Historical Events
1926 – English long-distance runner Violet Piercy sets the first recognized female marathon record in 3:40:22 on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London
1947 – First telescope lens 200 inches (508 cm) in diameter is completed
1988 – Discovery 7 returns to Earth after a 4-day excursion
1988 – WBMW-FM in Washington, D.C. changes its call sign to WJFK and begins airing The Howard Stern Radio Show
2018 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter, and George Smith for their use of evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies
Famous Birthdays
1901 – Jean Grémillon, French film director (Remorques, Light of Summer), born in Bayeux, France (d. 1959)
1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist (Texas Flood; “Pride And Joy”; David Bowie – “Let’s Dance”), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1990)
1966 – Frank Hannon, American blues and rock guitarist (Tesla – The Great Radio Controversy), born in Sacramento, California
1981 – Andreas Isaksson, Swedish soccer goalkeeper (133 caps; PSV, Kasımpaşa), born in Smygehamn, Sweden
1987 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican beauty queen (2006 Miss Universe winner), actress and TV host, born in Cayey, Puerto Rico
Famous Deaths
1568 – Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France and 3rd wife of Philip II of Spain, dies in childbirth at 23
1611 – Margarita of Austria, Queen of Spain and Portugal by marriage to King Philip III and II of Spain, dies at 26
1860 – Rembrandt Peale, American portrait and historical painter (Margaret Irvine Miller ,1805; Court of Death, 1820), and museum keeper (Baltimore), dies at 82
1953 – Arnold Bax, British composer known for his orchestral music (Tintagel), and memoirist (Farewell My Youth), dies of heart failure at 69
2018 – Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 – for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), dies from complications of dementia at 96