Historical Events
1611 – Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again
1944 – British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam from the Japanese
1946 – Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
1966 – South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
2010 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Family Ties” is published
2012 – Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
Famous Birthdays
1478 – Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia (Philips I)
1840 – Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker)
1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American filmmaker (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2002)
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (Gift from the Sea), born in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 2001)
1964 – Amy Brenneman, actress (Janice-NYPD Blue), born in New London, Connecticut
Famous Deaths
1950 – Julio Fonseca, Costa Rican composer, dies at 65
1965 – David O Selznick, American Academy Award-winning producer (Gone With the Wind, Rebecca), dies of a heart attack at 63
1986 – Matti Rautio, Finnish classical composer (The Blue Heron), dies at 64
1996 – Arthur “T-Boy” Ross, American songwriter, brother of Diana, found murdered at 47
2003 – Wassil Bykau, Belarusian writer, dies at 79
2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)