Historical Events
1914 – 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out
1951 – Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
1980 – Montreal Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager in 11-5 win v Mets, for whom Doug Flynn hits MLB record tying 3 triples
1985 – Establishment of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced
2019 – Australian woman Kerry Robertson confirmed as the first person to use a new assisted dying law to end her life a month earlier in Victoria
Famous Birthdays
1301 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1540 – Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
1828 – Giovanni Rossi, Italian composer, born in Borgo San Donnino, Parma (d. 1886)
1950 – Holly Palance, actress (Thorn Birds, Ripley’s Believe It), born in Los Angeles, California
1978 – Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter
2000 – Maya Bond, American singer and musician
Famous Deaths
1880 – Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1964 – Art Ross, Canadian hockey player and executive (b. 1886)
1972 – Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1994 – Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82
1996 – Frank Marcus, German playwright and critic, dies at 68
2007 – Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943)