Historical Events
1897 – Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
1948 – Hungary’s Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women’s long jump competition at the London Games
1983 – Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Thurston House” is published
1984 – Americans Al Joyner and Mike Conley take the gold and silver medals in the men’s triple jump at the Los Angeles Olympics
1985 – Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Famous Birthdays
1825 – Arthur Haygarth, English cricket batsman (Middlesex and Surrey, cricket historian), born in Hastings, Sussex, England (d. 1903)
1921 – Maurice “Rocket” Richard, Canadian NHL star (Montreal Canadiens, MVP-1947), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2000)
1960 – Tim Winton, Australian author
1960 – Bernard Rose, English director
1992 – Cole Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Riverdale), born in Arezzo, Italy
1992 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody), born in Arezzo, Italy
Famous Deaths
1666 – Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1927 – John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), dies from leukaemia at 86
2015 – Gerd Natschinski, German composer, dies at 86