Historical Events
1920 – Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland
1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, founded by Rabindranath Tagore
1941 – Japan begins assault on Rangoon, Burma
1961 – Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1968 – 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea
1973 – 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
Famous Birthdays
1544 – Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)
1613 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
1914 – Dezider Kardos, Slovak composer, born in Nadlice, Slovakia (d. 1991)
1921 – Gerald S O’Loughlin, American actor and director (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels), born in NYC, New York (d. 2015)
1973 – Tony Graziani, American football quarterback (Atlanta Falcons), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
1975 – Sky Lopez, American actress, born in Stillwater, Minnesota
Famous Deaths
558 – Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62
1805 – Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1930 – Johannes H. Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
1972 – Andrej Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84
1982 – Norman Dinerstein, American composer, dies of a heart attack at 45
1995 – David Land, impresario and theatre producer, dies at 77