Historical Events
1620 – Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1918 – Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
1955 – First virus crystallized (announced)
1981 – Milwaukee Brewers future Baseball Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers (6-3 record, 28 saves and 1.04 ERA) wins American League Cy Young Award, with 22 of 28 possible 1st-place votes
1993 – Greg Maddux becomes first pitcher since Sandy Koufax to win the National League’s Cy Young Award in successive MLB seasons and the first in successive seasons with different teams; Cubs 1992, Braves 1993
Famous Birthdays
1826 – Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kingsville, Ohio (d. 1867)
1914 – Hallgrímur Helgason, Icelandic novelist (Höfundur Íslands), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
1933 – Aneta Corsaut, Jutchinson Ks, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith)
1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (Pentangle), born in Glasgow (d. 2011)
1952 – Roseanne Barr, American comedienne and TV star (Roseanne), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1981 – Vicente Matías Vuoso, Mexican soccer striker (15 caps; Santos Laguna), born in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1564-84), dies at 46
1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), dies at 66
1793 – Olympe de Gouges [Marie Gouze], French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), executed by guillotine at 45
1969 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish soccer striker (16 caps; Fenerbahçe), dies at 71
1993 – John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), dies at 65
1994 – Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97