Historical Events
1938 – England scores 7-903 declared against Australia, with Len Hutton scoring 364
1957 – US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
1982 – USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2004 – Winning pitcher Lisa Fernandez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
2017 – India’s toll from swine flu rises above 1,000 for the year, with 22,186 cases reported
Famous Birthdays
1754 – Louis XVI, King of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined, born in Versailles, Yvelines, France (d. 1793)
1917 – Tex Williams, American country-western singer, born in Ramsey, Illinois (d. 1985)
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1954 – Halimah Yacob, Singaporean politician (1st female President of Singapore (2017-), born in Singapore
1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia, born in Singapore
Famous Deaths
1927 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts
1957 – Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L’Oréal, dies at 76
1989 – Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY in a racially motivated attack
2006 – Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
2015 – Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), dies at 93