Historical Events
1868 – University of Illinois opens
1929 – US Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1933 – Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan, country’s most powerful earthquake in 180 years
1940 – The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS; NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden
1988 – Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
2017 – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador
Famous Birthdays
1459 – Adrian VI [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23)
1760 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
1966 – Judith Wiesner, Austrian tennis player (World #12 1997; captain Austria’s Federation Cup team 2001), born in Hallein Austria
1979 – Damien Duff, Irish soccer winger (100 caps, Republic of Ireland; Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Fulham), born in Dublin, Ireland
1980 – Lance Cade, American pro wrestler (WWE Tag Team Champion [with Trevor Murdoch] 2005), born in Carroll, Iowa (d. 2010)
Famous Deaths
1127 – Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
1959 – Eric Blore, British actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad, Abie’s Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1977 – Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, dies at 81
2009 – Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1968), dies of pneumonia at 64
2012 – Nydia Ecury, celebrated Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), dies at 86