Historical Events
1944 – Soviet and Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1954 – Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
1968 – 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1972 – Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1992 – 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure (best drama and drama writing),Christopher Lloyd (Road To Avalonlea) and Dana Delany (China Beach) win
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
Famous Birthdays
1828 – George Leonard Andrews, American professor, civil engineer, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (d. 1899)
1931 – Noble Willingham, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, The Corndog Man), born in Mineola, Texas (d. 2004)
1941 – Emanuel Nunes, composer
1961 – David Chastain, heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland)
1970 – Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, born in Kuwait City
1986 – Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
Famous Deaths
1590 – Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies
1741 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist, dies at 59
1862 – George William Taylor, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle
1979 – Sally Rand, American burlesque dancer, vedette and actress known for her ostrich feather fan and balloon bubble dances, dies at 75
1995 – David Richard Holloway, literary Editor, dies at 71
2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler, dies at 79