Historical Events
1907 – Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays its first game; Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in Montreal
1942 – Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women are beaten to death by prison guards
1947 – Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Al Gionfriddo makes a famous catch off Joe DiMaggio in Game 6 of the Baseball World Series; Dodgers beat Yankees 8-6; the catch inspires the “back-back-back” expression
1994 – Magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes the Kuril Islands, killing at least 10 people
2020 – Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus
Famous Birthdays
1703 – Jonathan Edwards, Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), born in East Windsor, Connecticut Colony (d. 1758)
1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian politician (4th Mayor of Halifax) and brewer (founder of the Alexander Keith’s Nova Scotia Brewery), born in Halkirk, Caithness, Highland, Scotland (d. 1873)
1917 – Robert Adams, English sculptor and designer, born in Far Cotton, Northampton (d. 1984)
1932 – Richard Lamparski, American interviewer and author (Whatever Became Of…?), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2025)
1942 – Maureen Waaka, first Māori Miss World contestant, second Māori woman to win Miss New Zealand (1962), and council politician (1998–2013), born in Ohinemutu, New Zealand (d. 2013)
Famous Deaths
1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56), dies at 38
1883 – Joachim Barrande, French paleontologist and geologist (fossils in Bohemia, opposed Darwin’s Theory of Evolution), dies at 84
1892 – Bob Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (leader of the Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 23
1954 – Oscar Charleston, American Baseball HOF CF (NgL Triple Crown 1921 St. Louis Giants, 1924, 25 Harrisburg Giants) and manager (NgL WS 1933, 35, 36 Pittsburgh Crawfords), dies of a stroke at 57
2003 – Denis Quilley, British actor (Anything Goes, The Lady’s Not For Burning, Masada), dies from liver cancer at 75