Historical Events
1945 – The Holocaust: US forces liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, the first such camp to be liberated by the US Army
1988 – Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
1991 – “Lucifer’s Child” opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1998 – NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
2020 – WrestleMania XXXVI, WWE Performance Center, Orlando FL, Part 1: The Undertaker defeats AJ Styles in a Boneyard match; Becky Lynch beats Shayna Baszler to retain Raw Women’s C’ship
Famous Birthdays
1836 – Charles Jerome Hopkins, American composer, born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1898)
1876 – Maurice de Vlaminck, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow), born in Paris, France (d. 1958)
1933 – Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy), born in Amsterdam
1949 – Michael Fennelly, American musician (The Millennium, Crabby Appleton), born in New York, New York
1957 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director (The Other Side of Hope), born in Orimattila, Finland
1977 – Stephen Mulhern, English TV presenter, born in Stratford, London
Famous Deaths
1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician and inventor (logarithms), dies from effects of gout at 67
1661 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)
1774 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist and dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 45
1862 – Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
1919 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium), dies at 86
1986 – Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87