Historical Events
1879 – Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful “F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store” on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1913 – Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1941 – 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1970 – 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National Minn
1975 – West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1978 – The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
Famous Birthdays
1882 – Lluís Companys, Spanish politician, 123rd President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1933-40), born in El Tarròs, Urgell, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1940)
1896 – Dorothy Stickney, American actress (And So They Were Married), born in Dickinson, North Dakota (d. 1998)
1924 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker, born in Paris (d. 2012)
1957 – Berke Breathed, cartoonist (Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland)
1961 – Joko Widodo, Indonesian politician (President of Indonesia 2014), born in Surakarta
1980 – Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
Famous Deaths
1738 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1979 – Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
1997 – Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
1999 – Karl Krolow, German poet and translator, dies at 84
2005 – Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2011 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)