Historical Events
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
1947 – Robinson Jeffer’s “Medea” premieres in NYC
1955 – Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1973 – Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in “Have You Met Miss Dietz”
1976 – 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1996 – Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
Famous Birthdays
1792 – Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer (Illuminations), born in Charleville, France (d. 1891)
1918 – Anton Diffring [Alfred Pollack], German character actor (Assignment Vienna), born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1989)
1961 – Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert (Survivorman), born in Etobicoke, Ontario
1967 – Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby union player (Leicester Tigers, 2003 World Cup squad), born in Blackburn, Lancashire
Famous Deaths
1819 – Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
1899 – Robert H “Bobby” Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
1994 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet director (Destiny of a Man, War and Peace), dies of a heart attack at 74
1996 – Bill Bedford, British test pilot (pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft), dies at 75
2002 – Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
2014 – Lili Carati, Miss Italy 1975 and actress (Alcove), dies at 58