Historical Events
1886 – British Open Men’s Golf, Musselburgh Links: David Brown beats fellow Scot Willie Campbell by 2 strokes
1895 – US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1912 – Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
1927 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Cedar Crest CC: Defending champion Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa 1-up to win his 4th straight PGA title
1932 – Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts
1989 – 19th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 2:25:30
Famous Birthdays
1615 – Ibrahim I, 18th Ottoman Sultan (1640-48), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
1841 – Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, Russian composer, born in Kaluga, Russia (d. 1896)
1883 – Ernie Parker, Australian tennis player (Australasian C’ship 1913), born in Perth, Western Australia (d. 1918)
1913 – John McGiver, American character actor (Patty Duke Show; Jimmy Stewart Show; Fitzwilly), born in NYC, New York (d. 1975)
1924 – Ivan Rezak, Czech composer, born in Řevnice (d. 1977)
1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), born in Marietta, Georgia
Famous Deaths
1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1772 – Johannes Schmidlin, Swiss composer, dies at 50
1942 – George M. Cohan, American father of musical comedy (Phantom President, Give My Regards to Broadway), dies of cancer at 64
1972 – Reginald Owen, British actor (Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes), dies at 85
1996 – Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
2012 – Charles V. Bush, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page), dies from colon cancer at 72