Historical Events
1774 – American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment
1921 – Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
1973 – OPEC oil embargo begins
1975 – Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1977 – Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
1990 – Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
Famous Birthdays
1751 – Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch politician
1882 – Bela Lugosi [Blaskó], Austrian actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), born in Lugos, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1956)
1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (A Cop), born in Paris, France
1925 – Art Buchwald, American columnist and author (Have I Ever Lied to You), born in Mt Vernon, New York (d. 2017)
1943 – Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano, born in Zagreb, Croatia
1968 – Raymond Biggs, Canadian CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders), born in Toronto, Ontario
Famous Deaths
1896 – Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer, dies at 51
1929 – Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
1967 – Yoshida Shigeru, Japanese politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Japan (1946-54), dies at 89
1970 – Patrick Wymark [Cheeseman], British actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies of a heart attack at 44
1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist (quantum electrodynamics, Nobel 1933), dies at 82
1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53