Historical Events
1863 – Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama
1905 – 50 prominent men meet in Sydney’s Australia Hotel to found the National Defense League fueled by fear of Japan after its victory over Russia
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications – even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war
1915 – Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1949 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beats fellow American Ted Schroeder 16-18, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; longest singles final match by games (67), before tiebreaker introduction
2017 – Barry Callebaut announce a 4th type of chocolate, “Ruby”, made from the Ruby cocoa bean
Famous Birthdays
1649 – Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French mistress to British King Charles II (d. 1734)
1877 – Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter and etcher, born in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1920)
1925 – Justin Kaplan, American editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain – Pulitzer Prize, 1967), born in New York City, New York (d. 2014)
1929 – Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9), born in Shorshely, Russia (d. 2004)
1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, born in Rome (d. 1996)
1949 – David “Clem” Clempson, British rock guitarist (Colosseum; Humble Pie), born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
Famous Deaths
1569 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet, dies at 75
1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics), dies at 62
1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1972 – Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
1993 – Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
1995 – James “Pigmeat” Jarrett, American pianist, dies at 95