Historical Events
1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father, Selim I, as Ottoman Sultan and rules until 1566
1965 – LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins his 13th straight game, 7 of which are shutouts
1984 – The Kansas City Chiefs set a team record by registering 11 sacks against the Cleveland Browns in a 10-6 victory
1986 – US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
2012 – Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq
Famous Birthdays
1800 – Decimus Burton, British architect (Hyde Park, Palm House Kew Gardens), born in London, England (d. 1881)
1917 – Yuri “Petrovich” Lyubimov, Soviet director (Taganka Theatre), born in Yaroslavl, Russia (d. 2014)
1933 – Emily “Cissy” Houston (née Drinkard), American Grammy Award-winning soul and gospel singer, and Whitney’s mother, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2024)
1943 – Jody Powell, American White House press secretary for Jimmy Carter, born in Cordele, Georgia (d. 2009)
1963 – Cristina Marsillach, Spanish actress (Barocco), born in Madrid, Spain
Famous Deaths
1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1986 – Storm Jameson, English writer and critic, dies at 95
2004 – Justin Strzelczyk, American NFL football offensive tackle, 1990-98 (Pittsburgh Steelers), dies in high speed car crash while being pursued by police at 36; autopsy revealed brain damage due to chronic concussion injuries
2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), dies from a heart attack at 87
2017 – Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (homotopy theory, motivic cohomology), dies of an aneurysm at 51