Historical Events
1908 – 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1967 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1971 – A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh
1974 – Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1975 – Juan Carlos I is proclaimed King of Spain as the monarchy is restored after 36 years of dictatorship
Famous Birthdays
1428 – Richard Neville [16th Earl of Warwick], English nobleman and military commander known as ‘Warwick the Kingmaker’, born in Norwich, England (d. 1471)
1838 – José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, born in Portuguese Macau (d. 1903)
1924 – Axel Borup-Jørgensen, composer (Nordisk Sommerpastorale; Thalatta! Thalatta!), born in Hjørring, Denmark (d. 2012)
1950 – Art Sullivan [Marc Liénart van Lidth de Jeude], Belgian pop singer-songwriter (“Un océan de caresses”), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2019)
1955 – James Edwards, American basketball center (NBA C’ship 1989, 90 Detroit Pistons, 1996 Chicago Bulls), born in Seattle, Washington
Famous Deaths
1946 – Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa’s Test), dies
1988 – Erich Fried, Austrian-British writer, dies at 67
1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (Mr Spock’s dad Sarek – Star Trek), dies of cancer at 72
2011 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (Bill Evans Trio; Keith Jarrett), composer, and bandleader (Electric Bebop Band), dies of bone marrow cancer at 80
2017 – George Avakian, Armenian-American jazz historian, record producer, and label executive who pioneered jazz album and retrospective collection formats, dies at 98