Historical Events
1697 – August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic
1914 – Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1922 – Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 – Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1925 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1992 – Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
Famous Birthdays
1918 – Robert Manry, American copy editor of the Cleveland newspaper editor who sailed the Atlantic (Tinkerbelle), born in Landour, India (d. 1971)
1923 – Lloyd Shapley, Mathematician (2012 Nobel Prize Game Theory), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
1944 – Antone Tavares, American RandB musician (Tavares)
1951 – Gilbert Baker, American gay activist, designed the rainbow flag, born in Canute, Kansas (d. 2017)
1956 – Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
Famous Deaths
1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1927 – Friedrich Hegar, Swiss composer, dies at 85
1929 – Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
1972 – Franz Philipp, German composer, dies at 81
1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (7 Grand Slam singles titles, US Open 1932-35), dies of heart failure at 88
2017 – Peter Sallis, British actor (Wallace and Gromit, Last of the Summer Wine), dies at 96