Historical Events
1928 – Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1939 – WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
1941 – USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1941 – Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1950 – King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1983 – Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
Famous Birthdays
1753 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1802)
1906 – James D. Norris, American sports businessman (Chicago Black Hawks), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1966)
1955 – Maria Shriver, American newscaster (Sunday Today) and ex-wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Chicago, Illinois
1961 – Daniele Gatti, Italian conductor, born in Milan, Italy
1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor and author (Dead Poets Society, Before trilogy), born in Austin, Texas
1982 – Sowelu, Japanese pop singer, born in Tokyo, Japan
Famous Deaths
1795 – Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer and violinist, dies at 73
1922 – Morgan Bulkeley, American politician (US Senator – Connecticut 1905-11) and Baseball HOF administrator (NL President 1876), dies at 84
1997 – Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, British Labour Party politician, dies at 82
2004 – Fred Dibnah, English steeplejack and television personality, dies at 66
2007 – Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician, killed in a bomb attack at 47 or 48
2018 – Hugh McDowell, British cellist (Electric Light Orchestra – “Strange Magic”; “Evil Woman”), dies of cancer at 65