Historical Events
1905 – French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1925 – Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation
1932 – 37th Women’s French Championships: Helen Wills Moody beats Simonne Mathieu (7-5, 6-1)
1983 – Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1984 – Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov
1993 – Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as President of Mongolia
Famous Birthdays
1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China and scholar-general in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, born in Ji’an, China (d. 1283)
1840 – William Francis Bartlett, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Haverhill, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
1951 – Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
1953 – Ken Calvert, American politician (Rep-R-California 1993-), born in Corona, California
1974 – Sonya Walger, British actress
1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballplayer
Famous Deaths
1799 – Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, dies at 63
1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian immunologist and pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (founder of Australian Tonalism), dies at 79
1967 – Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1974 – Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
2017 – Paul Zukofsky, American violinist and conductor (Cappricio), dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 73