Historical Events
1878 – British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1899 – 61st Grand National: George Williamson aboard 1897 winner Manifesto wins by 4 lengths from Ford Of Fyne
1933 – Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1970 – Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends “Sjors and Sjimmie” strip
1980 – Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP “Rarites”
1991 – WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title
Famous Birthdays
1607 – Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1725 – Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1855 – Andrew Mellon, American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1947)
1895 – Leo “Syd” Sailor, American actor (Arizona Days, Waterfront), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1962)
1907 – Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player
Famous Deaths
1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish opera composer (Goyescas), drowns while crossing the English Channel in a torpedo attack at 48
1956 – Edmund Taylor Whittaker, British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions), dies at 82
1991 – Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
1995 – Trevor Oswald Ling, English religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian (It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Larry Sanders Show), dies at 66