Historical Events
1863 – Territory of Idaho established
1925 – US President Coolidge’s inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1968 – Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1979 – US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings
1980 – Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) comes to power, winning the parliamentary election in Zimbabwe, making Mugabe Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister
2019 – US Democrats announce a wide-ranging corruption investigation into President Donald Trump
Famous Birthdays
1900 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1931 – Wally Bruner, American broadcast journalist (ABC News), and TV host (What’s My Line?, 1968-72), born in Ames, Iowa (d. 1997)
1936 – Jim Clark, Scottish auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1965; F1 World Champion 1963, 65), born in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland (d. 1968)
1948 – James Ellroy, American crime writer (L.A. Confidential), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 – Brant Ian Woodward, New Zealand trap shooter (Olympics 1996), born in Hurstville, New Zealand
1966 – Grand Puba [Maxwell Dixon], American rapper (Grand Nubian), born in New Rochelle, New York
Famous Deaths
1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish-American clergyman and Founder of Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1915 – William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, dies of influenza at 58
1945 – Mark Sandrich [Goldstein], American film director, writer and producer (The Gay Divorcee; Top Hat; Holiday Inn), dies of a heart attack at 44
1977 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
2009 – George McAfee, American football player, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears), dies at 90
2011 – Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)