Historical Events
1863 – City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1890 – 1st issue of “Propria Cures”, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1944 – 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1958 – Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn’t happen)
1990 – 41st NHL All-Star Game, Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA: Wales beats Campbell, 12-7; MVP: Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, C
2015 – Italian fashion label Gucci names Alessandro Michele as its new creative director
Famous Birthdays
1885 – Umberto Nobile, Italian general
1920 – Torsten Nilsson, Swedish organist, choral director, and composer (Out of the Night of the Earth), born in Höör, Sweden (d. 1999)
1926 – Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), born in Gent, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1990)
1952 – Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1961 – Sherry Ramsay, American actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns), born in Stauton, Virginia
1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1683 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
1766 – James Quin, British actor (Covent Garden Theatre), dies at 72
1881 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1964 – Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (Cleopatra, Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank), dies from a heart attack at 68
1995 – Flavio “Negao” Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25
2002 – Peggy Lee [Norma Delores Egstrom], American singer (“Fever”; “Is That All There Is?”), songwriter (“Mañana”), and actress (Pete Kelly’s Blues; Lady and the Tramp), dies of a heart attack at 81