Historical Events
1868 – All England Lawn Tennis Club is founded as The All England Croquet Club; 1877 name changed to The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club
1930 – Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1956 – Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1976 – 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
1990 – Rosie Jones (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
2019 – US Senate passes bill championed by comedian Jon Stewart to ensure 9/11 first responders fund never runs out of money
Famous Birthdays
1904 – Adone Zecchi, Italian composer, born in Bologna (d. 1995)
1931 – Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter, born in Waterloo, Quebec
1938 – Ronny Cox, American actor (RoboCop, Total Recall), born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico
1969 – Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese 10k runner (Olympic gold 1996), born in Penafiel, Portugal
1975 – Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1988 – Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
Famous Deaths
1905 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter, dies at 76
1942 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1943 – Emanuel Querido, Dutch author and publisher (N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij), murdered in the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor at 71
1980 – Mollie Steimer, American political prisoner and anarchist agitator, dies at 82
1986 – Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, Finnish composer, dies at 73
2007 – Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)