Historical Events
1850 – 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1884 – British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1906 – Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Governor beating William Randolph Hearst
1991 – Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1995 – Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Famous Birthdays
1892 – John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean), born in Stretford, England (d. 1919)
1906 – James D. Norris, American sports businessman (Chicago Black Hawks), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1966)
1909 – Henk Bijvanck, Dutch composer, born in Kudus, Java (d. 1969)
1931 – Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgarian composer, born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 1982)
1967 – Shuzo Matsuoka, Japanese tennis star (1995 USTA/Binghampton), born in Tokyo, Japan
1978 – Taryn Manning, American actress (Hawaii Five-O), born in Falls Church, Virginia
Famous Deaths
1597 – Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain [Catalina Micaela de Austria], Duchess consort of Savoy (1585-97), dies at 30
1910 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, dies at 72
1914 – Allessandro d’Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1989 – Dickie Goodman, American parody singer (Flying Saucer), dies at 55
1996 – Patience Edney, British nurse and communist, dies at 85
2005 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress, dies of leukemia at 38