Historical Events
1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). Breton-French-Latin dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc was first Breton and French dictionary
1811 – El Salvador’s 1st battle against Spain for independence
1873 – Due to the fallout from the Pacific Scandal, John A. Macdonald resigns as Prime Minister of Canada
1973 – Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production
1992 – “Revenge Match of the 20th century” American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky to win an unofficial match in Belgrade
2000 – Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is laid to rest 25 years after his death after a funeral procession through Addis Ababa
Famous Birthdays
1885 – Will Durant, American author and historian (The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization), born in North Adams, Massachusetts (d. 1981)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer (“Happy Trails”; Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)
1920 – Douglass North, American economist, (Nobel Prize Economic Sciences 1993), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
1930 – Clifford Irving, American novelist and investigative reporter (hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1951 – Tony Evers, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (2019-), born in Plymouth, Wisconsin
1974 – Chris Sununu, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (2017-), born in Salem, New Hampshire
Famous Deaths
1680 – Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57
1828 – Maria Feodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia, dies at 69
1860 – Carl Binder, Austrian composer, dies at 43
1989 – Barry Sadler, American singer (“Ballad Of The Green Berets”), dies from complications of being shot at 49
1990 – Herbert Berghof, Austrian actor (Belarus File, Harry and Tonto, Target), dies of heart failure at 81
1991 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-British billionaire publisher, politician and fraudster (Mirror Group, NY Daily News), drowns at sea at 68