Historical Events
1892 – Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
1933 – Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania’s 1st double-ton
1950 – “Sixty Minute Man” record single released by The Dominoes (Billboard Song of the Year 1951)
1958 – French franc devalued
1980 – Ballon d’Or: Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player; beats German international teammate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-Étienne midfielder Michel Platini
2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
Famous Birthdays
1934 – Barry Briggs, New Zealand speedway rider (World Champion 1957-58, 64, 66; British Championship 1961, 64-67, 69), born in Christchurch, Canterbury
1945 – Vernon Wells, Australian actor
1945 – John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot
1959 – Alfie Anido, Filipino model and actor (Temptation Island), born in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines (d. 1981)
1963 – Chandler Burr, American journalist (US New and World Report), author (A Separate Creation; The Emperor of Scent), and museum curator (Department of Scent Art), born in Chicago, Illinois
1984 – LeBron James, American basketball forward (NBA C’ship and MVP 2012, 2013, 2016, 2020; 16 × NBA All-Star; Olympic gold 2008, 12; Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, LA Lakers), born in Akron, Ohio
Famous Deaths
1944 – Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher (Adventures of Ideas), dies at 86
1973 – Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101
1994 – Lloyd James Austin, Australian linguist and literary scholar, dies at 79
2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist (Nobel 1986), dies at 103
2015 – Donald Barron, Scottish accountant and CEO (Midland Bank), dies at 94