Historical Events
1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
1936 – NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1942 – Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1996 – Lois and Clark (fictional characters) wed
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2019 – Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks
Famous Birthdays
1510 – John Caius, English physician, born in Norwich, England (d. 1573)
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, second child of Francis I Holy Roman Emperor, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1789)
1849 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (merchant of death), born in Muğla, Turkey (d. 1936)
1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1962 – Rich Yett, baseball player
Famous Deaths
1413 – Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1651 – Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1951 – Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1972 – Cliff Hall [Robert Clifford Hall], American actor (At This Moment, Dutch Treat, Crime Photographer), dies at 78
1974 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, Minister of Defense (1957-62), dies at 78
2010 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet and journalist, dies at 86