Historical Events
421 – Friday at 12 PM – city of Venice founded
1961 – 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph’s defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime
1968 – Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland
1979 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC
1985 – Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General
2019 – Further power blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home
Famous Birthdays
1532 – Pietro Pontio, Italian composer (Ragionamento di Musica), born in Parma, Duchy of Milan (d. 1596)
1762 – Francesco Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer, singer, and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana , Habsburg Empire (d. 1846)
1903 – Gertrude “Binnie” Barnes, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers), born in London, England (d. 1998)
1930 – David Burge, American pianist, composer and conductor, born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2013)
1960 – Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1982 – Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
Famous Deaths
1223 – Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1692 – Gerardus Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1983 – Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
2020 – Mark Blum, American actor (Desperately Seeking Susan, Blind Date, Presidio), dies of COVID-19 complications at 69