Historical Events
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa
1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
1908 – British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1941 – San Francisco Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1976 – Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1991 – Detroit Pistons Joe Dumaars ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
Famous Birthdays
1472 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, born in Pavia, Italy (d. 1510)
1698 – Georg Gottfried Wagner, German composer, born in Mühlberg, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1756)
1899 – William Hornby Steer, Conservative Party politician and barrister (d. 1993)
1908 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian independence activist and politician, born in Chandwa, Bhojpur, Bihar, British India (d. 1986)
1937 – Stuart May, senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
1944 – Peter T. King, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York, born in Manhattan, New York
Famous Deaths
1717 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1943 – Aleš Hrdlička, Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum), dies at 74
1973 – John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1994 – Kurt Cobain, American grunge rocker (Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”), commits suicide at 27 by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun
2005 – Dale Messick [Dalia Messick], American comic strip artist (Brenda Starr, Reporter), dies at 98
2012 – Ferdinand A. Porsche, German car designer (Porsche 911), dies at 76