Historical Events
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
1961 – 1st movie to become a TV series, “How to Marry a Millionaire” premieres
1979 – Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
1982 – Amin Gemayel sworn in as President of Lebanon
2019 – US police officer fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanour battery in Florida
2020 – President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference
Famous Birthdays
1895 – Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1920 – Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon
1934 – John Mortimore, English soccer defender (Chelsea 249 games) and manager (Portsmouth, Benfica, Real Betis), born in Farnborough, England (d. 2021)
1975 – Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
1977 – Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Red, rapper (Another Bad Creation), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1974 – Robbie Mcintosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24
1987 – Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British pianist and composer, dies at 87
1994 – Dalton Reed, American soul singer, dies of heart failure at 42
1994 – Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80
1997 – Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
2002 – Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan pioneer radio broadcaster, died at 75