Historical Events
1926 – Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
1929 – Cole Porter’s musical “Wake Up And Dream” opens at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC; runs for 136 performances
1956 – National Football League Championship, Yankee Stadium, NYC: New York Giants beat Chicago Bears, 47-7; Giants’ 4th NFL title
1990 – 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin
2017 – 84th Orange Bowl: #6 Wisconsin beats #11 Miami (Florida), 34-24
Famous Birthdays
1859 – Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech composer, born in Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1951)
1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon
1940 – Jerry Granelli, American-Canadian jazz drummer (Vince Guaraldi Trio; Mose Allison), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2021)
1963 – Milan Srejber, Czech tennis star
1969 – Michelle McGann, American golfer (7 LPGA Tour wins), born in West Palm Beach, Florida
Famous Deaths
1525 – Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1591 – Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), dies at 72
1899 – James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1952 – Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1998 – George Webb, British actor (Keeping Up Appearances), dies of natural causes at 86