Historical Events
1722 – Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1813 – Treaty of Fulda signed in Germany after Battle of Leipzig
1949 – Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1982 – Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1993 – Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965
Famous Birthdays
1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Viktoria und ihr Huzar), born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (d. 1960)
1926 – Myer Skoog, American basketball guard (NBA C’ship 1952-4; Minneapolis Lakers), born in Duluth, Minnesota (d. 2019)
1932 – Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos – subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), born in NYC, New York
1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician, born in The Hague, Netherlands
1980 – Diego Lugarno, Uruguayan soccer defender (95 caps; São Paulo, Fenerbahçe), born in Canelones, Uruguay
1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress, born in Seoul, South Korea
Famous Deaths
1845 – Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55
1937 – Maude Valérie White, French-born English composer, dies at 82
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), dies at 94
1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French “enemy of the state”, shot to death
1991 – Irwin Allen, American director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1995 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Columbian politician (helped write Colombian Constitution), assassinated at 76