Historical Events
1744 – Austrian forces pillage and kill Jews of Prague
1912 – Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1947 – The 1st systematic Hollywood blacklist is instituted, denying employment to American entertainment professionals due to alleged Communist ties or sympathies
1969 – KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1973 – US cuts maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
2012 – 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
Famous Birthdays
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder (13 × MLB All-Star; 9 x World Series; 3 x AL MVP; MLB record 56-game hitting streak; NY Yankees), born in Martinez, California (d. 1999)
1933 – Ramiro Cortés Jr., American composer, born in Dallas, Texas (c. 1984)
1977 – Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player
1980 – Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
1981 – Jenna Bush Hager, American author, news personality (Today with Hoda and Jenna) and twin daughter of US President George W. Bush, born in Dallas, Texas
1981 – Barbara Bush, American activist (Global Health Corps) and twin daughter of US President George W. Bush, born in Dallas, Texas
Famous Deaths
1785 – Richard Glover, British poet, dies at about 73
1950 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish novelist and poet (The Fall of the King; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1944), dies at 77
1967 – Ossip Zadkine [Zadkin], Russian French sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77
1974 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (Pink Moon), dies of a drug overdose at 26
1983 – Anton Dolin [Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-kay], British dancer (Girl From Petrovka), dies at 79
1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)