Historical Events
1859 – Great auroral display in the US
1975 – American television game show “Three for the Money,” hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV but is cancelled after 8 weeks
2004 – Asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth
2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to House pages are introduced
2020 – Ben Ainslie wins the Olympic gold medal in the Laser class, beating previous Laser Olympic champion Robert Scheidt
Famous Birthdays
1753 – Johann Gottfried Schicht, German composer, born in Reichenau, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1823)
1899 – Billy Butlin, South African-British holiday camp promoter (Butlins), born in Cape Town, Cape Colony (d. 1980)
1941 – Don Nix, American ‘Memphis Soul’ saxophonist (Last Night), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (¡Que viva la música!), born in Cali, Colombia (d. 1977)
1972 – Oliver Gavin, British auto racer (5 x American Le Mans Series class C’ships; 5 x 24 Hours of Le Mans class wins; 6 x 12 Hours of Sebring class wins; Corvette Racing), born in Huntingdon, England
Famous Deaths
1867 – Sterling “Old Pap” Price, American lawyer, U.S. Army Brigadier General and politician (11th Governor of Missouri), dies at 58
1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and colonel administrator in Senegal, dies at 71
1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and temperance movement leader (Rep-IR-Ohio), dies at 86
2009 – Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian cosmonaut (Vostok IV; Soyuz 14), dies at 78
2016 – Shirley Jaffe [née Sternstein], American abstract artist (Four Squares Black; Pandora’s Box), dies at 92