Historical Events
1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1967 – Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1977 – Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc
1992 – 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1993 – In Moscow, the Start II arms reduction treaty is signed by George H. W. Bush (USA) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
2012 – 78th Sugar Bowl: #13 Michigan beats #11 Virginia Tech, 23-20
Famous Birthdays
1861 – Ernest Renshaw, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1888), born in Leamington, England (d. 1899)
1887 – Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
1901 – Ngô Đình Diệm, President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63), born in Quảng Bình, French Indochina (d. 1963)
1973 – Dan Harmon, American voice actor, producer and writer (Rick and Morty, Community), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
1986 – Lloyd Polite, American RandB singer
Famous Deaths
1761 – Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer (Joseph), dies at 73
1900 – Edwin George Monk, English church organist and composer, dies at 80
1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (Tour de France 1926), dies at 87
1980 – Joy Adamson [Friederike Viktoria Gessner], Austrian naturalist and author (Born Free), murdered at 69 by her servant
1981 – Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
2007 – William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)