Historical Events
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1830 – Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” premieres in Venice
1970 – Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1991 – Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British and 1 Italian POW
1994 – 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
2013 – British TV drama “Broadchurch” created by Chris Chibnall, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman premieres on ITV
Famous Birthdays
1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (Australian C’ship 1947), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1986)
1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter, born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer
1984 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Famous Deaths
1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
1872 – Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1984 – Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Lord Ridley of Liddesdale, English politician, Minister of Finance, dies at 64
2020 – Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian high jumper (Olympic gold high jump for Soviet Union 1960), dies at 86