Historical Events
1683 – 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia
1912 – Pirates’ Owen “Chief” Wilson hits a record 36th triple of the season
1961 – USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1969 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
1978 – Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
Famous Birthdays
1706 – Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1772)
1926 – Cyril Reuben, Welsh classical and session violinist (London Symphony), born in Splott, Cardiff, Wales (d. 1996)
1936 – Anna Quayle, British actress (A Hard Day’s Night, Stop the World – I want to Get Off), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2019)
1960 – Richard Jobson, Scottish filmmaker (New Town Killers), art-punk rock singer-songwriter (Skids – “Scared to Dance”), and TV presenter, born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland
1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress (Juno, Dredd), born in New York City
Famous Deaths
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (North and South, Pulitzer Prize 1956), dies of a cerebral aneurysm at 68
1981 – Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers at 62
1999 – Patrick Reilly, British diplomat, ambassador to Paris and Moscow who stopped double agent Kim Philby becoming head of the UK Secret Service, dies at 90
2006 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922)