Historical Events
1877 – Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1915 – Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1955 – WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics
1996 – Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986
1997 – Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
Famous Birthdays
1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (851-61), born in Petorca, Chile (d. 1880)
1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (prominent Sussex player), born in Brighton, Sussex, England (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer, born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1849)
1912 – John Cage, American composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O’O), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (Myra Breckenridge; 1,000,000 BC; 100 Rifles), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah
Famous Deaths
1910 – Julian Edwards, American composer, dies at 54
1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the “DAP”, which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1969 – Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1999 – Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
2015 – [Frederick] Dennis Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na), dies from cancer at 66
2017 – Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79