Historical Events
1806 – Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1925 – 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1940 – Battle of France begins in WW II
1955 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550′ HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1970 – Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1985 – Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
Famous Birthdays
1915 – Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1920 – Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1943 – Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1954 – Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor
Famous Deaths
1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1568 – Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1667 – Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1967 – Edna Park Edwards, American stage and vaudeville actress, dies at 72
2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter, dies at 31