Historical Events
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, an international law administrative building housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration
1967 – Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make a 190-run stand for the 9th wicket against England
1977 – NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 batters in 1-0 win over Texas Rangers
2009 – Noel Gallagher, the guitarist of the British pop-rock band Oasis, quits the band, citing an inability to be with his brother Liam
2017 – North Korea launches a missile that flies over Japan, and the country’s J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
Famous Birthdays
1828 – William Alexander Hammond, American military physician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1900)
1892 – Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher, American architect (Parkway House), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1975)
1915 – Max Robertson, British sports commentator (BBC Radio), born in Dacca, Bengal (d. 2009)
1966 – Jerry Fehily, Irish drummer (Hothouse Flowers – “Don’t Go”; “Thing Of Beauty”), born in Cork, Ireland
1970 – Rick Recht, Jewish-American rock singer-songwriter (“Tear Down The Walls”), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Famous Deaths
1798 – James Wilson, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, dies at 55
1927 – Li Dazhao [Ta-chao], Chinese intellectual, revolutionary and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party with Chen Duxiu, executed as a political prisoner at 37
1937 – Frederick Burr Opper, American pioneering cartoonist (Happy Hooligan), dies at 80
2013 – Rob du Bois, Dutch composer, dies at 79
2025 – Randy Boone, American actor (Cimarron Strip, The Virginian), dies at 83