Historical Events
1852 – America’s first intercollegiate sporting event takes place as the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
1952 – Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari clinches Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring
1962 – 29th Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20, 65,000 at Soldier Field
2001 – The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, injuring 7 people
2001 – US President George W. Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001
2004 – St. Louis 1st baseman Albert Pujols becomes first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 HRs in each of his first 4 seasons as Cardinals beat Montreal, 10-6
Famous Birthdays
1692 – John Henley, English clergyman, born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England (d. 1759)
1895 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress (An Old Man’s Folly), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1941)
1924 – Max van der Stoel, Dutch politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (PvdA), born in Voorschoten, Netherlands (d. 2011)
1972 – John Lilley, American hockey forward (Olympics 1994), born in Wakefield, Massachusetts
1973 – Stephen Graham, English actor (This is England, Boiling Point), born in Kirby, England
1977 – Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor (Nói Albínói), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
Famous Deaths
1779 – Henry Kobell, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 27
1877 – Karl Georg Lickl, Austrian pianist, physharmonica (type of harmonium) player, and composer, dies at 75
1916 – Roger Casement, Irish diplomat, ardent Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) and poet, hanged after conviction for treason by the British at 51
1986 – Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN) and editor (The Truth), dies at 87
1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and musicologist, dies after a series strokes at 63
2005 – Françoise d’Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)