Historical Events
1823 – Moroni first appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
1971 – AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers)
1988 – Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville, New Jersey home
2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly
2018 – American singer-songwriter Paul Simon closes his “Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour” at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, NYC
Famous Birthdays
1809 – Sophia Hawthorne, American writer, painter and illustrator, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1871)
1868 – Olga Knipper, Russian-Soviet stage actress, and wife of Anton Chekhov, born in Glazov, Russian Empire (d. 1959)
1938 – Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Icelandic composer (Time and Water), born in Reykjavik, Iceland (d. 2019)
1970 – Michael O’Shea, Canadian CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts), born in North Bay, Ontario
1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, son of PM Benazir Bhutto, born in Karachi, Pakistan
Famous Deaths
1629 – John Pieterszoon Coen, Dutch merchant and Governor-General of the East Indies, dies at 42
1748 – John Balguy, English clergyman and moral philosopher, dies at 62
1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 56
2010 – Geoffrey Burgon, British jazz trumpeter, and film, television and concert composer (City Adventures), dies at 69
2017 – Liliane de Bettencourt, French heir to L’Oreal and richest woman in the world from 2016, dies at 94