Historical Events
1864 – Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1906 – Belgian-British “Union Minière du Haut Katanga” mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo
1948 – Flag of Israel is adopted
1975 – Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976
2020 – Global COVID-19 cases increased by a record 500,000 for the first time, rising 25% in less than two weeks, according to Reuters
Famous Birthdays
1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer, born in Kottori, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1793)
1909 – Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (Primrose Quartet; Cleveland Orchestra, 1947-60) and pedagogue (Indiana University, 1960-95), born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus) (d. 1995)
1949 – Caitlyn Jenner [born Bruce Jenner], American athlete (Olympic gold decathlon 1976), TV personality (‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’) and prominent transgender figure, born in Mt Kisco, New York
1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director, known for “Touching the Void”, born in Glasgow, Scotland
1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball pitcher (Olympic bronze 1996), born in Weatherford, Oklahoma
Famous Deaths
1627 – Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor of India (1605-27), dies at 58
1708 – Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, dies at 55
1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1996 – William Downie Forrest, Scottish foreign correspondent (Spanish Civil War, WWII), dies at 94
1997 – Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71