Historical Events
1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1944 – Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1947 – Darius Milhaud’s 3rd Symphony “Hymnus Ambrosianus,” premieres in Paris
1963 – Morocco and Algeria sign cease fire
1969 – WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
2004 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Lone Star Park; winners: Ghostzapper, Wilko, Ashado, Better Talk Now, Oujja Board, Sweet Catomine, Singletary, Speightstown
Famous Birthdays
1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine – first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), born in Lagow, Brandenburg (d. 1964)
1945 – Glenn Poshard, American politician (Rep-D-Illinois), born in Herald, Illinois
1953 – Kathleen Cody, American actress (Charley and the Angel), born in The Bronx, New York
1970 – James Pedro, American lightweight judoka (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Danvers, Massachusetts
1970 – Patrice Tardif, Canadian NHL center (LA Kings), born in Thetford Mines, Quebec
1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player (Buffalo Bills), born in Los Gatos, California
Famous Deaths
1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1944 – Paul Ladmirault, French composer, dies at 66
1956 – Pío Baroja y Nessi, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer), dies at 83
1996 – John Young, Scottish actor and TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 80
2008 – Pedro Pompilio Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
2018 – Hardy Fox, American member of avant-garde band The Residents, dies at 73