Historical Events
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one of the first Jewish colonists
1912 – England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1914 – Canada’s Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1932 – BBC begins experimental regular television broadcasts
1950 – Rotterdam dock strike ends
1960 – Gil Hodges set NL right handed HR record with #352
Famous Birthdays
1848 – Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (Founder of Chicago Daily News), born in Hudson, Illinois (d. 1929)
1920 – Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria), born in Curacao, Venezuela (d. 1981)
1945 – Ron Dante, American rock vocalist (Archies – “Sugar, Sugar”), and producer (Barry Manilow), born in Staten Island, New York
1956 – Paul Molitor, American Baseball HOF infielder (7 x MLB All-Star Milwaukee Brewers; World Series MVP 1993 Toronto Blue Jays) and manager (Minnesota Twins 2015-18), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
1966 – GZA [Gary Grice], American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan), born in Brooklyn, New York
1975 – Robert Enes, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics 1996)
Famous Deaths
1914 – Léon Amédée François Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WWI), dies during Battle of Rossignol at 58
1929 – Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey during WWI, dies at 74
1985 – Paul Peter Ewald, German Crystallographer and Physicist who devised the theory of X-ray interference by crystals and pioneered X-ray diffraction methods, dies at 97
2009 – Beryl Sprinkel, American economist (Council of Economic Advisers), dies at 85
2009 – Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
2011 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (Leiber and Stoller – “Hound Dog”; “Jailhouse Rock”; “Is That All There Is?”), dies at 78