Historical Events
1899 – 1st known use of the word “automobile”, appears in an editorial in The New York Times
1920 – Arthur Honegger’s “Chant de Nigamon,” premieres
1945 – US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1959 – Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1994 – 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
2018 – Security expert reveal two security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre which affect most microprocessors
Famous Birthdays
1698 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
1886 – John G Fletcher, American poet (Epic of Arkansas)
1895 – Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns’ky, Ukrainian composer and the father of modern Ukrainian music, born in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (d. 1968)
1900 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer, born in Nice (d. 1940)
1936 – Jos Kunst, Dutch composer, born in Roermond (d. 1996)
1949 – Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
Famous Deaths
1841 – Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
1927 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician and physicist, dies at 70
1963 – Oscar Backing, Austria/Neth viola player, dies at 83
1966 – Rex Lease, American actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer’s Last Stand), dies at 62
2014 – Tom Rosenthal, British publisher and broadcaster, dies at 78
2020 – Qasem Soleimani, Iranian major general of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed at 62 in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport, Iraq