Historical Events
1760 – First Jewish prayer books printed in North America
1805 – Sailing ship “Aeneus” sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1814 – One of the first modern plastic surgeries in the west performed by Joseph Carpue on a soldier’s nose in England using Indian techniques
1854 – English newspaper “The Times” gives precise British positions in Crimea during Crimean War
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
2019 – Hong Kong Legislative Council scraps the extradition bill that sparked months of protests and unrest
Famous Birthdays
1905 – Alexander Shamil’yevich Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor and composer (Bol’shoy Theatre, 1931-62), born in Tblisi (d. 1964)
1917 – Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West), born in Kalispell, Montana (d. 1983)
1950 – Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1968 – Bettina Fulco Villella, Argentinian tennis star (1993 Futures), born in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
1969 – Sanjay Gupta, American neurosurgeon and medical reporter (CNN), born in Novi, Michigan
1986 – Emilia Clarke, English actress (Game of Thrones), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1892 – Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), murdered at 52
1901 – Georg von Siemens, German banker and politician (Deutsche Bank), dies at 62
1942 – Georg Stumme, German general, commandant of African corps, dies at 56
1984 – David Gorcey, actor (Angel’s Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
2008 – Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94