Historical Events
1333 – Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani
1910 – Start of South Africa’s 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
1968 – WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
2003 – “Shock’n Y’all” 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)
2021 – WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month
Famous Birthdays
1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (fluid mechanics), born in Caen, France (d. 1836)
1818 – Alexander Lawton, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, born in Beaufort District, South Carolina (d. 1896)
1904 – Walter Bauer, German Canadian writer, born in Merseburg (d. 1976)
1950 – Markie Post, American actress (Night Court, 1984-92 – “Christine”; There’s Something About Mary), born in Palo Alto, California (d. 2021)
1978 – John Grabow, American baseball player, born in Arcadia, California
Famous Deaths
1411 – Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1847 – (Jacob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn [Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Italian Symphony; Songs Without Words), dies after a series of strokes at 38
1869 – George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1987 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
2022 – Dow Finsterwald, American golfer (PGA Championship 1958; PGA Player of the Year 1958), dies at 93