Historical Events
1954 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Czech Jaroslav Drobný beats Ken Rosewall of Australia 13-11, 4-6, 6-2, 9-7 for his only Wimbledon singles title
1990 – TV cooking competition show “MasterChef” presented by Loyd Grossman, and created by Franc Roddam, first airs in the UK
1995 – LA Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo is first Japanese player to be selected for a MLB All-Star Game when he is named in the NL squad
2019 – Virginie Viard presents her first haute couture collection as designer at Chanel after the death of Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais
2020 – Funeral for slain Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa in Ambo amid nationwide unrest at his death that has killed over 80 people
Famous Birthdays
1363 – Maria, Queen of Sicily and Duchess of Athens and Neopatria, born in Catania, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1401)
1589 – Guillaume Messaus, Flemish composer, born in Antwerp, Dutch Republic (d. 1640)
1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), born in London (d. 1995)
1949 – Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor (“Exit…But No Panic”; “Tales from the Vienna Woods”), born in Vienna, Austria
1958 – Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop, born in Glen Dale, West Virginia
Famous Deaths
1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, political theorist, and writer (Confessions) whose works inspired French Revolution leaders and Romantic academics, dies of cerebral bleeding from a stroke at 66
1917 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor and theatre manager (King John, Trilby), dies at 64
1963 – Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter, dies at 71
2013 – Fawzia Fuad, Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, dies at 91
2020 – Betsy Ancker-Johnson, American physicist (plasmas), inventor (high-frequency signal generator), first woman Presidential appointee to the Department of Commerce and first woman VP in the automotive industry, dies at 93