Historical Events
1790 – Henry James Pye appointed as British Poet Laureate by King George III
1919 – Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1979 – France performs nuclear Test
1985 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from Jane Geddes
1986 – Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1992 – RandB singer Mary J. Blige releases her debut album “What’s the 411?”, with production by Puff Daddy
Famous Birthdays
1863 – Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1901 – Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, born in Miskolc, Hungary (d. 1945)
1928 – Adrian Ratiu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2005)
1934 – Jacques d’Amboise, American ballet dancer, and choreographer (NYC Ballet Company, 1949-84), actor (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers), and educator (founded National Dance Institute, 1976), born in Dedham Massachusetts (d. 2021)
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect (Milwaukee Art Museum), born in Valencia, Spain
1972 – Ed Templeton, American skateboarder (Toy Machine), born in Garden Grove, California
Famous Deaths
1641 – John Amner, English composer, dies at 61
1864 – Samuel Benton, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 44
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1904 – Vyacheslav von Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, killed by Jewish revolutionaries after a bomb is thrown at his carriage, dies at 58
1991 – Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and writer (How to Know Birds), dies at 87