Historical Events
1640 – English Long Parliament forms
1883 – US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
1886 – Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1930 – Bank of Italy is renamed the Bank of America
1968 – Oregon voters elect lawyer Bob Packwood (36) as their US Senator
Famous Birthdays
1799 – William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1910 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (Doctor Who, The Inheritors, It’s Murder But Is It Art), born in Darlington, Durham, England (d. 1984)
1928 – Nick Holonyak Jr., American electrical engineer and inventor of the first visible light-emitting diode, born in Zeigler, Illinois (d. 2022)
1962 – Gabe Newell, American computer programmer, businessman and co-founder of Valve Corporation (Half-Life, Steam), born in Colorado
1973 – Ben Fogle, British broadcaster and author (Channel 5, BBC), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1913 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Prussian pianist, composer and music director (Royal Theatre of Hanover, 1867-87), dies at 83
1944 – Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
2002 – Jonathan Harris [Charasuchin], American stage and screen character actor (The Bill Dana Show – “Mr. Phillips”; Lost In Space – “Dr Zachary Smith”), dies at 87
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2011 – Bob Forsch, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1974-1989 (St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros), dies of a thoracic aortic aneurysm at 61