Historical Events
1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI
1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River
1913 – Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103)
1971 – Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
1992 – Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
2016 – Ray Davies of The Kinks is awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II
Famous Birthdays
1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
1930 – Jerome Theisen, American Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order of monks, born in Loyal, Wisconsin (d. 1995)
1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
1945 – Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees), born in Manchester, England (d. 2012)
1972 – Loren Meyer, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1982 – Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
Famous Deaths
1944 – Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1956 – Ruth Draper, American actress and dramatist (The Italian Lesson), dies at 72
1961 – Jacobus “Ko” van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
1988 – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal, Noguchi table), dies at 84
1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay), dies at 86