Historical Events
1841 – Dion Boucicault’s stage comedy “London Assurance” opens at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London
1845 – James K. Polk inaugurated as 11th US President
1970 – Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1995 – Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
2023 – Andrew Tate’s legal team states he has a dark spot on his lung, sparking rumors about lung cancer
Famous Birthdays
1889 – Oren E. Long, American politician and 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai’i (1951-3), born in Altoona, Kansas (d. 1965)
1907 – Maria Branyas, 2nd oldest American-Catalan supercentenarian (117 years, 168 days), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2024)
1909 – Harry B. Helmsley, American billionaire real estate developer (purchased Empire State Building, 1961), born in New York City (d. 199)
1938 – Alpha Condé, Guinean politician (President of Guinea, 2010-21), born in Boke, Lower Guinea
1973 – Jasper Somsen, Dutch jazz double bassist, composer and producer, born in was born Bennekom, Netherlands
Famous Deaths
1193 – Saladin, 1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, dies of fever at about 55
1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1927 – Ira Remsen American chemist, Johns Hopkins first Chemistry professor, dies at 81
1945 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
2007 – Natalie Bodanya [Bodanskaya], American soprano, dies at 98