Historical Events
1925 – Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 – White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1950 – Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1964 – Fire in Belgian resort kills 19
1997 – Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
2014 – Russian President Putin signs agreements with China in Beijing in relation to trade and infrastructure
Famous Birthdays
1899 – Ralph Sanford, American actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1963)
1917 – Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
1924 – Jack Twyman, basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
1949 – Andrew Neil, Scottish newspaper editor, (Sunday Times), born in Paisley, Scotland
1959 – Brisn Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician and minister, born in Dublin (d. 2011)
1963 – Richard Appel, American writer
Famous Deaths
1639 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher and poet, dies at 70
1719 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic, dies at 73
1897 – Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
1994 – Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
1996 – Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
2000 – Barbara Cartland, English romance author (Camfield #69), dies at 98