Historical Events
1951 – Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1953 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returns to Tehran
1954 – WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1978 – Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
2010 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins last of 3 Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke from Michael Allen and Taiwan’s Lu Chien-soon
2019 – Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Famous Birthdays
1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia, born in Mărășești, Romania (d. 1901)
1920 – Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria), born in Curacao, Venezuela (d. 1981)
1929 – Harry McPherson, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, born in Tyler, Texas (d. 2012)
1956 – Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92), born in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1958 – Stevie Ray [Lane Huffman], American professional wrestler, born in Houston, Texas
1974 – Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist (Le Vibrazioni), born in Milan, Italy
Famous Deaths
1367 – Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57
1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Hungarian-German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser), dies at 48
1944 – Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1989 – Johannes “Jan” Teulings, Dutch actor (Lentelied, The Three Wishes), dies of natural causes at 84
2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)