Historical Events
1925 – Sidney Howards “Lucky Sam McGarver” premieres in NYC
1972 – “Man of La Mancha” closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 performances
1976 – NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
1976 – Baseball World Series: defending champions Cincinnati Reds sweep NY Yankees; beat Bombers, 7-2 in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium; MVP: Reds catcher Johnny Bench
2017 – Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence
2018 – Train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 and injuring 178
Famous Birthdays
1581 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1904 – Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, American sci-fi author (Danger Planet)
1916 – Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous Letters), born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1974)
1971 – Thomas Ulsrud, Norwegian curler (World C’ship gold [skip] 2014; Olympics silver 2010), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2022)
1973 – Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1980 – Brian Pittman, American Christian rock bassist (Relient K), born in Canton, Ohio
Famous Deaths
1805 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral and war hero, dies in Battle of Trafalgar at 47
1969 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation (On the Road, Mexico Blues), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47
1977 – Ferit Tuzun, Turkish composer, dies at 48
1984 – Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
2012 – Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89