Historical Events
1850 – First US National Women’s Rights convention opens in Brinley Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts
1853 – Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens
1971 – Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
2007 – Rounder Records releases “Raising Sand”, a collaborative album by American bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and British rock vocalist Robert Plant; tops the chart in Norway, peaks at #2 in US, UK, and Sweden
Famous Birthdays
1794 – Joseph Panny, Austrian violinist and composer, born in Kollmitzberg, Austria (d. 1838)
1805 – John Russell Bartlett, American linguist and historian known for his “Dictionary of Americanisms”, born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1886)
1941 – Igor Smirnov, Transnistrian politician, President of breakaway region of Moldova, born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Soviet Union
1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock singer (“In the Middle of the Night”), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2018)
1991 – Mako of Akishino, Japanese former princess of the imperial family who gave up her title upon marriage, born in Toyko
Famous Deaths
1928 – François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for X-ray scattering), dies at 67
1950 – Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), dies at 64
1995 – Gavin Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh), dies at 79
2020 – W. C. Gorden, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Jackson State University, 1976-91, record 119–48–5), dies at 90