 – William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
2007 – Leona Helmsley, American real estate billionaire and convicted of federal income tax evasion, dies at 87
2012 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84), dies at 96