Historical Events
1883 – Edward Harrigan’s musical farce “Cordelia’s Aspirations” premieres at Theatre Comique, NYC
1883 – Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi’s army destroys Egyptian army
1989 – 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
1997 – Davey Johnson is named AL Manager of Year two hours after resigning from the Baltimore Orioles
2025 – Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin becomes first NHL player to score 900 career goals in a 6-1 win over the St. Louis Blues at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.
Famous Birthdays
1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer (Court of Kingdom of Prussia, 1697-1703), viola d’amore player, and harpsichordist, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1729)
1851 – Charles Dupuy, 3 times Prime Minister of France, born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France (d. 1923)
1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (dirty-snowball theory), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 2004)
1977 – Tuula Puputti, Finnish ice hockey goalie (Finland, Olympics 1998), born in Kuopio, Finland
1984 – Tobias Enstrom, Swedish NHL hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers, Winnipeg Jets), born in Nordingrå, Sweden
Famous Deaths
1942 – George M. Cohan, American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), dies of cancer at 64
1951 – Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, Czech organist and composer, dies at 67
1954 – Oran “Hot Lips” Page, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader, dies at 46
2009 – Félix Luna, Argentine historian and lyricist, dies at 84
2021 – Charlie Burns, Canadian ice hockey forward (world champion Whitby Dunlops 1958) and coach (Minnesota North Stars), dies at 85