Historical Events
1530 – Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
1917 – Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1948 – Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia
2016 – Black American Keith Lamont Scott is shot dead by a black police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, provoking violent protests in the city
Famous Birthdays
1873 – Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (US Open 1893-94, 1896-97), born in Highland Park, Illinois (d. 1925)
1910 – Jacques-Baptiste LeBrun, French finn yachtsman (Olympic gold 1932), born in Paris (d. 1996)
1936 – Dany Carrel, French actress (Passionate Summer), born in Tourane, Annam, French Indochina
1938 – Jane Manning, English soprano, born in Norwich
1967 – Catherine Bond-Mills, Woodstock Ontario, heptathlete (Olympics 1996)
1971 – Henryk Larsson, Swedish soccer player (Feyenoord), born in Helsingborg, Sweden
Famous Deaths
1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist, dies at 82
1968 – Frank Pelleg, Czech-Israeli composer, dies at 57
1984 – Steve Goodman, American folk singer and songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble), dies at 36
1994 – Jimmy Hamilton, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 77
2010 – Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1933)