Historical Events
1923 – 17th Tour de France won by Henri Pelissier of France
1933 – Caterina Jarboro sings “Aida” at the New York Hippodrome, becoming the 1st black female opera singer to perform in the US
1965 – Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party
1983 – MLB California Angels outfielder Brian Downing’s error ends his record streak at 244 games
2013 – 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China
2019 – Air strikes have killed at least 31 people in Maarat al-Numan, north-western Syria, with Russian planes supporting Syrian government being blamed
Famous Birthdays
1848 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1878 – Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto) [or born in 1879], born in Warsaw, Congress Poland (d. 1942)
1890 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American matriarch, mother of JFK, RFK and Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1928 – Orson Bean, American actor and comedian (To Tell the Truth), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 2020)
1952 – Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman (1979)
1953 – Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Famous Deaths
1863 – Karl Schuberth, German cellist, and composer, dies at 52
1996 – Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, dies at 71
1996 – Tamara Danz, German singer (Silly), dies of cancer at 43
2007 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2013 – Dennis Farina, American actor, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 69
2021 – Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1978, 80), dies from a heart attack at 84