Historical Events
1862 – Union General Ben “Beast” Butler is proclaimed a “felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind” by Jefferson Davis
1939 – South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1941 – British troops overrun Benghazi, Libya
1948 – “Cinderella” the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Sergei Prokofiev is first presented by Sadler’s Wells Ballet at Covent Garden, London
1953 – Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 – Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
Famous Birthdays
1699 – Joseph Gibbs, English composer and organist, born in Colchester (d. 1788)
1869 – Hugh Allen, British organist, conductor (Bach Choir; Leeds Festival), and educator (Oxford, 1918-46-; Royal College of Music, 1918-37), born in Reading, Berkshire, England (d. 1946)
1903 – Fredericka “Fredi” Washington, American actress (Black and Tan), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1994)
1918 – Kumar Pallana, Indian character actor and vaudevillian (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore), born in Indore, India (d. 2013)
1946 – Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano, born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 2021)
1970 – Shannon Bream [DePuy], American Journalist (Fox News) Miss Virginia (1991), born in Lynchburg, Virginia
Famous Deaths
1575 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1789 – Charles-Michel de l’Épée, French philanthropist and developer of ‘Signed French’, dies at 77
1805 – Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1925 – A S C Wallis [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer (Vorstengunst), dies at 69
1967 – Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), dies at 75
1973 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt is named, dies at 68