Historical Events
1908 – French brothers Amadee and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000 year-old Neanderthal man ‘Old man of La Chappelle’ at La Chappelle-aux-Saints, France
1914 – Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German Army leading to their invasion hours later
1957 – British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1966 – South African government bans Beatle records
1970 – Hurricane “Celia” becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
1974 – “Little Night Music” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 performances
Famous Birthdays
1855 – Joe Hunter, English cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests, 11 dismissals; Yorkshire CCC), born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England (d. 1891)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
1902 – Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi, born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1944)
1929 – Bethel Leslie, American entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
1940 – Lance Alworth, American NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys), born in Houston, Texas
1984 – Sunil Chetri, Indian footballer (Bengaluru FC), born in Secunderabad, India
Famous Deaths
1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1823 – Jacob Abraham de Mist, Dutch statesman, dies at 74
1973 – Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1990 – Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Austro-British soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), dies at 90
2017 – Theodore “Ted” Stanley, American anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), dies at 77