Historical Events
1800 – US population: 5,308,483; African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1835 – Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in 1st attempted assassination of a US President
1862 – USS Monitor, the US Navy’s 1st ironclad warship launched
1933 – Australian Championships Men’s Tennis: Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title; beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
2019 – Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing “Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms” sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York
Famous Birthdays
1687 – [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized
1829 – Alfred Cummings, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1910)
1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist, born in Le Havre, France (d. 2008)
1918 – Jarl Andre Bjerke [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet and writer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1985)
1935 – Richard Brautigan, American novelist and poet (Trout Fishing in America), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1984)
1942 – Marty Balin [Buchwald], American singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2018)
Famous Deaths
1846 – Joseph Carpue, English surgeon who pioneered early plastic surgery in England, dies at 81
1948 – Herb Pennock, pitcher (NY Yankees)/GM (Phillies), dies
1958 – Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WWII), dies at 70
1976 – Percy Tyson “Plum” Lewis, South African cricketer (pair in only Test for South Africa), dies at 91
1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zoologist and author (My Family and Other Animals), dies at 70
1997 – Frank Tejeda, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), dies at 51