Historical Events
1924 – A’s 1st baseman Joe Hauser sets AL record of 14 total bases in a game; 3 HRs and a double as Philadelphia beats Cleveland Indians, 12-4 at Dunn Field
1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
1942 – 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1986 – Lee Elder fires a record 11-under par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; mark stands for 11 years
1992 – “Death and the Maiden” closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 performances
2019 – Seven-year-old boy operated on after 526 teeth found inside his mouth in Chennai, India
Famous Birthdays
1915 – Johan Limpers, Dutch sculptor and resistance fighter, born in Heemstede, Netherlands (d. 1944)
1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), born in Chadderton, Lancashire (d. 1990)
1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star (Manchester United), born in Belfast, United Kingdom
1954 – Lisa Brown, American actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1961 – Pete de Freitas, English rock drummer (Echo and the Bunnyman), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1989)
1962 – Lee Mavers, British singer and songwriter (The La’s – “There She Goes”), born in Liverpool, England
Famous Deaths
257 – St Stephen I, bishop of Rome (Pope) (254-57) and heretic fighter, dies
924 – Ælfweard of Wessex, briefly King of the Anglo-Saxons
1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor (Faust), dies of pleurisy at 48
1939 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian author and mystic, dies at 55
1969 – Clarence Dickinson, American composer, dies at 96
2004 – Don Tosti, American musician (“Pachuco Boogie”), dies at 81