Historical Events
1619 – Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1943 – US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Chester Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island
1953 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1976 – Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago
2023 – India bans export of non-basmati rice, raising prospect of global price rises (more than half of rice imports for 42 countries come from India)
Famous Birthdays
1754 – Antoine Destutt de Tracy, French Enlightenment philosopher, born in Paris (d. 1836)
1822 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), born in Heinzendorf, Austria (d. 1884)
1893 – Richard Billinger, Austrian poet and writer (From Where I Came), born in Sankt Marienkirchen, Austria (d. 1965)
1956 – Charlie Magri, Tunisian British world champ flyweight boxer (1983), born in Tunis, Tunisia
1978 – Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel (Victoria’s Secret), born in Horizontina, Brazil
Famous Deaths
1573 – Lancelot van Brederode, Dutch general of the “water beggars” rebellion, beheaded by the Spanish
1898 – Yuri Karlovich Arnold, Russian composer, dies at 86
1962 – George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
1985 – Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, dies at 79
1989 – Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French commander of the French resistance, dies at 79
2004 – Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)