Historical Events
1554 – England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1948 – Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 – KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – Milt Campbell sets Olympic record total of 7,937 points to upset fellow American and world record holder Rafer Johnson, and win the decathlon gold medal at the Melbourne Games
1988 – Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
Famous Birthdays
1498 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer, born in Ordizia, Gipuzkoa, Crown of Castile (d. 1568)
1945 – Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist (Episode Six-Deep Purple)
1946 – Marina Abramović, Serbian American performance artist, born in Belgrade, Serbia
1970 – Robert Griffith, NFL strong safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 – Iván Rodríguez, MLB catcher (Texas Rangers), born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1980 – Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1813 – Friedrich August Baumbach, German composer, dies at 60
1904 – Aldine Silliman Kieffer, American composer, dies at 64
1954 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1976 – Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
2010 – Monty Sunshine, British jazz clarinetist and bandleader (Petite Fleur), dies at 82
2013 – John Zochonis, British industrialist (PZ Cussons) and philanthropist, dies at 84