Historical Events
1303 – Flemings conquers Middelburg
1783 – Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1919 – 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC, 35,000 watch the Phillies beat the NY Giants 4-3
1967 – Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1981 – Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
2014 – Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama
Famous Birthdays
1796 – William H. Prescott, American historian, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1859)
1921 – Virginia “Patsy” Garrett, American singer and actress (Nanny and the Professor, Fred Waring’s Pleasure Time), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2015)
1954 – Marilyn Martin, American singer-songwriter (Separate Lives), born in Tennessee
1955 – Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer and songwriter, born in Winthrop, Massachusetts
1966 – Jane McGrath, British-Australian co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer, born in Paignton, Devon (d. 2008)
1984 – Kevin Slowey, American baseball player, born in Conroe, Texas
Famous Deaths
1471 – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
1855 – Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1893 – George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1971 – Louis de Bree [Louis Davids], actor (De man zonder hart, The Cross-Patch, Bluejackets), dies at 87
2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
2018 – Barnet Fain, American businessman and artist, dies at 86