Historical Events
1602 – Martha’s Vineyard 1st sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold
1897 – Yerkes Observatory 40″ (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1945 – Australian Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord’s by 6 wickets
1978 – 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1990 – 43rd Cannes Film Festival: “Wild at Heart” directed by David Lynch starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern wins the Palme d’Or
2019 – Oldest and most distant gravitational waves detected from collision of two black holes with first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered, 7 billion light years away
Famous Birthdays
1822 – Mosby Monroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1865)
1909 – François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
1940 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist who collaborated with The Beatles, born in Norwich, England (d. 2013)
1942 – Robert C. Springer, American Army Colonel USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38), born in St. Louis, Missouri
1971 – Eric Nies, American reality TV personality (MTV Real World, Grind)
1980 – Goyte [Wouter “Wally” De Backer (], Belgium Australian singer-songwriter (Someone That I Used to Know), born in Bruges, Belgium
Famous Deaths
1650 – James Graham, Marquis of Montrose “the Great Montrose”, Scottish general, hanged at 37
1970 – Vinton Hayworth, American actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
1973 – George Breakston, French-American producer, actor and director (Jungle Stampede, It Happened One Night), dies at 53
1981 – Patsy O’Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1988 – Sammy Davis Sr., American vaudeville dancer (Mr. Wonderful), dies at 87
1995 – Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46