Historical Events
1544 – Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1798 – Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
1911 – 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1951 – Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1956 – Hallgeir Brenden of Norway wins Olympic 15k cross country gold medal at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Games; his 2nd career Olympic title after taking out the 18k event in Oslo (1952)
1958 – Dore Schary’s “Sunrise at Campobello” premieres in NYC
Famous Birthdays
1687 – [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized
1754 – John Lansing Jr., American lawyer and statesman, born in Albany, New York (d. 1829)
1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter described as the “Indian Frida Kahlo” and “one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century”, born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1941)
1919 – Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet, born in Lyskovo, Russia (d. 1979)
1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor (Alien 3, Crocodile Dundee 2, Roc), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1971 – Quentin Neujahr, American ice hockey player (Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns), born in Seward, Nebraska
Famous Deaths
1716 – Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d’Arquien, queen of Poland (1676-96), dies at 74
1827 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1945 – Gottlieb Haberlandt, Austrian botanist, dies at 90
1947 – Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
1956 – Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician and philosopher, dies at 88
2012 – Mary Grierson, Welsh botanical artist, dies at 99