Historical Events
1949 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1968 – 1st broadcast of “Hawaii Five-O” on CBS-TV
1983 – Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1987 – Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1995 – Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
2002 – Overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000
Famous Birthdays
1903 – Gerhard Nebel, German writer, born in Dessau (d. 1974)
1926 – Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European philologist (Indo-Iranian languages), born in Linz, Austria (d. 2011)
1927 – Joyce Jameson, American comedienne and actress (Spike Jones Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
1937 – Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician and Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1991), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2003)
1983 – Zoe Perry, American stage and screen actress (Young Sheldon), born in Chicago, Illinois
1994 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian track athlete (Olympic gold – men’s 100m 2020; first Italian to win the event), born in El Paso, Texas
Famous Deaths
1952 – George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher and poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1961 – Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1966 – Helen Kane, American actress and singer (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1996 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize – organometallic compounds), dies at 75
2017 – Robert Delpire, French publisher, editor and photographer, dies at 91