Historical Events
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the “Indies”
1957 – British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1970 – Christopher Hampton’s “Philanthropist” premieres in London
1991 – Giant Victory driven by Jack Moiseyev wins Hambletonian, 2nd $1m purse in 22 days for Moiseyev after winning Meadowlands Pace
1997 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Glen Abbey GC: Colleen Walker wins by 2 shots from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
2020 – Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation
Famous Birthdays
1894 – Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1951)
1926 – Tony Bennett [Benedetto], American singer (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York
1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1956), born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2009)
1953 – Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician (Alan Parsons Project; Kate Bush), born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles
1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer, born in Atlanta, Georgia
1972 – Travis Hall, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons), born in Sodoltna, Alaska
Famous Deaths
1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
1833 – Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69
1948 – Tommy Ryan, American boxer (World Welterweight, Middleweight champion), dies at 78
2015 – Robert Conquest, English historian and poet (The Great Terror), dies at 98