Historical Events
1886 – First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY
1924 – National Football League Championship: Cleveland Bulldogs (7-1-1) [formerly Canton] win first past the post title
1956 – 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News)
1981 – NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award
2009 – Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation
2017 – World’s longest recorded rainbow – 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei’s Yangmingshan mountain range
Famous Birthdays
1726 – Jacques Aliamet, French etcher and engraver, born in Abbeville, France (d. 1788)
1828 – Jedediah Hotchkiss, American topographer and cartographer, born in Windsor, New York (d. 1899)
1890 – John Tasker Howard, American composer and music historian, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1964)
1968 – Des’ree [Desirée Annette Weeks], English singer (“Feel So High”; “You Gotta Be”; “Life”)
1971 – Heath Davis, New Zealand cricket bowler (NZ open v England 1994), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1981 – Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
Famous Deaths
1864 – John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
1967 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1985 – Phil Tucker, American film director (Robot Monster), dies at 58
1993 – Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
2010 – Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (b. 1944)
2021 – Ray Kennedy, English soccer midfielder, forward (17 caps; Arsenal, Liverpool), dies from Parkinson’s disease at 70