Historical Events
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1906 – Del Valle Inclans “El Marqués de Bradomin” premieres in Madrid
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1955 – US and Panama sign canal treaty
1970 – Dark comedy film “M*A*S*H”, directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, and based on novel by Richard Hooker, premieres (Palme d’Or 1970)
2013 – Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession
Famous Birthdays
1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English polymath and aristocrat, born in Handsworth, England (d. 1707)
1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (number theory, celestial mechanics), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1813)
1814 – Francis Harrison Pierpont, American lawyer and politician (Union), born in Morgantown, West Virginia (d. 1899)
1900 – Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer, born in Hirosaki, Japan (d. 1986)
1931 – Harold Lloyd Jr., American actor, singer and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd, Sr. (Frankenstein’s Daughter), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1971)
1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player, born in Moscow, Russia
Famous Deaths
1910 – Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1933 – William Faulkes, British organist, transcriber and composer, dies at 59
1949 – Emil Axman, Czech composer, dies at 61
1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1998 – Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
2016 – Concepcion Picciotto, American peace activist (longest political protest in US history, outside The White House), dies at 80