Historical Events
1632 – Britain grants Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1895 – First woman to earn a PhD in Physics from an American university, Caroline Willard Baldwin (25), receives her degree from Cornell University
1943 – Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago
1968 – Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by ‘squatting’ (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
2012 – A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
Famous Birthdays
1756 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer, known as “the Swedish Mozart”, conductor, and pedagogue, born in Miltenberg am Main, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
1868 – Helen Miller Shepard, American philanthropist who established Hall of Fame, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1938)
1894 – George Delacorte, American philanthropist and publisher (Dell Books), born in New York City (d. 1991)
1894 – Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), born in Elgin, Illinois (d. 1971)
1947 – Candace “Candy” Clark, American actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti), born in Norman, Oklahoma
Famous Deaths
1846 – Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 55
1960 – Mahlon Hamilton, American actor (Peg O’My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80 (b. 1880)
2016 – James Victor, Dominican-American actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA), dies at 76
2021 – Luis del Sol, Spanish soccer midfielder (16 caps; Betis, Real Madrid, Juventus, Roma) and manager (Betis), dies at 86