Historical Events
1014 – Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1696 – King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg
1906 – 4th Tour de France won by René Pottier of France
1923 – Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
2001 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Royal County Down: Australian Ian Stanley wins in a playoff with Bob Charles of New Zealand
2018 – Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party Hun Sen claims to have won all 125 seats in country’s general election with widespread criticism of a sham vote
Famous Birthdays
1778 – Carl Borromaus Neuner, German composer, born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1830)
1849 – Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1955 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1956 – Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1979 – Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
Famous Deaths
1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (Humoresque, Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik), dies at 46
1973 – Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1992 – William Mathias, Welsh composer (wrote for 1981 royal wedding), dies at 57
1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), dies of a stroke at 84
2000 – Kobie Coetsee, South African Minister of Defense (1993-94) and Minister of Justice (1980-93), dies at 69
2004 – James Hubert “Huby” Heard, American singer-songwriter (The God Squad), dies at 73