Historical Events
1777 – King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution
1777 – Polish military leader Casimir Pulaski arrives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to volunteer in the Continental Army cavalry
1858 – Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passes in British Parliament
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugénie de Montijo as Regent of France
2015 – Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby’s petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974
Famous Birthdays
1825 – Richard Hol, Dutch composer, organist and conductor, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1904)
1921 – Peter Twiss, British test pilot (breaking the World Air Speed Record and being the first person to exceed 1,000 mph in flight), born in Lindfield, Sussex (d. 2011)
1950 – Kaity Tong, Chinese-American news anchor (WPIX), born in Qingdao, China
1979 – Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler (CMLL), born in Mexico City (d. 2015)
1986 – Reece Ritchie, English actor (The Outpost), born in Lowestoft, England
Famous Deaths
1932 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian balloonist, airship builder, and aviator (1st plane flight in Europe), dies by suicide at 59
1948 – D.W. Griffith, American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1964 – Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
1996 – Hamilton Fish IV, American politician (Rep-R-NY, 1969-95), dies at 70
2011 – Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter (“Stronger Than Me”; “Rehab”), dies from alcohol poisoning at 27