Historical Events
1837 – Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1882 – NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1885 – American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT) incorporates
1894 – 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns
1965 – The Temptations’ “My Girl” reaches #1
2012 – Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
Famous Birthdays
1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
1882 – Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1949)
1973 – Tisha Venturini, Modesto California, soccer midfielder (Olympics 1996)
1973 – Jim Mills, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1979 – Patrick Renna, American actor
1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
Famous Deaths
1908 – Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely, German Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 77
1943 – George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1994 – Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
1996 – Leo Malet, French crime novelist, dies at 86
2008 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor, dies at 86
2012 – Ronnie Montrose, American rock guitarist (Montrose, Gamma), dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 64