Historical Events
1888 – Baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” 1st published by the San Francisco Examiner
1896 – British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla
1941 – German occupiers stamp “J” on Jewish passports
1966 – Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford and Cernan)
1968 – Poor Peoples March on Washington, D.C.
1992 – Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
Famous Birthdays
1746 – James Hook, English composer, born in Norwich (d. 1827)
1773 – Michael Gottard Fischer, German composer and organist, born in Alach (d. 1829)
1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
1936 – David Nicholls, English Anglican priest, theologian and political theorist, born in Woking, England (d. 1996)
1966 – Bill Janovitz, American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (Buffalo Tom), music writer, and real estate agent, born in Queens, New York City
1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
Famous Deaths
1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1967 – Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal (WWII), dies at 76
1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker and politician (co-founder German Democratic Party), dies at 93
2009 – Koko Taylor [Cora Walton], American blues singer known as the “Queen of the Blues”, dies of complications from surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding at 80
2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist and right-to-die activist, dies of a thrombosis at 83
2017 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1954, 56; his bipolar disorder subject book and film, “Fear Strikes Out”), dies at 87